The Annunciation, Francesco Albani (1633).
Monday, March 13, 2017
Monday, March 6, 2017
Praying the Angelus with Art: This Week's Image
In this detail of a page of a thousand-year-old sacramentary in the collection of The Morgan Library and Museum, we see the depiction of the Annunciation in the opening letter of the Collect for the Feast of the Annunciation of the Lord.
Monday, February 27, 2017
Praying the Angelus with Art: This Week's Image
The depiction shows Mary reading not a book but a scroll, while in the heavens, Old Testament prophets unfurl scrolls lettered in Hebrew. Perhaps Mary is at that very instant, recalling the Scriptural words that spoke of her own role in giving the world its Savior.
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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.
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
