Notes from an Exorcist
DISCERNING PHENOMENA DURING PRAYER
“When one of your five senses perceives an unusual phenomenon during prayer without your soul feeling anything, pay no attention to it; God is beyond the five senses. But if joy or hope come to your soul when you smell a fragrance, see a vision, hear something, or have any other sensation, neither accept it nor reject it, but go tell it to your spiritual father immediately. “If the triad of faith, hope, and love before you begin praying is—in a manner of speaking—ten degrees, and afterwards your faith, hope, and love have increased to one hundred degrees, then this transformation is from God. The evil one is incapable of inspiring you with faith or hope or love, since he lacks all three of these.
“If these three (faith, hope, and love) have increased after your prayer, know that your prayer has been accepted. If these three have remained the same, know that you have prayed in a worldly manner. If these three have decreased, you have prayed in a deluded manner. And if after your prayer you feel some kind of carnality, even if only slightly, you have prayed wrongly.”
St Joseph the Hesychast
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BLESSED CANDLES & LIBERATION
“Light this candle when you sense an evil presence or manifestation in a certain place. The light from blessed candles symbolizes Jesus, the Light of the world; the presence of the Lord drives away all spirits of darkness. Lighting this candle, then praying for liberation is especially effective to purge a place especially a room, from infestation.”
Father Jocis Syquia, Chief Exorcist of the Archdiocese of Manila
PRAYER FOR LIBERATION
“Holy Father, omnipotent and merciful God, in the name of Jesus Christ and through the intercession of the Virgin Mary, send Your Holy Spirit upon me (family).
May the Spirit of the Lord descend upon me (us), mold me, form me, fill me, hear me, use me, heal me, cast out from me all the forces of evil, annihilate them, destroy them, so that I may be well and do good.
Cast out from me (us) all the spells, sorcery, black magic, black masses, evil eye, ties, curses, diabolical infestation, diabolical possession, diabolical obsession, all that is evil; sin, envy, jealousy, perfidy, discord, impurity, infatuation; physical, psychic, moral, spiritual, and diabolic illnesses. Burn all these evils in hell, so that they will never again touch me or any other creature in the world.
In the name of Jesus Christ our Savior, through the intercession of the Immaculate Virgin Mary, I order and command all unclean spirits, all the presences that molest me (family), to leave me (us) immediately, to leave me definitely, and, chained by St. Michael the Archangel, by St. Gabriel, by St. Raphael, by my (our) guardian angel(s), crushed under the heel of the Most Holy Immaculate Virgin, to go into the eternal abyss. Give me (us), O Father, much faith, joy, health, peace, and all the graces that I need. Lord Jesus Christ may Your most Precious Blood be upon me (us). Amen.”
Fr. Gabriel Amorth, Chief Exorcist of the Vatican (+)
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