The Mystical City of God, Venerable Mary of Agreda
I am a Catholic wife and mother, reading this work to all my children every night at bedtime.
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Venerable Mary of Agreda was a Spanish nun and mystic who lived in the 17th century (1602-1665). She received revelations from Our Lady concerning many unknown graces of her life.
Each chapter contains descriptions of the graces of the interior life of Our Lady, and and instruction given by Our Lady herself to Venerable Mary of Agreda, her spiritual daughter, on how to imitate her virtues more perfectly.
This is a home recording of a mother reading to her children at bedtime. It is being done with permission from the translator, using the New English Edition published recently by Timothy A. Duff, available for sale on www.neemcog.com.
This work, it has been argued, is perhaps the greatest Scripture commentary ever written. It produces Divine Faith in the soul. Whoever reads or listens to it with openness of heart and not skepticism will be certain to perceive the supernatural realities which are communicated in it, and to grow spiritually in imitation of the virtues of the Blessed Virgin Mary, knowing her thoughts and her ways.
Episodes
Monday Oct 17, 2022
Monday Oct 17, 2022
Most Holy Mary visit the Holy Places; She gains mysterious triumphs over the demons, She sees the Divinity in Heaven by Beatific Vision; the Apostles convoke a Council, and the hidden secrets regarding all of these events.
Monday Oct 17, 2022
Monday Oct 17, 2022
Three Marian Hymns from the black Saint Basil Hymnal about Our Lady which are happily related to the previous chapter.
Ave Maria!!!
Sunday Oct 16, 2022
Sunday Oct 16, 2022
Most Holy Mary returns from Ephesus to Jerusalem, called by the Apostle St. Peter; She continues the battle with the demons; She suffers great hardships at sea; and stating other mysteries in connection with these events.
Wednesday Oct 12, 2022
Wednesday Oct 12, 2022
Most Holy Mary destroys the temple of Diana in Ephesus, her angels carry her to the Empyrean Heaven, where the Lord prepares her to enter into battle with the infernal Dragon and vanquish him; this duel begins with temptations to pride.
Monday Oct 10, 2022
Monday Oct 10, 2022
A song I wrote and dedicated to my husband for our 15th anniversary, on the Feast of Our Lady of the Holy Rosary, October 7th.
Saint Dominic had been trying to defeat the Albigensian heresy, all to no avail. He went into the woods, and ate nothing and scourged himself for three days imploring help from Heaven, until for hunger and loss of blood he fell unconscious. He might have died. At this time, however, Our Lady appeared to him and gave him the Rosary, and told him why his preaching was not having much effect because he was not preparing the soil before he was trying to plant the Faith. She told him simply to preach the Rosary, and that she would convert the world through it. This story is related in detail in St. Louis de Montfort's book, The Secret of the Rosary.
This song is an imaginative poem about their encounter together, and how Our Lady might have spoken to St. Dominic as his mother, just as she was rousing him out of the coma and giving him the Rosary.
Monday Oct 10, 2022
Monday Oct 10, 2022
What happened with Most Holy Mary regarding the death and chastisement of Herod, Saint John preaches in Ephesus, working many miracles, Lucifer rises up to make war on the Queen of Heaven.
Friday Oct 07, 2022
Friday Oct 07, 2022
Bless the Lord, O my soul, and let all that is within me bless His Holy Name.
Bless the Lord, O my soul, and forget not all He hath done for thee.
Bless the Lord, O my soul, and let all that is within me bless His Holy Name,
Let all that is within me trust His holy grace,
Let all that is within me seek His Holy Face...
Seek His Love...His Love..everlasting Love!
Seek His Heart, His Truth, His joy, His peace.
Jesus, I will praise You Name forever.
Jesus, I will bless You Name forever.
Bless the Lord, O my soul, and let all that is within me bless His Holy Name,
Bless the Lord, O my soul, and forget not all He hath done for thee.
Forget not all He hath done for thee.
Forget not all He hath done for thee.
Monday Oct 03, 2022
Monday Oct 03, 2022
The glorious martyrdom of Saint James, he is assisted in this by Most Holy Mary, and she takes his soul to Heaven, his body is brought back to Spain; the imprisonment of Saint Peter and his liberation from prison, the secrets connected with these events.
Monday Oct 03, 2022
Monday Oct 03, 2022
A very rough first try at improvised meditative singing with my children as part of our family holy hour on the Feast of St. Michael the Archangel. Text is the Antiphon from the Mass of the Dedication of St. Michael.
Playing on a Jewish Kinnor Lyre, a replica of King David's ten stringed lyre mentioned in the Psalms.
The children are drumming on books and shoeboxes and whatever is nearby.
Thursday Sep 29, 2022
Thursday Sep 29, 2022
Spontaneous playing, singing, and improvising on the hymn O Purest of Creatures, about Our Lady as the Star of the Sea, in the form of a lullaby for my family, all drifting off to sleep. Inspired by the previous chapter.