In a charming terra-cotta relief from mid-15th century Italy, God looks almost like Noah, releasing the Dove of the spirit from Heaven to alight upon Mary.
Courtesy of the Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields.
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).
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