Posted on 07/10/2021 11:00:35 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Bishop José Armando Álvarez Cano of Tampico is seeking an exorcist for the diocese.
A July 7 article in the diocesan magazine said the exorcist must "attend to certain situations that have occurred in the last few months in the Church in Tampico."
The publication also stated that the priests of the diocese recently participated in a training session held by the College of Exorcists of the Archdiocese of Mexico.
Exorcism is a remedy for diabolical possession.
Fr. Jordan Aumann, a Dominican of the Central Province who died in 2007, wrote that “for solemn exorcism it is necessary to verify with certainty the reality of diabolical possession and then obtain the express permission of the bishop for the exorcism.”
He added that the exorcist should prepare himself by confession, fasting, and prayer, and perform the rite in a church or chapel.
Once the devil has been cast out, he wrote, “the exorcist should petition God to command the devil never again to enter the body he has just left. The exorcist should give thanks to God and exhort the liberated patient to bless God and carefully to avoid sin lest he or she fall again under the domination of the devil.”
I thought the Bishop was going to perform an excorcism on a priest.
The bishop probably doesn’t have enough experience to do that.
I just hate when it’s the priests that are demon possessed.
Priests are the prime targets of evil.
Sadly, it appears they are succeeding.
Exorcists truly are fulfilling Jesus’ orders as noted in Mark 16:17.
I believe and respect them greatly, and am proud to see the Anglican Church is also expanding its Exorcist program.
We should certainly pray for them as they drive demons out of mankind.
Good luck with that. Tampico has been described as “ultraviolent” and as the “Mogadishu of Mexico” with its gang violence alone, and likely has some of the gnarliest demons in Mexico going way back.
Lots of ancient ruins, some dating back to the 10th Century BC. The Huastec people ruled the area until defeated by the Aztecs, who made them semi-autonomous, and then the Spanish, who enslaved many and sent them to the Caribbean. Some still live there.
It will likely take a few hundred years for the place to be degaussed by top notch exorcists.
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