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Mystical City of God: Volume I-IV

https://www.amazon.com/Mystical-City-God-Mary-Agreda/dp/0895558254

These books were written in the 1600s by a nun who is now a saint. They have been reaffirmed by Popes over the centuries. They explain that Mary was specially created by God. She is the new and perfect Eve. The woman mentioned in Genesis, I would crush the snakes head,is her

Here is my list. Some might say that it is a bit antiquated, but I prefer things that have stood the test of time and borne a great deal of good fruit, as well as those things which I know to be very reliable. I am a convert as well and it has been very frustrating for me figuring out what is good and what has bad mixed in with it. So after a little while of struggling to figure that out I just decided that I will stick mainly to the classics of Catholicism. I figure if it worked for centuries and has been heavily scrutinized for all of that time and is still treasured, I can't go wrong with that. And then also Chesterton, who is from the first half of the 1900s, because I love him and he played a big role in my conversion. I cannot recommend any of these books highly enough, they are all fantastic. If you go through all of these (particularly, the Liturgical year), you will probably not need RCIA apart from out of obedience.

"The Everlasting Man" by GK Chesterton.

"Orthodoxy" by GK Chesterton

"Mystical City of God" by Maria Agreda -- Fantastic, thoug at times very baroque explanation of so much. There is one seemingly scandalous/incorrect thing in it that has a footnote in the first volume, however, with the understanding that we now are gaining of epigenetics in developmental biology, it makes more sense and is actually interestingly illuminating, though it is complicated. Dont trouble your head about this point unless you are a biologist/dr/etc, then it is really cool to dive into the weeds about.

The Duay-Rheims Bible with Rev. Leo Haydock's commentaries (collected from the fathers of the Church)

"The Liturgical Year" By Dom Gueranger
or, if you cant shell out the $250 for all of the volumes (if you want to go more expensive and get the hardback copies, which would be more durable and therefore better for this type of book, which will be useful for centuries to come, do that), then get (or also get) "The Church's Year" by Leonard Goffine, which is a single volume and is very informative and simple and solid, with one possible exception regarding baptism of desire that I am not too sure about and have had trouble resolving thus far. (This sets it way beyond most things)

"The Catechism of the Council of Trent" It won't have quite everything since it is from the late 1500s but it will have pretty much everything (worth noting since then: Don't use nuclear weapons, mary is definitely the immaculate conception, no cloning people, no IVF). It definitely wont lead you astray, and it is incredibly clear.

"Spiritual Combat and a treatise on the Peace of the Soul" by Lorenzo Scupoli and also probably the collected efforts of a monastery over a long period. Great short book that you can flip into anywhere.