The Maronite calendar commemorates this feast twice during the: today and on the Second Sunday of Announcement. today's feast goes back to the fourth century, when it was decided to celebrate Christmas on December 25th; the Annunciation was naturally cellebrated nine months before. This is a great feast in both the East and the West since it recalls the mystery of the incarnation of the Son of God in the womb of the Virgin.

( Mother of the Light, Second Sunday of Announcement )