Monday, September 4, 2017

Praying the Angelus with Art: This Week's Image


Reduced to the barest minimum: This German Annunciation has no outdoor or indoor setting, no furnishings, no other context for us than the simple words on the ribbons held in the left hand of each: "Ave, Gratia Plena..." and "Ecce Ancilla Domini..."  The almost 1,000 year old image comes from a psalter in the collection of The Morgan Library and Museum.


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About the Angelus Project

We rightly admire Muslim neighbors and co-workers who put everything on hold five times a day in answer to the "call to prayer." But Christians have a call to prayer, too! It is the Angelus. Morning, noon and evening we are invited to pause and reaffirm our faith in the Incarnation: The Word was made flesh and dwelt among us (Jn. 1:14), because "God so loved the world that he sent his only Son" (Jn. 3:16).
The Angelus Project is a personal project of Sister Anne Flanagan, FSP, a Daughter of St Paul. Find out more about the media ministry of the Daughters of St Paul at DaughtersofStPaul.com.

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