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Philippine Priest In Ancient Battle With 'Demons'
AFP via Yahoo News ^ | 14 April 2011 | Jason Gutierrez

Posted on 04/14/2011 7:44:56 PM PDT by edpc

MANILA (AFP) – A blood-curdling scream echoes through the Roman Catholic chapel in Manila as Father Jose Francisco Syquia says a prayer of exorcism over a Satanic cult member believed to be possessed by the devil.

"It's very painful," the woman cries in an unearthly voice, her body contorting in an attempt to break free from the tight grasp of Syquia's assistants. After a few minutes she falls silent, her limp body exhausted.

The case is among hundreds documented on video and kept by Syquia, who heads the Manila Archdiocese's Office of Exorcism -- the only one that exists in the Catholic nation of 94 million people.

(Excerpt) Read more at news.yahoo.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: catholicism; exorcism; philipines; possession; religion
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"She would have levitated had she not been restrained," Syquia said of the woman in the video, portions of which were shown to AFP during a rare interview at his office in the basement of a seminary in Manila.

While non-believers often joke about the devil, and demonic possessions are trivialised by Hollywood, Syquia insisted the torment suffered by those he had healed was real.

I won't totally dismiss the concept, but this article didn't help convince me.

1 posted on 04/14/2011 7:45:03 PM PDT by edpc
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To: edpc

Maybe we can hire him to do the White House.


2 posted on 04/14/2011 7:48:29 PM PDT by samtheman
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To: samtheman

That movie got old in the 80’s


3 posted on 04/14/2011 7:49:25 PM PDT by Flavius (A)
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To: edpc


4 posted on 04/14/2011 7:55:50 PM PDT by JoeProBono (A closed mouth gathers no feet - Visualize)
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To: edpc

Most people never recognize or confront demons, so it is easy to dismiss them. Jesus sure believed in them. I surely do, because my own mother walked around with one or two the better part of her life. In her old age I brought her to live with me, the demon attacked me with super human strength and I too saw it in her eyes. It was chilling, but I had the armor of God and rebuked it in Jesus’ name and demanded it leave my mother. For the first time in years, I felt like I had my mother back. Demons seek out the vulnerable and those who invite them in.


5 posted on 04/14/2011 8:06:36 PM PDT by WVNan
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To: edpc

Deeply religious people in that country!


6 posted on 04/14/2011 8:08:48 PM PDT by Cheetahcat ( November 4 2008 ,A date which will live in Infamy.)
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To: edpc

The movie the Exorcist was based on a true story - but it was a boy in the midwest.


7 posted on 04/14/2011 8:12:10 PM PDT by Domestic Church (AMDG...)
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To: WVNan

I have had a few visits myself.

God bless your courage an strength.


8 posted on 04/14/2011 8:15:49 PM PDT by the crow (If I don't have a right to play defense, then I'll go on offense. - Enterprise)
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To: edpc
You might want to read the book, The Rite. Avoid the movie though. It was really lousy.
9 posted on 04/14/2011 8:24:17 PM PDT by ishmac (Lady Thatcher:"There are no permanent defeats in politics because there are no permanent victories.")
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To: Domestic Church

The boy’s aunt and him played with a Quija board. Folks best be careful about opening up the gates to the dark side.


10 posted on 04/14/2011 8:31:35 PM PDT by Terry Mross (Only a SECOND party will get my vote.)
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To: edpc

I won’t totally dismiss the concept, but this article didn’t help convince me.

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A very drama addicted culture, too.


11 posted on 04/14/2011 8:57:19 PM PDT by Psalm 144 (Voodoo Republicans - Don't read their lips. Watch their hands.)
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To: WVNan

I understand.


12 posted on 04/14/2011 9:24:01 PM PDT by randog (Tap into America!)
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To: edpc

Scott Peck who wrote “The Road less Traveled” also wrote about the existence of evil and excorism called “The People of the Lie.” It was very good.


13 posted on 04/14/2011 9:28:34 PM PDT by TruthConquers (.Delendae sunt publicae scholae)
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Any of you considered the physics of angel and demon bodies? Are they made of a different kind of matter and energy? Do they live in another dimension and cross over into ours? How do their minds work I wonder?

I am thinking about the chain of being.

Animals are conscious of their world through senses, but are not self aware (not aware of their own consciousness).

Humans are able to be conscious of our own consciousness, making us self aware. Humans have direct access to their own mind, or can observe their own thoughts, but can only infer what is going on in another person's mind.

Demons and angels are self aware, conscious of their own mind AND are able to have direct access to the consciousness of other beings. See CS Lewis' Screwtape Letters.

God has direct access to the conscious of all minds in all universes (and perhaps all alternative multi-verses). Prayer is permitting God's mind to enter ours and transform it, raising it to a higher level -- sort of like we do with pets when we humanize them. By interacting with dogs or cats, we raise them a little bit to our level of awareness. Talking to God gives us his perspective.

14 posted on 04/14/2011 9:51:52 PM PDT by garjog
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To: the crow

Keep on the armor of God.


15 posted on 04/14/2011 10:11:00 PM PDT by WVNan
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Growing up in a modern household, he and his four brothers did not believe in possessions -- which were made famous in the 1970s Hollywood film "The Exorcist". But Syquia said he had always been fascinated by paranormal activities and devoured entire books on the subject.

Hard to understand how someone could be fascinated by the paranormal but not believe in possessions.

16 posted on 04/14/2011 10:13:09 PM PDT by fso301
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To: Terry Mross

I didn’t say, but that’s what happened to my Mom. Quija board. Very bad news because it does invite the demons in. It’s the perfect opening for them.


17 posted on 04/14/2011 10:14:33 PM PDT by WVNan
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To: garjog

The Scripture says they are the fallen angels that satan took with him when he was kicked out of heaven.


18 posted on 04/14/2011 10:19:30 PM PDT by WVNan
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To: garjog
Do they live in another dimension and cross over into ours?

I suspect that is it. Our immortal soul may also be a component of our physical existence which resides in another dimension. Similarly, I also suspect this existence in dimensions other than our own points to a physical explanation of the trinity.

19 posted on 04/14/2011 10:35:57 PM PDT by fso301
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To: Cheetahcat
Yes very much so

An American Expat in Southeast Asia

20 posted on 04/14/2011 10:59:25 PM PDT by expatguy (Support "An American Expat in Southeast Asia" - DONATE)
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