From Annunciation on March 25 to Christmas on December 25 – nine full months in the womb of Mary – the historical Jesus, the LAMB OF GOD, is getting ready to be sacrificed for the salvation of ...

However, March 25 sometimes falls during Holy Week, and the days of Holy Week have a higher liturgical rank than this solemnity. Still, the Annunciation is an important solemnity, and so it doesn ...

This should make us sit up and take note because March 25 is, of course, the feast of the Annunciation, the date on which the angel of the Lord declared unto Mary and she conceived by the Holy Ghost.