The Annunciation: The Spirit, the Stillness, the Order

Today is the Solemnity of the Annunciation, the day we celebrate the Angel Gabriel’s visit to the Virgin Mary. In that quiet room in Nazareth, she was asked a question that would shift the foundations of the world: was she willing to be the mother of the incarnate Son of God? It was a profound, world-altering moment.

In my own life, I’ve found that the most significant moments rarely happen in the roar of a crowd; they happen in the quiet...