How to Drive Out the Devil
The most important mission for followers of Christ Jesus is to drive out the Devil from minds of people.
But not all the people possessed by the Devil act strangely or dangerously. Even in the mind of the calmest priest or layman the Devil penetrates.
Today the Pope seems to be able to handle the easiest case.
The nature of exorcism was the topic at last week's annual meeting of French Catholic exorcists according to the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Paris. The Paris Archdiocesan Service told Rome's Zenet news agency that more than 30% of the people who request exorcisms have engaged in activities such as witchcraft.
During the meeting, the archdiocese outlined the profile of people who request the ritual.
Among individuals who request exorcism, 31% engage in witchcraft, spiritualism or related activities, and 23% suffer pathological problems such as delirium, hallucinations, obsessions, anxiety crises, suicide attempts or visions.
Eighteen percent suffer from family problems such as divorce or sexual abuse; 15% suffer from depression linked to loneliness, abortion, chronic unemployment, false guilt feelings, death tendencies or similar trends. Eighteen percent have religious problems such as possessions, pacts with the devil, curses and diabolical apparitions. Father Henri Caffart, the exorcist of France's Arras Diocese, told the SIR Catholic agency that more and more individuals come to ask for his help, "after having asked for help from sorcerers, gurus and visionaries," Zenet reported.
And Father Maurice Bellot, exorcist of the Paris Archdiocese said "the more pagan the mentality, the greater the requests for exorcisms. They often ask me to exorcise them by telephone, or at least at home."
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Dear Jane: It's true that J. P. II performed at least 2 exorcisms during his pontificate, that information is taken from a very serious french publication called "L'actualite religieuse dans le monde", that could be "Religious actualitty in the world"; on 1.984 that publication said that an exorcism was performed by his holyness on 1.982 and the other one on 1.984. This very same information is taken by a french journalist "Francois Dunois canette" in his book: "Les pretres exorcistes", 1.993, Editions Robert Laffont, S.A., Paris. That must be "The exorcist priests"
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The young woman was brought to one of the Polish pontiff's weekly audiences in St Peter's Square in 2000 and started screaming, writhing on the floor and drooling.
The encounter is described in a new book by Father Gabriele Amorth, the exorcist for the diocese of Rome.
As soon as she entered St Peter's Square, in front of the Vatican, her behaviour became bizarre.
"When John Paul appeared, she began to wail. Ten people had to hold her down. She wanted to fling herself at the Pope. Her face was full of hate. She was drooling, uttering blasphemies.
"Her body trembled. She was like a beast ready to attack," Father Amorth wrote in his book, The Last Exorcist – My Fight Against Satan, which was released on Tuesday.
After the audience was over, the Pope reportedly asked to be taken to see the woman in his Popemobile.
"Sabrina was in a trance. Her eyes were two white orbs. She was drooling and throwing her head backwards. As soon as she was brought close to the Pope she started yelling 'No, leave me alone!' The pope carried out an exorcism on the spot. He blessed her several times. And then he left," wrote Father Amorth, the founder and president of the International Association of Exorcists.
But the exorcism did not work – when Sabrina was brought to see Father Amorth later that day, she was still possessed, according to Father Amorth.
"She was very agitated. I started to exorcise her. But the Devil wanted to show that he was still in command. I started to pray and said 'Get out, foul spirit.' It replied 'You get out, priest'. I said 'Why are you in this woman? Answer in the name of Christ'. The spirit answered 'You must all worship me because I am the strongest. I am God.'"
Father Amorth claimed that the young woman then got up from her chair and proceeded to walk up the wall behind him "as if it was the most natural thing in the world. She walked against every law of gravity."
It eventually took many sessions to cleanse her entirely of her demons, he said. "But I'm convinced that in some way the exorcism carried out by JPII left a trace in her."
The Pope had more success with an exorcism in the Vatican in March, 1982, when a young girl named Francesca Fabrizi was brought to him by the Bishop of Spoleto in Umbria.
"She was writhing around on the floor, crying out. She became calm when the Pope said 'Tomorrow I will say mass for you'," Father Amorth wrote. She went on to live a normal life, getting married and having children.
In his book, he also claimed the current Pope, Benedict XVI, performed an exorcism on two men possessed by the Devil at one of his weekly audiences in St Peter's Square in May 2009.In contrast, Japanese people traditionally have seen spirits in various living things, nonliving matters, and even in movement of a man, an animal, etc.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/religion/9066773/Pope-John-Paul-II-could-not-cure-drooling-trembling-woman-during-Vatican-exorcism.html
Even in one tiny stone some Japanese can feel existence of a spirit. So, actually a mountain itself can be a holy spirit himself to some pious Japanese following shintoism. There are some mountains in Japan which are shrines themselves. As an example, for some faction of shinto religion, Mt. Fuji itself is a big shrine. And these spirits are good spirits, though they can get angry at people for their wrongdoing.
But there is of course a concept of being possessed by an evil spirit in Japan. To drive out such a harmful spirit, people once relied on shinto priests or Buddhist monks. But nowadays, those poor people possessed by ill spirits are forcibly sent to mental hospitals.
Modern psychiatry could hold patients in a hospital or have them attend a hospital to prevent them from harming others or themselves. But their method relying on medicine cannot cure those patients 100%, since the real root of the illness must be rooted in the spiritual sphere.
Without love, no complete therapy can be expected.
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Joh 12:12 On the next day much people that were come to the feast, when they heard that Jesus was coming to Jerusalem,
Joh 12:13 Took branches of palm trees, and went forth to meet him, and cried, Hosanna: Blessed is the King of Israel that cometh in the name of the Lord.