Beautiful! The power of Our Most Holy Virginal Mother and Queen! Thank you Dearest Mother. There is hope for all those family members we love and others through Her Intercession. Oh Mary conceived without sin, pray for us who have recourse to Thee. Amen.
Maintaining a good sense of humor is important in the spiritual battle and the trials that arise it seems, or having a "divine sense of humor" as Fulton Sheen calls it. The devil likes us to be very serious about ourselves and life!
Father Gabriele Amorth Said he believed in mass possession. As in a group being possessed at the same time. I think it is happening more and more. I also see confession as the great destroyer of pride. No one wants to confess their sins. We think we are hiding from everyone. It’s pride that would say we don’t need confession. I’m also starting to see everything much different. I am beginning to understand the power of church. The power of everyone praying together. Not just in church but in all the churches around the world. Our spiritual journey is a interesting adventure. A majority of us stay in the spiritual middle. The safe space. Nothing wrong with that...you are like a player on the team. You made the team but sit on the bench. I consider the MOG family starters, maybe core players. We are given little gems from God. We see and scratch the beauty of great saints. We try hard and every now and then, through the grace of God, we do something special. But those special saints, by their mere presence, attracted good and evil retracts from them. They are the all stars of the team. Sometimes a special saint never leaves the safe space. No one ever talks about those souls. Bro al
Such a big part of reaching the state of holiness. By reading the saints, it’s all about the inner journey. And their true happiness is being close to God. Saints might carry a spiritual burden but to outside world they have to have to be joyful. But that doesn’t mean they can’t scold or be grumpy. If following God is not a joyful experience...you are doing something wrong.
Devil attacks weak spots if you left yourself exposed to him via reiki or tarot cards. Just like i was attacked on weak spots after a healing session of reiki. I didnt understand that time, nor was i aware of the dangers re reiki or new age thing. Get spiritual reactions from others who was unaware of what they did like leg banging below table or bus seat wall some kicks from behind. That wasn't there some 10 years ago but its very common now re some spiritual reactions. Addiction is one of their many tactics or trade through initiation of reiki or tarot card or seances or whatever that opens the door to evil spirits in which they are invisible. Thats a difficult one to tackle cos evil spirit latch on to it. Once i found out the dangers of reiki on internet. I got a rude shock when i read an article. So confessed it but it took a long while for me to get out just like getting out from an entrenched ditch. When got out of ditch at last as its just like peace came over me.
For a sin to be mortal it must have three characteristics. 1. Be a serious matter 2. You have to know it’s a serious matter 3. You commit the sin with full consent of your will Otherwise, not a mortal sin
You can kill a person just as quickly with your tongue as with your fist and with a lot less effort. For which reason I would the more quickly fall out with a man than with woman. Men's hatreds tend to come and go. A woman's hatred is implacable.
Was only reflecting on this last night Padraig, funnily enough. Why is this the case do you think? I happen to be aware of a certain woman who has taken an extreme dislike to me for some reason and have even witnessed them slandering me to other people on a number of occasions. Sometimes I find the best thing to do in those situations is to laugh it off and to not give your power away to anyone ever. Still though, it is not a very pleasant feeling when you know that someone is actively trying to destroy your reputation.
As Padraig would say, consider it a compliment. It’s diabolical when that happens. You are unknowingly getting in the way of an evil agenda, most likely.
Women and men are so totally, totally different. Our modern world and culture in the West have forgotten this. But they really, really are. they are complimentary..as God designed them... but entirely apart.
If men and women were so similiar as our Modern Pagan culture teaches then it would be impossible for us to fall in love. If it were impossible to fall in love then we would no longer form families. This is what Sr Lucia warned us of. That Satan would attack families by suggesting that women and men are the same.
Its horrifying Sanctus but look what they did to Jesus. You are in good company. I am guessing her animus toward you is spiritual. The darkness in her is reacting against the light of the Holy Spirit within you. Padraig's right about women. I would rather deal with a man any day. I've worked for both and a man is a much easier boss.
Studying to be a lawyer at the moment so hopefully will be able to get in the way of a few more of these agendas in the future with God's help! There seems alot darkness in this field. Two recent presidents of Ireland, Mary Robinson and Mary McAlesse, both of them lawyers, who seem to have left a pattern of destruction behind them in the country. Was listening to a video recently, can't remember the name of it, in which a Priest was saying that Hell is very legalistic in nature.
There is something known as moral legalism also where people put more emphasis on the "letter "of the law rather than the "spirit "of the law. Many protestants denominations appear to have this approach to Christ's teachings and the Bible, and are not very loving or charitable. Legalism seems to be present in areas of the Catholic Church too among certain priests, bishops, faithful etc..
Legalism today is often not about truth. Often times it is about bastardizing the truth at the expense of political correctness. All truth comes from God with clarity, it is the devil and his willing accomplishes who work to twist and turn what God has given in truth and love. When Pope Francis has spoken on legalism, it is his way of intimidation on those who dare comply with church tradition (which he calls rigidity) and even the teachings of God. Archbishop Sheen spoke often about this time of ours that will do as much and compromise the truths of God.
