{"id":24462,"date":"2009-03-25T17:30:00","date_gmt":"2009-03-25T21:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2009\/03\/at-the-message-of-the-angel\/"},"modified":"2009-03-25T17:30:00","modified_gmt":"2009-03-25T21:30:00","slug":"at-the-message-of-the-angel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2009\/03\/at-the-message-of-the-angel\/","title":{"rendered":"At the message of the Angel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\" align=\"center\"><font face=\"Garamond\" color=\"#000000\" size=\"3\"><em>Hail, Mary, full of grace. The is with thee.<\/em><\/font><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\" align=\"center\"><font face=\"Garamond\" color=\"#000000\" size=\"3\"><em><\/em><\/font>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><font face=\"Garamond\" color=\"#000000\" size=\"3\">Hail, thou star of ocean!<\/font><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><font face=\"Garamond\" color=\"#000000\" size=\"3\">Portal of the sky!<\/font><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><font face=\"Garamond\" color=\"#000000\" size=\"3\">Ever Virgin Mother<\/font><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><font face=\"Garamond\" color=\"#000000\" size=\"3\">Of the Lord most high!<\/font><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><o:p><font face=\"Garamond\" color=\"#000000\" size=\"3\">&nbsp;<\/font><\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><font face=\"Garamond\" color=\"#000000\" size=\"3\">Oh, by Gabriel&#8217;s Ave,<\/font><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><font face=\"Garamond\" color=\"#000000\" size=\"3\"><br \/>\n<span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\" style=\"DISPLAY: inline\"><a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/AnnunciazioneJPG.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"mt-image-right\" style=\"FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 20px 20px\" height=\"281\" alt=\"AnnunciazioneJPG.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/AnnunciazioneJPG-thumb-250x281.jpg\" width=\"250\" \/><\/a><\/span>Uttered long ago,<\/font><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><font face=\"Garamond\" color=\"#000000\" size=\"3\">Eva&#8217;s name reversing,<\/font><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><font face=\"Garamond\" color=\"#000000\" size=\"3\">&#8216;Stablish peace below.<\/font><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><o:p><font face=\"Garamond\" color=\"#000000\" size=\"3\">&nbsp;<\/font><\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><font face=\"Garamond\" color=\"#000000\" size=\"3\">Break the captive&#8217;s fetters;<\/font><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><font face=\"Garamond\" color=\"#000000\" size=\"3\">Light on blindness pour;<\/font><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><font face=\"Garamond\" color=\"#000000\" size=\"3\">All our ills expelling,<\/font><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><font face=\"Garamond\" color=\"#000000\" size=\"3\">Every bliss implore.<\/font><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><o:p><font face=\"Garamond\" color=\"#000000\" size=\"3\">&nbsp;<\/font><\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><font face=\"Garamond\" color=\"#000000\" size=\"3\">Show thyself a mother;<\/font><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><font face=\"Garamond\" color=\"#000000\" size=\"3\">Offer Him our sighs,<\/font><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><font face=\"Garamond\" color=\"#000000\" size=\"3\">Who for us incarnate<\/font><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><font face=\"Garamond\" color=\"#000000\" size=\"3\">Did not thee despise.<\/font><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><o:p><font face=\"Garamond\" color=\"#000000\" size=\"3\">&nbsp;<\/font><\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><font face=\"Garamond\" color=\"#000000\" size=\"3\">Virgin of all virgins!<\/font><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><font face=\"Garamond\" color=\"#000000\" size=\"3\">To thy shelter take us;<\/font><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><font face=\"Garamond\" color=\"#000000\" size=\"3\">Gentlest of the gentle!<\/font><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><font face=\"Garamond\" color=\"#000000\" size=\"3\">Chaste and gentle make us.<\/font><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><o:p><font face=\"Garamond\" color=\"#000000\" size=\"3\">&nbsp;<\/font><\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><font face=\"Garamond\" color=\"#000000\" size=\"3\">Still as on we journey,<\/font><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><font face=\"Garamond\" color=\"#000000\" size=\"3\">Help our weak endeavor;<\/font><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><font face=\"Garamond\" color=\"#000000\" size=\"3\">Till with thee and Jesus<\/font><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><font face=\"Garamond\" color=\"#000000\" size=\"3\">We rejoice for ever.<\/font><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><o:p><font face=\"Garamond\" color=\"#000000\" size=\"3\">&nbsp;<\/font><\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><font face=\"Garamond\" color=\"#000000\" size=\"3\">Through the highest heaven,<\/font><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><font face=\"Garamond\" color=\"#000000\" size=\"3\">To the Almighty Three,<\/font><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><font face=\"Garamond\" color=\"#000000\" size=\"3\">Father, Son, and Spirit,<\/font><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><font face=\"Garamond\" color=\"#000000\" size=\"3\">One same glory be. Amen.<\/font><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><font face=\"Garamond\" color=\"#000000\" size=\"3\"><\/font>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#000000\"><span style=\"FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: Garamond; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Times; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA\"><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><em>At his general audience on march 24, 2004, Pope John Paul II said the following about today&#8217;s feast of the Annunciation of the Lord:<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><em><\/em>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">This feast, which this year falls in the middle of Lent, on one hand refers us to the beginnings of salvation, and on the other invites us to turn our gaze to the paschal mystery. We look at Christ crucified who has redeemed humanity, fulfilling to the end the will of the Father. On <st1:place>Calvary<\/st1:place>, in his last moments of life, Jesus entrusted us to Mary as Mother and to her he has commended us as children.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><font color=\"#000000\"><span style=\"FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: Garamond; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Times; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA\">Associated to the mystery of the Incarnation, Our Lady is co-participant in the mystery of redemption. Her fiat, which we recall tomorrow, echoes that of the incarnate Word. In profound symphony with Christ&#8217;s and the Virgin&#8217;s fiat, each one of us is called to unite his own &#8220;yes&#8221; to the mysterious plans of <\/span><st1:city><st1:place><span style=\"FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: Garamond; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Times; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA\">Providence<\/span><\/st1:place><\/st1:city><span style=\"FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: Garamond; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Times; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA\">. In fact, only from full adherence to the Divine Will do that joy and true peace spring which we all ardently desire also for our times.<\/span><\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hail, Mary, full of grace. The is with thee. &nbsp; Hail, thou star of ocean! Portal of the sky! Ever Virgin Mother Of the Lord most high! &nbsp; Oh, by Gabriel&#8217;s Ave, Uttered long ago, Eva&#8217;s name reversing, &#8216;Stablish peace below. &nbsp; Break the captive&#8217;s fetters; Light on blindness pour; All our ills expelling, Every &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2009\/03\/at-the-message-of-the-angel\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">At the message of the Angel<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[2017,32088],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24462"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24462"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24462\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}