THE ANNUNCIATION OF THE BLESSED VIRGIN MARY

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[Salvation]

Solemnity of the Annunciation of the Lord celebrated on March 25th.

Hail Mary, full of grace!

[Salvation]

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[fatima]

Thanks Salvation,we are headed down the shore so will celebrate it down there.

[Convert from ECUSA]

:)))))

Thanks for posting!

[Salvation]

My pleasure!

[FourtySeven]

Hail Mary, full of grace!

Amen!

[A.A. Cunningham]

Ave Maria, gratia plena, Dominus tecum.
Benedicta tu in mulieribus,
et benedictus fructus ventris tui, Iesus.
Sancta Maria, Mater Dei,
ora pro nobis peccatoribus, nunc,
et in hora mortis nostrae.
Amen.

[lightman]

My favorite Annunciation hymn: My parish will use this tomorrow as the Gospel acclamation:

1. The angel Gabriel from Heaven came,
His wings as drifted snow,
His eyes as flame; `All hail,' said he,
`Thou lowly maiden Mary,'
Most highly favoured lady, Gloria!

2. `For known a blessed Mother thou shalt be,
All generations laud and honour thee,
Thy Son shall be Emmanuel, by seers foretold,'
Most highly favoured lady, Gloria!

3. Then gentle Mary meekly bowed her head,
`To me be as it pleaseth God,' she said,
`My soul shall laud and magnify his holy name.'
Most highly favoured lady, Gloria!

4. Of her, Emmanuel, the Christ, was born
In Bethlehem, all on a Christmas morn,
And Christian folk throughout the world will ever say:
Most highly favoured lady, Gloria!

Words: Basque carol;
trans. Sabine Baring-Gould (1834-1924)
Tune Gabriel's Message

Another, gentler rendition of the tune in folk midi

[murphE]

The Angelus

V: The Angel of the Lord declared unto Mary

R: And she conceived by the Holy Ghost.

V: Hail Mary, full of grace: The Lord is with thee. Blessed art thou among women and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus.

R: Holy Mary, Mother of God: Pray for us sinners now and at the hour of our death. Amen.

V: Behold, the handmaid of the Lord.

R: Be it done unto me according to thy word.

V: Hail Mary ...

R: Holy Mary ...

V: And the Word was made flesh

R: And dwelt among us.

V: Hail Mary ...

R: Holy Mary ...

V: Pray for us, O holy Mother of God,

R: That we may be made worthy of the promises of Christ.

V: Let us pray.

All: Pour forth, we beseech the, O Lord, thy grace unto our hearts, that we, to whom the Incarnation of Christ, thy Son, was made known by the message of an Angel, may by His Passion and Cross be brought to the glory of His Resurrection, through the same Christ, our Lord, Amen.

[John 6.66=Mark of the Beast?]

who, being endowed with the most "angelic purity" of soul and body.

How does this fit into the angels that rebelled, where are angels inherently pure?


23 For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;
24 Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus:
(KJV)

[Full Court]

In the choice of her whom he raised to this most sublime of all dignities to which any pure creature could be exalted

Mark 3:35
 For whosoever shall do the will of God,
the same is my brother,
and my sister,
and mother.

[Salvation]

Beautiful!

[Salvation]

Thanks, murphe

[Salvation]

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The Annuniciation [Pavone]

Happy Mothers Day - The Annunciation - a poem

POPE ENCOURAGES PREGNANT WOMEN TO HAVE HOPE - THE ANNUNCIATION: MARY'S OPENNESS TO THE WILL OF GOD [Read Only]

[MILESJESU]

Dear Freepers in Christ,

There seems to be something wrong big time today with http://www.freerepublic.com.

I could not log on to it for the past 4.5 hours and this is similar to an experience I had more than a week back, where Salvation and I and a few others could not log on to Free Republic for a number of Hours.

I wonder if some hackers are trying to destroy Free Republic unless the whole site was down for repairs for almost 5 hours.

Can anyone enlighten me on this ?

[Salvation]

Check the news forum -- I can breathe now thread. Server problems.

[Salvation]

American Catholic’s Saint of the Day

March 25, 2006

Annunciation of the Lord

The feast of the Annunciation goes back to the fourth or fifth century. Its central focus is the Incarnation: God has become one of us. From all eternity God had decided that the Second Person of the Blessed Trinity should become human. Now, as Luke 1:26-38 tells us, the decision is being realized. The God-Man embraces all humanity, indeed all creation, to bring it to God in one great act of love. Because human beings have rejected God, Jesus will accept a life of suffering and an agonizing death: “No one has greater love than this, to lay down one’s life for one’s friends” (John 15:13).

Mary has an important role to play in God’s plan. From all eternity God destined her to be the mother of Jesus and closely related to him in the creation and redemption of the world. We could say that God’s decrees of creation and redemption are joined in the decree of Incarnation. As Mary is God’s instrument in the Incarnation, she has a role to play with Jesus in creation and redemption. It is a God-given role. It is God’s grace from beginning to end. Mary becomes the eminent figure she is only by God’s grace. She is the empty space where God could act. Everything she is she owes to the Trinity.

She is the virgin-mother who fulfills Isaiah 7:14 in a way that Isaiah could not have imagined. She is united with her son in carrying out the will of God (Psalm 40:8-9; Hebrews 10:7-9; Luke 1:38).

Together with Jesus, the privileged and graced Mary is the link between heaven and earth. She is the human being who best, after Jesus, exemplifies the possibilities of human existence. She received into her lowliness the infinite love of God. She shows how an ordinary human being can reflect God in the ordinary circumstances of life. She exemplifies what the Church and every member of the Church is meant to become. She is the ultimate product of the creative and redemptive power of God. She manifests what the Incarnation is meant to accomplish for all of us.

Comment:

Sometimes spiritual writers are accused of putting Mary on a pedestal and thereby discouraging ordinary humans from imitating her. Perhaps such an observation is misguided. God did put Mary on a pedestal and has put all human beings on a pedestal. We have scarcely begun to realize the magnificence of divine grace, the wonder of God’s freely given love. The marvel of Mary—even in the midst of her very ordinary life—is God’s shout to us to wake up to the marvelous creatures that we all are by divine design.

Quote:

“Enriched from the first instant of her conception with the splendor of an entirely unique holiness, the virgin of Nazareth is hailed by the heralding angel, by divine command, as ‘full of grace’ (cf. Luke 1:28). To the heavenly messenger she replies: ‘Behold the handmaid of the Lord; be it done to me according to thy word’ (Luke 1:38). Thus the daughter of Adam, Mary, consenting to the word of God, became the Mother of Jesus. Committing herself wholeheartedly and impeded by no sin to God’s saving will, she devoted herself totally, as a handmaid of the Lord, to the person and work of her Son, under and with him, serving the mystery of redemption, by the grace of Almighty God” (Dogmatic Constitution on the Church, 56).

[ventana]

Something semi-related.

Happened to see the start of Ingmar Bergman's "The Seventh Seal"

The first scene includes Mary, dressed like a queen, healping the baby Jesus learn to walk across a meadow.

Bergman was a Lutheran, had no interest in things Catholic whatsoever, by his own explicit admission. So how is it that in out of the way Sweden, in 1957, the imagery of Mary as a Holy Queen was a part of protestant thought, but does not seem to be so today?

What happened?

[Salvation]

Good question. If we only had the answer.

[Salvation]

BTTT on the Solemnity of the Annuniciation, being celebrated this year on March 25, 2007!