Luke l :36-37) The Annunciation has its main focus on the Incarnation: God became man to save us. The prayers of the Mass as well as the preface stress the title virgin for Mary. A further theme of ...

particularly through the Angelus Prayer, which commemorates his pivotal role in the Annunciation. This prayer is a reminder of the moment when the divine entered the world, and it calls upon ...

2 Since the Middle Ages, Western representations of the Annunciation normally placed the event indoors: in a bedroom or private chamber, where the Virgin – usually at prayer – finds herself surprised ...