On this day, the Church celebrates the meeting ... Russian Orthodox Christians are marking the feast of Annunciation of the Virgin Mary, one of the twelve main feasts of the liturgical year ...

This great feast takes its name from the tidings announced ... since nine months from the Annunciation is the placement of the birth of Jesus on Christmas day. His circumcision follows on the eighth ...

He announced the birth of Jesus to the Virgin Mary and is associated with the Annunciation ... Prayer is traditionally recited three times a day — morning, noon and evening — as a way to ...