Exorcist Diary website

Yes but there is a question of balance perhaps. If I were him I'd be inclined to balance it off with more positive stuff. it reminds me of Fulton Sheen who was so wonderful at telling jokes.

 

I am in agreement. St Teresa said she could not understand people saying "the devil! The devil!" When they should be saying "God! God!"

Also exorcists are generally a tight lipped bunch. Details are never given for all sorts of prudent reasons.

 

That is certainly true. God bless these brave priests. Maybe they need to reveal this to shock people into the realization.

 

The visions and experiences of hell from Sister Josefa Menendez are even more terrifying...


“My soul fell into abysmal depths, the bottom of which cannot be seen, for it is immense. . . ; Then I was pushed into one of those fiery cavities and pressed, as it were, between burning planks, and sharp nails and red-hot irons seemed to be piercing my flesh. I felt as if they were endeavoring to pull out my tongue, but could not. This torture reduced me to such agony that my very eyes seemed to be starting out of their sockets. I think this was because of the fire which burns, burns. . . not a finger nail escapes terrifying torments, and all the time one cannot move even a finger to gain some relief, not change posture, for the body seems flattened out and [yet] doubled in two. Sounds of confusion and blasphemy cease not for an instant.

A sickening stench asphyxiates and corrupts everything, it is like the burning of putrefied flesh, mingled with tar and sulfur. . . a mixture to which nothing on earth can be compared. . . although these tortures were terrific, they would be bearable if the soul were at peace. But it suffers indescribably. . . All I have written,” she concluded, “is but a shadow of what the soul suffers, for no words can express such dire torment.” (September 4, 1922).

 

The positive stuff would be when the demons are expelled. There's a lot more of the occult around now than in Bishop Sheen's time. It's mainstream and respectable now whereas back then it wasn't so in your face.

When even high ranking clerics cast doubt on the existence of Satan, maybe the exorcists have come to the conclusion that shock tactics are what's required to jolt people out of their lethargy. They need our prayers and encouragement. The Great Accuser will do everything he can to demoralise them. The website might also be an appeal for prayers, giving the reasons why prayers are so desperately needed.

 

It’s kind of funny that you bring up the movie The Exorcist. The author was a Catholic who wrote the book because he thought if people believed the devil was real then they would believe in God also.

I couldn’t find the interview I remember reading but this profile on him is pretty good.

https://www.washingtonian.com/2015/...author-william-peter-blatty-says-youre-wrong/

“It’s an argument for God,” he says today of the novel more often considered an entertainment. “I intended it to be an apostolic work, to help people in their faith. Because I thoroughly believed in the authenticity and validity of that particular event.”

 

Exorcists are our front line troops, it is always good to pay more attention to them than to our military vets.

I remember reading and watching the goings on of Fr Amaroth the Chief Exorcist now dead who was more than a little of a saint. The best thing about him is that when he talked about other matters he really had his feet on the ground.

The best Exorcist I ever read about was from the West Coast of the USA and who was Irish American. He conducted hundreds of Exorcisms with no immediate signs of any side effects and puled the demons swiftly and with no apparent strain and effort.

I think there were two reasons for this. He had a huge Devotion to Our Blessed Lady. The second was that he was, very, very humble and down to Earth.

But I suspect sometimes Exorcists can get a little shell shocked sometimes like ordinary soldiers do and get demons on the brain.

 

Good points. It makes me think of the article Christy posted recently where a woman was seeing a demon but thought it was the ghost of a child that was scared and wanted her to be it’s mother. Instead of running to the Church she made an altar for it.

 

Exorcists are wonderful.

When I was around 11 years old I met a few priests in a Passionist Religious House one or two of whom were Exorcists and told us accounts of real exorcisms some of which would put your hair on end. I was far too young to hear such things and it did me harm.

I have always felt since then that a certain descretion about such matters is no bad thing. It can encourage unhealthy interests.

A little salt in food is good. Too much salt in food can be bad.

Horses for courses.

 

Yes a certain interest is fine. But there is such a thing as a unhealthy interest.

 

Totally agree. I just thought it was interesting and worth mentioning.

ETA I do think the blog dedicated to the stories is a good thing. I’m sure there are many people like the possessed woman from the yoga story who could benefit from coming across this information. It could actually help lead them to the Church for help.

 

Yes. I have her book. So powerful. So terrifyingher experiences.

 

Agree.

 

I smiled when I saw your mention of Fr. Amorth in another post. Fr. Amroth was the first famous exorcist whose name I recognised. Now I could probably name half a dozen off the top of my head. And the first I heard of him was in reference to the consecration of Russia. I was shocked that an exorcist would cast doubts on the correctness (for want of a better word) of the consecration. In my ignorance, my first thought was that he must be going astray. And my reaction was along the lines of exorcists should be seen and not heard. We live and learn.

While I'm more understanding now of Fr. Amroth, I'm still not comfortable with exorcists getting almost celebrity status. That probably began with the Exorcist movie but I think that Fr. Amroth helped it along. If I'm not mistaken, the real exorcist in Blatty's book was in Georgetown - maybe a Jesuit? I don't know because I didn't read the book and didn't like the movie because it scared the wits out of me. I'm pretty sure, too, that Blatty took a case to the Vatican against Jesuit Georgetown for their failures. He died and Pope Francis was elected, putting the case on the back burner. I reckon you'd be hard pressed now to find a Jesuit in Georgetown who believes in God let alone the devil. They probably think that a Jesuit education makes you a demi-god, with all the professors being fully fledged gods.

If an exorcist warns us that Satan is in overdrive, we need to take notice even if we don't like the shock tactics. There are enough priests preaching the huggy kissy brand of Catholicism that has us all evolving into gods with not a cross in sight.

 

Thank you, Dolours, for putting it so succinctly. I feel Msgr. Rossetti said something important when said this past week was "a week in Hell" and that "the virus of despair and anger infecting our nation... [is] fueled by Evil and afflicting many."

The period he referred to is just after Biden's inauguration. It also coincides with what sounds like a horrific exorcism, which Rossetti described as involving "huge manifestations."

A lot is happening at once. I don't think it is exaggeration or sensationalism.
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It all goes back to the amount of abortions being done. It is opening the Gateway of Hell.

 

Take heart, Christy, because some exorcists have said that the demons are most aggressive when they realise their time is coming to an end. I've started reading Fr. Arminjon on the end times. If you're not familiar with it, it's a collection of talks he gave at a time when the Church in France was suffering. He gave much the same message back then, and said that these tribulations will be followed by a period of peace when the faith will be preached to the whole world. I've literally only read a few pages of the book but that's right near the beginning.

I think that Padraig is right about it being connected to abortion. In a recent World Over programme on EWTN, they were discussing some newspaper article which said that Biden and Pope Francis will reinvent the Church (they're not the exact words used) and the Jesuits will be the engine driving it. Robert Royal pointed out that the Jesuits are in decline and very soon there will be more Catholics in Africa than the rest of the world combined. That explains the demonic push to get Biden elected so he could change the Mexico City policy. Remember that it's God and not Biden or the Jesuits who is the Alpha and the Omega. We must remember to pray for the faithful in Africa that they don't turn into a carbon copy of what we have become.

It occurred to me that the website could also serve as an outlet for the exorcist to offload some of that stuff. A kind of therapeutic exercise. I'm thinking that sometimes people who have been through a traumatic experience are counselled to write it down. Nothing could be more traumatic than what those exorcists endure. May St. Michael protect them.

 

You are right about abortion. Biden has previously indicated he was for abortion up until the moment of birth (he flip-flops publicly on the issue). He will insist on abortion 'rights' as a condition of US aid.

BTW, some strange comments at the Exorcist Diary site about this post...

 

So well said.

 

Yes. I just read them. The poor man who recounted his abuse...
Msgr Rosetti and all exorcist priests are the front line warriors of our faith. I love the prayers Fr Ripperger has in his deliverance prayers to be said every day for the priests and exorcism teams and their families. Every Wednesday on Jesus 911 Jesse Romero talks of spiritual warfare and often has Dr Dan Schneider and Kyle Clement who work with priests in this apostolate. Very worth listening to. You can find them on you tube