Books on how to Imitate the Blessed Virgin Mary

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Is there a book about modeling the virtues of the Blessed Mother? Like ways we can imitate her? Whether they are old or new titles, doesn’t matter. Please pass along your Marian recommendations and why you like them. Thanks!
 
“The Mystical City of God” by Ven. Maria de Agreda has more detail than you can shake a stick at. 😉

p. 377-475 deal with Faith, Hope, Charity. Prudence, Justice, Fortitude, Temperance, ad the Seven Gifts of the Holy Ghost. There’s a series of descriptions around p. 232 onwards which talks about the different precious stones found in Revelation 21, and their symbolism, etc. With 4 volumes, it can be formidable, but it’s the sort of book that you just take a chapter at a time and chew it over. Ven. Solanus Casey used to read the whole thing through once a year. It obviously worked for Maria de Agreda.
 
midori said:
“The Mystical City of God” by Ven. Maria de Agreda has more detail than you can shake a stick at. 😉

p. 377-475 deal with Faith, Hope, Charity. Prudence, Justice, Fortitude, Temperance, ad the Seven Gifts of the Holy Ghost. There’s a series of descriptions around p. 232 onwards which talks about the different precious stones found in Revelation 21, and their symbolism, etc. With 4 volumes, it can be formidable, but it’s the sort of book that you just take a chapter at a time and chew it over. Ven. Solanus Casey used to read the whole thing through once a year. It obviously worked for Maria de Agreda.
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The mystical city of God is private revelation.
Though it has the approval of the local bishop it is very similar to many others in claiming that Mary personally gave an account of her life.
The Bible is very silent on her and I believe it is for a reason.We are not supposed to know,but to have faith.
There is one strange entry about Mary asking Jesus as a baby if she could breastfeed Him! Another one about Jesus as a child being her spiritual teacher.I believe there is also a statement attributed to God that unborn babies do not have souls until 40 days post conception.

My best advice to you on how to imitate Mary: Love God and love your neighbor.Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you.
 
midori said:
“The Mystical City of God” by Ven. Maria de Agreda has more detail than you can shake a stick at. 😉

p. 377-475 deal with Faith, Hope, Charity. Prudence, Justice, Fortitude, Temperance, ad the Seven Gifts of the Holy Ghost. There’s a series of descriptions around p. 232 onwards which talks about the different precious stones found in Revelation 21, and their symbolism, etc. With 4 volumes, it can be formidable, but it’s the sort of book that you just take a chapter at a time and chew it over. Ven. Solanus Casey used to read the whole thing through once a year. It obviously worked for Maria de Agreda.
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Thank you!
 
cjforJesus said:
The mystical city of God is private revelation.
Though it has the approval of the local bishop it is very similar to many others in claiming that Mary personally gave an account of her life.
The Bible is very silent on her and I believe it is for a reason.We are not supposed to know,but to have faith.
There is one strange entry about Mary asking Jesus as a baby if she could breastfeed Him! Another one about Jesus as a child being her spiritual teacher.I believe there is also a statement attributed to God that unborn babies do not have souls until 40 days post conception.

My best advice to you on how to imitate Mary: Love God and love your neighbor.Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you.
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I know there are no shortage of Catholic books pertaining to Mary, and by extension how to imitate her virtues. Glories of Mary, by St. Alphonsus Ligouri comes immediately to mind. I am asking people to provide their recommendations of others with this subject matter that they found worth mentioning so I may check them out. I appreciate both of you taking the time to provide feedback, but I’m not asking for advice on how to imitate Mary, but for book recommendations that include this subject.

Thanks and God Bless!
 
Thomas a Kempes also wrote a smaller work, the Imitation of Mary.
 
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