Solemnity
Annunciation of the Lord
- Feast day
- March 25
Life
The Annunciation of the Lord, celebrated nine months before Christmas, commemorates the angel Gabriel's announcement to the Virgin Mary that she would conceive and bear the Son of God by the power of the Holy Spirit. Mary's free assent, her fiat recorded in the Gospel of Luke, marks the moment of the Incarnation, when the Word became flesh. It is observed as a solemnity in the Roman calendar.
The saint of the day, every day
Bosko shows you the saint the Church honors today, every day — their story, today's feast, and where they fall in your tradition's liturgical calendar, so a feast that matters to you never quietly slips past.