Sunday, January 16, 2022

Praying the Angelus with Art: This Week's Image


The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Gift of Coudert Brothers, 1888

This week's Annunciation is a detail from a 16th century Italian original. Evidently someone thought it was a good idea to cut it out of the work (a vestment, perhaps?). The embroidery is done in "silk and metal-wrapped thread on silk" and measures roughly 4.5 inches across.


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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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