{"id":42648,"date":"2026-03-25T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-25T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/explorecatholic.nl\/nieuws\/8-things-to-know-and-share-about-the-annunciation\/"},"modified":"2026-03-25T09:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T08:00:00","slug":"8-things-to-know-and-share-about-the-annunciation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/explorecatholic.nl\/en\/nieuws\/8-things-to-know-and-share-about-the-annunciation\/","title":{"rendered":"8 things to know and share about the Annunciation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today the Church celebrates the solemnity of the Annunciation. It\u2019s typically celebrated on March 25, unless it falls during Holy Week, by which it is superseded.<\/p>\n<p>The day celebrates the appearance of the angel Gabriel to the Virgin Mary to announce the Incarnation. Here are eight things to know and to share about the feast day and its significance.<\/p>\n<h2>1. What does the word \u201cannunciation\u201d mean?<\/h2>\n<p>The word is derived from the same root as the word \u201cannounce.\u201d Gabriel is announcing the incarnation of Christ \u2014 God becoming man in the person of Jesus.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnnunciation\u201d is simply an old-fashioned way of saying \u201cannouncement.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The term can be applied to other events also. For example, in his book \u201cJesus of Nazareth 3: The Infancy Narratives,\u201d Pope Benedict XVI has sections on both \u201cthe annunciation of the birth of John\u201d and \u201cthe annunciation to Mary,\u201d because John the Baptist\u2019s birth was also announced in advance.<\/p>\n<h2>2. When is the Annunciation normally celebrated and why does it sometimes move?<\/h2>\n<p>Normally the solemnity of the Annunciation is celebrated March 25.<\/p>\n<p>This date is used because it is nine months before Christmas (Dec. 25), and it is assumed that Jesus spent the normal nine months in his mother\u2019s womb.<\/p>\n<p>However, March 25 sometimes falls during Holy Week, and the days of Holy Week have a higher liturgical rank than this solemnity.<\/p>\n<p>Still, the Annunciation is an important solemnity, and so it doesn\u2019t just vanish from the calendar. Instead, as the rubrics in the Roman Missal note: \u201cWhenever this solemnity occurs during Holy Week, it is transferred to the Monday after the second Sunday of Easter.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It is thus celebrated on the first available day after Holy Week and the Octave of Easter (which ends on the second Sunday of Easter).<\/p>\n<h2>3. How does this story parallel the birth of John the Baptist?<\/h2>\n<p>As noted above, John the Baptist\u2019s conception was announced in advance also. In both stories there are multiple parallels:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The angel Gabriel makes the announcement.<\/li>\n<li>He announces to a single individual: Zechariah in John the Baptist\u2019s case and Mary in Jesus\u2019 case.<\/li>\n<li>He announces the miraculous conception of an individual who has a prominent place in God\u2019s plan.<\/li>\n<li>He is met with a question in both cases (Zechariah asks how he can know this will happen; Mary asks how it will happen).<\/li>\n<li>A miraculous sign is offered as evidence (Zechariah is struck dumb; Mary is told of Elizabeth\u2019s miraculous pregnancy, which is in its sixth month).<\/li>\n<li>Gabriel departs.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>4. How is Mary\u2019s reaction different from Zechariah\u2019s?<\/h2>\n<p>At first glance, Mary\u2019s reaction to Gabriel can appear like Zechariah\u2019s unbelieving reaction, but it is fundamentally different.<\/p>\n<p>Like Zechariah, she asks a question, but it is a question of a different sort:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Zechariah asked how he could <em>know<\/em> what the angel says would be true. His attitude was one of skepticism.<\/li>\n<li>Mary does not ask for proof. Instead, she asks <em>how<\/em> the angel\u2019s words will be fulfilled. She accepts what he says and wants to understand specifically how it will take place. Her attitude is thus one of faith seeking understanding, not a lack of faith.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>5. What does Mary\u2019s reaction say about her perpetual virginity?<\/h2>\n<p>Mary\u2019s question is translated in the RSVCE translation of the Bible as \u201cHow shall this be, since I have no husband?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This is not a good translation, because she <em>does<\/em>, in fact, have a husband: Joseph. Luke has already told us that she is betrothed to Joseph, which means that they were legally married (thus Joseph would have had to divorce her, not just \u201cbreak the engagement\u201d as one might today; cf. Matthew 1:19).<\/p>\n<p>What the text literally says in Greek is \u201csince I do not know man.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This relies on the common biblical euphemism of \u201cknowing\u201d for sexual relations. Mary\u2019s question indicates that she understands the facts of life, and it is surprising since she is legally married and awaiting the time that she and Joseph would begin to cohabit.<\/p>\n<p>If she were planning on an ordinary marriage then the most natural interpretation of the angel\u2019s statement would be that, after she and Joseph begin to cohabit, they will together conceive a child, whom the angel is now telling her about.<\/p>\n<p>The fact that she asks the question indicates that this is not her understanding, and it has often been taken as a sign that she was not planning on an ordinary marriage.<\/p>\n<p>Early Christian writings from the second century onward, beginning with the \u201cProtoevangelium of James,\u201d indicate that Mary was a consecrated virgin who was entrusted to the care of Joseph.<\/p>\n<h2>6. How does Gabriel respond to Mary\u2019s question?<\/h2>\n<p>Gabriel informs her: \u201cThe Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you; therefore the child to be born will be called holy, the Son of God.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Here Gabriel indicates the involvement of all three Persons of the Trinity: Through the action of the Holy Spirit, the Father causes the Son to be conceived in human form. There will be no human father, making clear the fact that the child will be the Son of God.<\/p>\n<p>As a further illustration of God\u2019s power, he points to the fact that Elizabeth, though old and apparently barren, has miraculously conceived a son and is in her sixth month of pregnancy. \u201cFor with God nothing will be impossible.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2>7. Is Elizabeth Mary\u2019s cousin?<\/h2>\n<p>This question sometimes comes up in discussions of Mary\u2019s perpetual virginity, because it is sometimes thought that the \u201cbrothers\u201d of the Lord were his cousins and that they are described as brothers because Aramaic has no word for \u201ccousin.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Yet the New American Bible described Elizabeth as Mary\u2019s cousin.<\/p>\n<p>Who Jesus\u2019 \u201cbrothers\u201d were has been understood in different ways. The earliest sources that comment on the question (including the second-century \u201cProtoevangelium of James\u201d) say they were stepbrothers through Joseph. They also, hypothetically, could have been adopted\u00a0(adoption was very common in the ancient world since people often died early). So they need not have been cousins.<\/p>\n<p>While it\u2019s true that Aramaic does not have a word for cousin, Greek does (\u201canepsios\u201d), but that is not the word used here.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the well-known mistranslation in the NAB (later corrected in the NABRE), Elizabeth is not described as Mary\u2019s \u201ccousin.\u201d The Greek word in this passage (\u201csungenis\u201d) indicates a female relative \u2014 a kinswoman \u2014 not a cousin in particular.<\/p>\n<h2>8. Why is Mary\u2019s \u201cfiat\u201d important?<\/h2>\n<p>Mary\u2019s acceptance of this role is momentous and will entail suffering. It is momentous because she will be the mother of the Son of God himself. It will entail suffering in ways that she cannot yet foresee (e.g., witnessing the Crucifixion), but some she can foresee.<\/p>\n<p>In particular, she will be regarded as having been unfaithful to Joseph, and that involves not only public shame but also, as Matthew records, endangering her relationship with Joseph and her future livelihood and social position. Yet she places herself completely at the service of God\u2019s will.<\/p>\n<p>Commenting on this, Pope Benedict writes:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn one of his Advent homilies, Bernard of Clairvaux offers a stirring presentation of the drama of this moment. After the error of our first parents, the whole world was shrouded in darkness, under the dominion of death. Now God seeks to enter the world anew. He knocks at Mary\u2019s door. He needs human freedom. The only way he can redeem man, who was created free, is by means of a free \u2018yes\u2019 to his will. In creating freedom, he made himself in a certain sense dependent upon man. His power is tied to the unenforceable \u2019yes\u2019 of a human being.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo Bernard portrays heaven and earth as it were holding its breath at this moment of the question addressed to Mary. Will she say yes? She hesitates \u2026 will her humility hold her back? Just this once \u2014 Bernard tells her \u2014 do not be humble but daring! Give us your \u2018yes\u2019! This is the crucial moment when, from her lips, from her heart, the answer comes: \u2018Let it be to me according to your word.\u2019 It is the moment of free, humble yet magnanimous obedience in which the loftiest choice of human freedom is made (\u2018Jesus of Nazareth 3: The Infancy Narratives,\u2019 chapter 2).\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>This story <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncregister.com\/blog\/8-things-to-know-and-share-about-the-annunciation\">was first published<\/a> on April 7, 2013, by the National Catholic Register, the sister partner of EWTN News, and has been adapted and updated by EWTN News.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today the Church celebrates the solemnity of the Annunciation. It\u2019s typically celebrated on March 25, unless it falls during Holy Week, by which it is superseded. The day celebrates the appearance of the angel Gabriel to the Virgin Mary to announce the Incarnation. 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