The Angelus Project: September 2021

Sunday, September 26, 2021

Praying the Angelus with Art: This Week's Image

God the Father wears the triple tiara usually associated with the Papacy in Luis Juárez' Annunciation from the National Museum of Art in Mexico City:

Luis Juárez: The Annunciation (Museo Nacional de Arte)
Google Art Project, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Sunday, September 19, 2021

Praying the Angelus with Art: This Week's Image

Altarpiece of the Annunciation by Juan de Correa de Vivar from the Museum of the Prado.

Gabriel's scroll contains not only his words of greeting (Hail, Full of Grace, the Lord is with you), but a hint of Elizabeth's words at the Visitation (Blessed are you among women). In other words, the first half of the Hail Mary is wafting from Gabriel's hand!

Image ©Museo Nacional del Prado

Sunday, September 12, 2021

Praying the Angelus with Art: This Week's Image

On this feast of the Holy Name of Mary, a lovely 1926 Annunciation from Danish painter Harald Slott-Møller (1864-1937), whose wife was also an accomplished artist:

Sunday, September 5, 2021

Praying the Angelus with Art: This Week's Image

From Venice, an Annunciation by the great Titian (1490-1576):

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.