Demonic manifestations in Massachusetts

A wise and bracing homily by Fr. Robert J. Carr that lists some of the ways a person can open him or herself to demonic influence.

Sometime ago, I was talking to a man who had undergone a form of healing from the Linn Brothers. You may remember they were two Jesuits who engaged in healing ministry in the 1970’s and 1980’s. They are still around. Now, I am only relating the story. He said that the Linns did some kind of deliverance ministry and several demons were cast out of him. Deliverance is a form of ministry that is not as strong as exorcism. However, to be honest the most potent form of any form of such ministry even more potent than deliverance is in the Sacraments of Reconciliation and Eucharist.

One of the Linns asked the man how the demons got into him in the first place.

WHERE DID WE OPEN TO THE DEMONIC?

Let me ask you the same question. How did we come to a point in our existence where God’s creation was so terribly distorted? What doors did we leave open. Where was our understanding of faith lackadaisical? Where did we take our salvation for granted?

-Maybe it was thirty years ago when a group of Catholics used the rosary to mock the Church and her Cardinal during busing protests in Boston.

-Maybe it was due to the activity in the capital city of the occult just up the road from here, where witchcraft is only the beginning. One of the most spiritually dangerous products used to be manufactured there: a board where children hold séances in dark rooms for fun. The Author of An Exorcist Tells His Story says that is not a door to the demonic, that is a direct connection, no door involved to the demonic.

-Maybe it is because we are considered "The Capital City of Education" and our universities rejected the wisdom of God and embraced the darkened reasoning of the world. One of those universities has as its slogan Veritas, the latin word for truth. There are those in that university that not only reject The Truth they actually teach that only the stupid believe in God.

-Maybe it was because a community organizer at that university used a text book that praises the Devil (Rules for Radical by Saul Alinsky) and the people gave themselves over to a process rooted in the demonic.

-Maybe it is because of priests who preached paganism and embraced homosexuality who to this day are embraced by those in government, universities and media as examples of true Catholicism. Others were caught up in their own mess after destroying the lives of many.

-Maybe it was because people took the facts from a tragic crisis and twisted them around so that they could run out the spiritual descendent of the Apostles, an act by the way that comes with a curse.

-Maybe it is for many reasons. The fact is that it is here and we are surrounded by it.

Yet, as St. John’s Gospel tells us the darkness cannot overcome the Light.