Solemnity of the Annunciation or Incarnation of the Lord

Solemnity of the Annunciation (Annunciata, incarnation, Encarna) of the Lord, when, in the city of Nazareth, the angel of the Lord announced to Mary: you will conceive and bear a son, and he will be called son of the most high. Mary answered: Behold the handmaid of the Lord; Let it be according to thy Word. And so, arriving at the fullness of time, he who was before the centuries the only begotten son of God, for us men and for our salvation became incarnate through the work of the Holy Ghost of the Virgin Mary, and became man.