Exorcisms & State of the Spiritual Battlefield ~ Fr. Ripperger

Something else strange just happened to me a few minutes ago. I was at my wife’s parents house and my father-in-law had asked me to look up a phone number for a Dr. Ball, because he needed to find his fax number. I had never looked up that Dr., previously. As soon as I had typed the word Dr., Dr. Ball’s whole profile immediately appeared in the screen, and I received intense chills down my body. Just 3 hours prior, I had just listened to Father Ripperger explain about that Demon with the same pronunciation, but with a different spelling not too long before the bird incident.
I am asking everyone for some prayers please, I feel that these 2 incidents within 3 hours from each other are just too coincidental!

 

Brian listen to Fr Chris Aral’s explanation of the consecration. It’s very informative. It’s a 3 part series but worth it.

 

I prayed a rosary to St Joseph for you this afternoon (The Josary, about 2 hours ago, I live in Australia hence the different time zones)
I hope St Joseph has brought you some relief and peace, I believe you should say a special prayer to St Joseph daily! Just a simple prayer.
St Joseph is the terror of demons.
God bless us all as the attacks are coming thick and fast and we need much protection.
May God continue to bless you and you can pm me if you wish

 

I loved that video by Fr Ripperger. It was so good I was sorry when it ended. There's so much in it that it merits a re-listen. He mentions how faithful people are protected - I'm sure this is true. Without this protection our lives would be full of openly demonic persecution. Some of the reviews of Hostage to the Devil (Malachi Martin's book) on Amazon talk about very spooky things happening to people while reading that book. However, it's important to be mindful of how demons operate.

I'm glad that Father seems more accepting of the Charismatic movement. I have gained a great deal from it. Of course there are people who take it to excess, especially those who think they are so full of the spirit that they don't need Church teaching - always dangerous. In my experience, the Renewal is often a stage of spiritual growth. Many really good people have come through it - Ralph Martin, Fr Scanlan (Franciscan Uni of Steubenville), even Mother Angelica and her sisters were influenced by it. It's been fruitful, but only in a context that is fully Catholic.

 

When I was in a chorale singing the work ELIJAH, the director pronounced it
Bay- all
Two syllables, accent on the first

 

Thank you Josephite for praying for me, that was a wonderful thing that you had done for me. I feel so much better this morning. I will look up some prayers to St. Joseph. I especially want to start praying the First Wednesday Devotion. May God bless you and anyone else who had prayed for me.

About a week ago, our nieces had come over to the house and they wanted me to tell them about some true ghosts stories. I told them about some personal ghost stories that I had known about and encountered myself. (I wanted to maybe scare them just a little bit and use those experiences to talk to them about Purgatory since they are both Protestants. I headed up to bed, and about an hour later I was awoken up from a demon who was pulling on my arm. I immediately shrieked in terror and I had asked my wife if she had seen him and she replied “no”.
Supposedly, this house in Louisiana that we are staying in while we are taking care of her parents was built on an Indian burial ground. Here, I was trying to scare the kids a little, and instead, I was the one that got scared!

 

There’s a lesson in that

 

Definitely disturbing. Ravens/crows especially creep me out, I can't stand them. I always shoo them away when I see them in the yard. Years ago I worked across the street from property owned by a cult. The house had three turrets, and nearly every day I would see three ravens, each perched on a turret. There is a bookshop down the street from my house where they sell creepy antique books about murders, ghost stories, etc. Last year they put a gigantic black metal sculpture of a raven out on the front lawn.

 

Alan Parsons Project released his debut album in the mid-70s. He had taken some of the works from Poe's "Tales of Mystery and Suspence" and set them to music. "The Raven" was the single off the album and made his reputation.

If you're interested I found the entire album on YouTube. You can listen to it and see why he was considered ground-breaking.

 

I looked them up, thanks. My high school and college years were in the 80s so I’m more familiar with their “Eye in the Sky” era work than that of the 70s.

 

Feel the need to show off here. I'm not properly spelling out any names, here, obviously.

The demon in question is spelled with a double "a", with an apostrophe between the a's to indicate a glottal stop. Associated demons are M*l*ch and Ast*r*th. They are all basically the same demon (Ast is the female form) worshipped by the Syrio-Phonecians (aka Canaanites). They were all gods of rain / fertility who required the sacrifice of the first-born male (Ast required the sacrifice of both male and female first-born). They are all named in Scripture as abominations the Israelites worshipped when they turned away from G_D.

 

I heard someone explain the difference between a raven and a crow. A raven has six pinions on each wing while a crow has only five pinions on each wing. So really it's just ...

(... wait for it ...)

... a matter of a pinion ...

 

Well...they certainly can become omens. One morning on my parking space laid a dead crow. I decided to park elsewhere. I made the right decision. A few minutes later a car coming from the highway crashed into that same parking space I avoided. The driver had fainted and lost control of her car.

 

“There’s nothing like a good joke!”

“...and that was nothing like a good joke.”

;-)

A pun isn’t mature until it’s a full groan.

 

Ok both of you guys - that was terrible rofl lol

 

Reminds me of something I read a couple of years ago. A pro-life group managed to get the building that had been home to an abortion clinic, and which even earlier had been a Russian Orthodox church. When the abortion clinic had moved out and the pro-life group had taken control of the property, they joined hands, explicitly claimed the property for God, and told ALL other spirits to leave and never return. There was the sound of wind, the back door slammed open, and then there was quiet and a lightness that wasn't there before.

The reason I bring this up is because a few days later, a neighbor stopped one of the workers and asked what happened to the gargoyle that was on the peak over the front door.

There had never been a gargoyle on the peak over the front door.

 

Yikes!