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

How does Mary’s weekly heavenly visitation reshape our understanding of communion and mission?

Fr. Edward Looney reads and reflects on Volume 4, Book 8, Chapter 11, Paragraphs 603-610 from The Mystical City of God. Reflect on Mary’s repeated heavenly visitations, her weekly resurrection rejoicing, and the gift of daily Communion as a model of humility, self-denial, and apostolic intercession for the Church. Practical takeaway: orient your life to the heavenly prize.

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How does Mary’s yearning for heaven draw Christ to comfort and exalt her?

Fr. Edward Looney reads and reflects on Volume 4, Book 8, Chapter 11, Paragraphs 595-602 from The Mystical City of God. Reflect on Mary’s intense longing for divine union, Christ’s heavenly visitation, and the promise that she would be repeatedly brought to heaven’s joy each Sunday during her remaining earthly life.

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How did Our Lady prepare to receive Christ in the Eucharist with perfect reverence?

Fr. Edward Looney reads and reflects on Volume 4, Book 8, Chapter 10, Paragraphs 585-594 from The Mystical City of God. Reflect on Mary’s practices before Communion: deep recollection of the Passion, meticulous preparation, charity toward the poor, and her plea to invoke angels and saints for purity before receiving Christ.

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How did Mary renew Christ’s Passion in prayer and prepare for Holy Communion?

Fr. Edward Looney reads and reflects on Volume 4, Book 8, Chapter 10, Paragraphs 575-584 from The Mystical City of God. Reflect on Mary’s weekly re-enactment of Christ’s Passion: her hour‑by‑hour meditations, tears and physical sufferings, angelic assistance, and rigorous preparatory devotions before receiving the Eucharist.

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How did Our Lady guide the apostles and shape early liturgical practice?

Fr. Edward Looney reads and reflects on Volume 4, Book 8, Chapter 9, Paragraphs 566-574 from The Mystical City of God. Reflect on Mary’s active care for the apostles: angelic aid, clothing and consolation, direct apparitions to Saint Peter, and her role in shaping early feasts and reverence for priests.

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How did Our Lady guide the evangelists in composing the four Gospels?

Fr. Edward Looney reads and reflects on Volume 4, Book 8, Chapter 9, Paragraphs 557-565 from The Mystical City of God. Discover Mary’s direct role in inspiring Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John—her apparitions, restrictions about revealing her own mysteries, and how she invoked the Holy Spirit to ensure faithful Gospel accounts.

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How did Mary’s infused vision guide her obedience and urgent maternal charity?

Fr. Edward Looney reads and reflects on Volume 4, Book 8, Chapter 8, Paragraphs 544-556 from The Mystical City of God. Reflect on Mary’s infused knowledge: how her vision of God enabled prompt, obedient action for the Church, miraculous conversions, protection from demonic attacks, and a call to surrender free will to divine governance.

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How did Mary's victory over the dragon deepen her continual vision of God?

Fr. Edward Looney reads and reflects on Volume 4, Book 8, Chapter 8, Paragraphs 533-543 from The Mystical City of God. Discover how Mary’s triumph over demons led to a permanent, increasing abstractive vision—balancing intense contemplative union with maternal charity and enabling her unique ability to merit and aid the Church.

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How did Mary’s victory silence the dragon and protect the Church from heresy?

Fr. Edward Looney reads and reflects on Volume 4, Book 8, Chapter 7, Paragraphs 519-532 from The Mystical City of God. Reflects on Mary’s heavenly role in restraining Satan, the angelic proclamation of Christ’s triumph, and practical takeaways: Scripture, Church teaching, sacramental life, and Marian intercession as defenses against error.

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How did Mary personally crush the serpent amid relentless demonic assaults?

Fr. Edward Looney reads and reflects on Volume 4, Book 8, Chapter 7, Paragraphs 505-518 from The Mystical City of God. Reflects on Mary’s spiritual battle with Lucifer: her immovable serenity, victory over temptations, and her powerful intercession for the tempted—practical encouragement to invoke Mary’s help against personal vices.

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