Excerpts from Mystical City of God by Ven. Mary of Agreda

[whiterockdove]

"Giving them grace........"
What a gift. 

[Shin]

I love the list of titles of our Lady!  Here are a few beautiful titles for our fellow members to ponder over:


More Beautiful Than Beauty
More Glorious Than Paradise More Gracious Than Grace
More Holy Than the Cherubim, the Seraphim, and the Entire Angelic Hosts

All Fair and Immaculate
Handmaid of the Lord
Lily Among Thorns

 

[Shin]

"Giving them grace........"
What a gift. 

Yes! 

[Therese]

"Giving them grace........"
What a gift.  

Is this in reference to one of the excerpts, Whiterockdove? of are you just talking about our beautiful Lord or our beautiful Lady?

[whiterockdove]

Well......? Now I can't find the passage,....  ::)it was pretty far back in the posts and  I
Goofed up when I tried to quote it with the quotation buttons,
 but it was in reference to Gods grace as a gift to us.

Anyhow,  just grateful
For the gift of grace!

Thanks for your hard work Therese!  I
Hope you are getting your rest.

[Therese]

Well......? Now I can't find the passage,....  ::)it was pretty far back in the posts and  I
Goofed up when I tried to quote it with the quotation buttons,
 but it was in reference to Gods grace as a gift to us.

Anyhow,  just grateful
For the gift of grace!

Thanks for your hard work Therese!  I
Hope you are getting your rest.

You are very welcome, Whiterockdove!   I've been going over my excerpts and have noticed a number of errors.  I'm so sorry about them!  Your gratefulness to God is very pleasing to Him.  God bless you!

[Shin]

'Although thou mayest be weak and wanting is what is required, I wish thee to understand, that my divine Son now acts as a king who is short of subjects and soldiers and will admit any one who wishes to serve in his army.  Encourage thyself then to conquer satan in present matters, for the Lord will afterwards arm thee for greater battles.  I tell thee, that the Church would not be entangled in its present difficulties, if a number of the souls belonging to it had taken it upon themselves to defend the cause and honor of God; but the Church stands very much alone and forsaken by the children, whom it nourished at its own bosom.'

Our Lady to Ven. Mary of Agreda, Mystical City of God, Vol. IV, 532

This is very encouraging. And so too, how Our Lady protected the Church during her life here.

Therese, you're remarkably rare at typos at least as far as I have seen as I've collected the quotes from this thread and documented them. That and perhaps you catch them quickly!

[Therese]

'Although thou mayest be weak and wanting is what is required, I wish thee to understand, that my divine Son now acts as a king who is short of subjects and soldiers and will admit any one who wishes to serve in his army.  Encourage thyself then to conquer satan in present matters, for the Lord will afterwards arm thee for greater battles.  I tell thee, that the Church would not be entangled in its present difficulties, if a number of the souls belonging to it had taken it upon themselves to defend the cause and honor of God; but the Church stands very much alone and forsaken by the children, whom it nourished at its own bosom.'

Our Lady to Ven. Mary of Agreda, Mystical City of God, Vol. IV, 532

This is very encouraging. And so too, how Our Lady protected the Church during her life here.

Therese, you're remarkably rare at typos at least as far as I have seen as I've collected the quotes from this thread and documented them. That and perhaps you catch them quickly!

Our Lord is so good and merciful, ever ready to embrace us; we seek to love Him and serve Him under His standard and he eagerly accepts us as His soldier!

I've noticed some typos in my excerpts and have noticed that often, when I'd put words in brackets, my words were not arranged properly.  I'll try to do better with the rest of this volume, folks.  Anyway, thanks, Shin, for your encouragement.  God bless you!

[Therese]

'O foolish children of Adam, who follow me, forsaking life for the sake of death, truth or falsehood?  What absurdity and insanity is yours, (so in despair I must confess), since you have in your midst and belonging to your own nature the incarnate Word and this Woman?  Greater is your ingratitude than mine and this Woman forces me to confess the truths, which I abhor with all my heart.  Cursed be my resolve to persecute this Daughter of Adam, who so torments and crushes me!'

Lucifer to the foolish children of Adam, as revealed to Ven. Mary of Agreda, Mystical City of God, Vol. IV, 519

[Therese]

'And so it happened; for although the demon, in his wrath and vengeance, had intended to pour out this poison [heresies] in the Church, the Lord, for the sake of his love of the heavenly Mother, hindered it during her lifetime.  After her glorious Transition, permission was given to the demon to spread his heresies because the sins of men subjected them to the just judgments of the Lord.'

Ven. Mary of Agreda, Mystical City of God, Vol. IV, 522

[Therese]

'Although thou mayest be weak and wanting is what is required, I wish thee to understand, that my divine Son now acts as a king who is short of subjects and soldiers and will admit any one who wishes to serve in his army.  Encourage thyself then to conquer satan in present matters, for the Lord will afterwards arm thee for greater battles.  I tell thee, that the Church would not be entangled in its present difficulties, if a number of the souls belonging to it had taken it upon themselves to defend the cause and honor of God; but the Church stands very much alone and forsaken by the children, whom it nourished at its own bosom.'

Our Lady to Ven. Mary of Agreda, Mystical City of God, Vol. IV, 532

[Therese]

'I could not fall into such sins, yet in continual watchfulness I prayed to the Lord to govern me in all my actions according to his will and pleasure only, and I gave myself no liberty of doing anything that was not according to his greater pleasure.  Hence I sought for myself the forgetfulness and the retirement from all creatures.  Thou art subject to sin, and thou knowest how many snares the dragon, by himself and through the creatures, has laid in order to lead thee into it:  hence thou hast good reason for ceaselessly beseeching the Almighty to govern thee in all thy actions, and for closing the portals of thy senses in such a way as to exclude from thy interior every image or figure of mundane and earthly things.  Renounce therefore thy free will into the hands of thy God and yield it to every pleasure of the Lord and mine.  In what thou must necessarily transact with creatures for the fulfillment of the divine law and of charity, admit no image except what is unavoidable; and immediately ask, that the remembrance of what is not necessary be blotted out of thy mind.  Concerning all thy works, words and thoughts consult with God, with thy angels and with me, for we are always with thee; consult also with thy confessor wherever possible.  All that thou dost or resolvest without this consolation, hold in suspicion and as dangerous, and only by comparing it with my teachings, thou canst ascertain, whether it agrees or disagrees with the will of God.'

Our Lady to Ven. Mary of Agreda, Mystical City of God, Vol. IV, 555

[Therese]

'St. Jerome says, that saint Mark wrote his short Gospel in Rome, at the instance of the faithful residing there; but I wish to call attention to the fact, that this was a translation or copy of the one he had written in Palestine; for the Christians in Rome possessed neither his nor any other Gospel, and therefore he set about writing one in the Roman or Latin language.'

Ven. Mary of Agreda, Mystical City of God, Vol. IV, 561

[Therese]

'At the orders of the Queen the angels frequently assisted the Apostles in their travels and tribulations and in the persecutions as well of the gentiles and the Jews, as of the demons, who continually excited evil-minded against the preachers of the Gospel.  The angles often visited them in visible shapes, conversing with them and consoling them in the name of the most blessed Mary.  At other times they performed the same office interiorly without manifesting themselves; sometimes they freed them from prison; sometimes they warned them of dangers and snares; sometimes they accompanied them on their way or carried them from one place to another where they were to preach, or informed them of what they were to do according to the circumstances peculiar to certain places or peoples.  Of all these things they also kept their blessed Lady informed; for She took care of all of them and labored with them more than all of them together.  It is not possible to enumerate the cares, solicitudes and diligent doings of this kindest Mother; for not a day or night passed, in which She did not perform any miracles for the Apostles and for the Church.  Besides all this She wrote to them many times, animating them with heavenly exhortations and doctrines, and filling them with consolation and strength.'

Ven. Mary of Agreda, Mystical City of God, Vol. IV, 567

[Shin]

Bit of a typo there, 'St. Jerome says'. . .



That's very edifying, learning the details of history certain is so helpful!

Mary, Queen of Angels, help us!

[Therese]

Bit of a typo there, 'St. Jerome says'. . .



That's very edifying, learning the details of history certain is so helpful!

Mary, Queen of Angels, help us!

Oops!  Thanks for catching that, Shin!  I appreciate it!