Praying the Regina Coeli with Art: This Week's Image

Alleluia!
Christ is Risen as He said!
Alleluia!

During the Easter season, we traditionally replace the Angelus prayer with the Regina Coeli. And so through Pentecost Call to Prayer: The Angelus Project features images of the Coronation of the Virgin in place of the usual Annunciation.

From the Royal Collection Trust

From Easter to Pentecost, pray the Regina Coeli (in place of the Angelus) three times a day: morning, noon and evening.

Queen of Heaven, rejoice, Alleluia!
R. For he whom you deserved to bear, Alleluia!
Has risen as he said, Alleluia!
R. Pray for us to God, Alleluia!

Rejoice and be glad, O Virgin Mary, Alleluia!
For the Lord has truly risen, Alleluia!

Let us pray:
O God, who gave joy to the world through the resurrection of your Son, our Lord Jesus Christ,
grant, we beseech thee, that through the intercession of his Mother, the Virgin Mary,
we may obtain the joys of everlasting life.
Through the same Christ our Lord. Amen.

Praying the Regina Coeli with Art: This Week's Image

Alleluia!
Christ is Risen as He said!
Alleluia!

During the Easter season, we traditionally replace the Angelus prayer with the Regina Coeli. And so through Pentecost Call to Prayer: The Angelus Project features images of the Coronation of the Virgin in place of the usual Annunciation.

Coronation of the Virgin by Giovanni Baronzio (14th century)
Photo credit: Yale University Art Gallery

From Easter to Pentecost, pray the Regina Coeli (in place of the Angelus) three times a day: morning, noon and evening.

Queen of Heaven, rejoice, Alleluia!
R. For he whom you deserved to bear, Alleluia!
Has risen as he said, Alleluia!
R. Pray for us to God, Alleluia!

Rejoice and be glad, O Virgin Mary, Alleluia!
For the Lord has truly risen, Alleluia!

Let us pray:
O God, who gave joy to the world through the resurrection of your Son, our Lord Jesus Christ,
grant, we beseech thee, that through the intercession of his Mother, the Virgin Mary,
we may obtain the joys of everlasting life.
Through the same Christ our Lord. Amen.

Praying the Angelus with Art: This Week's Image

This splendid Annunciation was created by Johann Koerbecke as part of a folding altarpiece for the high altar of a Cistercian abbey in Germany. Most of the year, however, the glorious scenes of the Life of the Virgin would have been shuttered, and the reverse panels (scenes of the Passion) exposed.

From the collection of the Art Institute of Chicago.

Praying the Angelus with Art: This Week's Image

Woodcut Annunciation by Albrecht Altdorfer, from the collection of the Art Institute of Chicago.

Praying the Angelus with Art: This Week's Image

This Annunciation is a detail from a clay design (possibly for a bronze door?) by Sister Angelica Ballan, pddm, a member of the Sister Disciples of the Divine Master, a Pauline congregation founded by Blessed James Alberione for the Liturgical apostolate. The sisters have as a special direction for their mission that of putting beauty at the service of worship.