The Annunciation and the “Impossible” Jonathan Mitchican March 25, 2020 Commentary, Contributors, Roman Catholic Church By Jonathan Mitchican The angel Gabriel came to Mary and told her a series of impossible-seeming things. The first and most obvious is the thing we’re celebrating today. He announced to Mary that she would c... Read More...
An unheard-of greeting: The Annunciation Zachary Guiliano March 25, 2017 Bible, Church of England, Liturgy The blessed Virgin received the rays of “the sun” when she conceived the Lord. That is, the divinity of our Redeemer cloaked itself with the covering of human nature as with a shade, and by this means a virgin’s womb was able to bear him.
“My soul eats twice”: the strange alignment of Annunciation and Passion in 2016 Michael Cover March 25, 2016 Commentary, Liturgy The Holy Spirit "speaks" through the calendar, and this becomes a proclamation of the purest sort: the kind that the "heavens" rather than the Reformed pastors "declare."
