A blessed Feast of the Annunciation to you! I've been really getting into icons lately so when I found this one of the Annunciation I was thrilled. I found it here along with a great explanation of the different parts of the icon. Of course, I have yet to buy myself an icon, but someday I will because I just love the intense colors that they use as well as the fact that everything that is on an icon means something. Nothing is random. I like that.
Today is also our consecration day. We started doing this every year at this time back in 1999. Wow, that makes this our 15th year of following the St. Louis de Montfort formula for the consecration to the Blessed Virgin. I didn't realize it had been that long! We use this book (this year I have mine on my Kindle and boy is that handy!), so if you've never done the consecration and are interested, the next series starts on March 26th with a consecration day of April 28th, St. Louis' feast day.
God Bless!
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