Monday, April 8, Second Week in Easter
SOLEMNITY OF THE ANNUNCIATION OF THE LORD
[March 25, but celebrated today because yesterday was a Sunday in Lent.]
The Annunciation by Fra Angelico, 1437; Botticelli, 1489; Raphael, 1501
'FIAT VOLUNTAS TUA!...ET VERBUM CARO FACTUS EST'
Readings for today's Mass: www.usccb.org/bible/readings/040813.cfm
AT THE VATICAN TODAY
Pope Francis met with
- Cardinal Mauro Piacenza, Prefect of the Congregation for the Clergy.
[He collapsed during the installation Mass of the Pope on March 24 and was hospitalized for a few days,]-
- Mons. Charles Daniel Balvo, Apostolic Nuncio to Kenya
- Mons. Héctor Rubén Aguer, Archbishop of La Plata (Argentina);
- Nikolaus Schneider, President of the Evangelical Church in Germany, his spouse and delegation.