March 25th is the Feast of the Annunciation, when we celebrate the actual incarnation of Our Savior--the Word made flesh in the womb of His mother, Mary.
Second, it is a principal Marian feast.
The biblical account of the Annunciation is in the first chapter of the Gospel of St. Luke, which describes the news given to Mary that she was to become the mother of the Incarnation of God, records the "angelic salutation" of Gabriel to Mary, "Hail, thou who art highly favored. The Lord is with thee." This is the origin of the repeated "Hail Mary" prayer of the Rosary); and Mary's response to God's will, "Let it be done to me according to thy word."
Her exultant hymn, the Magnificat, found in Luke 1:46-55, has been part of the Church's liturgy of the hours, at Vespers (evening prayer), and has been repeated nightly in churches, convents and monasteries for many centuries.--https://portlanddiocese.org/content/feast-annunciation
God bless us and save us and keep us from harm.
Love, Patty
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