The Devil Grown Very Powerful?

Exorcists from around the world are reporting that the devil is very, very powerful presently. Exorcisms which, a few years back, might have taken a day or two are now taking months, or even years. Sometimes entire regions, cites and countries seem to have fallen under his grip.

https://www.catholicweekly.com.au/fr-john-corrigan-lessons-learned-from-an-exorcism-course/

Fr John Corrigan: Lessons learned from an exorcism course



If you read reports in secular media, you might conclude that the Vatican runs an annual “crash course” on exorcism which certifies 250 or so new exorcists each year.

Having just returned from the so-called “Exorcism Course,” I can confirm it is nothing like that. Seven Aussies and two Kiwis attended this year’s course, and only one of us was an exorcist — an assignment he received some 40 years ago, quite independent of the Vatican course.

Most of the Australians present were priests like me, less than ten years ordained, who have recognised a deficiency in our priestly training. (In saying that, I don’t mean to criticise our seminary formation. It’s an impossible task, to condense the expanse of the Church’s pastoral wisdom and practice into seven years of study.)

In ordinary parish settings, we have encountered people who are fearful of demonic activity in their lives, and others who are happily and obstinately ensconced in New Age practices.

We all felt that we lacked sufficient means to competently and confidently respond to our people’s needs.

The conference was a great help in resolving a real pastoral deficiency. I highly recommend it to interested priests.

While most participants were priests, there were also many lay faithful. Some were medical professionals: physicians, psychiatrists, psychologists. Some were experts in demonology; others run healing retreats and prayer apostolates.

For the first time, an invitation was extended to Christians from other denominations, which attracted a small number of Anglicans, Episcopalians and Evangelical Protestants.

The conference spanned six days, during which several speakers repeated a warning C.S. Lewis issued in his preface to The Screwtape Letters:

Taking the Devil seriously
There are two equal and opposite errors people make about the devils. One is to disbelieve in their existence. The other is to believe, and to feel an excessive and unhealthy interest in them. They are equally pleased by both errors and hail a materialist or a magician with the same delight.

It was refreshing, to be surrounded by people who take the devil seriously but not sensationally. Discussion was sober and matter-of-fact. We were well equipped to avoid the errors of the materialist and the magician, and think with the mind of the Church.

I think there’s a need — and, I hope, an appetite — for a conference such as this in Australia. Perhaps not annually, but every few years.

The Church’s pastoral practice — even in an area as arcane as deliverance from the demonic — must aspire to the best professional standards: cross-disciplinary approaches; evidence-based practice; peer support; clinical supervision.

A local adaptation of Rome’s exorcism course would help foster that.

In one memorable Q&A session, an audience member queried the efficacy of modern exorcism.

In cases of demonic possession, it typically takes 12 to 18 months for a person to be totally freed. Anecdotal evidence suggests that in earlier times, and especially in the Apostolic Age, cases were resolved in days or hours. “Are our rites less powerful? Are we doing something wrong?”



The answer was long and exhaustive, delving into the history of the Church’s ritual, and the accuracy of ancient and medieval sources. But the professor concluded with a fascinating observation. “Perhaps it is not our rites which are at fault, but the Church’s faith.”

Pope St John Paul II identifies “a communion of sin,” whereby even the most private and secret sin of an individual “drags down with itself the Church and, in some way, the whole world” (Reconciliatio et Paenitentia, 16).

The Church is a communion — for good and ill. Just as our sins impact the Church and the world, so too our faith.

Jesus, you will recall, related his healing ministry to the faith of the people. His miracles in Nazareth were limited due to lack of faith (Mt 13:58; Mk 6:5). He often repeated some variation of, “Your faith has healed you” (Mk 5:34; Mk 10:46; Lk 8:48; Lk 17:19).

A terrible crisis of faith afflicts the modern world. Perhaps we should not be surprised if the process of exorcism takes longer than in ages past. That idea has moved me — and I hope it also inspires you — to make frequent acts of faith every day, chief among them: “Lord, I believe! Help my unbelief.”

 

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...-helicopter-exorcism-evil-Colombian-city.html

Bishop is to carry out exorcism on 'evil' Colombian city by pouring holy water from a helicopter

• Ruben Dario Jaramillo Montoya wants to exercise Buenaventura in Colombia
• Bishop wants airborne holy water to defeat 'demons' spreading violence
• The national army is reportedly backing his plan and will offer a helicopter
• Between January and May this year, 51 homicides were reported in the city

Ruben Dario Jaramillo Montoya wants to carry out a helicopter exorcism in a Colombia city

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Commanders are understood to be in discussions with the priest over where best to deploy the airborne blessing.

The bishop said: 'Buenaventura should have the Devil taken away so that we can see if we can get back the tranquillity the city has lost with all this crime, wickedness and the drug trafficking that is hitting our port.'



According to local media, between January and May this year, 51 homicides were reported in the city, 20 more than in the same period last year.

The latest murder in the city shocked the country when Diana Tatiana Rodriguez, 10, was found with clear signs of having been tortured and sexually abuses.

Her uncle, Jhon Edwar Quintero Urquiza was arrested and reportedly confessed to the crime.

Buenaventura is one of the municipalities which was worst hit by the armed conflict in Colombia.

It is said that the municipality turned into a strategic spot for the drug route to the United State

 

It's obvious that the devil is going nuts as he knows his time is short...

 

I think one of the main reasons for this s the use of Satanic Rites by Catholic Clergy, especially High Ranking clergy. It looks very like Cardinal Bernadine, for instance. was up to his neck in this kind of stuff:

.and Cardinal Cupich is being investigated for covering it up.

St Catherine of Sienna mentions in , 'The Dialogue' , that God sometimes permits evil people to live longer because of their sins, so that they will be more severely dealt with in hell.

 

If you look into the abuse thing in the Clergy again and again you read credible reports of Satanic Rites being involved, with multiple clergy, some of them very high ranking.

Sad but true.

 

I had never heard this about St. Catherine of Sienna in reference to evil people living longer. I have often thought and prayed about this very thing; asking Jesus why such evil individuals who deliberately choose to make innocent people suffer are allowed such long lives. It often baffles the mind when evil seems to be rewarded and such people march merrily through life leaving a trail of destruction behind them. When I was a child my grandmother always issued her warning whenever I was upset by someone who was meanspirited, " Don't worry, they'll get theirs". St. Catherine was spot on, as it makes perfect sense that these souls may very well face terrible suffering in hell for the suffering they caused on earth.

 

WHY DOES POPE FRANCIS FAVOR CARDINAL CUPICH?

 

Well in her, 'Dialogue with God', she gets to ask the Heavenly Father some pretty searching questions and some really wonderful answers are given in return. It's well worth reading and rereading in a good translation.

Why do the wicked prosper is a perpetual theme of the Old Testament.

Psalm 73:3

Endow the King with Your Justice
…2But as for me, my feet had almost stumbled; my steps had nearly slipped. 3For I envied the arrogant when I saw the prosperity of the wicked. 4They have no struggle in their death; their bodies are well-fed.…

Another thing she was told was that people who are bound for hell get rewarded in this life for the good things they do that they will not in the next as they will be burning in hell.

 

https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/a...rine-rector-msgr-rossi-as-homosexual-predator

 

Malachi Martin blew the whistle on this several years ago. No one wanted to hear it. I fear most still dont but what saddens me is how it confirms antiCatholic prejudice that the Church is the whore of Babylon.

 

I think our poor Prtotestant brothers and sisters are getting their won shocks to the system. The Foundation of the Protestant Revolt was , 'Sola Sriptura', scripture alone, but now many, many are saying that scripture, for instance the wirtings of St Paul are take it or leave it. This undercuts all authority. They are taking of a New Doctrine were people can be teachers who sail off on their won without benefit of Scripture.

But on the other hand this is forging the path to a return to the Church.

Things are very,very dark, but if you turn thing over there is always a bright side underneath. For instance we have High Satanists and abusers, but also some very,very great saints are emerging I think.

 

These devils......

 

If you ever want a Sign that you are in the presense of such folk look for just one thing.

Pride.

That is their big hallmak.

Pride.

The very worse kind of Pride. Spiritual Pride. The sin of the Pharisees and Saducees. It's the one sin folk rarely recover from.

Spiritual Pride. For instance they have begun to set themsevles up above Scripture, The Teachings of the Fathers and the Traditional Teaching of the Church.

A Vaunting Satanic Pride. 'We know better'. Oh really?

Pride

“For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this age, against spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places.” (Ephesians 6:12)

 

Ohhhh so true. A vice every human needs Gods Grace to overcome...pride. It leads to almost every other kind of sin. Pride....the death of souls and the path to hell.

 

CS Lewis called it the tap root of every other sin.

 

And you can see why. When I see very humble souls, I envy them. I’m always praying for that grace. It’s a tough one to battle. That stinking devil.

 

Amen!! "Tis a gift to be simple..."

 

I’m curious now...I’d better buy this...
Thanks Padraig! I wish you were my neighbor,...I believe that I could learn a lot ....from so many here at MOG.

 

I have not had the time to delve into it, but I came across this on EWTN library. It is entitled THE DIALOGUE OF SAINT CATHERINE OF SIENA, so I am assuming this is the book. I agree, Beth, I could use a neighbor like Patrick as well.

https://www.ewtn.com/library/SOURCES/CATHDIAL.HTM