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Sounds like the Nashville bomber...

Exorcist Diary #60: Are terrorists possessed?


There has sprung up in these days the "lone wolf terrorist" who commits heinous acts of violence against the innocent, including children, and then kills himself. Who would do such a senseless, evil thing? Some surmise that they must be possessed. Others suggest that these shooters are mentally ill. But recent studies suggest many of them do not have a diagnosable mental illness. Nor are they psychotic.

One study found that the majority had experienced "early childhood traumas and exposure to violence." This has led to some of them to suffer from anxiety, depression and/or suicidal thinking. However, I have treated hundreds of people who suffer from such things and none of them went on to murder innocent school children. Why did the lone wolf terrorists end up in such evil?

The previous study also said the shooters had become "angry and despondent" because of some perceived "grievance." Other studies highlight their narcissism and desire for public notoriety. Shooters also tend to be lonely and isolated. They are often full of an internal anger and desire for revenge.

It should be noted that the emotional stance of Satan is very similar. He is in a rage and believes he has been victimized by God. He is narcissistic, arrogant and violent. He is emotionally isolated and has no connections with other beings. He seeks revenge.

The 2014 Ft. Hood shooter posted the following a few weeks before killing three people, wounding sixteen others and then shooting himself, "I have just lost my inner peace, full of hatred, I think this time the devil will take me." Perhaps he meant this only symbolically but his emotional stance and actions are certainly in sync with what we know of the demonic. In fact, a common message that the possessed hear in their brains is a prompting to do violence to others and to kill themselves.

I do not think we can say all these lone wolf terrorists are possessed. But certainly many of them have devolved into a demonic mental state and then carry out evil actions that are very much in line with Satan's plan. We certainly should support early psychological interventions for potential shooters to deal with their underlying trauma, isolation, and rage. And some of them would likely benefit from deliverance prayers as well.

https://www.catholicexorcism.org/post/exorcist-diary-60-are-terrorists-possessed

 

Beautiful image of Winged Virgin!

Exorcist Diary #119: "She will come."
Msgr. Stephen Rossetti


Winged Virgin of the Apocalypse by Miguel de Santiago. Quito, Ecuador, 17th century

It was a very tough case. The young woman was possessed by hundreds of demons with Satan himself personally leading them. But the more difficult the case, the stronger the graces God gives. In this case, I knew that we would need the very best God could send.

We were coming close to the end, after countless hours of ugly and painful sessions. The demons were getting weaker and were now more obedient, much to their dismay. I commanded them, in the name of Jesus, to tell us, "When will you leave and by what means?" The demons reluctantly responded with a date two weeks hence and said, "She will come."

Everyone in the room knew who "she" was. The demons would not say the name of the Mother of God. Her name, like that of her Son, is itself holy.

The day finally came and the moment approached. The room grew silent and the possessed woman said, "She is here." As the Virgin quietly moved closer, the demons began to thrash wildly. She said nothing but the radiant light of Christ shining through the humble handmaid of God was overpowering.

Satan himself screamed. After screaming and thrashing several times, the Prince of Darkness left. It was over.

Now, I ask all of the possessed to consecrate themselves to the Mother of God as part of the healing process. We ask Mary not only to cast out the demons but to protect the afflicted person for the rest of their lives, until she welcomes them into the Kingdom.

The Gates of Hell will not prevail against the Church, or against its Mother.
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Satan pursues us even after repentance...

Exorcist Diary #120: Branded by Satan


"The Baptism of Christ" by Andrea del Verrocchio and Leonardo da Vinci

Jason woke up with a very ugly four-inch, upside-down cross burned deeply into his shoulder. Strangely, he said he didn't feel it, just a little tingling. Four days later it rapidly disappeared.

Jason had foolishly asked Satan for success in his business and finances. Years later he repented and had returned to the Church. But Satan had not forgotten him and was now laying claim to him. At night, Jason hears the voice of Satan in his head, "You belong to me."

The upside-down cross is a mockery of the cross of Christ. The fact of its appearance without pain and impossible rapid healing attest to its preternatural origin. Like the branding of an animal, Satan was claiming ownership.

In the midst of the exorcism sessions using the new Rite of Exorcism, Jason repeated his baptismal vows. He rejected Satan and all his works. I had Jason explicitly add three times, "I belong to Jesus. Jesus is my Lord and Savior."

In the Rite of Baptism for infants, the priest prays, "I claim you for Christ our Savior by the sign of the cross." Echoing these sacramental words, I then prayed over Jason, "I invoke the power of the keys of Peter and by the authority of the Church, I break any covenants between Jason and the Evil One. The death and resurrection of Jesus cancels any ownership Satan may believe he had over him. I claim Jason for Christ our Savior. In the holy name of Jesus, I set him free."

At root, an exorcism is a rejection of Satan's claim of ownership. In baptism, we are claimed for Christ our Savior. The new Rite of Exorcism is a renewal of the sacrament of baptism and once more freeing a soul from Satan's grasp. I have come away from these experiences with a more profound appreciation and gratitude for the sacrament of baptism we all receive and its power to free us from the Evil One.
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Exorcist Diary #121: In the Midst of a Demonic Onslaught

DUCCIO di Buoninsegna, Siena, "The Temptation on the Mount"


The demons have now launched a full out attack against Jason. They are sending manipulative and accusatory texts. (A friend walked into Jason's room and saw his phone sitting face up and the keys typing messages by themselves.) The demons are intensely tormenting him, nightly burning crosses into his body, and more. They are getting into his and his family's head, inflaming their frustration, anger and despair.

In the texts, the demons continue to boast: "He is ours." "You will tire of this and give up." "We will drag him to hell." "You will never defeat us."

But if you listen closely, you will hear that it is really the demons who are despairing. They fear giving up. They are insisting that Jason belongs to them because they know they are actually losing him. It is just one piece of a cosmic battle that they have already lost on Calvary. Their lot is one of defeat and despair.

Our task is to support Jason and his family who are suffering terribly. Their anger, frustration and feelings of hopelessness are very real. This is the challenge of an intense exorcism- keeping the team together and moving forward in the middle of a demonic onslaught.

We have engaged our prayer warriors. We need their prayers....I speak to Jason and his family about trusting in Jesus. I tell them this trial will end. The demons will be cast out. Persevere.

I worry. I stay close to them during this trial. I tell them that we will never abandon them. Neither will Jesus. And I pray, "Remember O most gracious Virgin Mary, that never was it known that anyone who fled to thy protection, implored thy help or sought thy intercession was left unaided..."

https://www.catholicexorcism.org/post/exorcist-diary-121-in-the-midst-of-a-demonic-onslaught
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From the Exorcist Diary Website

As a psychiatrist, I diagnose mental illness. Also, I help spot demonic possession.
How a scientist learned to work with exorcists.



By Richard Gallagher

Richard Gallagher is a board-certified psychiatrist and a professor of clinical psychiatry at New York Medical College. He is at work on a book about demonic possession in the United States.

July 1, 2016 at 6:00 a.m. EDT

In the late 1980s, I was introduced to a self-styled Satanic high priestess. She called herself a witch and dressed the part, with flowing dark clothes and black eye shadow around to her temples. In our many discussions, she acknowledged worshipping Satan as his “queen.”

I’m a man of science and a lover of history; after studying the classics at Princeton, I trained in psychiatry at Yale and in psychoanalysis at Columbia. That background is why a Catholic priest had asked my professional opinion, which I offered pro bono, about whether this woman was suffering from a mental disorder. This was at the height of the national panic about Satanism. (In a case that helped induce the hysteria, Virginia McMartin and others had recently been charged with alleged Satanic ritual abuse at a Los Angeles preschool; the charges were later dropped.) So I was inclined to skepticism. But my subject’s behavior exceeded what I could explain with my training. She could tell some people their secret weaknesses, such as undue pride. She knew how individuals she’d never known had died, including my mother and her fatal case of ovarian cancer. Six people later vouched to me that, during her exorcisms, they heard her speaking multiple languages, including Latin, completely unfamiliar to her outside of her trances. This was not psychosis; it was what I can only describe as paranormal ability. I concluded that she was possessed. Much later, she permitted me to tell her story.

The priest who had asked for my opinion of this bizarre case was the most experienced exorcist in the country at the time, an erudite and sensible man. I had told him that, even as a practicing Catholic, I wasn’t likely to go in for a lot of hocus-pocus. “Well,” he replied, “unless we thought you were not easily fooled, we would hardly have wanted you to assist us.”

So began an unlikely partnership. For the past two-and-a-half decades and over several hundred consultations, I’ve helped clergy from multiple denominations and faiths to filter episodes of mental illness — which represent the overwhelming majority of cases — from, literally, the devil’s work. It’s an unlikely role for an academic physician, but I don’t see these two aspects of my career in conflict. The same habits that shape what I do as a professor and psychiatrist — open-mindedness, respect for evidence and compassion for suffering people — led me to aid in the work of discerning attacks by what I believe are evil spirits and, just as critically, differentiating these extremely rare events from medical conditions.

Is it possible to be a sophisticated psychiatrist and believe that evil spirits are, however seldom, assailing humans? Most of my scientific colleagues and friends say no, because of their frequent contact with patients who are deluded about demons, their general skepticism of the supernatural, and their commitment to employ only standard, peer-reviewed treatments that do not potentially mislead (a definite risk) or harm vulnerable patients. But careful observation of the evidence presented to me in my career has led me to believe that certain extremely uncommon cases can be explained no other way.

The Vatican does not track global or countrywide exorcism, but in my experience and according to the priests I meet, demand is rising. The United States is home to about 50 “stable” exorcists — those who have been designated by bishops to combat demonic activity on a semi-regular basis — up from just 12 a decade ago, according to the Rev. Vincent Lampert, an Indianapolis-based priest-exorcist who is active in the International Association of Exorcists. (He receives about 20 inquiries per week, double the number from when his bishop appointed him in 2005.) The Catholic Church has responded by offering greater resources for clergy members who wish to address the problem. In 2010, for instance, the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops organized a meeting in Baltimore for interested clergy. In 2014, Pope Francis formally recognized the IAE, 400 members of which are to convene in Rome this October. Members believe in such strange cases because they are constantly called upon to help. (I served for a time as a scientific adviser on the group’s governing board.)

Unfortunately, not all clergy involved in this complex field are as cautious as the priest who first approached me. In some circles, there is a tendency to become overly preoccupied with putative demonic explanations and to see the devil everywhere. Fundamentalist misdiagnoses and absurd or even dangerous “treatments,” such as beating victims, have sometimes occurred, especially in developing countries. This is perhaps why exorcism has a negative connotation in some quarters. People with psychological problems should receive psychological treatment.

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But I believe I’ve seen the real thing. Assaults upon individuals are classified either as “demonic possessions” or as the slightly more common but less intense attacks usually called “oppressions.” A possessed individual may suddenly, in a type of trance, voice statements of astonishing venom and contempt for religion, while understanding and speaking various foreign languages previously unknown to them. The subject might also exhibit enormous strength or even the extraordinarily rare phenomenon of levitation. (I have not witnessed a levitation myself, but half a dozen people I work with vow that they’ve seen it in the course of their exorcisms.) He or she might demonstrate “hidden knowledge” of all sorts of things — like how a stranger’s loved ones died, what secret sins she has committed, even where people are at a given moment. These are skills that cannot be explained except by special psychic or preternatural ability.

I have personally encountered these rationally inexplicable features, along with other paranormal phenomena. My vantage is unusual: As a consulting doctor, I think I have seen more cases of possession than any other physician in the world.

Most of the people I evaluate in this role suffer from the more prosaic problems of a medical disorder. Anyone even faintly familiar with mental illnesses knows that individuals who think they are being attacked by malign spirits are generally experiencing nothing of the sort. Practitioners see psychotic patients all the time who claim to see or hear demons; histrionic or highly suggestible individuals, such as those suffering from dissociative identity syndromes; and patients with personality disorders who are prone to misinterpret destructive feelings, in what exorcists sometimes call a “pseudo-possession,” via the defense mechanism of an externalizing projection. But what am I supposed to make of patients who unexpectedly start speaking perfect Latin?

I approach each situation with an initial skepticism. I technically do not make my own “diagnosis” of possession but inform the clergy that the symptoms in question have no conceivable medical cause.

I am aware of the way many psychiatrists view this sort of work. While the American Psychiatric Association has no official opinion on these affairs, the field (like society at large) is full of unpersuadable skeptics and occasionally doctrinaire materialists who are often oddly vitriolic in their opposition to all things spiritual. My job is to assist people seeking help, not to convince doctors who are not subject to suasion. Yet I’ve been pleasantly surprised by the number of psychiatrists and other mental health practitioners nowadays who are open to entertaining such hypotheses. Many believe exactly what I do, though they may be reluctant to speak out.

As a man of reason, I’ve had to rationalize the seemingly irrational. Questions about how a scientifically trained physician can believe “such outdated and unscientific nonsense,” as I’ve been asked, have a simple answer. I honestly weigh the evidence. I have been told simplistically that levitation defies the laws of gravity, and, well, of course it does! We are not dealing here with purely material reality, but with the spiritual realm. One cannot force these creatures to undergo lab studies or submit to scientific manipulation; they will also hardly allow themselves to be easily recorded by video equipment, as skeptics sometimes demand. (The official Catholic Catechism holds that demons are sentient and possess their own wills; as they are fallen angels, they are also craftier than humans. That’s how they sow confusion and seed doubt, after all.) Nor does the church wish to compromise a sufferer’s privacy, any more than doctors want to compromise a patient’s confidentiality.

Ignorance and superstition have often surrounded stories of demonic possession in various cultures, and surely many alleged episodes can be explained by fraud, chicanery or mental pathology. But anthropologists agree that nearly all cultures have believed in spirits, and the vast majority of societies (including our own) have recorded dramatic stories of spirit possession. Despite varying interpretations, multiple depictions of the same phenomena in astonishingly consistent ways offer cumulative evidence of their credibility.

As a psychoanalyst, a blanket rejection of the possibility of demonic attacks seems less logical, and often wishful in nature, than a careful appraisal of the facts. As I see it, the evidence for possession is like the evidence for George Washington’s crossing of the Delaware. In both cases, written historical accounts with numerous sound witnesses testify to their accuracy.

In the end, however, it was not an academic or dogmatic view that propelled me into this line of work. I was asked to consult about people in pain. I have always thought that, if requested to help a tortured person, a physician should not arbitrarily refuse to get involved. Those who dismiss these cases unwittingly prevent patients from receiving the help they desperately require, either by failing to recommend them for psychiatric treatment (which most clearly need) or by not informing their spiritual ministers that something beyond a mental or other illness seems to be the issue. For any person of science or faith, it should be impossible to turn one’s back on a tormented soul.


https://www.washingtonpost.com/post...tal-illness-and-sometimes-demonic-possession/
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"My eyes are on fire!"...

Exorcist Diary #122: A Wounded Beast

Michael casts out rebel angels. Illustration by Gustave Doré for John Milton's Paradise Lost.

Jason woke up with four long, ugly looking, 18" gouges on his back. It looked like a beast had raked its claws down his back. In fact, that's exactly what happened.

The demons' attacks against him have intensified. He is aggressively assaulted and abused. At night, and even during the day, his bed shakes violently when he lies on it. Jason is terrified. Friends freak out when they see it.

In our latest session, Jason said his eyes were burning when he looked at the crucifix. He cried, "My eyes are on fire!" Several times, he was choked to the point of passing out. He relayed to me that the demons were demanding that I take off my stole. This, too, is causing much suffering. Of course, I refuse.

Jason's mother is distraught. She complains, "The situation is getting worse. The demons are getting stronger!" And Jason, because of the physical possession, feels much of the demon's pain. He is suffering greatly.

The demons themselves are suffering intensely and are actually getting weaker. The stole, the crucifix and other sacramentals are torturing them. The Rite of Exorcism is loosening their grip and they are fighting back like a dying animal. Like a mortally wounded beast, they are thrashing and lashing out.

It cuts to the heart to see Jason suffer so much. I wish there was an easier way, and I tell him so. These are dark moments, that pushes Jason and his family to the limit. I trust that God will not allow the demons to push them beyond what they can stand.

I encourage them to pray, "Jesus I trust in you." It is my prayer as well.

https://www.catholicexorcism.org/post/exorcist-diary-122-a-wounded-beast
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Also from the Exorcist Diary website, a vivid account of Yoga and the occult

My Experiences with Yoga
By Anonymous

I would like to give a description of my experience with yoga as a warning for people who are considering starting with either physical yoga, or who are exploring Eastern spirituality, or both.

I started to search spiritually as a teenager. In my early twenties I started going to so called satsangs (satsang means "encounter with the truth" in sanskrit) where we would chant mantras in front of a picture of a female guru.

Traditionally physical yoga was never meant to just be physical. It's just one aspect of yoga. In India people usually frown at you if you say that you are doing yoga without practicing the whole religion and the worship practices behind it. So, when you are doing physical yoga, you are in a way agreeing to the philosophy and concepts and the deity worship behind the movements.

First of all, physical yoga is meant to activate the so-called "kundalini" at the bottom of the spine. It's pictured as a serpent. If you are successful in yoga then this kundalini serpent will rise through your spine to the top of your head, where it will meet shiva and create, as I understood it at that time, a sort of "divine marriage" between the female (the so-called Shakti, also a "goddess") and shiva (the god of destruction) creating enlightenment. In my understanding this would be like entering a sort of paradise. This state is called samadhi. It's supposed to stop the cycle of reincarnation and makes the soul become "like a drop in the ocean".

Creation is seen as a part of god, who is called atman. This particular branch of yoga focused on shiva as being god. The organization had many different programs online that were both expensive and difficult to understand, which explained the philosophy behind the yoga. Other practices consisted of the chanting of a very long text which was basically a consecration to the guru and the above mentioned "deities". It also contained threats of curses should one leave this particular lineage of gurus.

There was a huge focus on meditation. Many people had experiences of altered states during the meditations, and of encountering the gurus of this tradition (there were three of them) during meditation experiences and also encountering them during dreams. The enlightenment experience was said to be transmitted by the guru in this case, like a short-cut to this "kundalini rising" experience. For clarification: enlightenment and the kundalini rising experience were seen as one and the same thing, and everyone was chasing it all the time.

The guru was revered like a god, and one was not allowed to criticize or say anything negative about the guru. In which case curses could incur. All of this was subtle, not mentioned in many places, but implied. The devotees were very often very intelligent, successful people.

The sect is high-profile but it is not open to any form of questions from the media. It is understandable that people could get tricked, as the experiences that came from following the many practices, including physical yoga, were quite significant, and positive life changes could incur. Sometimes experiences similar to "miracles" could happen.

In the beginning the practices seemed to help me become more focused and centered. I had problems with depression at the time, and after chanting I would feel more happy and quiet inside. The focus on discipline and on turning inside in meditation seemed to lead me to a more mature and austere life and away from some less healthy friendships that I had at that time early in my twenties.

I also struggled a lot with sleep for a time. Listening to a recording of the guru singing the different mantras as I prepared for sleep was so powerful that I slept like a log. So I felt quite dependent on listening to these mantras in order to get enough sleep so I could get up for work the next morning.

I once prayed to the guru for financial help, because I was in a difficult financial situation. The next day $600 came into my account. About $300 kept on coming into my account every month after that in addition to my wages. Another time I got a job in a way that felt like it came through following the yoga practices. I could "feel" that I had the "energy" from this yoga school with me there. I incidentally ended up sitting besides someone in that new workplace that I really liked at that time, his name had been coming up during my meditations and I felt that "the universe" had put me there besides him. Another "miracle" was when I got a job as an extra on a film set of my favorite series, and I got to play in a scene with my favorite actor at that time in a profiled part as an extra. Here again I could feel that the "energies" of the yoga were with me.

Strangely it was also after my appearance at this movie set that I felt more exposed to the demonic, which I will explain later. As I see the “miracles” now, they were only connected to the material side of my life, and they didn't really involve the moral side of my being, or change me into a better person.

I was really diligent in performing the practices. I had many experiences of emotional healings, my work life improving, and certain other improvements in my life. One of the emotional healings I experienced was while contemplating a picture on the website of the yoga organization I was following. It showed a picture and on it there was a word in sanskrit. It was about remembrance. Suddenly I remembered something that I had forgotten. As a child I lost someone I loved a lot, but I was never able to grieve for that person. I thought I maybe never loved her. But now I realized how much I loved her, and how I just hadn't been able to process this loss at that time. I cried a lot. As a consequence, I felt that "the guru", her teachings and the yoga must be the truth. I constantly had some doubts, especially in the beginning. But happenings like these made my misgivings smaller, until I completely pushed them aside.

I also had less positive experiences right after I started going to satsangs. But I never ascribed them to the guru or yoga because of all the positive experiences I was having. I think they made me blind to what was really going on.

One of the more negative experiences was that I could feel a movement at the bottom of my spine, as if something was moving there. Sometimes it was very strong; it seemed as if the whole floor was trembling. The other was that I became increasingly drawn to pagan and Wiccan practices. I thought that god and the universe was the same thing as a result of the yoga practice.

As the owner of a coven (I was never part of any coven by the way - but I was curious) once explained to me, witchcraft originally came from India and it believes in the "marriage" or union of the female and masculine aspects of the universe. In yoga one big concept is "the dance of the shiva and shakti." So in my experience, yoga, neo-paganism, and witchcraft were basically the same. It's the same belief system although the "powers" they admire and invoke might have different names.

I had many experiences of inner light. Both while doing physical yoga practices, practicing reciting the mantra, or looking at pictures meant to trigger "enlightenment" experiences. These pictures were thought to be filled with the gurus so-called "shakti" (something similar to the female side of "god's" power).
The first time this happened I was listening to a recording at their website. I think it was a guided meditation. Suddenly I saw a lot of light. I thought the sun might have come out. But it was still a rainy day outside. I closed my eyes again and I continued meditating. The light grew brighter. I thought I could see some geometric patterns in it, which I thought was a bit strange. After this experience of inner light, I applied myself with even more fervor to the practice of yoga and meditation, as I now was sure that it was leading me to god.

By the way, the Self was another big concept in this school of thought, as it is in many yoga schools. The Self is a bit like the concept of emptiness in the Buddhist tradition. In yoga it was both god and the guru and shiva and "the universe" at the same time, which I thought was very hard to understand. I figured I just needed to study the philosophy (more expensive courses) and do more yoga in order to get it.

This light would appear in other settings too, such as when I would be considering making important life choices. It would always lead me into "following my dreams" or going into the direction of my heart/feelings, which would lead me to make very emotional choices with regards to my career and other life areas. This would ultimately lead to more confusion and chaos. This is also what made me start to question whether this organization or the "light" maybe wasn't so good after all. I also started questioning the general New Age ideas that I was into, as I was starting to notice that generally speaking, the people who were into it would not behave morally or even decently towards others. And my own life was becoming increasingly confused and chaotic. But it was a long process until I finally saw through it...

Rest of article at https://www.catholicexorcism.org/my-experiences-with-yoga

 

I am more than a little bit jealous of exorcists they are our Front Line Troops.

Whenever they speak I am very inclined to sit up straight and listen.

I doubt if you would ever get anything out of an Exorcist but the pure Catholic Teaching.

Things would not go well in Battle for an heretical exorcist.

 

Just saw this thread. I get snippets of this diary sent to me by email from the Spiritual Direction website and like that we are being exposed to what is the “everyday stuff” being gone through by exorcists.

 

Just imagine all the people who are oppressed by demons and never even know how to seek help.

Prayers

 

That was a really good read. Interesting how she was able to recognize other people with demonic issues as well.

 

Yes, the exorcists who are part of this joint effort are doing a wonderful job educating others. I hope they continue. I'm particularly interested in the ongoing exorcism of Jason; I cannot imagine the strain shared by all involved.

 

But yet, she must still be in sessions, as per the way she writes. It must be very difficult to let go of everything all at once. I do know that what used to be exorcised in one or a few sessions, in our day takes much longer.

 

Quick update on this exorcism from Exorcist Diary comments. The exorcist wants prayers. It sounds as if the battle is getting worse.

Dear Monsignor Rossetti

Faithfully I prayed the rosary for Jason ,,,,,,, do you want these prayers to continue? I Previously Posted this,,,,,,

I WILL say two rosaries a day for Jason's deliverance , for you, and your teams protection, and success!

Is there anything else I can do or possibly additional prays?

Our Lady WILL triumph , she will crush the head of the evil, pathetic one!

"In Servitio Dei"

John Wachowski

Msgr. Stephen Rossetti
21 hours ago
prayers are appreciated...huge manifestations.... “Jesus I trust in you.”
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One of the most frightening posts ever

Exorcist Diary #123: A Week in Hell

Immaculate Conception by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, 1767–1769, in the Museo del Prado, Spain

A strong taste of hell this week. Many of our afflicted were oppressed with hopelessness and despair. It was palpable. Underneath was a current of anger, occasionally manifesting in a look of violence. One of our sensitives confirmed that she, too, was aware of this despair afflicting her directees.

Something in the air. People are rightly concerned about the coronavirus. I am more concerned about the virus of despair and anger infecting our nation. It is fueled by Evil and afflicting many.

In one session, a man began to manifest and the entire eyeballs of his blue eyes turned completely black. In another session, the demons were dissing us, threatening us, spewing forth every sort of demonic taunt and disgusting mockery.

All this is hell-- anger, despair, violence. The eyes of the soul turning black. Filth. Attacking any semblance of good.

Sometime back, I was teaching a graduate theology class of 33 good Catholics. I gave them Sr. Faustina's vision of hell and asked them if they believed it. Only one did.

Her vision was a private revelation and thus one is not obliged to accept it. I can understand why they did not; it seems too horrible. But I believe St. Faustina had a true vision. Actually, her words could not fully capture this terrible reality.

This week we entered, once again, the presence of hell. We were surrounded by evil, weighing down the air around us, and oppressing our spirits. In a text from the demons, they said I was a "weak priest" and threatened to up the attack against us.

Finally, the week ended. I went into my regular, monthly retreat day. There I found the loving arms of the Mother awaiting me. She was fully aware of it all. She lifted the oppression of hell and there was peace. I am indeed a "weak priest." But I have a beautiful and powerful Mother.

 

The Exorcist Diary website has prayers for the laity to assist exorcists. One of them is this prayer to St. Joseph, from Fr. Calloway's Consecration to St. Joseph book.

Prayer to St. Joseph Terror of Demons

Saint Joseph, Terror of Demons, cast your solemn gaze upon the devil and all his minions, and protect us with your mighty staff. You fled through the night to avoid the devil's wicked designs; now with the power of God, smite the demons as they flee from you! Grant special protection, we pray, for children, fathers, families and the dying. By God's grace, no demon dares approach while you are near, so we beg of you, always be near to us!
Amen.

There is also a deliverance prayer from Fr. Chad Ripperger's book, Deliverance Prayers: For Use by the Laity.

Deliverance Prayer

Lord, have Mercy. God, Our Lord, King of Ages, All powerful and Almighty, Thou Who hast made everything and who hast transformed everything simply by Thy Will. Thou Who in Babylon changed into dew the flames of the “seven-times hotter” furnace and protected and saved the three holy children. Thou are the doctor and the physician of our souls. Thou are the salvation of those who turn to Thee. We beseech Thee to make powerless, banish, and drive out every diabolic power, presence, and machination; every evil influence, malefice, or evil eye and all evil actions aimed against Your servant… where there is envy and malice, give us an abundance of goodness, endurance, victory and charity. O Lord, Thou who loves man, we beg Thee to reach out Thy powerful hands and Thy most high and mighty arms and come to our aid. Help us, who are made in your image; send the Angel of Peace over us, to protect us body and soul. May he keep at bay and vanquish every evil power, every poison or malice invoked against us by corrupt and envious people. Then, under the protection of Thy authority may we sing in gratitude, “The Lord is my salvation; whom should I fear? I will not fear evil because Thou art with me, my God, my strength, my powerful Lord, Lord of Peace, Father of all Ages.

(Ripperger, Laity, p. 38)

 

I am starting to wonder about, 'The Exorcist's Diary'. It all does seem a bit much, like a constant, never ending horror film....I mean is all this what life and the Spiritual Life is all about...

I don't know, it all seems a bit overblown. Far too much. Where is the Light and Joy and Peace in all this.

It becomes like the film, 'The Exorcist', that never ends.

I feel my sceptical side starting to rise.

There are two dangers with Demonology, having no belief or interest at all and having too much of an interest.

I am starting to think this is a case of the latter.

We appear to be raining down demons everywhere here.

It's just far too much, like some Medieval Breughal picture.

We need to puncture the balloon and come right back down to Planet Earth again.

 

I understand your concern, Padraig. If it came from someone like Fr. Rodrigue, giving seminars all over the place and receiving messages from God claiming doom, I'd hesitate to post it.

But Msgr. Stephen Rossetti is an official exorcist of the Archdiocese of Washington DC. He's one of a team; he works alongside Msgr. Charles Pope. Msgr. Rossetti is a medical professional, a psychologist. Plus, Washington DC is one of the most secular dioceses around. That is why I posted this, he is saying there is demonic darkness rising in the US, in an authoritative way.

Sadly, these are not days of "Light and Joy and Peace."