Just read the book by Ven. Mary of Agrada and I reckon its wonderful. SERIOUSLY RECOMMENDED !!! What do yu think?

-- Andrew Swampillai (andyhbk96@hotmail.com), May 07, 2003

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Hi Andrew,

The Mystical City of God is one of the most spiritually enlightening things I've ever read (still reading it today when I get the chance, as it's pretty big). The Holy Blessed Virgin Mary deserves our highest praise and respect. She was conceived without original sin and not even the slightest sin has ever touched Her Most Holy soul. No other creature that has ever walked the earth was holier or more like that of her Son Jesus then she was. That's one of the many points this book drives home over again. She is God's masterpiece. The temple of the Blessed Trinity. The treasurer of all God's graces and dispenses them freely to anyone who asks of Her.

Let us ask for Her intercession and pray to Her often. She is our loving Mother.

I love the "Words From the Queen" parts, where She herself gives Mary of Agreda (and us) advice/instructions on how to live out our faith and strive towards perfection. A must read for all Catholics, in my view.

God Bless.

-- Robert (Robertp234@hotmail.com), May 07, 2003.

Andrew, I read this book several years ago and really enjoyed it. I was particularly struck by the passage which descibes the physical/spirutal process by which Our Lady concieved Our Lord through the Holy Spirit. It interested me because although this book was written several centuries ago it appears to give a fairly exact desciption of the process of cloning, this could not I believe be a coincidence. I rember a priest who was a scripture scholar laughing at me for taking the book seriously. But the fact that one may or may not subject this book to serious historical/scientific scrutiny is to miss the point. The Holy Spirit does not always convey the truth in an archeolgist test tube. I found the book heped my prayer life. I hope to read it again sometime. But with all respect to the author, who no doubt was a saint I would be very slow to simply accept the book as historically accurate in the modern meaning of the term.

-- padraig caughey (padraigcaughey@hotmail.com), May 25, 2003.

I have the four volume set. You're reading the abridged version? I've never completed the entire set, but I do love reading it, especially during Lent. What insights into the lives of Our Lord, Our Lady, the apostles, ourselves, and even--the devil.

-- Anna <>< (flower@youknow.com), May 29, 2003.