Annunciation

To become a better communicator in today’s world, one must be able to communicate effectively. Yet, we face several challenges that makes us avoid speaking in situations requiring communication. Examples of these challenges are speech anxiety, inability to speak properly, and lack of confidence. Communication apprehension is one’s level of fear in communicating with others. This is measured by using the personal report of communication apprehension (PRCA-24), which measures an individual’s…

Religious art and sacred music cause reflection on the goodness and the beauty of God. They portray a life of grace and the world of the Spirit. Mary, the Mother of God, has a unique role in God’s plan for the salvation of mankind. Through an art piece titled “The Christ Child” and the song “Ave Maria Stella” we can derive that Mary, Mother of God, has a unique role in God’s plan for the salvation of mankind. This art piece called “The Christ Child” by Anthony VanArsdale. Mary has Jesus seated…

from nature that leads Edna towards awakening and independence, resembling the God's message that the Virgin Mary received from the angel Gabriel (Luke 1:26). "In fact, light beams have frequently been used as a motif in paintings depicting the Annunciation. In one such painting by Spanish painter Bartolomé Esteban Murillo, a beam of light shines on Madonna's forehead, sanctifying her into a divine person. In other more modern and cross-cultural adaptations, the attires of the characters vary…

The Gospel of Luke is one of the four Gospels accepted as part of the canon of Scripture. This Gospel is the Gospel that focuses most on social justice and God’s mercy. His Gospel is also the only Gospel that contains the annunciation. Though Luke didn’t witness Jesus’s miracles personally he did sound research and his Gospel is just as accurate as the others. Luke wrote two books in the Bible, The Gospel of Luke and The Acts of the Apostles. He, himself was only present in The Acts of…

original sin. Mary is able to achieve original holiness with special grace from God are she remains sin free. - God prepares the way for Mary. It all began at the Annunciation, when Mary truly committed herself into being a part of God’s plan of salvation. She truly became Theotokos, “God-bearer”. She became the fiat at the Annunciation and truly gives her consent to the Incarnation of Christ and was ready to take the world as her Divine Son would bring. However, Mary is truly shown to be a…

The Isenheim Altarpiece is perhaps one of the greatest Renaissance paintings of the 1500s. Sculpted and painted by Niclaus of Haguneau and Matthias Grünewald, respectively, between 1512 and 1516, the altarpiece is currently located at the Unterlinden Museum in France. It is comprised of two sets of wings, which depict three different arrangements or views. You can view it at the following link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BN2VvXtjkjI, which shows each distinctive panel of the triptych.…

Starting on the left, the art depicts the Annunciation to Mary. Here, Mary was robed like a Roman princess and she weaves a purple veil. Both of these features depict her as having a high honor bestowed upon her. Next scene was the Annunciation to Joseph, the Adoration of the Magi, and the Massacre of the Innocents. The next mosaic represents Jesus’ presentation in the Temple, the flight into…

The Latour d’Auvergne Triptych, also called the Annunciation with Saints and Donors is a three part, wood panel that depicts the Annunciation of the Angel Gabriel to Mary that she is to be the mother of Christ as described in the Gospel of Luke. As a foldable triptych, the art has remained amazingly well preserved without any conservation efforts, however, additional scanning and research had exposed some interesting changes and edits made to the image that are otherwise invisible to the naked…

Of late, the Virgin Mary has become somewhat fashionable in academic circles. This prominence reflects her long-lasting cultural impact as an international spiritual and historic figure. Miri Rubin's recent magnum opus Mother of God: A History of the Virgin Mary provides a much needed global examination of the cultural significance of the Virgin Mary over the longue duree. On a more localised level, Bridget Heal's The Cult of the Virgin Mary in Early Modern Germany and the book under review here…

At first the environment is open, but through his use of alliteration it the slow annunciation gives the feel of it slowly becoming emptied. He then moves on to describe “filaments” being reached out. The filaments paint an image of a web, where the “filament” is made in order to describe the spider’s way of reaching out. The alliteration…