Paradisical Locution from The Interior Mansion (https://www.facebook.com/share/p/19wyBNNrGJ/) - (https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1YMnkkxXZH/):
Mary - The Immaculate Conception - The Mother of God - The Mother of Salvation (received while at work between the hour of grace (12pm to 1pm) - today is the feast of the Immaculate Conception): My dearly beloved children of my Immaculate Heart, whoever accepts me - The Immaculate Conception will in turn become my Immaculate conceptions - I am the New Eve - the Mother of all God's children, the New Ark of the Covenant established by my Father in the Old Testament. Due to the Virtues and Merits of my Divine Son Jesus Christ I am able as your True Mother and Mediatrix of All Graces bless and bestow those who humbly receive me through my Son, and receives Him through me will obtain incalculable and plethora of graces in order to fully live out the Gospels and live as true children of the Most High. My children will reflect the Sacred Heart of Jesus Christ and my Immaculate Heart, fully endowed with our graces and blessings, completely empowered by the Holy Spirit with the power, gifts, fruits, virtues and supernatural capability in partaking of the Divinity of Christ to destroy the serpent and the antichrist, I will grant you every grace to resist temptations to commit deliberate sins that destroy the mind, body and soul, and destroy the power of the evil one in your daily lives. But you must obey His Holy Word and the Ten Commandments, live and flourish through the Sacraments of the Catholic Church, do not merely receive the Sacraments - integrate them within and throughout your lives so souls may see the change the Holy Eucharist is transforming you into - the replicated Likeness of God, painted in His Exact Image, some will reflect God in eternity more than others due to how much they cooperated with God's grace and fulfilled The Divine Will. Obedience to Jesus is the necessity in all things. Do whatever He tells you and submit to the influence of the Holy Spirit Who leads you into the chambers of Sanctity and Holy Love, and you will inherit Paradise as this is the destiny of the children of God. Adhere in compliance to our words we have given to you out of love over the past centuries and present now, utilize the prayers and devotions we have handed down to you in order to cripple the power and strongholds of Satan and his army. Everything The Eternal Father has said and done has been for your salvation dear children, allow God to save you and reject the false promises of the evil one. Allow your Mother to lead you to my Precious Son who suffered and died for your sins, who delights in dwelling with His Tabernacles polished by penance and mercy, washed with His Precious Blood and maintained in purity. The road is very narrow and only those who persevere with Jesus in the Holy Eucharist and all His Gifts will sustain their faith and love for Him until He returns to judge the living and the dead. I bless you in the name of my Son the Savior and Redeemer of mankind and with all my parental love, covering you with my holy mantle. Love Jesus with all your hearts, He loves you indescribably and without measure." - Your loving Mother to her Eucharistic Agent of the Immaculate Conception #brianroary
Mary was always the Immaculate Conception even before she was placed in the womb of St. Anne Joachim. The Immaculate Conception is her very identity as The Blessed Mother gave her name to St. Bernadette at Lourdes stating, "I am the Immaculate Conception." Just as Jesus told us What He is in the Book of John. These are declarations of What and Who they are. The Bible simply reveals the eternal identities of Jesus and Mary (Book of Luke, Wisdom and Revelation, etc) from all eternity.
The children born of Adam and Even had they not committed sin and fell would have been conceived Immaculately as was originally planned. Jesus would have also still became man through Adam and Eve had they not fallen as this is the original plan which still succeeded as it was ordained for Jesus to become man to live amongst us from the very beginning but not to suffer and redeem the human race (originally). The Immaculate Conception of Mary (The Blessing that was within Adam) is clearly stated in Luke 1:28. ('HAIL, FULL OF GRACE') That Blessing (Passed down and prepared as the New Ark by God's Divine Providence [Genesis 3:15 and Exodus - refer to the Blessing that Abraham received and all of the Old Testament] and took on human flesh as First Spotless Undefiled Temple of the Lord to give birth to the Second Person of the Holy Trinity - Jesus.) As it was meant to be in the beginning. Its biblical and the original plan of God. Mary being who and what she is - was the only appropriate vessel to give birth to God through the Second Person of the Trinity.
Some people don't actually understand or know the entire identity of our Lady and the true meaning and purpose of her being the Immaculate Conception, it's not just a concept it's a literal person. Thank God for the Holy Spirit revealing these things at the appropriate times.
God gave Mary a choice, she said yes and obeyed God undoing the knot of disobedience of Adam and Eve. Adam and Eve could not be trusted with the Immaculate Conception because they did not choose to obey God, they instead obeyed satan and that is due to the angelic powers he abused against them, the same fate would have befallen every single other soul even if God would have hypothetically 'restarted' the creation of man, which would mean...He would have to condemn Adam and Eve to eternal punishment with satan and the demons initially after they have fallen, or cause them to cease to exist God chose to do neither because of His GREAT LOVE AND MERCY FOR MANKIND. So instead He continued His Divine Plan for the establishment of His Eternal Family. Its all about humility with God. God decided to show His Humble Nature by becoming man through His own creation, His masterpiece rather than descending down from Heaven as He could, through God all things are possible. And to showcase the true response Adam and Eve should have always had with God having been infused with gifts and knowledge (but not to the degree of the angels). I highly recommend The Life of Jesus Christ and Biblical Revelations from the Visions of the Blessed Anne Catherine Emmerich (below is an excerpt)
The Life of Jesus Christ and Biblical Revelations from the Visions of the Blessed Anne Catherine Emmerich:
The blessing of a pure and holy multiplying out of God and by God, which Adam had received after the creation of Eve was, in consequence of that indulgence, withdrawn from him; for I saw that the instant Adam left his hill to go to Eve, the Lord grasped him in the back and took something from him. From that something, I felt that the world's salvation would come.
Once on the Feast of the Holy and Immaculate Conception, God gave me a vision of that mystery. I saw enclosed in Adam and Eve the corporal and spiritual life of all mankind. I saw that by the Fall it became corrupted, mixed up with evil, and that the bad angels had acquired power over it. I saw the Second Person of the Godhead come down and, with something like a crooked blade, take the Blessing from Adam before he had sinned. At the same instant, I saw the Virgin issuing from Adam's side like a little luminous cloud, and soaring all resplendent up to God.
MARIA VALTORTA
I am the Word, and therefore I know how to use words without error.
(Jesus is praising his Mother)
I told you earlier, "the eternal beauty of my Mother's soul."
I am the Word, and therefore I know how to use words without error.
I said "eternal," not "immortal." And I said it not without purpose.
Immortal is he who, having been born, never dies again.
Thus the soul of the just is immortal in Heaven, the soul of sinners is immortal in hell, because the soul, once created, no longer dies except to grace.
But the soul has life, it exists from the moment God thinks of it (but the soul, in reality, already has a life from the moment God thinks of it. God's thought then creates it, when it is time to infuse it. See note on page 350).
It is God's thought that creates it.
My Mother's soul has always been in the thoughts of God.
Therefore, it is eternal in its beauty, into which God has poured all perfection for His delight and comfort. (…)
Evangelo 348.10
WHAT IS GRACE?
Jesus speaks on June 6, 1943 in the Notebook 1943 about Grace to Maria Valtorta.
GRACE is to posses the light, power, and wisdom of God in yourselves --that is, to posses intellectual likeness to God, the unmistakable sign of your filiation to God.
Without grace, you would simply be animal creatures that had reached such a point in evolution as to be endowed with reason, with a soul, but a soul of earthly level, capable of acting in the circumstances of life on earth, but unable to rise up to the regions where the life of the spirit transpires. Little more than beast, then, that act instinct alone and in reality, surpass you quite often in the way of acting.
Grace is thus a sublime gift, the greatest gift that God, my Father, could give you. And He gives it to you freely, for His love as a Father, for you, is infinite, as He Himself is infinite. If we wanted to state all the attributes of grace, it would require writing a long list adjectives and nouns, and we would still not explain perfectly what this gift is.
Remember this alone :
Grace is to posses the Father, to live in the Father; grace is to posses the Son, to enjoy the infinite merits of the Son; grace is to posses the Holy Spirit, to benefits from his seven gifts. Grace in short, is to posses Us, the Triune God, and for your mortal person to surrounded by the hosts of angels who worship Us in you.
A Soul that loses grace loses everything. The Father has created her to no avail; the Son has redeemed her to no avail; the Holy Spirit has infused his gifts into her to no avail; the Sacraments exists for her to no avail.
She is dead.
A rotten branch which, under the corrosive action of sin, becomes detached and falls from the tree of life and in the end rots in the mud.
If the soul were able to preserved herself as she is after Baptism and after Confirmation--that is, when she is literally soaked with grace--that soul would be only a little less than God.
Let this tell you all.
When you read the prodigies of my saints, you are antonished. But my dear one, there is nothing to be antonished about. My saints were creatures who possessed grace; they were gods, therefore, for grace deifies you. Did I not state in my Gospel that my followers would work the same prodigies as I did? But to be mine, it is necessary to live by my life--that is, by the life of grace.
If you wanted to, you could all be capable of prodigies --that is, of holiness. Indeed, I would like you to be, for that would mean that my Sacrifice had been crowned by victory and that I had really torn you away from the empire of the Evil One, banishing him to his Hell, and riveting hell's mouth shut with an irremovable stone, and placing upon it the throne of my Mother, the Only One who kept her heel upon the dragon, who was powerless to do Her harm.
Not all souls in grace posses grace in the same measure. Not because We infuse it to different degrees, but because you manage to preserve it in yourselves in different ways.
Mortal Sins destroys grace; venial sin causes it crumbles, imperfection make it anemic.
There are souls, not entirely bad, that languish in spiritual consumption because, by their inertia, which spurs them to commit continual acts of imperfections, they increasingly thin grace out, turning it into a most slender thread, a fading little flame. When it should be a fire, an intense, lovely , purifying blaze.
The world is collapsing because grace is collapsing from in almost all souls and languishing in the other.
Grace yields different fruits to the extent that it is more or less alive in your hearts. The richer the terrain is in elements and the more it is help by the sun, the water and air currents, the more fertile it is. There are sterile, meager plots of land which are sprinkled with water to no avail, warmed the sun, transversed by the winds. The same holds for souls . There are souls that with all application take on vital elements and thus manage to benefit one hundred percent from the effects of grace.
The vital elements are to live according to my Law---chaste, merciful, humble, loving God and one's neighbour; it is to live by Living prayer,"
Then the grace grows, flourishes, seek in deep roots, and rises up into the tree of eternal life.
Then the Holy Spirit like a Sun, inundates you with his seven rays, his seven gifts, then I, the Son, penetrate you with the divine rain of my Blood, then the Father looks at you with pleasure, seeing His likeness in you, the Mary caresses you, clasping you to her breast, which bore Me, along with her little children who are lesser, but very very dear to her Heart, then the nine angelical choirs crown your soul, the temple of God, and sing the sublime Gloria'; then your death is Life and your Life is blessedness in my Kingdom."
John 21:25
And there are also many other things which Jesus did, the which, if they should be written every one, I suppose that even the world itself could not contain the books that should be written.
John 16:12-15
12 “I have yet many things to say to you, but you cannot bear them now. 13 When the Spirit of truth comes, he will guide you into all the truth; for he will not speak on his own authority, but whatever he hears he will speak, and he will declare to you the things that are to come. 14 He will glorify me, for he will take what is mine and declare it to you. 15 All that the Father has is mine; therefore I said that he will take what is mine and declare it to you.
John 14:10
10 Do you not believe that I am in the Father and the Father in me? The words that I say to you I do not speak on my own authority; but the Father who dwells in me does his works.
John 15:11
11 These things I have spoken to you, that my joy may be in you, and that your joy may be full.
Habakkuk 2:14
14 For the earth will be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the Lord, as the waters cover the sea.
Hence why we were given by God the gifts of Private revelation through the Church:
Maria Valtorta
Ann Catherine Emmerich
Alan Ames
Mary of Jesus of รgreda
Blessed Veronica of Milan
And more!
Because the Church doesn’t invent doctrines; she discerns what God has revealed. The Immaculate Conception flows directly from Scripture, Sacred Tradition, and sound theology. Catholic doctrine oftentimes takes an extra step of logical deduction and reasoning. Let me break it down for our Catholic and non-Catholic followers:
1. God prepared the Ark of the New Covenant
Just as the Ark of the Old Covenant had to be perfect, pure, and untouched (Exodus 25), Mary, who would carry the living Word of God Himself, was prepared in a uniquely holy way.
If the Ark was made of incorruptible wood, how much more the Mother of God?
2. “Hail, Full of Grace” (Luke 1:28)
Gabriel doesn’t greet Mary by name. He calls her Kecharitomene which is a perfect tense Greek term meaning:
“You who have been perfected in grace… and remain so.”
Not “partially graced,” not “highly favored,” but completely filled with God’s grace.
A soul filled entirely with grace has no room for sin including original sin. So she MUST have been filled with this grace from her very beginning.
3. The Enmity Prophecy (Genesis 3:15)
God promises that there will be absolute enmity (total opposition) between the woman and the serpent.
If Mary had ever been under sin, even for an instant, she would not be in perfect opposition to Satan.
4. Christ’s saving work is perfect
Mary was not saved apart from Christ, she was saved more perfectly by Him.
God applied the grace of the Cross to her at the moment of her conception, preserving her from sin before it touched her — just as a doctor can prevent an illness instead of curing it later.
5. The Early Church recognized Mary’s extraordinary holiness
From the first centuries, Christians called Mary:
– “All-holy”
– “Most pure”
– “New Eve” (Eve was created without sin; Mary undoes Eve’s “no” with her perfect “yes”)
By the time the dogma was defined in 1854, the Church simply confirmed what had always been believed:
Mary was made a fitting, sinless dwelling for God Himself.
Mary’s Immaculate Conception isn’t a stretch —
it’s the logical, biblical, and historical conclusion of who Jesus is… and who His Mother must be.
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๐ง๐ต๐ฒ ๐๐น๐ฒ๐๐๐ฒ๐ฑ ๐ฉ๐ถ๐ฟ๐ด๐ถ๐ป ๐ ๐ฎ๐ฟ๐ ๐ถ๐ ๐๐ต๐ฒ "๐๐ฒ๐ฐ๐ต๐ฎ๐ฟ๐ถ๐๐ผ๐บ๐ฒ๐ป๐ฒ".
So she was and is "perfectly and enduringly graced" by God.
Luke 1:28 (DRA) - And the angel being come in, said unto her: HAIL, FULL of GRACE, the Lord is with thee: blessed art thou among women.
Note:
* In the original Greek New Testament, at the Annunciation, the Angel Gabriel said to the Virgin Mary, “Chaire, Kecharitomene, ho Kyrios Meta sou” (Lk 1:28).
* The Angel Gabriel did not even mention the name of Mary when he greeted her. Gabriel greeted her directly as "kecharitomene".
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The angel did not say, “Hail Mary, you are kecharitomene” but rather, “Hail kecharitomene.” Therefore the word is not simply an action but an identity.
God said, “You shall make the Ark of acacia wood” (Exodus 25:10). Why acacia? Because it never decays.
“Full of grace,” the angel called her (Luke 1:28), because from the very beginning, she was filled, not merely visited, by divine life. The wood that could not rot became the woman that could not sin.
The wood was overlaid with pure gold inside and outside (Exodus 25:11). This golden layer mirrors Mary’s perpetual virginity, purity within, purity without.
Her womb was the temple gate through which only the King could enter (Ezekiel 44:2).
Above the Ark rested the Shekinah glory, the cloud that signified God’s presence (Exodus 40:34–35).
“The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you” (Luke 1:35).
The same cloud that descended upon the Ark in the desert now covered a humble girl in Nazareth.
One of the Promises of Our Lady to those who pray the Seven Sorrows Rosary to Saint Bridget of Sweden (1303-1373)
”They will be enlightened about the divine Mysteries."
The Holy Angels heard a Voice from the Throne speaking in the person of the Father: “Our Chosen One Shall Be Called MARY, and this name is to be powerful and magnificent. Those that shall invoke it with devout affection shall receive most abundant graces; those that shall honor it and pronounce it with reverence shall be consoled and vivified, and will find in it the remedy of their evils, the treasures for their enrichment, the light which shall guide them to heaven. It shall be terrible against the power of hell, it shall crush the head of the serpent and it shall win glorious victories over the princes of hell.”
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(TAKEN FROM THE MYSTICAL CITY OF GOD From the Visions of Venerable Mary Agreda)
THE IMMACULATE CONCEPTION AS DICTATED TO VENERABLE MARY AGREDA BY THE BLESSED VIRGIN MARY
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TAKEN FROM THE MYSTICAL CITY OF GOD
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In the tribunal of the divine will, as the inevitable source and universal cause of the whole creation, all things with their conditions and circumstances, are decreed and determined, so that nothing is forgotten and no created power can in the least impede the fulfillment of the decree. All the spheres and the inhabitants contained in them are dependent on this ineffable government that rules them and cooperates with the natural causes unfailingly and unerringly in all that must be done. God works in all and sustains all by his sole will; in Him lies the preservation of all things or their annihilation, for without Him they would return to the non–existence, from which they were drawn. But since He has created the universe for his glory and for the glory of the incarnate Word, therefore He has from the beginning opened the paths and prearranged the ways by which the same Word should lower Himself to assume human flesh and to live among men, and by which they might ascend toward God, know Him, fear Him, seek Him, serve Him, love Him, praise Him and enjoy Him eternally. As the opportune and preordained time had arrived, the three divine Persons conferred with each other saying: “Now is the time to begin the work of our pleasure and to call into existence that pure Creature and that soul, which is to find grace in our eyes above all the rest. Let Us furnish Her with richest gifts and let Us deposit in Her the great treasures of our grace. Since all others, whom We called into existence, have turned out ungrateful and rebellious to our wishes, frustrating our intention and impeding by their own fault our purpose, namely, that they conserve themselves in the happy state of their first parents, and since it is not proper, that our will should be entirely frustrated, let Us therefore create this being in entire sanctity and perfection, so that the disorder of the first sin shall have no part in Her. Let Us create a soul according to our pleasure, a fruit of our attributes, a marvel of our infinite power, without touch or blemish of the sin of Adam. Let Us perfect a work which is the object of our Omnipotence and a pattern of the perfection intended for our children, and the finishing crown of creation. All have sinned in the free will and resolve of the first man (Rom. 5, 12); let Her be the sole creature in whom We restore and execute that which they in their aberration have lost. Let Her be a most special image and likeness of our Divinity and let Her be in our presence for all eternity the culmination of our goodwill and pleasure. In Her We deposit all the prerogatives and graces which in our first and conditional resolve We had destined for the angels and men, if they had remained in their first estate. What they have lost We renew in that Creature and We will add to these gifts many others. Thus our first decree shall not be frustrated, but it shall be fulfilled in a higher manner through this our first and chosen One (Cant. 6, 8). And since We assigned and prepared the most perfect and estimable of our gifts for the creatures who have lost them, We will divert the stream of our bounty to our Well–beloved. We will set Her apart from the ordinary law, by which the rest of the mortals are brought into existence, for in Her the seed of the serpent shall have no part. I will descend from heaven into her womb and in it vest Myself from her substance with human nature.”
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“It is befitting and due to the infinite goodness of our Divinity, that It be founded and enclosed in the most pure matter, untouched and unstained by fault. Nor is it proper that our equity and providence overlook what is most apt, perfect and holy, and choose that which is inferior, since nothing can resist our will (Esther 13, 9). The Word, which is to become man, being the Redeemer and Teacher of men, must lay the foundation of the most perfect law of grace, and must teach through it, that the father and mother are to be obeyed and honored as the secondary causes of the natural existence of man. The law is first to be fulfilled by the divine Word by honoring Her as his chosen Mother, by exalting Her with a powerful arm, and lavishing upon Her the most admirable, most holy and most excellent of all graces and gifts. Among these shall be that most singular honor and blessing of not subjecting Her to our enemy, nor to his malice; and therefore She shall be free from the death of sin.”
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“On earth the Word shall have a Mother without a father, as in heaven He has a Father without a mother. And in order that there may be the proper correspondence, proportion and consonance in calling God his Father and this Woman his Mother, We desire that the highest correspondence and approach possible between a creature and its God be established. Therefore at no time shall the dragon boast of being superior to the Woman, whom God will obey as his true Mother. This dignity of being free from sin is due and corresponds to that of being Mother of the Word, and it is in itself even more estimable and useful. It is a greater good to be holy than to be only mother; but all sanctity and perfection is nevertheless due to the motherhood of God. The human flesh, from which He is to assume form, must be free from sin. Since He is to redeem in it the sinners, He must not be under the necessity of redeeming his own flesh, like that of sinners. Being united to the Divinity his humanity is to be the price of Redemption, wherefore it before all be preserved from sin, and We have already foreseen and accepted the merits of the Word in this very flesh and human nature. We wish that for all eternities the Word should be glorified through this tabernacle and habitation of the human nature.”
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“She is to be the daughter of the first man; but in the order of grace She is to be singularly free and exempt from fault; and in the order of nature She is to be most perfect, and to be formed according to a special providence. And since the incarnate Word is to be the Teacher of humility and holiness and for this end is to endure labors, confounding the vanity and deceitful fallacies of mortals by choosing for Himself sufferings as the treasure most estimable in our eyes. We wish that She, who is to be his Mother, experience the same labors and difficulties, that She be singularly distinguished in patience, admirable in sufferings, and that She, in union with the Onlybegotten, offer the acceptable sacrifices of sorrow to Us for her greater glory.”
“Now the time has arrived,” added his Majesty, “which was resolved upon by our Providence for bringing to light the Creature most pleasing and acceptable to our eyes. That Creature, in whom the human nature is freed from its first sin, who is to crush the head of the dragon, who was typified by that singular sign, the Woman that appeared in the heavens in our presence, and who is to clothe the eternal Word with human flesh. The hour is at hand, so blessed for mortals, in which the treasures of our Divinity are to be opened and the gates of heaven to be unlocked. Let the rigor of our justice be softened by the chastisements, which we have until now executed upon the mortals; let the attribute of our mercy become manifest; let the creatures be enriched, and let the divine Word merit for them the treasures of grace and of eternal glory.”
“Now let the human race receive the Repairer, the Teacher, the Brother and Friend, to be life for mortals, a medicine for the sick, a consoler for the sorrowful, a balsam for the wounded, a guide and companion for those in difficulties. Let now the prophecies of our servants and the promises made to them that We would send a Savior to redeem them, be fulfilled. And in order that all may be executed according to our good pleasure, and that We may give a beginning to the mystery hidden since the constitution of the world, We select for the formation of our beloved Mary the womb of our servant Anne; in her be She conceived and in her let that most blessed Soul be created. Although her generation and formation shall proceed according to the usual order of natural propagation, it shall be different in the order of grace, according to the ordainment of our Almighty power.”
“You do already know how the ancient serpent, since he saw the sign of this marvelous Woman, attempts to circumvent all women, and how, from the first one created, he persecutes all those, whom he sees excelling in the perfection of their works and life, expecting to find among them the One, who is to crush his head (Gen. 3, 15). When he shall encounter this most pure and spotless Creature, he shall find Her so holy that he will exert all his powers to persecute Her in pursuance of the concept which he forms of Her. But the arrogance of this dragon shall be greater than his powers (Is. 12, 7); and it is our will that you have particular charge of this our holy City and tabernacle of the incarnate Word, protecting, guarding, assisting and defending Her against our enemies, and that you enlighten, strengthen and console Her with all due solicitude and reverence as long as She shall be a wayfarer among the mortals.”
At this proposal of the Most High all the holy angels, prostrate before the royal throne of the most holy Trinity, avowed their promptitude and eagerness to obey the divine mandate. Each one desired in holy emulation to be appointed, and offered himself for such a happy service; all of them gave to the Almighty praise and thanksgiving in new songs, because the hour had arrived for the fulfillment of that for which they had, with the most ardent desires, prayed through many ages. I perceived on this occasion that from the time of that great battle of saint Michael with the dragon and his allies, in which they were hurled into everlasting darkness while the hosts of Michael remained victorious and confirmed in grace and glory, these holy spirits commenced immediately to pray for the fulfillment of the mysteries of the Incarnation of the Word, of which they became cognizant at that time. And they persevered in these oft repeated prayers up to the hour in which God manifested to them the fulfillment of their desires and petitions.
On this account the celestial spirits at this new revelation conceived an additional joy and obtained new accidental glory, and they spoke to the Lord: “Most High and incomprehensible God and Lord, Thou art worthy of all reverence, praise and eternal glory; and we are thy creatures and made according to thy divine will. Send us, most powerful Lord, to execute thy most wonderful works and mysteries, in order that in all things thy most just pleasure may be fulfilled.” In such terms of affection the heavenly princes acknowledged themselves as subjects; and if it had been possible, they desired to increase in purity and perfection in order to be more worthy guardians and servants of Mary.
Then the Most High chose and appointed those who were to be occupied in this exalted service (the guardianship of Mary) from each of the nine choirs of angels. He selected one hundred, being nine hundred in all. Moreover he assigned twelve others who should in a special manner assist Mary in corporeal and visible forms; and they were to bear the emblems or escutcheons of the Redemption. These are the twelve which are mentioned in the twenty–first chapter of the Apocalypse as guarding the portals of the city; of them I will speak in the explanation of that chapter later on. Besides these the Lord assigned eighteen other angels, selected from the highest ranks, who were to ascend and descend by that mystical stairs of Jacob with the message of the Queen to his Majesty and those of the Lord to Her.
In addition to all these holy angels the Almighty assigned and appointed seventy seraphim, choosing them from the highest ranks and from those nearest to the Divinity, in order that they might communicate and converse with this Princess of heaven in the same way as they themselves interact with each other, and as the higher communicate with the lower ones.
In order that this invincible warrior–troop might be well appointed, saint Michael, the prince of the heavenly militia was placed at their head, and although not always in the company of the Queen, he was nevertheless often near Her and often showed himself to Her. The Almighty destined him as a special ambassador of Christ our Lord and to act in some of the mysteries as the defender of his most holy Mother. In a like manner the holy prince Gabriel was appointed to act as legate and minister of the eternal Father in the affairs of the Princess of heaven. Thus did the most holy Trinity provide for the custody and the defense of the Mother of God.
The divine wisdom had now prepared all things for drawing forth the spotless image of the Mother of grace from the corruption of nature. The number and congregation of ancient Patriarchs and Prophets had been completed and gathered, and the mountains had been raised, on which this mystical City of God was to be built (Ps. 86, 2). By the power of his right hand He had already selected incomparable treasures of the Divinity to enrich and endow Her. A thousand angels were equipped for her guard and custody, that they might serve as most faithful vassals of their Queen and Lady. He had provided a noble and kingly ancestry from whom She should descend and had selected for Her most holy and perfect parents, than whom none holier or more perfect could be found in the world. For there is no doubt that if better and more apt parents existed, the Almighty would have selected them for Her, who was to be chosen by God as his Mother.
In the formation of the body of the most holy Mary the wisdom and power of the Almighty proceeded so cautiously that the quantities of the four natural elements of the human body, the sanguine, melancholic, phlegmatic and choleric, were compounded in exact proportion and measure; in order that by this most perfect proportion in its mixture and composition it might assist the operations of that holy Soul with which it was to be endowed and animated. This wonderfully composed temperament was afterwards the source and the cause, which in its own way made possible the serenity and peace that reigned in the powers and faculties of the Queen of heaven during all her life. Never did any of these elements oppose or contradict nor seek to predominate over the others, but each one of them supplemented and served the others, continuing in this well ordered fabric without corruption or decay. Never did the body of the most Holy Mary suffer from the taint of corruption, nor was there anything wanting or anything excessive found in it; but all the conditions and proportions of the different elements were continuously adjusted, without any want or excess in what was necessary for her perfect existence and without excess or default in dryness or moisture. Neither was there more warmth than was necessary for maintenance of life or digestion; nor more cold than was necessary for the right temperature and for the maintenance of the bodily humors.
On the Saturday next following, the Almighty created the soul of his Mother and infused it into the body; and thus entered into the world that pure Creature, more holy, perfect and agreeable to His eyes than all those He had created, or will create to the end of the world, or through the eternities. God maintained a mysterious correspondence in the execution of this work with that of creating all the rest of the world in seven days, as is related in the book of Genesis. Then no doubt He rested in truth, according to the figurative language of Scripture, since He has now created the most perfect Creature of all, giving through it a beginning to the work of the divine Word and to the Redemption of the human race. Thus was this day a paschal feast for God and also for all creatures.
By the force of this divine pronouncement and through the love with which it issued from the mouth of the Almighty, was created and infused into the body of most holy Mary her most blessed Soul. At the same time She was filled with grace and gifts above those of the highest seraphim of heaven, and there was not a single instant in which She was found wanting or deprived of the light, the friendship and love of the Creator, or in which She was touched by the stain or darkness of original sin. On the contrary She was possessed of the most perfect justice, superior to that of Adam and Eve in their first formation. To Her was also concealed the most perfect use of the light of reason, corresponding to the gifts of grace, which She had received. Not for one instant was She to remain idle, but to engage in works most admirable and pleasing to her Maker.
Although She was adorned as the Bride, descending from heaven, endowed with all perfections and with the whole range of infused virtues, it was not necessary that She should exercise all of them at once, it being sufficient that She exercise those, which were befitting her state in the womb of her mother. Among the first thus exercised were the three theological virtues, faith, hope and charity, which relate immediately to God. These she at once practiced in the most exalted manner recognizing by a most sublime faith the Divinity with all its perfections and its infinite attributes, and the Trinity with its distinction of Persons. This knowledge by faith was not impeded by the higher knowledge which God gave her, as I will soon demonstrate. She exercised also the virtue of hope, seeing in God the object of her happiness and her ultimate end. Toward this her sanctified Soul at once hastened and aspired with the most intense desires of uniting Herself with God and without having for one moment turned to any other object or tarried one moment in her upward flight. At the same instant also She put into action the virtue of charity, seeing in God the infinite and highest Good, and conceiving such an intense appreciation of the Divinity, that not all the seraphim could ever reach such an eminent degree of fervor and virtue.
The other virtues which adorn and perfect the rational part of the creature, She possessed in a proportion corresponding to the theological virtues. The moral and natural virtues were hers in a miraculous and supernatural measure, and in a still more exalted manner was She possessed of the gifts and fruits of the Holy Ghost in the order of grace. She had an infused knowledge and habit of all these virtues and of all the natural arts, so that She knew and was conversant with the whole natural and supernatural order of things, in accordance with the grandeur of God. Hence from her first instant in the womb of her mother, She was wiser, more prudent, more enlightened, and more capable of comprehending God and all his works, than all the creatures have been or ever will be in eternity, excepting of course her most holy Son.
In correspondence with this wonderful knowledge of her most holy soul at the instant of its union with the body, Mary exerted Herself by eliciting heroic acts of virtue, of incomparable admiration, praise, glorification, adoration, humility, love of God and sorrow for the sins committed against Him whom She recognized as the Author and end of these admirable works. She hastened to offer Herself as an acceptable sacrifice to the Most High, beginning from that instant with fervent desire to bless Him, love Him and honor Him, because She perceived that the bad angels and men failed to know and love Him. She requested the holy angels whose Queen She already was, to help Her to glorify the Creator and Lord of all, and to pray also for Her.
The Lord in this instant showed Her also her guardian angels, whom she recognized and accepted with joyful submission, inviting them to sing canticles of praise to the Most High alternatively with Her. She announced to them beforehand that this was to be the service which they were to render Her during the whole time of Her mortal life, in which they were to act as her assistants and guards. She was informed moreover of her whole genealogy of all the rest of the holy people chosen by God, the Patriarchs and Prophets, and how admirable his Majesty was in the gifts, graces and favors wrought in them. It is worthy of admiration, that, although the exterior faculties of her body at the creation of her most holy Soul were hardly large enough to be distinguished, nevertheless, in order that none of the miraculous excellence with which God could endow his Mother might be wanting, He ordained by the power of right hand, that in perceiving the fall of man She shed tears of sorrow in the womb of her mother at the gravity of the offense against the highest Good.
In this wonderful sorrow at the instant of her coming into existence, She began to seek a remedy for mankind and commenced the work of mediation, intercession and reparation. She offered to God the clamors of her ancestors and of the just of the earth, that his mercy might not delay the salvation of mortals, whom she even looked upon as her brethren. Before She ever conversed with them with the most ardent charity and with the very beginning of her existence She assumed the office of Benefactress of men and exercised the divine and fraternal love enkindled in her heart. These petitions the Most High accepted with greater pleasure than the prayers of all the saints and angels and this pleasure of God was also made known to Her, who was created to be the Mother of God. She perceived the love of God and his desire to descend from heaven in order to redeem men, though She knew not how it should be consummated. It was befitting that God should feel Himself impelled to hasten his coming on account of the prayers and petitions of this Creature; since it was principally for the love of Her that He came, and since in Her body He was to assume human flesh, accomplish the most admirable of all his works, and fulfill the end of all other creatures.
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In writing of these sacraments of the King, howsoever honorable it is to reveal his works, I confess my inaptitude and incapacity, being only a woman, and I am afflicted, because I am speaking in such common and vague terms, which fall entirely short of that, which I perceive in the light given to my soul for the understanding of these mysteries. In order to do justice to such sublimity, there were need of other words, more particular and especially adapted terms and expressions, which are beyond my ignorance. And even if they were at my service, they would be weighed down and made insipid by human weakness. Let therefore this human imbecility acknowledge itself unequal and incapable of fixing its eyes on this heavenly sun, with which the rays of the Divinity break upon the world, although yet beclouded in the maternal womb of holy Anne. If we seek permission to approach this wonderful sight, let us come near free and unshackled. Let us not allow ourselves to be detained, neither by our natural cowardice nor by a base fear and hesitation, even though it be under the cloak of humility. Let us all approach with the greatest devotion and piety, free from the spirit of contention (Rom. 13, 12); then we will be permitted to examine with our own eyes the fire of the Divinity burning in the bush without consuming it (Exodus 2, 2).
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WORDS OF THE QUEEN
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The Virgin Mary speaks to Sister Mary of Agreda, Spain
It is an act of justice due to the eternal God that the creature coming to the use of reason, direct its very first movement toward God. By knowing, it should begin to love Him, reverence Him and adore Him as its Creator and only true Lord. The parents are naturally bound to instruct their children from their infancy in this knowledge of God and to direct them with solicitous care, so that they may at once see their ultimate end and seek it in their first acts of the intellect and will. They should with great watchfulness withdraw them from the childishness and puerile trickishness to which depraved nature will incline them if left without direction. If the fathers and mothers would be solicitous to prevent these vanities and perverted habits of their children and would instruct them from their infancy in the knowledge of their God and Creator, then they would afterwards easily accustom them to know and adore Him. My holy mother, who knew not of my wisdom and real condition, was most solicitously beforehand in this matter, for when She bore me in her womb, she adored in my name the Creator and offered worship and thanks for his having created me, beseeching Him to defend me and bring me forth to the light of day from the condition in which I then was. So also parents should pray with fervor to God, that the souls of their children, through his Providence, may obtain Baptism and be freed from the servitude of original sin.
And if the rational creature has not known and adored the Creator from the first dawn of reason, it should do this as soon as it obtains knowledge of the essential God by the light of faith. From that very moment the soul must exert itself never to lose Him from her sight, always fearing Him, loving Him, and reverencing Him.
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