Spiritual Warfare

[Shin]

What is the full form of F.S.S.P.? Is it the SSPX?

Secondly, Shin I think you missed an earlier question Brigid and I asked. What should be the material that blessed candles need to be made of. I got candles from wal mart , and they are vanilla, and got them blessed. Is that wrong?

F.S.S.P. is the Fraternal Society of St. Peter, they are a different group, not the same as the F.S.S.P.X. or S.S.P.X. Try searching for info on them! Great folks. Fr. Ripperger is one of them! They only celebrate the Latin Mass and are approved by the Popes.

Let's see the blessed candles would be for use during the Three Days of Darkness, let me post the reply on that thread.

[Brigid]

I think much of what I experience as spiritual attack is somehow related to sin, but a couple times it wasn't. Once, I felt a very evil presence in my house but it went away when I sprinkled the room with holy water. (and I used a lot of it, lol.)

Another time, I experienced probably the worst thing that's ever happened to me... it was like something was trying to get into my mind, there was such a sense of oppression. I felt completely sure that I am going to hell simply because I am Catholic, and that I must get out of the Church. This was soon after my conversion. It was such a horrible feeling that I thought I was either possessed, or insane. I prayed but nothing helped... then I took my Rosary and put it around my neck, because that's what I read St Dominic and St Louis de Montfort used to do when people were assaulted by demons. I called upon Mary for help.. and instantly, everything went away and my mind returned to normal. It took me the whole evening to get over this though.

Demons are real

Wow, since this was soon after your conversion and you were thinking that you had to get out of the Church - 

[Therese]

The properties of blessed salt last longer than blessed water that is sprinkled, so the blessing of your room lasts longer with the blessed salt.  I'd be sure to have a priest bless and exorcise my house, if I could get one to and was experiencing strange phenomena.  I asked a friar to bless and exorcise my apartment, but he only blessed it.  I wish he exorcised it, too.  I'll have another priest do that.

[Brigid]

The properties of blessed salt last longer than blessed water that is sprinkled, so the blessing of your room lasts longer with the blessed salt.  I'd be sure to have a priest bless and exorcise my house, if I could get one to and was experiencing strange phenomena.  I asked a friar to bless and exorcise my apartment, but he only blessed it.  I wish he exorcised it, too.  I'll have another priest do that.

In this area even getting a house blessing is hard. I asked our priest to bless my apt. and no response at all. Maybe one of the monks nearby will do both for me.

[Therese]

The properties of blessed salt last longer than blessed water that is sprinkled, so the blessing of your room lasts longer with the blessed salt.  I'd be sure to have a priest bless and exorcise my house, if I could get one to and was experiencing strange phenomena.  I asked a friar to bless and exorcise my apartment, but he only blessed it.  I wish he exorcised it, too.  I'll have another priest do that.

In this area even getting a house blessing is hard. I asked our priest to bless my apt. and no response at all. Maybe one of the monks nearby will do both for me.

That's too bad about your priest.  I'd ask one of the monks who is a priest to bless your home.  Everyone's home should be blessed.

[Brigid]

The properties of blessed salt last longer than blessed water that is sprinkled, so the blessing of your room lasts longer with the blessed salt.  I'd be sure to have a priest bless and exorcise my house, if I could get one to and was experiencing strange phenomena.  I asked a friar to bless and exorcise my apartment, but he only blessed it.  I wish he exorcised it, too.  I'll have another priest do that.

In this area even getting a house blessing is hard. I asked our priest to bless my apt. and no response at all. Maybe one of the monks nearby will do both for me.

That's too bad about your priest.  I'd ask one of the monks who is a priest to bless your home.  Everyone's home should be blessed.

Do you happen to know if blessing an apartment would do any good (since the walls and ceiling are other apartment's too) for any length of time anyway?

[Therese]

The properties of blessed salt last longer than blessed water that is sprinkled, so the blessing of your room lasts longer with the blessed salt.  I'd be sure to have a priest bless and exorcise my house, if I could get one to and was experiencing strange phenomena.  I asked a friar to bless and exorcise my apartment, but he only blessed it.  I wish he exorcised it, too.  I'll have another priest do that.

In this area even getting a house blessing is hard. I asked our priest to bless my apt. and no response at all. Maybe one of the monks nearby will do both for me.

That's too bad about your priest.  I'd ask one of the monks who is a priest to bless your home.  Everyone's home should be blessed.

Do you happen to know if blessing an apartment would do any good (since the walls and ceiling are other apartment's too) for any length of time anyway?

To my knowledge it makes a big difference.  What is within the walls will always be blessed, despite unblessed surroundings (outside the windows, walls, doors, etc.).

Brigid, If you can't get a monk to bless your home I'd ask your parish priest again.  It's the duty of the parish priest to bless the home of a parishioner who needs his/her home blessed.  If he's very busy, it's expected that you'll have to wait a while for him to come to your home, but he should still come at an opportune time.

[Brigid]

The properties of blessed salt last longer than blessed water that is sprinkled, so the blessing of your room lasts longer with the blessed salt.  I'd be sure to have a priest bless and exorcise my house, if I could get one to and was experiencing strange phenomena.  I asked a friar to bless and exorcise my apartment, but he only blessed it.  I wish he exorcised it, too.  I'll have another priest do that.

In this area even getting a house blessing is hard. I asked our priest to bless my apt. and no response at all. Maybe one of the monks nearby will do both for me.

That's too bad about your priest.  I'd ask one of the monks who is a priest to bless your home.  Everyone's home should be blessed.

Do you happen to know if blessing an apartment would do any good (since the walls and ceiling are other apartment's too) for any length of time anyway?

To my knowledge it makes a big difference.  What is within the walls will always be blessed, despite unblessed surroundings (outside the windows, walls, doors, etc.).

Brigid, If you can't get a monk to bless your home I'd ask your parish priest again.  It's the duty of the parish priest to bless the home of a parishioner who needs his/her home blessed.  If he's very busy, it's expected that you'll have to wait a while for him to come to your home, but he should still come at an opportune time.

Thanks. I've wondered it for some time (about apts). I didn't realize it's a duty of the parish priest! I will try the monk tho' now. It's been over a year, so I don't think the priest even has it on his 'radar' anymore.

[Therese]

You are welcome, Brigid.

If it isn't the responsibility of your parish priest (or deacon) to bless your home, then whose would it be?  Only priests and deacons can bless a home and having one's home blessed isn't a luxury, but an everyday part of Christian living.

[Shin]

When a home is blessed it is more peaceful. 

Just as when you say grace, the food is better!

[Therese]

When a home is blessed it is more peaceful. 

Just as when you say grace, the food is better!

Yes, I agree.

[Patricia]

Anyone read this book?   I couldn't keep it down. I found it in the public library

Possessed: The true story of an exorcism    By Allen, Thomas B.

Library Journal Review

In 1949, a teenage boy in suburban Washington, D.C., exhibited signs of demonic possession. His desperate family moved him to a relative's home in St. Louis, where they persuaded a team of Jesuit priests to perform an exorcism (a practice unheard of at the time). William Peter Blatty noticed a news article concerning the incident, which provided him with the inspiration for his novel and screenplay The Exorcist . Allen, coauthor with Norman Polmar of several American histories, based his work on a secret diary of one member of the exorcism team and personal interviews with another. His account is horrific, and he will succeed in forcing even highly skeptical, worldly readers into doubting their preconceived ideas about the ``medieval'' notion of demonic possession. Recommended for most collections.

Publisher weekly Review

A recently discovered diary kept by a Jesuit priest who participated in an exorcism in 1949 records the chilling events recreated here. When a 13-year-old boy, Robbie Mannheim (a pseudonym), the only child of a Lutheran family in Maryland, was declared exorcised, the news prompted the writing of William Peter Blatty's bestselling novel The Exorcist , and a film of the same name. Far different from these accounts, the actual exorcising took place over months and in several locations, including a St. Louis hospital. There a team of Jesuits sought to release the boy from physical harm (seizures and spontaneously appearing bleeding wounds) and other manifestations of diabolical influence to which he often seemed curiously indifferent. Allen ( War Games ), who was educated in Jesuit schools but is no longer a practicing Catholic, reveals the agonizing struggles of the priests who became involved. While Church officials are reticent about this incident and psychiatrists don't give credence to diabolical possession, the documentation presented here is credible and eerily fascinating.

[Brigid]

Makes one wonder how many people in mental institutions would truly benefit from an exorcism.

[Bailey2]

Makes one wonder how many people in mental institutions would truly benefit from an exorcism.

no comment 

[Brigid]

Makes one wonder how many people in mental institutions would truly benefit from an exorcism.

no comment 

Okay, what's wrong with that thought?

[Bailey2]

In one word: schizophrenia

The info was based on 1949 observations and medical knowledge....... we now actually have genetic info regarding that and other illnesses.  I'm one of those terrible mental health workers talked about above.............. a mentally ill person can believe many things and bring them to fruition.   You'd be surprised.