Posted on 06/24/2014 5:04:49 AM PDT by tired&retired
Amen!
Regarding your “where you take your thoughts” comment.
During a break in undergraduate orientation an Indian (from India) classmate talked a bunch of us into playing. A game. Not so much a game as an exercise in the power of subconscious thought and influence.
As I recall it, the game involved us standing in a circle with our right hands placed onto the shoulders of a blindfolded classmate who was in the middle of the circle. Prior to putting on the blindfold and entering the circle the game facilitator (who stayed outside the circle) had told the blindfolded classmate the name of one person standing in the circle. Upon entering the circle, by now blindfolded, he was spun around to disorient him a little.
We were told to exert slight pressure on the blindfolded classmate. After about 30 seconds of wobbling around a little bit he was pushed over right
into the person who’s name he was given.
Very Ouija boardish. Couple classmates freaked out. But as explained to us it was all about subconscious cueing and the power of suggestion.
OUIJI BOARDS ARE WITCHCRAFT AND DANGEROUS.
When a young person says yes to this type of witchcraft, it will try to come in and reside there, to cause evil. Closing one’s mind to this type of thing is a protection.
The following scripture is talking about those who have been successfully cleared of a demon spirit, either by resisting evil over time or deliverance spiritually, however, it shows the power of the demonic entities and how we should be diligent what we put in our spirit man. This Bible Scripture shows the reality of demons....
Return of an Unclean Spirit Mathew 12:43
43”Now when the unclean spirit goes out of a man, it passes through waterless places seeking rest, and does not find it. 44”Then it says, ‘I will return to my house from which I came’; and when it comes, it finds it unoccupied, swept, and put in order. 45”Then it goes and takes along with it seven other spirits more wicked than itself, and they go in and live there; and the last state of that man becomes worse than the first. That is the way it will also be with this evil generation.
It’s amazing how people can put so much stock in a carny game.
If you play the board with everyone hooded, you get meaningless data.
What happens when you don’t pay your exorcist?
You get re-possessed.
Funny....
Real exorcists don’t charge anything.
Re-possession happens more often than one might think as often the thorn is removed but the wound is not healed and another thorn enters the same wound.
Matthew 12:43-45New King James Version (NKJV)
Yep, Jesus himself said that would happen.
The answer is to fill “the house” with a stronger Spirit.
An Unclean Spirit Returns
43 “When an unclean spirit goes out of a man, he goes through dry places, seeking rest, and finds none. 44 Then he says, ‘I will return to my house from which I came.’ And when he comes, he finds it empty, swept, and put in order. 45 Then he goes and takes with him seven other spirits more wicked than himself, and they enter and dwell there; and the last state of that man is worse than the first. So shall it also be with this wicked generation.”
Joining the Catholic Church has never depended upon one's wardrobe. She would not have been instructed in Latin but may have learned a few phrases and if she wanted to wear a white dress to receive her First Communion she might have borrowed one as many girls did during the Depression. The priest and Sisters (if any) in the parish would not have allowed a dress to stand in the way of a Sacrament.
Medical rescue will do no good.
What they need is an exorcism — a spiritual rescue that will expel the devil from their beings.
Call the Catholic Church.
Then, burn the Ouija board.
To this day she still knows the entire catechism in Latin. She even surprised us by knowing all the verses to a few hymns in Latin. I guess things were different back in the 1930’s.
She was denied catechism based upon not having the dress.
While I agree with you that most situations would be remedied by the priests or nuns, not all are so kind. While that is the ideal, it was not the reality. A few of them even harm children, a possibility that is beyond understanding for many of us.
On November 29, 1964 — a year after the Second Vatican Council’s Constitution on the Sacred Liturgy was enacted — the “New Mass”, as it was then called, was introduced into US parishes. A fairly typical description of what Catholics experienced at Mass on that day, the Sunday after Thanksgiving, is this:
Parishioners sitting in their places that morning knew something was different from the moment the Mass began. The week before, the priest and altar boys had entered in silence; now everyone was expected to sing at least two verses of a processional hymn. The scriptural passages for the day were read aloud in the vernacular…. The priest, standing behind a new altar set up in the middle of the sanctuary, still said some prayers in Latin, but the people were encouraged to recite others along with him, again in their own language.… The distribution of Communion was now different. In the past, the priest had repeated a prayer in Latin as he worked his way along the line of parishioners kneeling at the altar. He now paused in front of each parishioner, in many places standing rather than kneeling, held up the Communion host so they could see it, and said, “Corpus Christi” (“the Body of Christ”), to which the communicant responded, “Amen”. In a few months this, too, would be said in English, and the altar rail itself would be gone.…
The Church discontinued all Latin by 1969.
This description appears in a recent book by James M. O’Toole, The Faithful: A History of Catholics in America (Cambridge, MA: the Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2008, pp 204, 208).
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Not to be argumentative but I sang Latin hymns in the 80's and Fr Tom did the Preface in Latin. We currently attend Holy Mass in Latin, so the author is just incorrect.
Again, since the Baltimore Catechism was taught only in English, it seems surprisingly that your friend would know it in Latin. I own copies of the catechism books used at that time.
She was Byzantine rite. I don’t know the details surrounding that group.
My personal observation has been that most people who actually get a response are so gullible. They would never believe everything that a stranger off the street tells them, but let it come from an unknown spirit through a Ouija board and they believe everything hook-line-and-sinker.
My own personal experience was when I was about 13 years old (many years ago). Nobody was a bigger skeptic than me. I surprised myself and had to get away from it immediately. I wasn't religious at all at the time, but I just knew that I needed to get away from it and that there was real power there that shouldn't be played around with. It turns out that I was right.
I always tell skeptics that it's real and they shouldn't mess with it, but if they really want to prove it to themselves they can. Just know that you've been warned.
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