Giovanni di Paolo di Grazia
The Annunciation
Today the Church commemorates the Feast of the Annunciation of Our Lady, the moment when the Archangel Gabriel visited Mary to announce, "Hail Mary full of Grace, the Lord is with you." This is one of the great Marian feasts of the Church, tied directly to Our Lord's incarnational birth into the world through Mary.
Orthodox Troparion for the Feast of the Annunciation
Today is the beginning of our salvation and the manifestation of the mystery which is from eternity. The Son of God becomes the Son of the Virgin, and Gabriel announces grace. So with him let us also cry to the Mother of God: Rejoice, thou who art full of grace! The Lord is with thee.
