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(Yes, I know. That doesn't change the fact that this is a really good book on the subject)
Posted on 10/02/2014 12:26:07 PM PDT by markomalley
I saw this at the Oklahoman:
Satan has left the building.
Roman Catholic Archbishop Paul S. Coakley and a priest performed “prayers of exorcism” to rid the Civic Center Music Hall of evil spirits that may have lingered after a satanic “black mass” was held there, The Oklahoman has learned. [Excellent. I hope they used the older, traditional Roman Ritual.]
Diane Clay, spokeswoman for the Archdiocese of Oklahoma City, said on Wednesday that Coakley decided to perform the ancient ritual in the Oklahoma City public venue after he learned that some Civic Center patrons were troubled and anxious about the possible diabolical after-effects of the Sept. 21 black mass. An exorcism is a ritual generally performed to cast out a demon from an individual. [There is also a chapter for places. And it should be USED! More often!]
“From the beginning, we have taken seriously the dark and dangerous spirits being invited into our community. [Once invited, they don't leave. They consider that a binding contract has been made. They are rigidily legalistic. That hold has to be broken, layer after layer all the way to expulsion.] We anticipated this would be a concern for those visiting the Civic Center, and we’ve received many questions about the safety of the building following the satanic ritual,” Coakley said in a statement.
“To address those concerns, we visited the venue the next morning to pray prayers of exorcism over the place and to pray the prayers for cleansing.”
The Dakhma of Angra Mainyu Syndicate, a group of devil worshipers led by Adam Daniels, held the black mass in the Civic Center’s CitySpace Theatre, a small venue with fewer than 100 seats. Daniels told the 42 people who attended the black mass that it was being held as a mockery of the Catholic Mass so that people would be less afraid of the Catholic Church.
Wednesday, Daniels said he wasn’t surprised to learn about Coakley’s on-site prayers to rid the Civic Center of evil in the aftermath of the black mass.
“I find it hilarious how over- responsive he’s being to all of this,” Daniels said. “As I said before, it (black mass) is a deprogramming ritual to cast Christianity out of people. All they (the archdiocese) care about is their religious freedom and not anybody else’s.”
Visit was short
Jennifer Lindsey-McClintock, spokes woman for the Civic Center, said Coakley inquired about visiting the venue and arrived there before business hours, about 7:30 a.m., on Sept. 22, the day after the black mass. She said Jim Brown, the Civic Center’s general manager, let Coakley into the venue and the religious leader’s visit was short.
“It came about very quietly and was private,” Lindsey-McClintock said.
“He (Coakley) felt very strongly about wanting to come in and perform a cleansing of that space of whatever entities he felt might remain.”
She said others in the community expressed a similar idea through emails sent to the city of Oklahoma City on the day of the black mass and several days afterward.
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Read the rest there.
It is good to read this on the Feast of the Guardian Angels.
We have many weapons and great armor for our spiritual warfare as a Church. I think we should use them all.
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(Yes, I know. That doesn't change the fact that this is a really good book on the subject)
I hope that is performed when King Obola and the Wookie keaves the White Hut. Lord knows what demons lurked in there.
Bishop Coakley’s words concerning demons sound terribly judgmental to me. I hope he doesn’t get investigated by Rome.
I wondered if anyone was going to take the demons now living in the Civic Center seriously.
As a combination Christian and “hard” scientist I must say that devil worship must require a special kind of stupid.
A sane agnostic would say that he doesn’t know if there’s a God, but he hopes that there is.
A sane atheist would say that he doesn’t believe there’s a God, but he hopes that he’s wrong.
If you could supply proof of the existence of a devil then you have proved the existence of God. Thus, believers in the devil MUST believe in God.
If someone believes in God, and they purposely poke a stick in his eye, they are indeed a special kind of stupid.
Even seemingly benign public events and venues may present a risk of spiritual attack. A middle aged married couple I knew attended a New Age type talk in Atlanta. That night, at 3 AM, they awoke in bed to a terrible smell and a dark mass with glowing eyes at the foot of their bed. Unable to move, the couple engaged in a desperate struggle of wills against the intruder, finally succeeding only after a supreme effort. Their sense of the episode was that something foul had followed them home from the New Age talk.
Do not play with things you do not understand, very dangerous.
I have long thought that the presence of diabolical evil furnishes evidence for the existence of God. There is no reason, and no way, that blind deterministic materialist forces could produce diabolical evil. There must be a transcendent spiritual dimension.
And if there is a transcendent spiritual dimension, the demons can't be the only ones "there" --- because if they were, everything would be evil.
So you get right back to the sound reasonable inferences of Aquinas, Anselm and even Newman. And when I say "reasonable" I don't mean narrow mathematical proof: I mean that which intricately fits the human ways of knowing.
We have many weapons and great armor for our spiritual warfare as a Church. I think we should use them all.
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Amen! and Amen!
And we need to call on St. Michael the Archangel for help:
Saint Michael the Archangel,
defend us in battle,
be our protection against
the malice and snares of the devil.
May God rebuke him we humbly pray;
and do thou, O Prince of the Heavenly Host,
by the power of God,
thrust into hell Satan
and all evil spirits
who wander through the world
for the ruin of souls. Amen.
Very good points.
I’ve watched the series “Naked and Afraid” a few times and there have been several people who invoke the Universe, as in “Universe please help me”.
Obviously there is a belief in something beyond themselves but the Universe?
Evil is stupid. That doesn't mean evil people, and evil spirits aren't intelligent, crafty, clever etc ... but evil, distilled, is stupid.
That is what my friends concluded. The wife put aside the New Age stuff that she had been reading, and both returned to regular Bible study.
BTTT!
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You recommend a disgraced priest who was never an exorcist and felt up women.
My comment just before recommending the book (not the priest):
(Yes, I know. That doesn't change the fact that this is a really good book on the subject)
You will note that I endorse the book. I did not endorse the individual. Do you have specific issues with the book?
Do you remember Fr Benedict Groeschel, CFR?
You may recall he had any number of programs on EWTN, was a prolific writer that was published by OSV.
Then he had his gaffe in 2012.
If you go to the EWTN libraries...you will see NOTHING from Groeschel. If you go to the OSV publishing site...same thing.
Yes, he made a gaffe. An unacceptable gaffe.
But did that one gaffe make it necessary to turn him into an "un-person"?
Same thing with Fr. Corapi. Yes, he completely freaked out in the end. Does that mean that all of his work should be utterly scrubbed from the universe? Should he, including his early work, be vanished? Should he be an "un-person"?
Imagine if the early Church had turned Tertullian (who embraced Montanism later in life) or Origen (who embraced apokatastasis as he developed his theology)? What kind of a loss would that be?
I am not defending what Euteneur did. But if the book is solid, then it's solid. We can reject what the person did wrong without doing the 1984 trick of making them an "unperson", completely erasing them from history.
So if you have issues with the content of the book, please let me know what they are...
Father can answer for himself.He was never an exorcist.You want to throw everybody in-I’ll answer later.
The greatest vanity is to not only think we understand evil, but that we can control it as well.
Thanks for posting this. Unfortunately, judging from the words “prayers of exorcism”, the new watered-down ritual was used. I fear it was ineffective. A real exorcism involves an official delegate of Christ COMMANDING demons to depart. It’s the same with the watered-down ritual for confecting Holy Water: no exorcisms, just blessings - resulting at best in Happy Water. Most bishops these days shrink from commanding anyone - except for commanding their sheep to shun the “schismatic” SSPX.
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