Annunciation Feast
Nine months before Christmas, at Nazareth. An angel tells Mary what will happen and she answers Luke 1:38 - be it unto me according to thy word. When the date falls inside Holy Week, Holy Week keeps it and the feast is moved.
When it falls
Saturday
The verses for the day
- And Mary said, Behold the handmaid of the Lord; be it unto me according to thy word. And the angel departed from her.Luke 1:38
- And, behold, thou shalt conceive in thy womb, and bring forth a son, and shalt call his name JESUS.Luke 1:31
- Therefore the Lord himself shall give you a sign; Behold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel. {shall call: or, thou, O virgin, shalt call}Isaiah 7:14
The moment in the Bible
The annunciationLuke 1:26Read the passage → The place
Nazareth
Nazareth is the town in Galilee where Jesus grew up and spent most of his life before his public ministry. It was a small, obscure village in ancient times, which led Nathanael to ask "Can anything good come from Nazareth?" The angel Gabriel appeared to Mary here to announce she would give birth to the Son of God. Jesus was known as "Jesus of Nazareth" throughout his ministry.
