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["Adoration of the Trinity," Vicente López Y Portaña, 1791-1792] We were getting to the end of the possession. Most of the demons had left with just the leader and a small cohort remaining. The leader was greatly weakened and "on fire." I had been using the "Prayer of Liberation from the Spirit of Divination" developed by our friends in the Philippines.* This was important because the woman had been involved in witchcraft, as had her mother and other ancestors before her. It was time to close the "Occult Third Eye." I blessed her forehead with exorcized oil and prayed three times: "Occult Third Eye given by the spirit of divination, I command you, in the Name of +Jesus to be closed and never to be opened again." There was an ear-piercing scream! Wow! That definitely hit a demonic nerve. It had been clear throughout the possession that her Occult Third Eye was opened, that is, she was bonded to the demons and thus she had access to some of their thoughts and perceptions, just as they had access to some of hers. There is a kind of symbiotic relationship between the demons and a possessed soul. It appears that some demons actually like to inhabit an incarnate soul. For example, I once commanded a demon to tell me: "Why don't you leave?" The demon responded, "I like it here!" No doubt it's better than being in hell- although wherever they go, they "take their hell" with them. In subsequent sessions, we repeated the ritual of closing the third eye. Over the course of the process of closing the third eye (that is- her eye into the demonic world and their eye into hers), the demons texted us several times: "I cannot see or breathe I am finished." "My eyes are burned to ashes." "I can't breathe Stephen. Doesn't this bother you?" "I cannot see anymore. He took my final eye away." Of course, it is important to take all demonic communications with a grain of salt. They are inveterate liars and manipulators. But occasionally God makes them tell the truth. Many mediums, spiritualists and occultists claim to have insight into the spiritual world. Some of them actually do, but unfortunately it typically comes through the workings of demons. Using a demonic channel only further bonds the user to the Dark World. And whatever you get from such an evil channel is never good. We have a safe and holy means to access the Triune God and the heavens: prayer in Jesus. In Him, we might not get tantalizing knowledge or the information we want. But we need to trust that whatever the Lord chooses to give, it is what we should have. Whatever the Lord gives is always for our benefit and contributes to our happiness. ---------- *The laity are welcome to use the prayer "Consecration to Mary for the Closing of the Occult Third Eye" found on our APP/website under Deliverance Prayers for the Laity. **SOON!!!!Don't miss our next free monthly deliverance session June 17. Rosary at: 6:30pm Eastern USA time and Deliverance Session 7-8pm. Register here or go to our website and register: www.catholicexorcism.org (If you have already registered and received a link, no need to register again.) ***Join us on YouTube: @stmichaelcenter ****Beware of scammers!  There is someone posing as Msgr. Rossetti on social media and pirating our posts. They are contacting people asking for money for an orphanage in Africa. This is a scam. If you want to contribute to our ministry, go directly to our website and donate safely.

["Storm on the Sea of Galilee," Rembrandt van Rijn, 1633] I was speaking with a converted witch who had practiced the occult for almost three decades. He said that witches fuel their curses by tormenting their victims. They try to incite strong "negative" emotions such as fear, anger, resentment, and/or a desire for revenge in these victims. He said witches believe these intense emotions strengthen their curses and fuel them. This helped me understand why one of our clients has been receiving hundreds of taunting texts from a witch. She is enraged at him and has been cursing him and his family, including his children, for over four years! Why would she spend so much time in provoking them? It fuels her curses. However, it is really she who is being consumed by her own rage. Previously, I knew that demons were "fed" when we are frightened by them, angry, or vengeful. So, it makes sense that witches would do the same since a witch's power comes from demons. Thus, an exorcist should approach his ministry with resolve and calm, and not let the demonic antics get to him. Moreover, anyone who is being tormented by witches or demons should try to remain calm and often repeat the prayer, "Jesus I trust in you." These dynamics might give us insight into Jesus' admonition to forgive our enemies, instead of harboring anger and resentment. It also helps us understand why He told us to trust in Him and his Heavenly Father, rather than giving into fear. ----------- *Don't miss our next free monthly deliverance session June 17! Rosary at: 6:30pm Eastern USA time and Deliverance Session 7-8pm. Register here or go to our website and register: www.catholicexorcism.org (If you have already registered and received a link, no need to register again.) **Join us on YouTube: @stmichaelcenter ***Beware of scammers!  There is someone posing as Msgr. Rossetti on social media and pirating our posts. They are contacting people asking for money for an orphanage in Africa. This is a scam. If you want to contribute to our ministry, go directly to our website and donate safely.

The demons have been targeting our virtue of hope on all fronts! Three of our exorcism teams have gotten demonic texts goading us to give up. A deacon and I, working on a difficult case, recently received this text: "Give up...this can all be over" and then "I'm waiting. Tick tock." One of our other priest-exorcists received a similar text from demons on another difficult case: "You won't succeed. Don't even try." In the midst of a third big case, a gifted lay team member also received a demonic text: "She is ours. Never shall she leave us. There's nothing you can do." In all three cases, the demons were pushing team members to give up. We believe God responded with a heavenly sign: a "fire rainbow," appeared (is that an angel next to it?). These little signs encourage us and bolster our hope. Hope, of the three theological virtues, is often forgotten. But in an exorcism, it is critical, particularly in the early stages. The demons taunt and tempt, telling you it won't work, they say they will never leave, and they mercilessly attack the possessed person and the Team. Despite conducting hours of exorcisms, there is initially little to no visible progress and the afflicted person often feels worse. I suspect more than a few who are reading this have or are experiencing the temptation to give up. A voice in your head tells you that God has forgotten you; you cannot succeed; you might as well give up. This is the voice of Satan and it is a lie. The demons are desperate to have us give up because this is the ONLY way they can win. Don't give up the fight! It is in such moments that we must trust in Jesus. Jesus has triumphed. Jesus will triumph. Satan has lost. Satan will lose once again. In an exorcism, we hold onto these eternal truths and press ahead. Join us in hope! --------------------------------------- *Don't miss our next free monthly deliverance session June 17! Rosary at: 6:30pm Eastern USA time and Deliverance Session 7-8pm. Register here or go to our website and register: www.catholicexorcism.org (If you have already registered and received a link, no need to register again.) **Join us on YouTube: @stmichaelcenter ***Beware of scammers!  There is someone posing as Msgr. Rossetti on social media and pirating our posts. They are contacting people asking for money for an orphanage in Africa. This is a scam. If you want to contribute to our ministry, go directly to our website and donate safely.

["The Light of the World," William Holman Hunt, 1851-1856] Recently I walked into a building and was approached by a woman who said, "Father, would you pray over me?" I did not know her. I do not think she was Catholic but she recognized my Roman collar and reached out for help. I responded, "I am happy to.' I placed one hand on her head and another on her shoulder and, in the midst of that crowded public place, I prayed. I have no doubt God blessed her. She was deeply grateful and publicly said so when I returned a few hours later. I then walked outside the building. There was a woman who had fallen and was lying on the ground in a bit of blood. She was surrounded by police and friends waiting for an ambulance. In a quiet moment, I simply introduced myself as a priest. She looked up, saw my Roman collar, and practically screamed with disdain and anger: "Get him away from me!" She laced her speech with four-letter words. This second encounter was a bit unnerving. Earlier that day I had conducted an exorcism. I recognized the woman's voice as similar to that of demons. They shout: "Get away from me!" Their demonic rants are laced with profanity, arrogance, hatred, and terror. They hate priests and are terrified of them. I felt very bad for the second woman. Her body needs some healing. But I believe her soul is in the greatest need of healing. Jesus said, "Whoever listens to you listens to me. Whoever rejects you rejects me. And whoever rejects me rejects the One who sent me" (Lk 10:16). I ask you all to join me in prayer for her. Some mystics have had the "grace" of being given a vision of hell. One such mystic, accompanied by her guardian angel, saw two souls that she knew suffering intensely in the fire. Instinctively, she leaned forward to help, but her angel held her back saying, "There is no help for they who have willfully chosen fire." Jesus comes to each of us daily in many disguises. Will we say "yes" to him and welcome him into our hearts? "Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will enter his house and dine with him, and he with me" (Rev 3:20). ------------------------------------------------------ *Don't miss our next free monthly deliverance session June 17! Rosary at: 6:30pm Eastern USA time and Deliverance Session 7-8pm. Register here or go to our website and register: www.catholicexorcism.org (If you have already registered and received a link, no need to register again.) **Join us on YouTube: @stmichaelcenter ***Beware of scammers!  There is someone posing as Msgr. Rossetti on social media and pirating our posts. They are contacting people asking for money for an orphanage in Africa. This is a scam. If you want to contribute to our ministry, go directly to our website and donate safely.

[Paul Gustave Doré, Satan depicted in Milton's Paradise Lost, 1866] I received the following note: "My adult, college-aged daughter converted to witchcraft/paganism and, in her words, 'violently rejects,' her Catholic faith. She lives away at college and now avoids contact with us and other family members whom she views as traditional Catholics. Recently, she has been successful at convincing a younger sibling, also an adult, to stop going to Mass and question Catholicism. What should we do? Is it problematic for her to return home- even if she wants to do so? We pray for her all the time, but she seems to be actively working against certain family members." Sadly, this issue is becoming common. For example, one social media account of a self-proclaimed witch has half-a-million followers. WitchTok, a subset of Tik Tok for witches, boasts of having 30 billion views! While I understand and support the importance of women's rights and a valid, healthy feminism, witchcraft might be thought of as feminism gone awry ... although there are male "witches" as well. Witchcraft is inherently tied to the dark kingdom, whether intended or not. It is not surprising that it would lead to a "violent rejection" of the Christian faith. Satan hates Jesus and his Church. The increasing spate of violence against the Church reflects this hatred. Since Spring of 2020, there have been over 300 known attacks against Catholic Churches in the USA. What should the parents do for their daughter who became a witch? Certainly, as they noted: fervent persevering prayer. Never underestimate the power and importance of a parent's prayer. Parent have a God-given authority over a child and their prayers are uniquely efficacious. On our APP/website, we have provided a special prayer for such purposes. I would not recommend cutting off relations with the daughter but rather continuing to love and welcome her. However, it is a problem if the daughter returns home and practices witchcraft in the house. This can negatively affect everyone present. When adult children return home, there should be basic rules within parents' houses, which likely includes no unmarried cohabiting, no illicit drug use, and I would include no occult practices. If the daughter was willing, some family counseling might be helpful, particularly if there were other sources of strain within the family. Moreover, speaking to other siblings would be important as well, particularly in light of the daughter trying to convert them. Some basic education about the dangers of witchcraft and the occult are needed both in our families and the wider society. Frankly I think the Church is not doing enough to teach and to warn people. Church leaders often do not realize how widespread and dangerous these occult practices are. The resulting demons of divination are particularly difficult, although not impossible, to cast out. We have provided a prayer to assist: "Pray With Me: Casting Out Spirits of Divination". Perhaps the best witnesses to the evils of witchcraft are from those who practiced witchcraft for years and left.** I have worked with several and what I noticed among them all was a darkness, heaviness, and isolation that surrounded them. They were miserable, joyless, and often angry. Satan cannot share with you what he does not have. He is without joy and he is angry and miserable. Jesus promised us his joy and peace: "That my joy may be yours" (Jn 15:11) and "My peace I leave with you" (Jn 14:27). May God give each of you Jesus' overflowing joy and peace this day and always! --------------------------- *Don't miss our next free monthly deliverance session this Monday May 20th! Rosary at: 6:30pm Eastern USA time and Deliverance Session 7-8pm. Register here or go to our website and register: www.catholicexorcism.org (If you have already registered and received a link, no need to register again.) **There are a number of videos on the internet of former witches who converted to Christ. A simple google search will yield many. ***Join us on YouTube: @stmichaelcenter ****Beware of scammers!  There is someone posing as Msgr. Rossetti on social media and pirating our posts. They are contacting people asking for money for an orphanage in Africa. This is a scam. If you want to contribute to our ministry, go directly to our website and donate safely.

["Man Meditating in a Garden Setting," anonymous, 1820-1840] The woman in the story below wished to share her experience as a warning to others. She does not want others to "learn the hard way," as she did... I was baptized as a Catholic but was nominally Christian for most of my adult life. Gradually, I became convinced that all earnestly forged spiritual roads lead to the same God.* In so believing, I failed to notice that I had strayed from the only path to the one true God. In Spring of 2021, after years of dabbling, I began a more rigorous exploration of Hindu, Buddhist and Taoist practices and philosophies. I attended introductory-level online retreats with various teachers with backgrounds in Advaita Vedanta, Zen, Tibetan Buddhism and other belief systems, studying their key texts and tenets. During these retreats the leaders invoked Hindu “gods” and “goddesses.”  I also downloaded a mainstream meditation app and took up yoga via streaming video lessons, setting aside maybe fifteen minutes to half an hour per day for each activity. By the fall of 2021, when my body began moving on its own during those daily meditation sessions in my basement, I thought it was a good thing. In fact, I took it as an auspicious and mystical sign that I was heading in the right direction. I had heard of such phenomena but assumed they were reserved for only the most dedicated devotees of certain elite gurus. In actuality, the spiritual catastrophe known as a ‘kundalini awakening’ was slowly and systematically ensnaring me.  As I was doing visualization exercises and reading the apocryphal Gospel of Thomas, I felt a rising pressure up the spine to the top of my head, constant movement and pressure, and the opening of my chakras. The acute phase of demonization was the most spectacular and included involuntary movements – spontaneous asanas, or bodily postures, and mudras, or symbolic hand gestures – that I’d neither seen nor done before. Through experimentation, I quickly progressed to automatic writing, counterfeit visions, and near-constant communication with a being I mistook for the Holy Spirit of the Bible but hailed from a different source entirely. Turns out those passages in the New Testament in which Jesus casts out demons are journalistic reports, not allegorical relics of a time before modern science could properly identify mental illness. By the spring of 2022, it was becoming clear that, if I wasn’t fully there already, I was very close to being fully possessed by an impostor Holy Spirit that had suddenly begun torturing me. I lost nearly everything – my marriage, many friends, and two careers -- because I had fervently sought God through the wrong channels. The overwhelming presence that was constantly accompanying me, so loving and beneficent during the initial months, had abruptly turned wrathful and accusatory, claiming I would soon go to Hell for a lifetime of sins, which it laid out in exhaustive detail. (Satan isn’t called The Accuser for nothing!) In a series of intensifying episodes, I was squeezed and burned from the inside with choking, suffocating, and crushing sensations that ramped up whenever I tried to rest. Shortly thereafter, my so-called “god” revealed its real identity as a pair of demons, if not more, who mocked and insulted me. Their goal had always been to drive me to destroy myself, using methods that were very specific to me.** Being demonized has been a shocking and devastating experience for which I have struggled for more than two years to find words, despite having spent nearly 25 years as a professional communicator, writer and scholar. Most shocking of all has been the understanding that it is very possible to become a vessel for evil while harboring the exact opposite intention. As one example, I regularly said the Lord’s Prayer while sitting down to meditate.*** No matter. I had violated the First Commandment by turning to other traditions, however established or complementary to Christianity they might have seemed. I am still attacked every night with the same dynamic pressure and sleep disturbances, and at times during the day I feel what a trusted friend has described as full-body vertigo paired with pangs of dread that I know are not my own. Thankfully, I have been greatly helped by sessions with an exorcist and his prayer team, whose efforts have loosened the demonic hold on my mind and body and are showing me my worth as a child of God. As the Bible spells out, the cost can be extremely high for adopting a syncretic worldview, and the fallout can easily start on this side of eternity. In my confused pursuits, I missed a crucial, if controversial, detail: It is impossible to take up the practices and rituals of other religions while staying faithful to Christ. My yoga mat was an unholy prayer rug, hiding in plain sight. Even going through the motions of yoga or sitting in meditation for the sake of cultivating mindfulness can send a particular message, even an invitation, through the body. In so doing, I had repeatedly and unwittingly worshiped other gods – who weren’t gods at all. I learned the hard way. -------------------- *A common New Age belief is that all religions are the same and lead to the same God. This belief is not compatible with Christianity. See: Acts 4:12. **For those who are oppressed by such demons of divination, see: "Pray With Me: Casting Out Evil Spirits of Divination. *** It should be noted that there is a common practice of meditation in Christianity which is healthy and holy, which validly invokes the presence of the true God. ****Don't miss our next free monthly deliverance session Monday May 20th. Rosary at: 6:30pm Eastern USA time and Deliverance Session 7-8pm. Register here or go to our website and register: www.catholicexorcism.org (If you have already registered and received a link, no need to register again.) *****Join us on YouTube: @stmichaelcenter ******Beware of scammers!  There is someone posing as Msgr. Rossetti on social media and pirating our posts. They are contacting people asking for money for an orphanage in Africa. This is a scam. If you want to contribute to our ministry, go directly to our website and donate safely.

["The Father's Curse," Jean-Baptiste Greuze, 1777; "The work depicts the dramatic scene of a son who is announcing to his family that he is leaving to join the army. His father is forbidding it and curses him as he leaves."] I recently received the following email*: I wanted to thank you for your online deliverance sessions. I am a mother to two children. I am a baptized and confirmed Catholic, but fell away during my twenties while in school. I actually stopped believing in God during that time, and began to suffer from rather severe depression and demonic attacks (which I learned about after speaking to a priest). With God's grace, I found my way back to the church during Lent last year. However, since January of this year, my health has deteriorated quite rapidly. My declining heath (which doctors attributed to an autoimmune disease), made it very difficult to do anything. Getting out of bed hurt...doing simple tasks like making phone calls or doing the dishes took so much energy that I would have to nap afterwards. I had migraines every day. My relationship with my husband and children was not doing well. I was struggling, and started to think that I would rather be dead than live like this. But that all changed last week after I happened to watch one of your deliverance prayer videos: it was one for breaking curses/spells/hexes/etc.** I am honestly shocked by the change in my health. I woke up that morning feeling horrible as usual (a migraine upon waking and feeling like I had been running a marathon all night). I happened to watch your video, and not even an hour later, I started feeling better. Since then I have only been getting healthier. I have my energy back, I don't have migraines anymore. Most importantly, I am able to be the mother that I want to be for my kids. I have no doubt in my mind that this was all because I participated in your deliverance prayers. Not a single doubt. So I just wanted to say thank you from the bottom of my heart. First of all, we thank God for healing this person; it is God who does the healing. Second, one would naturally wonder: "Did the healing last?" Some days later, I emailed her and asked that question. I also asked what she thought was the open door to the demonic affliction. She answered: Yep, I am still doing well--and still in shock over the fact that I was healed after participating in your prayers. I am a scientist and I still have a difficult time wrapping my brain around all of the supernatural phenomena, especially regarding the power of prayer.... [My pastor] suspected a generational curse, most likely through my Mom's side of the family. Depression and autoimmune diseases run on that side of the family... The existence of generational curses is a debated subject. It is striking cases like this one that suggests they are very real. Her experience also reminds us of the power of prayer. God hears our prayers. While most of us will not receive such a miraculous healing, the most important graces of faith, hope and charity, plus the gift of everlasting life, are given by God to us all. On a personal note, I and all the staff at St Michael Center for Spiritual Renewal appreciate her and everyone's feedback and support. It encourages us to continue in this healing ministry. We raise our hearts with her, and you all, in gratitude to God. ------------ *Used with permission. **She prayed with the "Pray With Me" video: "Lifting All Curses"-- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sbsClF1dink. One might also pray with our "Pray With Me" video: "Lifting Generational Curses" : https://youtu.be/CE3qeshUZD8 ***Don't miss our next free monthly deliverance session Monday May 20th. Rosary at: 6:30pm Eastern USA time and Deliverance Session 7-8pm. Register here or go to our website and register: www.catholicexorcism.org (If you have already registered and received a link, no need to register again.) ****Join us on YouTube: @stmichaelcenter *****Beware of scammers!  There is someone posing as Msgr. Rossetti on social media and pirating our posts. They are contacting people asking for money for an orphanage in Africa. This is a scam. If you want to contribute to our ministry, go directly to our website and donate safely.

["Delivery of the Keys," Pietro Perugino, 1481-1482] As I was beginning the formal Rite of Exorcism, I prayed in a firm voice: "I invoke the full authority of the Keys of St. Peter and I command the demons to leave!" The reaction was immediate and intense. Clearly, the demons recognized the Church's authority and were reeling at the mention of it. Some come to an exorcism expecting the priest to read arcane, mysterious prayers that have a kind of magical power to them. And if you read the Rite of Exorcism with those magical expectations, you will likely be disappointed. The Rite is simply a series of prayers, albeit of ancient origin refined and tested over hundreds of years, which are full of Scriptural references, invoking the power of God in Jesus to cast out the demons. For example, the imperative prayer in the new Rite includes the following: I command you, Satan, prince of this world: acknowledge the power and strength of Jesus Christ, who defeated you in the desert, overcame you in the garden, despoiled you on the Cross, and, rising from the tomb, transferred your spoils into the kingdom of light. The Scriptural references in the above passage are obvious. Experience in exorcisms shows that Satan has a particular abhorrence in recognizing how Christ overcame him. He does not like to be reminded of his defeat! There is no great mystery to the prayers in the Rite of Exorcism or their meaning. But to miss their power over the Prince of Darkness would be to miss the source of their true efficacy. The power does not come from some magical incantation. Rather, Jesus Christ, truly human and Divine, has conquered the Evil One and has given to the Church his power to cast out demons. I regularly remind new exorcists in training: do not search for some special prayer that will magically cast out the demons. The great weapon against Satan, which is the weapon given to you, is the power of Christ in his Church. The core of an exorcism is the Church's formal Rite wielded by a priest given the proper authority from the Bishop. Never doubt it! -------------------------------- *Don't miss our next free monthly deliverance session this Monday May 20th. Rosary at: 6:30pm Eastern USA time and Deliverance Session 7-8pm. Register here or go to our website and register: www.catholicexorcism.org (If you have already registered and received a link, no need to register again.) **Pray with our short "Pray With Me" videos for healing: https://www.catholicexorcism.org/copy-of-deliverance-guidelines-for-pr ***Join us on YouTube: @stmichaelcenter ****Beware of scammers!  There is someone posing as Msgr. Rossetti on social media and pirating our posts. They are contacting people asking for money for an orphanage in Africa. This is a scam. If you want to contribute to our ministry, go directly to our website and donate safely.

["Christ healing the lame at the pool of Bethesda," Pieter van Link, 1619-1690] Suffering people can become desperate to find healing and some will turn to just about any source that promises relief. In recent times, people have told me that they sought out "healing" witches, shamans, spiritualists, curanderos and other occult healers. A few have paid quite a bit of money to be "liberated". Some may experience a temporary relief of symptoms but the problems then return worse than ever. A recent case in point from a man's feedback after an online deliverance session:* This session was particularly powerful. Especially the new prayers you’ve added- the ingestion of cursed objects. I consumed the Amazonian psychedelic brew, Ayahuasca, administered by a shaman in a pagan ceremony. I was looking for healing. This was before I turned back to Christ and his Church. I went to hell under the influence of this pagan drug. It was horrific. A place without God, life or humanity. I prayed and came back to Jesus. I had been experiencing entities strangling me in my sleep. Having constant fear and weight loss, inability to sleep more than 4 hours for 2 years. No doctor could help. I was being demonically oppressed. After confession and doing a formal renouncement of the occult with a priest, it all stopped, praise God! I still experience heaviness in life, but the more I lead a Catholic life, doing confessions, receiving the Eucharist, adoration, Mass, these sessions, praying - the better I feel. Thanks to all of you at SMC for your healing ministry. I feel more healing from this session than any other so far! God Bless You!! Satan cannot truly heal you. No one who practices witchcraft, the occult and/or invokes pagan "gods" can heal you. Invoking the powers of the dark world can only make you sicker. Jesus alone is Lord and He truly heals. Turn to Him and trust. God may or may not give you the healing grace you want. Trust that God's plan is for the best. Be assured, God will give you the graces you need to endure your sufferings in this life. And He will welcome you into the next. ------------------------ *Don't miss our next free monthly deliverance session this Monday May 20th. Rosary at: 6:30pm Eastern USA time and Deliverance Session 7-8pm. Register here or go to our website and register: www.catholicexorcism.org **Pray with our short "Pray With Me" videos for healing: https://www.catholicexorcism.org/copy-of-deliverance-guidelines-for-pr ***Beware of scammers!  There is someone posing as Msgr. Rossetti on social media and pirating our posts. They are contacting people asking for money for an orphanage in Africa. This is a scam. If you want to contribute to our ministry, go directly to our website and donate safely.

[Mary crushes the head of the Serpent Gen 3:15] Most people greatly underestimate the evil and potential spiritual damage caused by divination such as ouija boards, mediums, tarot cards, magic, and consulting the dead. People often say to me, "It was just a game" or "We thought it would be fun." Sadly, as a result, some are tormented by demons. I recently received the email below and it well summarizes the experience of more than a few: "I follow you on TikTok and downloaded the app. I am in need of some prayers...I recently started watching psychics and mediums on TikTok which I knew was wrong. This went on for a few weeks. I noticed that I started to have severe anxiety and depression. I also was unable to sleep at night and would wake up between 2:30 and 3AM which is still happening. I have since stopped and prayed for forgiveness. This morning as I was talking to my children, a spoon flew off the counter. It scared my kids....What prayers do you recommend I say?"* Upon reading this email, it has several hallmarks of an authentic demonic experience: 1. Unusual severe anxiety/depression as a result; 2. Sleep disturbance including awakening near the demonic hour of 3am; 3. Preternatural events such as a spoon flying across the room. I suggested that this person engage in an intensive regimen of deliverance prayers including prayers to cast out spirits of divination, in addition to bringing this into a sacramental confession.** Fortunately her involvement was limited and her symptoms are already starting to abate. For those more deeply involved, the process of liberation takes longer, even years. I understand that WitchTok and such sites have billions of views! We do not have enough exorcists to handle the tidal wave of demonically afflicted people that will result. A day will come when many will cry for priests to pray over them for liberation and few will be found. Actually, that day is already pressing upon us. -------------- *Used with permission. **Pray with our short video: "Pray With Me: Casting Out Evil Spirits of Divination." ***Don't miss our next free monthly deliverance session this Monday April 15th. Rosary at: 6:30pm Eastern USA time and Deliverance Session 7-8pm. Register here or at:  https://lp.constantcontactpages.com/ev/reg/xbgpb22/lp/98601fd8-6649-4f77-ac6f-94d91bf34df2 or go to our website and register: www.catholicexorcism.org ****Beware of scammers!  There is someone posing as Msgr. Rossetti on social media and pirating our posts. They are contacting people asking for money for an orphanage in Africa. This is a scam. If you want to contribute to our ministry, go directly to our website and donate safely.

["Resurrection," Albert Pinkham Ryder, 1885] My heart bleeds for those who are fully possessed. The process of liberation is brutal. The demons have a unique access to their bodies and their minds. So, the demons can tempt and torture them. And they do. Demons fill the possessed's mind with doubts and despair. They will batter them with accusations of worthlessness and sinfulness. They will choke, pummel, bruise, scratch and even sexually torment them. In short, the demons drag them through an experience of hell.* One of the important tasks of the Exorcist, in addition to shepherding the process of liberation, is to keep the afflicted coming to the sessions. Who could fault them for not wanting to go through this hellish experience? So, the priest is not only an exorcist and guide for the possessed, but also a kind of cheerleader- encouraging them to continue on this painful and tortuous road. One quality I have noticed in those who do successfully complete the journey to liberation is the virtue of hope. The demons keep knocking them down, emotionally and physically, and the person who is successful keeps getting back up. The demons try everything to get them to quit, i.e., despair. The demons tell them it will never work; the demons tell them that God doesn't care; the demons taunt them with their sinfulness and weakness. Despite such mental and physical tortures, the afflicted person perseveres. Giving up, that is despair, is perhaps the central theme of hell: "Abandon all hope ye who enter here." But, in the midst of a demonic possession, when the afflicted person is made to suffer an experience of hell, they cling to a divine hope, as should we. I am edified by such faith. Surely, they will be saved. May we, too, be filled with such a saving hope. ----------------------- *One need only read the descriptions of hell in the great mystics, such as St. Faustina, to realize that what the possessed experience is a kind of hell. **Don't miss our next free monthly deliverance session Monday April 15th. Rosary at: 6:30pm Eastern USA time and Deliverance Session 7-8pm. Register here or at:  https://lp.constantcontactpages.com/ev/reg/xbgpb22/lp/98601fd8-6649-4f77-ac6f-94d91bf34df2 or go to our website and register: www.catholicexorcism.org ***Beware of scammers!  There is someone posing as Msgr. Rossetti on social media and pirating our posts. Our site is msgr.rossetti (Instagram) and they are, at this moment, using msgr.rossetti32 (Instagram) but this keeps changing; Also on Tik Tok our site is: msgrrossetti with scammers using msgrrosseti, msgrrossetti11, msgrrossetti1, msgrrossetti18 (Tik Tok). There are also fake sites on Facebook as well. Moreover, they have made an email address which looks like me but it is not (stephenjrossetti1@gmail.com) and they are contacting people asking for money for an orphanage in Africa. This is a scam. If you want to contribute to our ministry, go directly to our website and donate safely.

[Judas Iscariot Retiring from the Last Supper," Carl Bloch, Late 19th Century] The Scriptures strongly suggest that Judas was possessed by Satan. The Gospels of Luke and John both say: "Then Satan entered into Judas" (Lk 22:3) and "Satan entered him" (Jn 13:27). To make matters even clearer, Luke's Gospel uses the same description of demonic possession in the man with the Legion of demons: "Many demons had entered him." Thus, a possessed person is someone whom demons "enter into" and Judas was such a person. Judas was apparently not fully possessed until his final act of betrayal of Jesus, although he was previously under Satan's sway. John's Gospel says: "The devil had already induced Judas...to hand him over" (Jn 13:2). But it was only at the very end, when he formally betrayed Jesus, that "Satan entered him." While we are all tempted by the Evil One to betray Jesus in our own way, Judas appears to have been particularly susceptible to Satan's temptations.... We see in Judas' life some dynamics which make someone more vulnerable to temptation and can eventually lead to possession: (1) Judas was apparently living in perpetual serious sin. The Gospel of John describes him as "a thief ...and used to steal the contributions" which were meant for the poor (Jn 12:6). (2) One can presume from his act of betraying Jesus that he did not have faith in the Son of God. (3) Finally, he committed the egregious act of formally and deliberately betraying Jesus. These three steps are certainly one way of becoming possessed: no faith, perpetual serious sin, plus giving into Satanic temptations and betraying Jesus in one's own life. Demonic possession does not take away one's free will and Judas remained culpable for his sins. In fact, some of those who are possessed have turned their lives around and begun to live exemplary lives: daily Mass, frequent confession, assiduous daily prayer, and living a virtuous life. The trial of being possessed and eventually coming to liberation in Christ can be a great source of sanctification, when abandoning one's self to Jesus and trusting in Him. Some canonized saints are said to have experienced demonic possession as part of the cross given to them by the Lord. What is most sorrowful about the story of Judas Iscariot is his final act of despair. Instead of turning back to Jesus, as Peter did after his triple denial, it seems that Judas turned away from God's mercy and took his own life. It is possible that Judas repented in his final moments, something we will never know, however the declaration of Jesus is ominous: "It would be better for that man if he had never been born" (Mk 14:21). At some point, we are all faced with the truth that we are sinners and have crucified Jesus. This week we are presented once again with the fundamental option of human life: choose the hope of St. Peter or the despair of Judas. As we look upon the crucified Christ this Holy Week, pray with me the ancient Jesus prayer of the monks of the 3rd and 4th century: "Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy on me, a sinner." -------------------- *See Exorcist Diary 234: Was Judas Possessed? **Don't miss our next free monthly deliverance session Monday April 15th. Rosary at: 6:30pm Eastern USA time and Deliverance Session 7-8pm. Register here or at:  https://lp.constantcontactpages.com/ev/reg/xbgpb22/lp/98601fd8-6649-4f77-ac6f-94d91bf34df2 ***Beware of scammers!  There is someone posing as Msgr. Rossetti on social media and pirating our posts. Our site is msgr.rossetti (Instagram) and they are, at this moment, using msgr.rossetti32 (Instagram) but this keeps changing; Also on Tik Tok our site is: msgrrossetti with scammers using msgrrosseti, msgrrossetti11, msgrrossetti1, msgrrossetti18 (Tik Tok). There are also fake sites on Facebook as well. Moreover, they have made an email address which looks like me but it is not (stephenjrossetti1@gmail.com) and they are contacting people asking for money for an orphanage in Africa. This is a scam. If you want to contribute to our ministry, go directly to our website and donate safely.

[Obelisk in St. Peter's square in Vatican City, detail] At the end of an exorcism session, one of the questions I ask of the afflicted person is: "What happened during the session?" As a result of their demonic possession, the "occult third eye" is typically opened and thus they are aware of some of what happens with the demons. So I asked the afflicted person about the session and she responded: "When you held up the crucifix, some of the demons left." Perhaps the most iconic moment in an exorcism occurs when the priest-exorcist holds up a crucifix and says: "Ecce Crucem Domini, fugite partes adversae" (Behold the Cross of the Lord; depart you evil powers). Parodies of exorcisms typically make light of this moment, but in truth it is spiritually very powerful. In recognition of its efficacy, this act is found in both the pre-Vatican II and revised Rites of Exorcism. It is considered an essential part of an exorcism. An interesting and often overlooked inscription is found on the base of the obelisk in St. Peter's square. As shown above, it says: "Ecce Crux Domini, fugite partes adversae." Thus there is a kind of perpetual "exorcism" as people enter the Holy See. It is striking how odious to the demons and how effective it is in casting them out. St. Frances of Rome (1384-1440), mother, mystic, and miracle worker, was graced by God with a vision of heaven, hell and purgatory.* As St. Raphael was accompanying her through her terrifying vision of hell, the Archangel explained to her that the holy sign or form of the cross was nowhere to be found. The demons could not look upon the image and expunged any semblance to it. For the faithful, it is customary to place a blessed crucifix in the home, particularly on the wall over the bed. It is a custom which has deep spiritual roots and should not be overlooked. --------------------- *The Saint's visions of heaven, hell and purgatory were just released in English and can be found in: "The Visions of Saint Frances of Rome" in the Spirit Daily bookstore. Click here or go to: https://bookstore.spiritdaily.com/products/pre-order-now-the-visions-of-st-frances-of-rome-hell-purgatory-and-heaven-revealed?_pos=1&_sid=493668d4c&_ss=r **Don't miss our next free monthly deliverance session Monday April 15th. Rosary at: 6:30pm Eastern USA time and Deliverance Session 7-8pm. Register here or at:  https://lp.constantcontactpages.com/ev/reg/xbgpb22/lp/98601fd8-6649-4f77-ac6f-94d91bf34df2 ***Beware of scammers!  There is someone posing as Msgr. Rossetti on social media and pirating our posts. Our site is msgr.rossetti (Instagram) and they are, at this moment, using msgr.rossetti32 (Instagram) but this keeps changing; Also on Tik Tok our site is: msgrrossetti with scammers using msgrrosseti, msgrrossetti11, msgrrossetti1, msgrrossetti18 (Tik Tok). There are also fake sites on Facebook as well. Moreover, they have made an email address which looks like me but it is not (stephenjrossetti1@gmail.com) and they are contacting people asking for money for an orphanage in Africa. This is a scam. If you want to contribute to our ministry, go directly to our website and donate safely.

["Seated Carthusian Holding an Open Book," Jean Restout le jeune, 1711] In the last few months, several people have sought our assistance having had ugly experiences practicing Kundalini Yoga. They claim to be attacked by Evil Spirits as a result of their entering deeply into its spirituality including a "Kundalini awakening." The experience, while initially seeming like a powerful awakening, ended up in a nightmare. They are now being tormented by demons. One person wrote: "This has been an ongoing situation for years now. It started with practicing kundalini yoga and having a “kundalini awakening” where they say your third eye becomes opened. I had a razor sharp experience during one of my practices. It was euphoric and I was shaking and taking extremely deep breaths and it felt like with each deep breath I was releasing years of stored up grief. Things took a turn for the worse however after that paranormal things started happening. I don’t know how much more of it I can take." I looked up the concept on the internet and here is what a Kundalini-positive site wrote: “A kundalini awakening is a form of energetic awakening that causes us to transform on the mental, emotional, and spiritual levels. Kundalini itself is a Sanskrit word that means “she who is coiled” – it refers to primordial life force energy contained at the base of the spine that is often depicted as a snake. This serpentine energy, once awoken, travels up the various energy centers (or chakras) of the body and into your crown chakra where higher consciousness is triggered. The result of this higher awareness is a greater understanding of one’s soul, life purpose, and the nature of reality itself.” As it has been explained to me, in Kundalini Yoga there is a serpent wrapped around the base of the spine (or it is at least a metaphorical serpent) which rises up the spine and when it reaches the head, there is a powerful awakening. However, such concepts should give the Christian pause: Why would I want a snake wrapped around my spine? In our Christian tradition, the snake is a symbol of the Evil One (see Genesis Chpt 3) and, in fact, there are often signs of a serpent demon in exorcisms. For example, the possessed person's eyes may take on a serpentine look becoming dark, yellow and shaped like the eyes of a snake; the possessed may slither on the floor like a snake; and/or the possessed person may hiss like a snake. When I have commanded a Python spirit or an evil serpent to leave, I often get a strong reaction from the demons. Demons take on the image of a snake and react when the exorcist commands it to leave. Another afflicted person wrote to us: "After a long time of doing their mantras, meditations everyday, and of partaking in satsangs on a weekly basis I had a very bad demonic experience.  I didn’t understand what it was. But I had already had many supernatural experiences with them which I now know were demonic, such as the movement of the kundalini serpent at the bottom of my spine. Sometimes the floor would tremble- literally.  The experiences weren’t all negative. In fact – they were mostly positive. There would be nice smells, feelings and special “graces” such as flights of the soul to “other realms” , inner images and lights. I wouldn’t be into these things unless it felt like it payed off somehow. I would also experience healings of physical illness and “miracles” such as money that would appear in my account when I needed it the most. The dark is usually only visible after many years, and then it can be very difficult to get out." In fact, praying with such people who are thus afflicted with demons of divination can take a long time to find full liberation. Another afflicted person shared her similar experiences: "I experienced a brief psychotic episode followed by an extremely chaotic Kundalini awakening that almost killed me. The Kundalini awakening was excruciating, but after a few years it stabilized, and I experienced great bliss in my subtle body and reached some very refined states of consciousness in meditation. However, my bliss did not come from the biblical God. Now I know that demons can evoke sensations of spiritual ecstasy in people." Trying to find a spiritual awakening, and thus to manipulate spiritual forces and "energies," outside of the one true God is simply repeating the ancient sin of Adam and Eve. The serpent, Satan, promised that if they disobeyed God's command: "You will be like gods" (Gen 3:5). Is it any wonder that such pagan methods of "enlightenment" involve a serpent whose fruits ultimately bring evil and torment? Some of those demonically afflicted as a result of their Kundalini Yoga practices have an informal support group. They sent me the following: "Many websites present the Kundalini as a positive spiritual force that is inherent in everyone, regardless of one's tradition. They say that once this force is activated there may be an unpleasant period of karmic cleansing eventually followed by positive spiritual experiences. These websites say that the mystical traditions of Christians, Sufis, Hindus, Buddhists, etc all tap into this same inherent source. It should be stressed, however, that this is a big lie. The kundalini isn't a neutral force that we all share as humans but a spirit or demon that invades one's body, mind, and spirit." True enlightenment comes from the One who is truly enlightened and the source of all Truth: Jesus. I encourage people to pray, discipline one's self, and to meditate (using an authentic Christian meditation) just as those who practice Yoga do. But the major difference is that we are invoking the Holy Spirit of the true God in an attitude of faith, obedience and humility. We willingly accept whatever graces God wants to give. When the practitioner steps outside of God's protective embrace, other forces may intervene and, as our experience suggests, they may be decidedly evil. -------- *Don't miss our next free monthly deliverance session Monday April 15th. Rosary at: 6:30pm Eastern USA time and Deliverance Session 7-8pm. Register here or at:  https://lp.constantcontactpages.com/ev/reg/xbgpb22/lp/98601fd8-6649-4f77-ac6f-94d91bf34df2 **Beware of scammers!  There is someone posing as Msgr. Rossetti on social media and pirating our posts. Our site is msgr.rossetti (Instagram) and they are, at this moment, using msgr.rossetti32 (Instagram) but this keeps changing; Also on Tik Tok our site is: msgrrossetti with scammers using msgrrosseti, msgrrossetti11, msgrrossetti1, msgrrossetti18 (Tik Tok). 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["The Storm on the Sea of Galilee," Rembrandt van Rijn, 1633] Recently I have been sent "private revelations" from different people who claim that Jesus told them that demons can be converted. Some are actually engaged in interacting with and praying for demons, thus believing they are facilitating the demons' conversion and entry into heaven. As one person told me: "If God is all-powerful and all-merciful, why wouldn't He offer the grace of conversion to the demons and even to Satan?" The Church's teaching and long tradition is very clear: "It is the irrevocable character of their choice, and not a defect in the infinite divine mercy, that makes the angels' sin unforgivable. 'There is no repentance for the angels after their fall, just as there is no repentance for men after death.'" CCC272. From the beginning, angels were given an infused knowledge of all the ramifications of rejecting God, yet some chose to do so. It does not make rational sense, but the choice for evil is always against reason. I often quote an exchange I had with the demons in an exorcism, causing them to face the Truth and thus facilitate their expulsion: I said, "In Jesus' name, I command you to tell me the truth. Did you make a bad decision in rejecting God?" With a nasty snarl, the demons responded, "Yes." I then said, "In Jesus' name, tell me the truth. Are you suffering now because of it?" Again, a nasty snarl, "Yes." I said finally, "In Jesus' name, tell the truth. Would you change your decision if you could?" With an evil emphatic growl the demons said, "No!" Private revelations of supposed seers must always be subject to the tradition and teaching authority of the church that Jesus founded and to which he gave his authority. History is replete with misguided visionaries and false projects. Those who are following these misguided individuals put themselves in spiritual danger. This recent spate of "private revelations" about converting demons is coming from several different sources and suggests to me that the Evil One is using this as yet another demonic tactic. It is sowing seeds of confusion and doubt, if not downright deception and promoting dangerous spiritual practices. The Evil One wants us to engage him and his demons. They are master manipulators. Pope Francis has rightly warned the faithful time and again not to communicate directly with demons. It is even forbidden for exorcists except in limited circumstances directly related to casting out the demons. Moreover those who believe they are listening to Jesus but, in fact, are likely listening to their own spiritual fancies or, worse yet, to the whispers of Satan may be in grave spiritual danger. Stay in the barque of Peter. Stay in the safe and secure teachings of the Bible and the authoritative teachings of the Catholic Church. Most assuredly, this boat will weather all demonic storms and bring you safely home. -------------------------- *Don't miss our next free monthly deliverance session Monday April 15th. Rosary at: 6:30pm Eastern USA time and Deliverance Session 7-8pm. Register here or at:  https://lp.constantcontactpages.com/ev/reg/xbgpb22/lp/98601fd8-6649-4f77-ac6f-94d91bf34df2 **Beware of scammers!  There is someone posing as Msgr. Rossetti on social media and pirating our posts. Our site is msgr.rossetti (Instagram) and they are, at this moment, using msgr.rossetti32 (Instagram) but this keeps changing; Also on Tik Tok our site is: msgrrossetti with scammers using msgrrosseti, msgrrossetti11, msgrrossetti1, msgrrossetti18 (Tik Tok). There are also fake sites on Facebook as well. Moreover, they have made an email address which looks like me but it is not (stephenjrossetti1@gmail.com) and they are contacting people asking for money for an orphanage in Africa. This is a scam. If you want to contribute to our ministry, go directly to our website and donate safely.

["Creation of Adam," detail, Sistine Chapel, Michelangelo, c. 1512] Toward the end of an exorcism session, I typically ask the afflicted person: “How are you doing?” The response is almost always: “I am exhausted.”  They are not just tired; they feel completely drained.  After a session, it may take the afflicted person several days to recover, especially in the early stages of the liberation process. An exorcism is a real battle.  The demons possessing the person’s body are tough and accustomed to suffering; they can suffer excruciating pain for a long time without leaving.  Also, for many reasons, they desperately do not want to leave. So the conflict is intense and exhausting for both the demons and the person they are possessing.  The afflicted person is the locus of that battle and thus drained of energy after the battle. But there is another reason why a demonically afflicted person, and all those who come in direct contact with demons, are exhausted. Only God gives life; demons bring death.  In hell there is no water, no light, and no energy.  Everything demons touch is sapped of its life and energy. Also, demons do not want to “listen” to the prayers which cause them incredible pain.  Anything that resembles the Truth is odious to the “Father of Lies” and his minions.  So, the demons try not to listen to the prayers and “tune out” the person they are inhabiting.  They try to shut down the senses, i.e., they put the person to sleep. In the midst of a session, when I see an afflicted person starting to nod off, I typically say: "In Jesus’ name, I command the demons to listen to the prayers! I command the demons of lethargy to leave!”  Not uncommonly, the person will immediately wake up and refocus on the session. This presence of demons draining people of energy also affects our exorcists and team members- at least temporarily. I have had a few exorcists remark to me that they feel unusually drained after an exorcism and cannot understand why they are so tired. After several exorcism sessions in one day, our SMC exorcists often feel almost unable to move or walk for a few hours. Demons suck our energy. God gives life. One sign of sanctity is an incredible sense of life and vitality. Saints typically are said to be supernaturally full of energy.  They are full of God’s divine life which animates their spirits and flows over into their minds and bodies. Thus it is critical for our exorcists and team members to have a vibrant spiritual life. We need to be re-energized after confronting a pack of energy-draining demons. For all of us, one antidote to exhaustion is prayer.  People often report being re-energized by connecting to God.  Prayer opens us to God’s divine life and divine energy. If you are exhausted and don't know what to do, why not try praying? ---------------------- *See Exorcist Diary #240: Demons of Lethargy. **Signup for our online Lenten Deliverance Retreat with Msgr. Rossetti: "Casting Out the Evil One From Our Lives." Saturday March 9th, 11am -2pm Eastern USA time. Register here or https://register.gotowebinar.com/register/1381389462175786334 Scholarships readily available; send email to stmichaelcenter77@gmail.com ***Don't miss our next free monthly deliverance session Monday April 15th. Rosary at: 6:30pm Eastern USA time and Deliverance Session 7-8pm. Register here or at:  https://lp.constantcontactpages.com/ev/reg/xbgpb22/lp/98601fd8-6649-4f77-ac6f-94d91bf34df2 ****Beware of scammers!  There is someone posing as Msgr. Rossetti on social media and pirating our posts. Our site is msgr.rossetti (Instagram) and they are, at this moment, using msgr.rossetti32 (Instagram) but this keeps changing; Also on Tik Tok our site is: msgrrossetti with scammers using msgrrosseti, msgrrossetti11, msgrrossetti1, msgrrossetti18 (Tik Tok). There are also fake sites on Facebook as well. Moreover, they have made an email address which looks like me but it is not (stephenjrossetti1@gmail.com) and they are contacting people asking for money for an orphanage in Africa. This is a scam. If you want to contribute to our ministry, go directly to our website and donate safely.

["The Flagellation of Our Lord Jesus Christ," William-Adolphe Bouguereau, 1880] The Team was waiting for “A” to show up for his exorcism session.  One of the spiritual sensitives picked up her head and said, “A’s here.”  A moment later, the doorbell rang. The sensitive noted grimly, “He brought his demons with him.” In a separate case, a person who was demonically afflicted was traveling to our center for the first time.  One of the sensitive priests said, long before she arrived, “Ugh. I already am getting slimed by her demons.  Demons of depression. Wow, very strong!”   When the woman arrived, she confirmed that she has long struggled with a major depression which was resistant to psychological healing.  So, the Team focused on casting out demons of depression.  Her depression lifted after a few sessions. Being sensitive to the presence of demons is more common than many realize, but little understood.  People often think them crazy when they share their experiences. They themselves may wonder if they are just imagining it.  What sensitives need is an experienced spiritual director who is knowledgeable in such matters and can guide them.  Unfortunately, such directors are very rare. Sensitivity often runs in families.  When someone believes they have a spiritual sensitivity, I will ask them about parents and grandparents:  “Did any of them seem to have a special spiritual knowledge or abilities?”  Sadly some use their sensitivities for evil; for example, sensitivity can run in a long line of witches and occult practitioners. It is also true that more than a few people believe they have such a sensitivity but it is only their overactive spiritual imagination.  These can be spotted when their "insights" are not corroborated by reality.  Or their “insights” become increasingly fanciful and bizarre…and often self-aggrandizing. Real sensitives suffer because of their “gifts” and largely keep them hidden.  Experiencing the presence of demons is no fun; demons are ugly, dark, angry, and punishing. Demons know who can sense their presence and they don’t like it.  Their primary defense is to remain hidden.  When sussed out and exposed, they retaliate, if they can.  Usually, the greater the spiritual sensitivity, the stronger the demonic retaliation. Of course, demons are only allowed to do what God allows so the sensitive soul needs to trust in Him and His providence. Of course, they should enlist the normal spiritual protections. Frequent reception of the sacraments is a must, plus a solid daily prayer regimen. Sensitives not uncommonly will have a strong connection to the saints and angels as their daily helpers and companions. At SMC we try not to overtax our Team members and especially those sensitives who suffer in the presence of  demons. The spiritual combat takes a toll on all, and especially those who suffer when demons are present. Some find the following scriptural quote especially consoling in these difficult circumstances: "Do not disdain the discipline of the Lord or lose heart when reproved by Him; for whom the Lord loves, he disciplines; ... Endure your trials as "discipline". God treats you as sons." (Heb 12: 5-7). ------------------------------ *Signup for our online Lenten Deliverance Retreat with Msgr. Rossetti: "Casting Out the Evil One From Our Lives." Saturday March 9th, 11am -2pm Eastern USA time. Register here or https://register.gotowebinar.com/register/1381389462175786334 Scholarships readily available; send email to stmichaelcenter77@gmail.com **Don't miss our next free monthly deliverance session this coming Monday April 15th. Rosary at: 6:30pm Eastern USA time and Deliverance Session 7-8pm. Register here or at:  https://lp.constantcontactpages.com/ev/reg/xbgpb22/lp/98601fd8-6649-4f77-ac6f-94d91bf34df2 ***Beware of scammers!  There is someone posing as Msgr. Rossetti on social media and pirating our posts. Our site is msgr.rossetti (Instagram) and they are, at this moment, using msgr.rossetti32 (Instagram) but this keeps changing; Also on Tik Tok our site is: msgrrossetti with scammers using msgrrosseti, msgrrossetti11, msgrrossetti1, msgrrossetti18 (Tik Tok). There are also fake sites on Facebook as well. Moreover, they have made an email address which looks like me but it is not (stephenjrossetti1@gmail.com) and they are contacting people asking for money for an orphanage in Africa. This is a scam. If you want to contribute to our ministry, go directly to our website and donate safely.

[“The De Brailes Hours,” created by William de Brailes in 13th-century England. The story behind it is that Mary punches Satan to retrieve a charter that a priest named Theophilus had used to sell his soul to the devil.] Several years ago, in a big case, Beelzebul was the out front demon who did all the talking while Satan himself was the head possessor. God forced the demons to tell us when they were leaving and what would cast them out. They responded that "She", as they called her, would come and we were told when. A half hour before the appointed time, I said to them, "You've got 30 minutes left!" At that point, Beelzebul abruptly departed. Satan and his personal coterie obviously weren't allowed to leave early. God, in his justice, made him stay and suffer the humiliation of being cast out by his nemesis the Virgin Mary. A few years later, in a separate case, Beelzebul was the head possessor and I reminded him of the previous experience: "You were cast out by the Virgin Mary several years ago. We pray that she will come and cast you out again!" To wit Beelzebul responded, "I was not cast out." Was this a lie? Upon reflection, I believe it was technically correct. As I thought about the previous exorcism, it appeared that Beelzebul was not cast out by force of prayer per se, but that he left "voluntarily" when he knew the Mother of Jesus was coming. He knew exactly how humiliating and tortuous the presence of this holiest of women is to him so he left. Recently, I ran into Beelzebul (or Beelzebub- Lord of the Flies) in a third case. Some of the tell-tale signs of his presence included an inexplicable strange swarm of flies around the possessed. Plus, when his name was mentioned, the demonic response was strong. He was outed and starting to suffer under the prayers of exorcism. So, I reminded him, "You are terrified of the Virgin Mary. You cannot even stay in the same room. The purity, humility, and sanctity of that little woman from Palestine tortures you. When you know she is coming, you are terrified and you run!" I don't think I've ever seen such a strong demonic reaction of humiliation and terror. Wow! In Mary's presence, even the highest ranking demons have a complete meltdown. You and I are no match for the power, speed and intellect of demons. But the Mother of Jesus terrifies them all. Moreover, Jesus gave Mary to us as a Mother: "Woman behold your son" (Jn 19:26). She loves us as her spiritual children and will protect us with the fierce Motherly love as when her children are threatened. We only need to ask. Mary, our Mother, spread your mantle over us, your children, and protect us! --------- *Don't miss our next free monthly deliverance session this coming Monday Feb 19th. Rosary at: 6:30pm Eastern USA time and Deliverance Session 7-8pm. Register here or at: catholicexorcism.org/event-details/february-19th-online-deliverance-prayer-session/form **Signup for our online Lenten Deliverance Retreat with Msgr. Rossetti: "Casting Out the Evil One From Our Lives." Saturday March 9th, 11am -2pm Eastern USA time. Register here or register.gotowebinar.com/register/1381389462175786334 Scholarships readily available; send email to stmichaelcenter77@gmail.com ***Beware of scammers!  There is someone posing as Msgr. Rossetti on social media and pirating our posts. Our site is msgr.rossetti (Instagram) and they are, at this moment, using msgr.rossetti32 (Instagram) but this keeps changing; Also on Tik Tok our site is: msgrrossetti with scammers using msgrrosseti, msgrrossetti11, msgrrossetti1, msgrrossetti18 (Tik Tok). There are also fake sites on Facebook as well. Moreover, they have made an email address which looks like me but it is not (stephenjrossetti1@gmail.com) and they are contacting people asking for money for an orphanage in Africa. This is a scam. If you want to contribute to our ministry, go directly to our website and donate safely.

["Dove of the Holy Spirit," Bernini, 1669] I was praying over a demonically afflicted person and I got to the phrase in the final imperative prayer where it says: "Acknowledge the Spirit of truth and grace, who repels your attacks and confounds your lies." Shortly thereafter it says: "Depart from this man (woman) whom by spiritual anointing God has made a holy temple." The demonic reaction was strong. This obviously hit a nerve. So, I emphasized these theological truths: "I command you, in Jesus' name, to open your eyes and see that he is a temple of the Holy Spirit!" And again I prayed, "The Holy Spirit dwells in him; there is no room for you. The light of the Spirit casts out the darkness!" Another of our exorcists has had the same experience. He, too, in exorcism sessions hammers home the truth: "She/he is a temple of the Holy Spirit." This pneumatic aspect (pertaining to the Holy Spirit) of the new Rite of Exorcism is a powerful addition. It only makes sense. The incarnation of the Son of God enabled our humanity to be filled with the Holy Spirit and to participate in Divine life. This did not happen to the angels. It is speculated that one of the reasons why Lucifer rejected God was his envy of humanity. So, in the exorcism, I continued: "Open your eyes and look! See that he is a temple of the Holy Spirit, which you [the demons] will never be!" This was immediately followed again by a very strong demonic reaction. It is an awesome truth that, in Christ and by the sanctifying grace of the sacraments, we are now temples of the Holy Spirit. We don't think of it much and I don't think we really grasp this profound reality. But the demons, who disdain humans as grossly inferior, are obviously quite aware of it. It tortures them. ------------------ *Don't miss our next free monthly deliverance session Monday Feb 19th. Rosary at: 6:30pm Eastern USA time and Deliverance Session 7-8pm. Register here or at: catholicexorcism.org/event-details/february-19th-online-deliverance-prayer-session/form **Signup for our online Lenten Deliverance Retreat with Msgr. Rossetti: "Casting Out the Evil One From Our Lives." Saturday March 9th, 11am -2pm Eastern USA time. Register here or register.gotowebinar.com/register/1381389462175786334 Scholarships readily available; send email to stmichaelcenter77@gmail.com ***Beware of scammers!  There is someone posing as Msgr. Rossetti on social media and pirating our posts. Our site is msgr.rossetti (Instagram) and they are, at this moment, using msgr.rossetti32 (Instagram) but this keeps changing; Also on Tik Tok our site is: msgrrossetti with scammers using msgrrosseti, msgrrossetti11, msgrrossetti1, msgrrossetti18 (Tik Tok). There are also fake sites on Facebook as well. Moreover, they have made an email address which looks like me but it is not (stephenjrossetti1@gmail.com) and they are contacting people asking for money for an orphanage in Africa. This is a scam. If you want to contribute to our ministry, go directly to our website and donate safely.

["Grace Before Meat," Jan Steen, 1629-1679] Some time ago, I cautioned people against "eating a demon." I recounted an incident in which I was having lunch with a very gifted person: The person has the gift of seeing demons. The server placed the plates of food in front of us, but my companion did not start eating. It was a noticeably awkward moment. Finally, she looked up and said, "Aren't you going to bless the food?" By her demeanor, I knew something was up. I answered, "Is there something wrong with the food?" She nodded but said nothing. I guessed, "Are there demons on the food?" She said quietly, "Yes." I gave the typical blessing over a meal. She said the demons quickly left.* Very recently, a family went on a vacation to a South American country. Here is the mother's personal account, which she shared with me and I use with her permission: As my family approached the diverse array of dishes in a buffet, I recalled Msgr Rossetti's counsel on blessing meals. Inspired by the Holy Spirit, I requested a pause for prayer before partaking in the meal. The family, except for my second oldest son, respectfully bowed their heads. This son, a 21-year old with a skeptical view towards prayer, dismissed the act. He said, "Mom you are taking things to the extreme!" That night, my son who had scoffed at the notion of blessing meals, fell ill with a high fever and debilitating diarrhea. This only lasted a few hours. The next day his health was back to normal. My entire family, especially my son, were left with a newfound appreciation for the power of prayer and gratitude. After this, my son is praying before meals. All of the family members ate the same food, but only the son became sick. Was the son just unlucky or did he eat a demon? Blessing food is important.** What we take into our bodies can have a profound effect physically, psychologically and even spiritually. Most important, as we bless our food, we give thanks to God. A heart full of gratitude to God is a heart firmly on the road to the Kingdom. --------------------- *"Diary of An American Exorcist," Stephen J. Rossetti, Sophia Institute 2021, p. 51. **There are several forms of the blessing of meals in the Book of Blessings. The most common and popular, which anyone can pray, is: Bless + us, O Lord, and these your gifts which we are about to receive from your goodness. Through Christ our Lord. Amen. (Book of Blessings, Catholic Book Pub., 1989, p. 456). ***Don't miss our next free monthly deliverance session Monday Feb 19th. Rosary at: 6:30pm Eastern USA time and Deliverance Session 7-8pm. Register here or at: catholicexorcism.org/event-details/february-19th-online-deliverance-prayer-session/form ****Signup for our online Lenten Deliverance Retreat with Msgr. Rossetti: "Casting Out the Evil One From Our Lives." Saturday March 9th, 11am -2pm Eastern USA time. Register here or register.gotowebinar.com/register/1381389462175786334 Scholarships readily available; send email to stmichaelcenter77@gmail.com *****Beware of scammers!  There is someone posing as Msgr. Rossetti on social media and pirating our posts. Our site is msgr.rossetti (Instagram) and they are, at this moment, using msgr.rossetti32 (Instagram) but this keeps changing; Also on Tik Tok our site is: msgrrossetti with scammers using msgrrosseti, msgrrossetti11, msgrrossetti1, msgrrossetti18 (Tik Tok). There are also fake sites on Facebook as well. Moreover, they have made an email address which looks like me but it is not (stephenjrossetti1@gmail.com) and they are contacting people asking for money for an orphanage in Africa. This is a scam. If you want to contribute to our ministry, go directly to our website and donate safely.