As we close this year, this Flemish Annunciation with its delicate light offers us hope for the light of a new year. That is my prayer, too.
With this gentle image, my weekly Annunciation messages must come to an end. It has lasted ten years: something I never anticipated! But with the release of my book during this 350th anniversary of the apparitions of the Sacred Heart to St. Margaret Mary, I need to direct my activities toward the focus the Lord gave St. Margaret Mary: promoting the nine First Fridays in reparation for Eucharistic coldness, sacrilege, and neglect. Indeed, the more I reflect on it, the more convinced I am that Our Lord asked for this reparation 350 years ago in anticipation of our own time, when an overwhelming percentage of Catholics would neglect Sunday Mass, and receive "unworthy Communions," not out of malice, but out of sheer ignorance.
I hope in the future to create a series of online videos, and perhaps a parish retreat, using all that I have learned from the many works of art I have shared with you through the years. When that happens, or if I find a new way to share the art of the Annunciation, I will let you know here and on various social media channels, whatever the times may offer.
Thank you for accompanying me week by week, and for praying (and promoting) the Angelus! God bless you!
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| Anonymous 15th Century Flemish Annunciation Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya |
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