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Dear Readers,
Over the years, I have read a number of accounts of what happened that First Christmas night in the cave in Bethelhem where Jesus was born, but the most complete and detailed version I have read is contained in the marvelous revelation to Ven. Maria of Agreda.
I have attached this very complete version of Nine (8-1/2 x 11) pages for your knowledge and reflection. If you have read it before, in the 1902 English version of the “Mystical City of God,” it could be good to read it again, particularly if it has been a long time.
Ven. Maria of Agreda is one of my favorite mystics, and whose revelations give the impression of a very high degree of authenticity. Her great work, The Mystical City of God, has been read by many Popes over the years. When the Priests accompanied the Spanish Conquistadors in what is now part of the southwestern USA, they were astonished to discover tribes of Indians, who had already been taught about Christianity. Investigation revealed that their mysterious teacher of Christianity was Mary of Agreda, who had bilocated a number of times from Spain.
May your Christmas Anniversary be a Holy and Happy one,
Thomas Fahy
The Mystical City of God
by Venerable Mary of Agreda
Book Two: The Incarnation
CHAPTER X.
CHRIST OUR SAVIOR IS BORN OF THE VIRGIN MARY IN BETHLEHEM, JUDA,
468. The palace which the supreme King of kings and the Lord of lords had chosen for entertaining his eternal and incarnate Son in this world was a most poor and insignificant hut or cave, to which most holy Mary and Joseph betook themselves after they had been denied all hospitality and the most ordinary kindness by their fellow-men, as I have described in the foregoing chapter. This place was held in such contempt that though the town of Bethlehem was full of strangers in want of night shelter, none would demean or degrade himself so far as to make use of it for a lodging; for there was none who deemed it suitable or desirable for such a purpose, except the Teachers of humility and poverty, Christ our Savior and his purest Mother. On this account the wisdom of the eternal Father had reserved it for Them, consecrating it in all its bareness, loneliness and poverty as the first temple of light (Malachy 4, 2, Ps. Ill, 4) and as the house of the true Sun of justice, which was to arise for the upright of heart from the resplendent Aurora Mary, turning the night of sin into the daylight of grace.
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