Sunday, July 31, 2022

Praying the Angelus with Art: This Week's Image

Today is the feast of St Ignatius of Loyola, the founder of the Jesuits, though because it is a Sunday only the Jesuits will be celebrating the feast day. (Plus me. I am a big fan of St Ignatius.) If you know any Jesuits, tell them that you have seen the Annunciation from the chapel in their General Curia (pronounced Coor-ee-ah) in Rome! (That's their world headquarters, just a block away from the arms of Bernini's colonnade surrounding St Peter's Square at the Vatican.) 

This is, I think you can tell, a work by their brother Jesuit, Marko Rupnik. As usual, Mary holds close to her womb the red thread that represents her womanly work: both "weaving the Temple veil" and forming, within her womb, the fleshly tissues of the Dwelling of God among the human race. 

I am putting the detail first, and then the wide shot that shows you the context. 




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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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