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Hi, I'm Edwards Three, and welcome to all things Catholic, where real faith meets real life.

Welcome to the special edition of All Things Catholic.

I'm your host, Edward Sri, on location in Nazareth at the beautiful Church of the Enunciation.

And this is incredible to be here.

You know, there are the three most important churches in the Holy Land, the Church of the Holy Sepulchre,

where you have Calvary and you have the tomb of Jesus, and then the Church of the Nativity,

where we have, the commemorating where Jesus was born.

And then you have this church, the Church of the Annunciation.

Now, I like to highlight how the first two churches get a lot of attention, right? Everyone wants to go to Bethlehem and see where Jesus was born, and they should. That's a beautiful thing. We're going to get to do that later this week. And then of course, everybody wants to go to the climax of the story, the death and the resurrection of Jesus at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre. But the Church of the

Annunciation, the mystery of the enunciation is sometimes not as appreciated as a Catholic. If you had to

think about your favorite feast days of the church liturgical year, some of you, how many would say

Christmas? A lot of people like Christmas. How many would say Easter? Okay, maybe have another famous feast day, but how many would actually say March 25? The enunciation. And yet it's a big solemnity. We celebrate it. We take a break from Lent on that day. You know, so it's a huge feast day, but sometimes we Catholics don't appreciate it.

And I want us to get into the great profound mystery that we're going to see as we're greeted

by this facade, as we look at the symbolism on each of these doors, it's inviting us to see

how important this central mystery is of the enunciation. The incarnation took place that day. The word was made flesh on the day that

Mary said yes when the angel Gabriel came to her. And I think this is the great mystery of the

dissent. You know, a lot of the Christian life is also about our assent to God that God meets us

in our lowliness and then changes us and transforms us. But I think that first point is that we are changed and we do ascend the heights of virtue

and holiness as we're transformed into Christ-likeness through our Christian path.

But it all begins with the descent of God descending, entering into our lowliness,

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