God's kiss to humanity (St. Francis de Sales)

  Let him kiss me with a kiss of his mouth!  At last, this kiss which had been for so long differed, was accorded to his holy Lover, Our Lady, given by her celestial Spouse on the day of the Annunciation.  It was then that the divine union of the eternal Word with human nature, represented by this kiss, took place in the holy womb of the glorious Virgin.

--St. Francis de Sales, 

Sermon XLVI on the Annunciation, 

March 25, 1621 

Image source:  Maurice Denis, L'Annonciation (1913)
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