Each year on March 25, the Church celebrates the Solemnity of the Annunciation of the Lord. This great feast takes its name from the tidings announced by the angel Gabriel to the Blessed Virgin Mary ...

This–however–is the point where the Virgin birth has to be resituated in the broader context of the Annunciation Event. Only thus can we understand and participate in Mary's own confrontation with the ...

TASS/. Russian Orthodox Christians are marking the feast of Annunciation of the Virgin Mary, one of the twelve main feasts of the liturgical year that coincides in 2018 with the Holy Saturday.