Posted on 03/10/2020 8:46:42 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
A famous Catholic priest who was formally trained as an exorcist is recounting how he came face to face with the devil.
Though he is now deceased, the story of Father Gabriel Amorth has been captured in a new memoir penned by author Marcello Stanzione. In The Devil Is Afraid of Me: The Life and Work of the World's Most Famous Exorcist, Stanzione describes the life of this priest in Rome, who is said to have performed over 60,000 exorcisms over the course of his 30 years as an exorcist priest.
During one such exorcism in 1997, Amorth reportedly encountered not just a demon but Satan.
The afflicted young man came into a small room where Amorth ministered to people and the priest felt confronted by evil.
“His curses and threats were aimed solely at the exorcist; then he began spitting at him and preparing to attack him physically,” Stanzione recounted in the book. "Screaming and howling, the demon burst forth and looked straight at him, drooling saliva from the young man’s mouth.”
Amorth then rebuked the foul spirit and demanded that it tell him its name.
The man glared at the priest and replied, snarling: “I am Lucifer.”
The priest continued to pray and recited verses of the Roman Rite of Exorcism but the demon "resumed his shrieks, making the possessed turn his head back and his eyes roll" and the demonized man "remained like this with his back arched for a quarter of an hour.”
As the exorcism session went on, “the room became extremely cold and ice crystals formed on the windows and the walls.”
The young man's body became so stiff that he became hard and started levitating, hovering three feet in the air, as the priest continued to command that the demonic spirit leave the man.
According to the book's online description, Amorth also explains how the actions of the Evil One can be recognized, how demonic spirits enter human beings, the methods by which humans can become demonized, and why no possibility for salvation exists for fallen angels, among other questions and spiritual considerations.
A typical exorcism he conducted lasted an average of 30 minutes, and Amorth would do five per morning, with breaks in between. He reportedly considered it as effective to perform the rite via Skype or telephone.
The Italian-born Amorth, who is said to have known he was destined for the priesthood when he was 10 years old, died in September 2016 at the age of 91.
Amorth founded the International Association of Exorcists, headquartered in Rome, in 1990.
The new book comes as demand for exorcisms has increased worldwide, necessitating an effort to train more priests and pastors to conduct them.
In May of last year, for the first time in 14 years, the Roman Catholic Church opened up its annual exorcism class in Rome to every major Christian denomination.
“I'm here to understand the Catholic perspective. We are fighting the same enemy in the name of the Lord, even if there are some parts of the Anglican Church that have lost belief in Satan,” course participant Benjamin McEntire, a Protestant priest from Alaska, said at the time.
Amid a proliferating secularization, satanic groups have grown significantly, particularly among the young and on social media, attendees at the course concurred.
I will believe in the Devil 100% if there is a video of that!>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
You do not have to believe, just look at any human who is addicted to crystal meth. They become demons:
https://www.addictionhelper.com/drugs/crystal-meth/addiction-abuse/
Seriously, can't anyone do math anymore?
That's 5 a day.
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“Sympathy For The Devil”
By K. Richards & M. Jagger
Please allow me to introduce myself
I’m a man of wealth and taste
I’ve been around for a long, long year
Stole many a man’s soul and faith
And I was ‘round when Jesus Christ
Had his moment of doubt and pain
Made damn sure that Pilate
Washed his hands and sealed his fate
Pleased to meet you
Hope you guess my name
But what’s puzzling you
Is the nature of my game
I stuck around St. Petersburg
When I saw it was a time for a change
Killed the Tsar and his ministers
Anastasia screamed in vain
I rode a tank
Held a general’s rank
When the blitzkrieg raged
And the bodies stank
Pleased to meet you
Hope you guess my name, oh yeah
Ah, what’s puzzling you
Is the nature of my game, oh yeah
I watched with glee
While your kings and queens
Fought for ten decades
For the gods they made
I shouted out,
“Who killed the Kennedys?”
When after all
It was you and me
Let me please introduce myself
I’m a man of wealth and taste
And I laid traps for troubadours
Who get killed before they reached Bombay
Pleased to meet you
Hope you guessed my name, oh yeah
But what’s puzzling you
Is the nature of my game, oh yeah, get down, baby
Pleased to meet you
Hope you guessed my name, oh yeah
But what’s confusing you
Is just the nature of my game
Just as every cop is a criminal
And all the sinners saints
As heads is tails
Just call me Lucifer
Cause I’m in need of some restraint
So if you meet me
Have some courtesy
Have some sympathy, and some taste
Use all your well-learned politesse
Or I’ll lay your soul to waste, um yeah
Pleased to meet you
Hope you guessed my name, um yeah
But what’s puzzling you
Is the nature of my game, um mean it, get down
Woo, who
Oh yeah, get on down
Oh yeah
Oh yeah!
Tell me baby, what’s my name
Tell me honey, can ya guess my name
Tell me baby, what’s my name
I tell you one time, you’re to blame
Ooo, who
Ooo, who
Ooo, who
Ooo, who, who
Ooo, who, who
Ooo, who, who
Ooo, who, who
Oh, yeah
What’s my name
Tell me, baby, what’s my name
Brian Williams checked the math. No problem.
Soros prefers romance languages.
I assume that moving away from God will produce NOTHING good for anyone.
Why do you assume that there are no videos of Lucifer? Is it just because you can't find them on the Internet?
Clarification:
LUCIFER is the angel created by God--the "light bearer," the "good angel."
SATAN is what the good angel turned into after he turned against his Creator: the father of all lies.
Get your information straight before you start courting REAL trouble.
I was accidentally present in a room next door to an exorcism. What I heard coming out of the person In the next room could not have been produced by human vocal chords. It scared the you know what out of me.
I happen to see the person months later and he was a totally changed person.
1) Where are these exorcisms being held? 2) Is/are there more specific place/places where these demon possessions are clustered in terms of occurrence? 3) How many of these 60,000 cases have been totally healed? 4) How many are re-possessed? 5) How many of these cases have led to conversions?
Ask your local diocesan priests or bishop.
Does the RC Church gather such data?
Duh, of course it does. The "RC" Church was founded by Jesus Christ who sent His Apostles out to "teach all nations."
The Protestant denominations didn't appear until EXCOMMUNICATED Roman Catholic priest Father Martin Luther turned his back on that 1500-year old church that Jesus founded. Google it if you like.
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***"Protestant" comes from those who PROTESTED against the Roman Catholic Church but they don't PROTEST anymore and are settled entities.
That’s 5.48 exorcisms per day, seven days a week for thirty years. Doesn’t pass the smell test.
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