The Mystical City of God in a Year with Fr. Edward Looney

How did Mary’s announced departure stir heaven, apostles, and all creation?

Fr. Edward Looney reads and reflects on Volume 4, Book 8, Chapter 17, Paragraphs 696-705 from The Mystical City of God. Reflect on Mary’s joyful fiat upon learning she has three years left, her intensified prayerful preparation, and how nature and the apostles respond with sorrow, anticipation, and renewed devotion.

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How did Mary celebrate angels and saints as models for the Church’s devotion?

Fr. Edward Looney reads and reflects on Volume 4, Book 8, Chapter 16, Paragraphs 688-695 from The Mystical City of God. Reflect on Mary’s jubilant feasts honoring angels and saints as templates for continual devotion, practical ways to sanctify daily time with prayer, and encouragement to imitate her tireless charity and vigilance against temptation.

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Why did Mary repeatedly choose to return to a fallen world after the Ascension?

Fr. Edward Looney reads and reflects on Volume 4, Book 8, Chapter 16, Paragraphs 680-687 from The Mystical City of God. Reflect on Mary’s yearly visits with Christ after the Resurrection, her choice to return for the Church’s sake, and how recalling God’s favors (an examen) deepens our gratitude and cooperation with grace.

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How does Mary model intense fasting, prayer, and apostolic intercession for the Church?

Fr. Edward Looney reads and reflects on Volume 4, Book 8, Chapter 15, Paragraphs 671-679 from The Mystical City of God. Reflect on Mary’s forty-day fast: her continual prayer, weekly and feast devotions, Good Friday penance, and how to offer personal sacrifices for the Church’s conversion and souls’ justification.

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How did Mary intercede to draw souls to Christ through feasts and petitions?

Fr. Edward Looney reads and reflects on Volume 4, Book 8, Chapter 15, Paragraphs 662-670 from The Mystical City of God. Reflect on Mary’s maternal intercession: her festival prayers, petitions for sinners, and offerings (gold, myrrh, incense) aimed at drawing souls to grace and averting damnation. Pray for those in greatest need today.

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How does Mary’s motherhood unlock graces, conversions, and release from purgatory?

Fr. Edward Looney reads and reflects on Volume 4, Book 8, Chapter 14, Paragraphs 651-661 from The Mystical City of God. Reflect on Mary’s Nativity and Incarnation privileges: her heavenly adorning, intercession for conversions, liberation of souls from purgatory, and charge to distribute Christ’s graces—inviting personal humility, thanksgiving, and imitation.

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How did Our Lady alone repay humanity’s debt of gratitude for the Incarnation?

Fr. Edward Looney reads and reflects on Volume 4, Book 8, Chapter 14, Paragraphs 642-650 from The Mystical City of God. Reflect on Mary’s nine-day vigil before the Annunciation: her continual thanksgiving, intercession for mankind, and vivid contemplations of the six days of Creation culminating in praise for the Incarnation.

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How does true gratitude transform our relationship with God and the saints?

Fr. Edward Looney reads and reflects on Volume 4, Book 8, Chapter 13, Paragraphs 636-641 from The Mystical City of God. Reflect on ingratitude as a spiritual danger: know why thanking God for life, grace, and providence is required personally—not just liturgically—and how gratitude guards against covetousness and spiritual blindness.

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How did Mary’s grateful humility draw down greater blessings from God’s bounty?

Fr. Edward Looney reads and reflects on Volume 4, Book 8, Chapter 13, Paragraphs 625-635 from The Mystical City of God. Reflect on Mary’s relentless gratitude and humility: her nightly commemorations, feasts for her parents and spouse, charity to the poor, and how thanksgiving deepened her union with God—an invitation to imitate her thankful devotion.

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How did heaven celebrate Mary’s Immaculate Conception and Nativity with Christ himself?

Fr. Edward Looney reads and reflects on Volume 4, Book 8, Chapter 12, Paragraphs 611-624 from The Mystical City of God. Reflect on Mary’s personal jubilees: how she commemorated her Immaculate Conception and Nativity, heavenly choirs and Christ’s appearances, and practical invitations to celebrate birthdays with gratitude, humility, and renewed virtue.

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