Museums around the world feature art depicting the Annunciation, which Catholics celebrate on April 8 this year. The Metropolitan Museum of Art (the Met) in New York City is one of them. “I think a very large part of it has to
On April 8, a total solar eclipse in North America will coincide with the Solemnity of the Annunciation. OSV News editor-in-chief Gretchen R. Crowe points out the connection between the moon’s shadow falling on Earth and Mary being “overshadowed” by the Holy
Pope Francis has invited Catholics worldwide to renew the act of consecrating the church and all humanity, especially Russia and Ukraine, to Mary every March 25, the feast of the Annunciation.
At the end of his general audience in St. Peter's Square March
God promises healing from generation to generation, but to those who are suffering from the effects of family abuse and dysfunction, the hope of such healing can be so hard to believe. As Erin McCole Cupp writes in an essay for Our
"Hail, full of grace! The Lord is with you," the angel Gabriel greets Mary, using words familiar to us as the opening of the Hail Mary. Mary is "greatly troubled" at this salutation, not knowing what it means, but Gabriel reassures her: