Hobby Lobby and the Annunciation

Without giving away too much about the title of Marc's post, "Unde Origo Inde Salus," I thought I would pass along something I meant to mention in passing during my Scarpa Conference talk, but did not. The missed moment came in my discussion of some quotations from Redemptoris Mater, which I noted on my slide was promulgated on March 25, 1987. As it turns out, March 25 was also the date of oral arguments in the Hobby Lobby and Conestoga Wood cases. I will leave it to others to judge what connection (if any) there may be between those arguments and the first joyful mystery of the rosary. For whatever it's worth, it probably has nothing to do with anything that twenty-seven (the number of years between Redemptoris Mater and Hobby Lobby/Conestoga oral arguments) is a perfect cube.