{"id":8549,"date":"2011-03-25T06:29:05","date_gmt":"2011-03-25T12:29:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/?p=8549"},"modified":"2011-03-25T09:58:51","modified_gmt":"2011-03-25T15:58:51","slug":"march-25-feast-of-the-annunciation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/index.php\/2011\/03\/25\/march-25-feast-of-the-annunciation\/","title":{"rendered":"March 25: Feast of the Annunciation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Et incarnatus est&#8221; &#8212; thus the terse phrase in the Creed that begins to hint at the mystery we celebrate today, in the Solemnity of the Annunciation of the Lord. At Mass, we affirm this (in the current English translation) as Christ &#8220;being born of the Virgin Mary.&#8221; The coming new translation will be closer to the Latin original by affirming that Christ\u00a0&#8220;was incarnate&#8221; of the Virgin Mary by the Holy Spirit.\u00a0 One can argue over whether &#8220;people in the pews&#8221; will find this change meaningful, but this re-translation of the Creed does make an important point, namely that there are nine months between the Annunciation and Christmas, between conception and birth. To put this differently, there is a journey to travel, between the moment of conception and that of birth &#8212; as every woman who has ever been pregnant (and those who accompany her) knows so very well.\u00a0 Today, we rejoice in the <strong><em>beginning<\/em><\/strong> of that journey the Eternal Word undertakes, as Mary is overshadowed by the Holy Spirit and conceives. 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