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(Act 19:13-16) Now some also of the Jewish exorcists, who went about, attempted to invoke over them that had evil spirits the name of the Lord Jesus, saying: I conjure you by Jesus, whom Paul preacheth. And there were certain men, seven sons of Sceva, a Jew, a chief priest, that did this. But the wicked spirit, answering, said to them: Jesus I know: and Paul I know. But who are you? And the man in whom the wicked spirit was, leaping upon them and mastering them both, prevailed against them, so that they fled out of that house naked and wounded.
Fr. Dominador "Domie" Guzman: “Man is not a simple creature. He is the only one made in the image of God. The demons realize if they (are powerless) against God, the next best thing is to destroy the creature closest to Him. Hence, they are interested in our souls more than anything else.”
NEWS HEADLINE: Catholic Church trains priests on how to perform exorcisms The Catholic Church held a two-day conference in Baltimore to train priests on how to perform exorcisms this past weekend. More than 50 bishops and 66 priests signed up to attend. According to Bishop Thomas Paprocki, only five or six American priests know how to perform exorcisms, and they are finding themselves overwhelmed with requests. "Actually, each diocese should have its own resource (person). It shouldn't be that this burden should be placed on a priest when his responsibility is for his own diocese," the New York Daily News quoted him as telling the Catholic News Service. Cardinal Daniel DiNardo, an archbishop from Texas said, "For the longest time, we in the United States may not have been as much attuned to some of the spiritual aspects of evil because we have become so much attached to what would be either physical or psychological explanation for certain phenomena." "We may have forgotten that there is a spiritual dimension to people," he said. While exorcisms were made famous by the Hollywood thriller "The Exorcist," the act of casting out evil spirits is rooted in the Bible. "The sacrament of penance is much more powerful than an exorcism," Paprocki said. "The work of the devil is much more regular and our response to that should be rather regular. It's not that you need a special exorcism to deal with the devil," he said. Father Jeffrey Grob of Illinois, one of the priests leading training sessions said that demonic activity in the soul "didn't get there overnight." "There's not an instantaneous change in the person," he said. Scratching, biting or cutting of skin, speaking in a language you don't understand and "violent reaction to holy water" are just some of the symptoms a priest will look for to determine whether an exorcism is needed. "The reality is that a full exorcism is a rare thing but we still have to have people who know how to do that because the reality is that it's not unheard of," Paprocki added. MORE: Priests Learn How to Fight the Devil
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Ladder of Divine Ascent excerpt: Step 26- "Brief Summary on Discernment"
42. As he who climbs up a rotten ladder runs a risk, so all honour, glory and authority oppose humility and bring down him who has them.Prayer request? Send an email to: PrayerRequest3@aol.com
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