Monday, July 13, 2020

Praying the Angelus with Art: This Week's Image

This week's Annunciation within an initial R is from a copy of page in an illuminated manuscript by Fra Angelico, from the Blessed's own friary in Florence. (To preserve the original, only this facsimile is on display in the Convento San Marco library.) The text reads: Rorate coeli desuper, et nubes plua[n]t iustu[m] aperiatur terra et germinet Salvatorem. Resp. alleluia, alleluia. (Drop down dew from above you heavens, and let the clouds rain the Just One; let the earth be opened and bud forth the Savior.)

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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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