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. Three times a day, we are invited to pause and reaffirm our faith in the Incarnation: that "God so loved the world he sent his only Son" (Jn 3:16).
Monday, June 25, 2018
Praying the Angelus with Art: This Week's Image
An etching and engraving, this was executed circa 1750 by Jean Baptiste Hutin, following a work of Jean François de Troy. It is from the collection of the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
Monday, June 18, 2018
Praying the Angelus with Art: This Week's Image
This elegant work by an unknown artist is dated 1420 and can be found in the Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya, Barcelona Spain.
Monday, June 11, 2018
Praying the Angelus with Art: This Week's Image
Schelte Adams Bolswert created this engraving based on an Annunciation by Rubens. The Philadelphia Museum of Art, which holds the piece, offers no further information.
Monday, June 4, 2018
Praying the Angelus with Art: This Week's Image
This week's Annunciation is a 15th century piece from a precursor of the Dutch masters, an artist only identified in 1903, and even then not by name but by attribution: "The Master of the Virgin among Virgins." (Clearly, he painted more than one depiction of the Blessed Virgin Mary!)
Image from the Google Art Project. |
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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.
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