Monday, June 22, 2020

Praying the Angelus with Art: This Week's Image

This Annunciation is part of an 15th century altarpiece in a parish church in Austria. It was photographed by Dr Richard Stracke and shared on his Christian Iconography website. He notes: "It is in the 15th century that artists begin to include in the background quotidian details that nevertheless bear symbolic value. In this case, the sand in the hourglass has nearly finished its time, a reference to the approaching end of the Old Law."

Photographed at the church by Richard Stracke,
shared under Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike license.    

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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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