I suspect that Murillo's other Annunciation is the one that comes to most people's minds when they envision the Angel Gabriel's visit to Mary. But he did this one, too:
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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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