angelus

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The Vatican confirmed the Pope will preside over the angelus prayer this coming Sunday, but next Wednesday's general audience will not take place "to safeguard the Holy Father's post-surgery recovery".

From BBC • Jun. 16, 2023

Pope Benedict XVI waves as he leads the Sunday angelus prayer in Saint Peter Square at the Vatican February 10, 2013.

From Time • Feb. 11, 2013

The bell of the hacienda had tolled the evening oration, and the tinkling of the angelus was sounding the summons to prayer.

From The Tiger Hunter by Reid, Mayne

Ad idem, Geneseos XXXII. dicit angelus Dei ad Jacob: Nequaquam vocaberis ultra Jacob, sed Israel erit nomen tuum.

From A History of The Inquisition of The Middle Ages; volume I by Lea, Henry Charles

What had ye done to her, years upon years, That her head should be bowed down thus— Thus for your golden vespers, And deepening angelus?

From Collected Poems Volume Two by Noyes, Alfred