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THERE ARE SUBJECTS WHICH ARE HARD TO DIGEST, AND YET WE HAVE GOT TO ADDRESS THEM, IF WE WANT TO BE FAIR TO EVERYONE, PARTICULARLY TO OURSELVES. EXORCISM IS ONE OF THESE.

POPE LEO XIII WROTE AN EXORCISM PRAYER. HE INCLUDED IT IN THE ROMAN RITUAL. HE ASKED BISHOPS AND PRIESTS TO SAY IT RIGHT AFTER EACH MASS AND IN FRONT OF THEIR PARISHIONERS. HE HIMSELF SAID IT SEVERAL TIMES EACH DAY. UNFORTUNATELY, POPE LEO XIII´S ORDER WAS ONLY PUT INTO PRACTICE UP TO THE SECOND VATICAN COUNCIL. NOWADAYS, FORTUNATELY,  SOME DIOCESES ARE SAYING IT AGAIN AFTER THE LOCAL BISHOP ORDERS THEM TO DO SO, TAKING INTO ACCOUNT THE RECOMMENDATION FROM ANOTHER GREAT POPE WHO CAME AFTER POPE LEO XIII, THAT IS, JOHN PAUL II. HE RECOMMENDED TO SAY THE EXORCISM PRAYER EVERY DAY WITHOUT EXCEPTION, IN 1994”. BISHOPS FROM ALL OVER THE WORLD SHOULD BE ASKING LOCAL PRIESTS TO SAY THIS EXORCISM PRAYER, WRITTEN BY POPE LEO XIII, AND RECOMMENDED BY JOHN PAUL II.

“THERE IS A POWERFUL, ANCIENT RITUAL TO PERFORM AN EXORCISM, AND IT GOES AS FOLLOWS :

– FIRST OF ALL, WE HAVE GOT TO ASK HIM THESE THREE QUESTIONS: WHO ARE YOU?, AND HOW AND WHEN ARE YOU GOING TO RETREAT FROM HIM? SOMETIMES THE DEVIL REMAINS SILENT, GIVING NO ANSWER, AND OTHER TIMES HE CAN EVEN DARE TO SAY THE PRIEST´S SINS IN A LOUD VOICE. THAT IS WHY IT IS SO IMPORTANT THAT PRIESTS BE IN A STATE OF GRACE AND GO TO CONFESSION EVERY NOW AND THEN.

– THEN, WE HAVE TO ASK THESE THREE SAINTS TO BE PRESENT WHILE WE PERFORM THE EXORCISM. THESE THREE SAINTS ARE SAINT FAUSTINA KOWALSKA, FATHER PÍO PIETRELCINA  AND JOHN PAUL II. THE MOMENT WE ASK FOR THEIR PRESENCE THE DEVIL STARTS SUFFERING IMMEDIATELY AND ALL THE WAY RIGHT THROUGH.

– AND LAST BUT NOT LEAST, WE HAVE TO ORDER THE DEVIL TO DO THIS: “RETREAT FROM HIM, IN THE NAME OF JOHN PAUL II”. RIGHT AFTER THIS WE WILL START HEARING THE DEVIL´S SPINE-CHILLING CRIES “.

WE MUST BEAR IN MIND THAT FERVENT PRAYERS FROM ANY COMMITTED LAYPERSON ARE ALSO REALLY VALUABLE , SPECIALLY WHEN WE CONSIDER THAT THE NUMBER OF POSSESSIONS BY THE DEVIL IS GROWING, AND ALSO THE FACT THAT THE FEW PRIESTS WHO PERFORM EXORCISMS ARE KNACKERED. ANY LAYPERSON WILLING TO TAKE PART IN PRAYING FOR ANYONE POSSESSED BY THE DEVIL WILL HAVE TO DO IT UNDER THREE CONDITIONS SO THAT THE AFFECTED PERSON IS RELEASED FROM THE DEVIL DEFINITELY. THESE THREE CONDITIONS ARE: HAVING A STRONG FAITH, PRAYING AND FASTING. ANY LAYPERSON COLLABORATING ON THIS KIND OF PRACTICE HAS TO BE PRAYING DURING THE WHOLE EXORCISM. WHOEVER IS POSSESSED BY THE DEVIL, AND WANTS A PRIEST TO MAKE THE EVIL ONE RETREAT FROM THEM, MUST KNOW THAT THE POSSESSED ONE HAS TO HAVE FAITH IN GOD, IN ORDER TO BE RELIEVED OF THE DEVIL. IN THE FINAL ANALYSIS IT IS THEIR FAITH WHICH WILL HEAL THEM. WITHOUT FAITH EXORCISTS CAN DO NOTHING TO HELP AFFECTED ONES. IT IS JESUS CHRIST WHO HEALS, BUT HE CALLS FOR A SOLID FAITH, BECAUSE ONLY A FIRM FAITH SAVES ONE´S LIFE”. 

SAY YOU ARE A PERSON WITH A STRONG FAITH AND WANT TO CONTRIBUTE TO HELP SOMEONE POSSESSED. WELL, YOU COULD GO THROUGH THESE THREE STEPS BELOW:

– “FASTING ON BREAD AND WATER FOR A WHOLE DAY, AND DOING IT SO FOR THE LOVE OF GOD AND ALL OF OUR BROTHERS.

CELEBRATING THE EUCHARIST, RUN BY A PRIEST.

– AND PRAYING THE ROSARY A LOT”.

“IF AFTER FOLLOWING THESE THREE STEPS THE AFFECTED PERSON HAS NOT BEEN HEALED YET WE WILL HAVE TO REPEAT THE THREE STEPS FOR SEVEN DAYS. IF THIS SECOND ALTERNATIVE WERE NOT ENOUGH STEP TWO WOULD HAVE TO BE DONE UP TO SEVEN TIMES, THAT IS, THE PRIEST WOULD SEE NO OTHER WAY TO HEAL THE POSSESSED ONE BUT CELEBRATING SEVEN CONSECUTIVE MASSES”. IT IS KEY TO FINISH UP THE RITUAL, REPEATING IT AS MANY TIMES AS NECESSARY, IN ORDER TO GET THE EVIL ONE OUT OF THE AFFECTED INDIVIDUAL, AND TO STOP THE EVIL ONE FROM PURSUING THE EXORCIST AS WELL.

JESUS CHRIST WAS THE FIRST EXORCIST. “IN MATTHEW (17,14-18) BEFORE PERFORMING AN EXORCISM JESUS CHRIST TALKED TO THE PEOPLE WHO TOOK HIM POSSESSED ONES SO THAT HE COULD HEAL THEM AND TOLD THEM THESE WORDS: “PERVERSE AND SKEPTICAL GENERATION! HOW LONG WILL I HAVE TO PUT UP WITH YOU? BRING THE POSSESSED ONE TO ME”. JESUS CHRIST PRAYED AND COMMANDED  THE DEVIL TO RETREAT FROM THE BOY, WHO GOT HEALED THEN AND THERE”.

MARÍA VALLEJO-NÁGERA, RECOMMENDED WRITER, AFTER DOING MUCH RESEARCH ON THIS TOPIC, ” STILL COULD NOT UNDERSTAND THE REASON WHY GOD CREATED HELL, TAKING INTO ACCOUNT GOD IS ALL MERCY. FINALLY, SHE DECIDED TO TALK TO MANY PRIESTS AND CAME TO THE CONCLUSION THAT GOD DID NOT CREATE HELL. HER CONCLUSION WAS CORROBORATED BY FATHER CÁNDIDO, VATICAN EXORCIST PRIEST, WHO PASSED AWAY SOME YEARS AFTER IT.  HE  WAS  FATHER  GABRIEL  AMORTH´S MASTER FOR MANY YEARS. FATHER CÁNDIDO DARED TO ASK THE DEVIL ABOUT THE CREATION OF HELL DURING ONE OF HIS EXORCISMS. THIS WAS THE TERRIFYING CONVERSATION BETWEEN FATHER CÁNDIDO AND THE DEVIL, AND THE DEVIL´S APPALLING ANSWER:

– FATHER CÁNDIDO: ”RETREAT FROM HIM, GO TO HELL. GOD HAS PREPARED A HOT SPOT FOR YOU”.

THE DEVIL: ”YOU DO NOT UNDERSTAND ANYTHING, YOU DO NOT KNOW ANYTHING. IT WAS NOT HIM WHO CREATED HELL. HE DID NOT EVEN THINK ABOUT IT. WE, THE DEVILS, CREATED IT OURSELVES” “.

BEING AWARE OF HOW SERIOUS IT IS TO BE POSSESSED WE SHOULD BE TELLING ALL OUR BROTHERS TO KEEP AWAY FROM SATANIC GROUPS AND WITCHCRAFT BOOKS AT ALL TIMES.

NOW WE ALL KNOW SOMETHING MORE TO BE ON GOD´S SIDE AND FIGHT TOGETHER AGAINST GOD´S ENEMY. LITTLE BY LITTLE WE REALIZE OUR GOAL HERE IS TO DO AS MUCH GOOD AS JESUS CHRIST DID. PRAYING IS DEFINITELY AN EFFECTIVE WAY TO ACCOMPLISH IT. THIS IS WHAT THIS WORLD IS ALL ABOUT. WE HAVE GOT TO MAKE GOD´S TEAM WIN, AND AS WE ALL KNOW, OUR WEAPONS ARE PRAYING, CELEBRATING MASS, RECITING THE ROSARY, GOING TO CONFESSION AND FASTING. THIS IS IT!

 

THE QUOTES I HAVE SHARED WITH ALL OF YOU ARE FROM CIELO E INFIERNO:VERDADES DE DIOS BY MARÍA VALLEJO-NÁGERA.

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Julia Martinez

Julia Martínez was born in The Basque Country, Spain in 1965. She went to Las Carmelitas School in Santurtzi, where she completed her elementary and secondary education, except her senior year. She decided to go to the United States as an exchange student for her senior year. She lived with an American family in California for that school year. After coming back from the US she started her undergraduate studies at Deusto University. By this time she had already lived in Santurtzi for seventeen years. It was 1983 when she and her family moved to Getxo. At Deusto University she studied English Linguistics for five years. She was twenty three years old when she got her undergraduate degree. She spent about three months during three different summers in England. During two of those summers she was an exchange student, and another summer she was working as an au pair, living with an English family. She also spent about two months during two different summers in Dublin. She was an exchange student living with an Irish family for a month, and another summer she was living in a student residence. In 1988 she was granted a scholarship to do her graduate studies at Indiana University, in the U.S..She completed a double master on English and Spanish Applied Linguistics in 1990. During that year and a half that she was studying over there she was also working as an Associate Professor giving Spanish classes at Indiana University. After working on the double master, She decided to go back to Spain and work as an English teacher at an English school in Galdakao for a year. At the same time that she was working, she was studying in order to sit a competitive exam. She went to Madrid to take it, and got the job she wanted. She became a civil servant, and she started working as an English teacher at a high school in 1991. By the year 2004 she had already been teaching for thirteen years in four different high schools, giving lessons to secondary students. In 2004 she decided to quit teaching and start painting as a self-made painter. She has got thirty six original oil paintings on canvas, and all of them share bright, lively, warm colors which invite you to smile and chill out. You see them all together and you see a real celebration of life, of what life should be, of happiness and love. Apart from painting, she is very keen on music and photography. About music, it must be said that she was very much into it during some years in the past, specially when she was taking Classical and electric guitar lessons and writing her own songs. She has got four demos with songs sung, both in English and Spanish. She performed as a singer in some places in the year 2000 after recording all her original songs. She is a hard-working person and a very good listener. She is one of those really positive people that finds solutions to almost anything you can think of. She enjoys creative work, either in painting, photography, dancing, singing, writing or cooking. She also enjoys herself with those little things in life like going out for a stroll in the country, listening to all kinds of music, good company, a good book, helping people in need, taking a nap, or just watching a funny movie. She is really interested in the protection of animals rights.

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