The John-Henry Westen Show - Exorcist Fr. Ripperger Details The Importance of the Eucharist in Spiritual Warfare

00:00:00.000 There was one case that would take me literally days to get this demon to the surface because he

00:00:05.880 was so ensconced. And once I switched, and I couldn't get him to the surface very easily,

00:00:11.800 once I used that ritual, as soon as the Blessed Sacrament is exposed in front of the demon,

00:00:18.280 and he has to look at it, this guy would come up to the surface almost immediately.

00:00:22.740 Hello, my friends, and welcome to this episode of the John Henry Weston Show. We've got a real

00:00:33.520 treat for you, and I know that practically all of you know this guest already. His name is Father

00:00:39.200 Chad Ripperger. He is, as you know, an exorcist, probably one of the most well-known exorcists

00:00:45.700 in the world. And exorcism really is a dangerous field precisely because it is so real. We've

00:00:53.020 talked with other exorcists, with exorcist assistants, and as you've seen, it's very, very real. But on

00:00:59.880 this show, we're going to talk about the Eucharist, about the lack of belief in the Eucharist. And we

00:01:05.800 just had in Indiana the big culmination of a Eucharistic Congress after a year of trying to

00:01:13.320 work on getting people to believe once again in the real presence of Jesus in the Holy Eucharist.

00:01:19.580 After the bishops found that in polling from Pew from a few years ago, that it's around nearly 90%

00:01:25.780 of Catholics who don't believe. And so we're going to see what significance that has from an exorcist's 0.82

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00:02:30.120 lifefunder.com slash Christ is King. So good to be with you, Father. Thank you for having me. And

00:02:38.320 let's begin as we always do with the sign of the cross. And if you wouldn't mind leading us in that,

00:02:42.620 Father. Sure. In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit. Amen. So there are a few

00:02:49.620 people who are not going to know about you, who you are. So if you could, please give us a little snippet

00:02:56.740 of who is Father Chad Ripperger. Well, I was originally ordained for the Fraternity of St. Peter,

00:03:01.000 but then Bishop Slattery asked for me to be released to start a society of priests that does

00:03:07.560 exclusively exorcism work. I had been doing it for some time before then, exorcism work. And so then

00:03:15.740 after he retired, Bishop Aquila, Archbishop Aquila asked us to move it to, he invited us to move it to

00:03:24.860 the Archdiocese of Denver. And so we've founded the society there. It's called the Society of the

00:03:30.180 Most Sorrowful Mother. I'm so superior of it. And we are semi-contemplative. We pray three to four

00:03:35.740 hours a day. And the only thing we do other than pray is exorcism work. So I do do interviews like

00:03:42.780 this. I do do some writing and things like that, but that's just in conjunction with the actual work

00:03:48.440 that we do. So that's generally what I, what my status is at the moment. Beautiful. And it's very

00:03:56.060 much needed. So the Eucharist. This is an area where some people might say is extrinsic to what

00:04:03.560 you do. So what are you talking to an exorcist about the Eucharist for? However, if the Eucharist

00:04:10.540 is Jesus Christ and is the source and summit of our faith, which means everything we're doing here on

00:04:16.920 earth, that's got to be the central focus point of attack for Satan. So I'd love to hear your take

00:04:22.880 on that, Father. You mean as far as the Eucharist goes, as far in its, in its relationship to my work

00:04:28.580 or as in relation to your work? In relation to your work, yes, but also in relation to the focus that

00:04:32.740 the devil would have on the Eucharist itself. Well, what's kind of interesting is there's a couple

00:04:37.160 of things I think that are, that your listeners would probably find interesting. Obviously the demons

00:04:42.400 actually heard Christ talk about what the Eucharist actually was when he was talking

00:04:46.700 about it. So they actually have the knowledge of what it is. St. Thomas says that they don't

00:04:50.780 actually have the virtue of faith once they fell, but they do have something which is kind of

00:04:55.380 interesting. So they, they know this from what Christ said, this is what it is. And so they'll

00:04:59.800 often attack. One of the things we see is we see, but not just people who are possessed, but even

00:05:04.120 people who aren't, they'll actually attack people on their, in the process of receiving communion or

00:05:09.700 on the way up to going to communion. Because I've had people say to me, you know, things like,

00:05:13.700 well, you know, I'm fine during mass. And then when I go up to go communion, I get all these just

00:05:17.780 impure thoughts or all these weird thoughts that goes through my mind. And one time when I actually

00:05:22.100 had Beelzebub on the ropes, I asked him, is that you doing that? And he said, because he was afflicting

00:05:27.080 the particular person I was working with. And he says, yeah, that's me. So, so he does give you an

00:05:32.740 indicator that they, they see the importance of it, but there's another side to it that people may not be

00:05:38.380 aware of. And that's the fact that the demons actually, because their knowledge is infused by

00:05:43.940 God, they actually can, they know the substance of a thing, or they see the substance of a thing

00:05:48.680 intellectually. So when the Eucharist actually changes during the consecration from being bred

00:05:56.040 to actually being the body and blood of our Lord, what happens is, is that they can't see the divinity

00:06:02.320 of Christ, nor can they see the hypostatic union, and they can't see the soul of Christ, because if they

00:06:06.900 saw the soul, they would see the hypostatic union. Once it's consecrated, what they see is the actual

00:06:11.640 substance of what it actually is. So they actually see the blood of our Lord or our, or the body of

00:06:16.740 our Lord. And so this actually came out during a session during one of our exorcisms, where the

00:06:24.760 woman actually saw what the demon actually saw. And when she went to receive Holy Communion, she could,

00:06:31.940 she said when she looked in the chalice, even though the species of the, of the precious blood at that

00:06:36.880 time was actually a white wine, she actually saw blood in the chalice. So she saw what he saw.

00:06:44.820 So they know, they know that there is, they don't necessarily have full faith in the fact that this

00:06:50.360 is God, et cetera, but they, they know that Christ revealed that they know that this, so they know

00:06:54.480 that this is actually the case. And so there, for them, they know that this is the source from which

00:07:01.100 all the other graces flow. And so they know that this is one of the key things in relationship to a

00:07:06.280 person's spiritual life. This is one of the reasons why they tend to do a couple of things.

00:07:10.260 They either afflict people to make it difficult so that their reception is not done very devoutly or

00:07:16.580 with concentration or attention and things of that sort. But then the other thing is too, is they'll

00:07:21.360 also drive people receiving in the state of mortal sin, because they know clearly, perfectly what the

00:07:27.420 church is teaching is on that particular aspect of things. And so they want people to commit to

00:07:32.260 sacrilege in relationship to that, because that empowers them.

00:07:35.980 One of the things that happens, not only as you go to Holy Communion, but after you receive,

00:07:42.700 often your thoughts are filled with like other things. When you try to say your Thanksgiving,

00:07:49.940 because I believe the teaching of the church is that Jesus is truly present with you, body,

00:07:54.720 blood, soul, and divinity for about 15 minutes. And it's often also at that time where you're

00:08:01.780 completely distracted. So in your experience, is that too one of the times in which the devil

00:08:08.800 distracts?

00:08:09.580 Yeah, because they know, okay, so according to the theologians, the actual time in which you receive

00:08:14.960 the sacramental grace at the time of receiving the blessed sacrament. So let's just back up.

00:08:22.120 Every single sacrament actually has particular sacramental graces that are ordered towards

00:08:26.640 the fulfillment of that towards which that sacrament is ordered. So since, for example,

00:08:31.660 so when you receive the baptism, when you're baptized, you receive the actual graces, the actual

00:08:38.220 graces, in addition to sanctifying grace, you receive the actual graces, which are ordered towards

00:08:42.220 the fulfillment of your baptismal promises. Well, in the case of the Eucharist, it's actually towards 0.92

00:08:46.100 the living of the Christian life. And so that is actually done. They say that according to the

00:08:51.360 theologians, that the time in which you receive the sanctifying, or the actual grace, sorry,

00:08:58.800 the sanctifying graces and the actual graces is at the time in which you actually receive or consume

00:09:05.080 it. It's at the moment of consuming it. However, because it's still present in you, there's an

00:09:11.240 elevated way to the merit of your prayers during that time is actually elevated. And so the demons know

00:09:17.820 that because you can actually receive additional graces because of the fact that God is still

00:09:23.280 present in you. And so it increases the merit of your act. That's why they tend to attack people

00:09:29.140 during that time is to reduce the merit and efficacy of the person's prayers during that time frame.

00:09:35.120 Hmm. Unreal. So a coalition was put together called the Real Presence Coalition, a coalition of Catholic 0.99

00:09:43.460 groups, and they did a survey of some 15,000 people to ask the faithful, what do you think

00:09:50.000 causes this lack of belief in the Eucharist? And what do you think might help? And they've gotten,

00:09:54.860 I believe, over 15,000 responses right now. And one of them has to do with posture,

00:10:01.660 the suggestion to receive kneeling and receive on the tongue, as opposed to standing and receiving on the

00:10:08.940 hand. Is there an element that the demons care about with regard to the method of reception of

00:10:14.960 Holy Communion? Yes, I should say this. It hasn't come out in any particular cases that I've actually

00:10:21.500 been aware of. However, they will always tend towards doing or get people, they'll tend to incline people

00:10:32.000 to do those things which are going to be less suitable to the action or the reality of what

00:10:39.380 you're actually doing on an external level. So they want you to do things externally that don't tend to

00:10:44.080 fit what you're actually doing internally, because they want that disparity, because then it's less

00:10:48.500 meritorious in the eyes of God. It's actually, I actually wrote in one of my books, they kind of

00:10:53.560 talk about how this symmetry plays an important point in relationship to the liturgy in general,

00:10:59.200 but this is actually true, even in this particular case. So what we have found is, is that whenever,

00:11:05.420 because of, I say the traditional Latin mass, that whenever people receive the communion,

00:11:10.540 kneeling when they're in, when they're possessed, they tend to find that doing those particular things

00:11:16.340 are more difficult for them to do, which is an indicator that it's more difficult for the demons,

00:11:21.960 because the person's experiencing the demons revulsion or, or hatred, or not wanting

00:11:29.140 this to be done, kind of a flight, he wants to get away from it. And so they'll experience those

00:11:33.960 particular kinds of things. Historically, the church actually did have communion in the hand in

00:11:39.800 the very beginning of parts of the church. And then after, by the middle of the fourth, fifth century,

00:11:45.140 it pretty much did away with it because of the fact that it realized that it was more suitable

00:11:49.620 for the lay people to receive in a kneeling posture, because, you know, before Christ,

00:11:54.560 every knee shall bow. So if this is Christ, well, then you should receive it. It's more suitable 0.52

00:11:59.500 to receive it kneeling. And then, of course, on the tongue, and this is something that most people

00:12:04.900 are unaware of, is the fact that in the old rite of baptism, it's no longer the case in the new rite

00:12:12.000 of baptism, but in the old rite of baptism, there's a part of the baptism in which exercise salt is taken

00:12:19.800 and placed on the tongue of the child or the person being baptized. And when the priest does that,

00:12:25.960 the line that he says is, may this be a foretaste of the heavenly food. And what's happening is,

00:12:31.080 is the exercise salt is exercising the tongue to make it a suitable organ of reception for the

00:12:37.760 Eucharist. And so there's that direct connection already at the time of baptism, even when it's a

00:12:42.560 child to prepare the tongue for reception. Whereas in the case of the hands of the person,

00:12:49.920 unless they're a priest, which are consecrated, and so there's a certain suitability to that,

00:12:56.080 the hands have not been properly prepared for that particular thing. And so as any kind of

00:13:02.560 liturgical gesture or any kind of liturgical ritual, and so as a result of that, it's more suitable to

00:13:08.380 receive it on the tongue. And so the demons don't want that to occur because of the fact that it's

00:13:13.020 more suitable. I've spoken with Bishop Athanasius Schneider quite a bit about the reception of

00:13:20.320 Holy Communion in hand. And he was particularly concerned about the particles of our Lord being left

00:13:27.440 on the hands and then swept on the floor. And he talked about, we've been, he said,

00:13:34.960 trampling our Lord under our feet for 50 years. And what, what are your thoughts about that, Father?

00:13:42.580 There's two components to it. The first is that St. Thomas Aquinas, and from that point on, it was

00:13:49.500 kind of became a talking point of dogmatic theology, where he said that the, once the demensive quantity

00:13:59.160 of the species of the bread gets to the point where it's not recognizable by a human being

00:14:04.360 as bread, then our Lord's presence ceases to exist in that. And that became the accepted position.

00:14:10.940 I realized that, that there was a couple of catechisms in the fifties that actually said,

00:14:15.020 regardless of how small, but that's not actually exactly correct. It's when, if they can't recognize

00:14:20.320 it as bread, then it's not the body and blood of our Lord. So I don't think that the amount of

00:14:27.980 sacrilege is occurring that people think is occurring, but that being said, there are times

00:14:34.960 when the particles are sufficiently large enough. And so that is actually happening. And I, even

00:14:39.860 priests who say the new right admit that this is, this is a particular issue that has to be addressed

00:14:44.820 because of the fact that there are particles that are large enough to be recognized as bread,

00:14:50.100 that the species of bread and therefore our Lord's presence is still there. And so, and that, you

00:14:56.600 know, what's kind of ironic is, is that historically they didn't even have, you know, when I was growing

00:15:01.260 up in the 1960s, every so often they, this is when they first started putting carpet in churches.

00:15:07.460 And every so often you'd, you'd see inside the sanctuary, you'd see like a section of the carpet

00:15:12.520 that had been cut out and like a replacement piece had been put there. And that was because the host had

00:15:17.820 been dropped in that particular carpet. And so they had to literally cut it out and burn it in

00:15:21.880 order to make sure that there was no sacrilege that actually ended up occurring. And so we went

00:15:26.220 from being so super careful to that. And even, um, in the old, right, you know, if the host is dropped,

00:15:31.980 you have to do the purification of the location in order to make sure that there's no particles that

00:15:37.120 remain. And so there's a, um, a great care about that. And then of course, there's all sorts of,

00:15:42.340 um, precautions that are done in the old, right, where there's the patent of the thing and then

00:15:47.060 the priest and it's done on the tongue. And so there's less, there's far less like, uh, ability

00:15:51.760 for that type of thing to actually end up occurring. And so that's one of the reasons that the church

00:15:56.640 had always done this to safeguard, to make sure that that was done. And then the other side of

00:16:02.340 it is, um, the, but in the new, right, there's a lot, there's the safeguards aren't as much as in

00:16:07.720 place. And so I think that that type of thing is happening. I would agree with Bishop Snyder that that

00:16:12.860 is occurring and that it's something that the church eventually needs. Actually, it would be

00:16:17.800 nice if it addressed it immediately, but I don't think it will. One of the big controversies around

00:16:22.300 the Eucharist, and it's particularly cropped up now because in America, you know, you have a Catholic

00:16:28.420 for president, um, and you had Nancy Pelosi before, but with Joe Biden, you have a Catholic who is

00:16:35.400 obviously pro-abortion, obviously pro-homosexual, against the teaching of the church in so many areas,

00:16:41.880 and yet receiving Holy Communion, faithfully going to mass every Sunday. And then the reports come

00:16:47.740 that he was there and he received Holy Communion at the parish that he normally goes to. And what

00:16:53.740 are, what are Catholics to make of that? And, and what does that do in the realm of the demonic?

00:16:59.260 Is there some kind of, um, connection there? You said earlier that they, that they encourage

00:17:06.540 such sacrilegious communions. That's right. Yeah. Is that not what we're seeing here?

00:17:10.820 Objectively speaking. Yes. I mean, ultimately we don't know the interior state. However,

00:17:15.320 the church says when it comes to the reception of communion or the priest actually giving out

00:17:19.420 communion, it's not just based upon the person's interior disposition, because when a priest is

00:17:23.920 giving out communion, he doesn't necessarily know that it has to do with the person. If the person's

00:17:28.520 a public manifest sinner, then in that particular case, he, he has an obligation to deny the person

00:17:36.120 communion because of the fact it's not just because of the scandal, but it's also because

00:17:40.760 of the fact that based upon the externals, this person, uh, until they make external, um,

00:17:46.300 reparation for that. In other words, so for example, if you have a politician who is supporting

00:17:51.620 abortion and they make that publicly known, well, then they have to publicly repudiate that

00:17:55.980 before historically the church would say, okay, now you can come back to the sacraments because of

00:17:59.980 the fact that, um, it, it causes public scandal, but also you have to make restitution proportionate

00:18:05.540 in relationship to these things. So in relationship to that, I think that the demons would, uh,

00:18:10.800 like those types of things. Again, nothing's ever come up in session, but I think they would like

00:18:14.860 those particular kinds of things being done by politicians or by people who, um, are public

00:18:21.040 manifest sinners in that regard. Um, it doesn't matter what their subjective state is here. Again,

00:18:26.200 we're talking about objectively speaking, this is what's occurring that you have somebody who's

00:18:30.820 doing something that objectively speaking is grave matter, and then they're coming to communion. And

00:18:35.780 so there's, um, uh, uh, it, it, it has all the appearance of sacrilege and it has also the, um,

00:18:43.020 it causes scandal. And so the demons would like those particular kinds of things. Now the scandal

00:18:48.060 part, I think is particularly important because those two things together and other things, but those

00:18:53.040 two things together, um, where you have, um, communion in the hand, um, where the people are

00:18:59.900 handling the communion and also you have Eucharistic ministers giving out communion, are these things

00:19:04.860 sinful? Well, technically speaking, no, but that's not the issue. I mean, historically they would have

00:19:09.820 been, um, during a certain timeframe because the church had forbidden it. And so it was sacrilegious

00:19:14.640 to do it because of the, of the matter of obedience, but the, what's happened, but now what's

00:19:19.900 happened is because it's permitted. The problem is, is that when people see, um, someone whose

00:19:24.480 hands aren't consecrated and anybody is anybody and everybody can give up and give out communion

00:19:29.600 and anybody can, and everybody's receiving communion on the hand, there's no precautions

00:19:34.020 being taken. So the lack of precautions and the fact that it, it's kind of normalized or kind of

00:19:40.680 reduced down into who can give it so that there's less importance given to who can give it and who

00:19:46.680 can't, what happens is, is that reduces people's perception of the reality of Christ's presence.

00:19:53.160 Because if this is Christ and this is God, the one who maintains the entire universe in existence

00:19:58.200 and who just by a single thought could annihilate everybody and everything, right? This is, and

00:20:03.380 that's, you know, this is, that's what we're actually talking about here. Then the way we have

00:20:08.700 to handle that thing has to be, the way we handle it is going to teach people. It's going to form

00:20:13.860 in people's minds, the nobility, the mag, uh, the majesty and the magnificence of Christ in the

00:20:21.060 Eucharist or not. And if you stop, if you start doing those things, then over the course of time,

00:20:26.720 it's going to start making people think, well, this isn't that important because if it was that

00:20:31.140 important, well, then the priest would be doing it, et cetera. And people are going to accuse me of

00:20:35.000 clericalism. So be it. But the fact of the matter is, is this is just psychologically how people work.

00:20:40.560 It's the same. Okay. So you've got that reduction and we don't give this thing that in much importance

00:20:46.340 and we're not looking at it and we're not handling it in a way where we recognize that real profound

00:20:52.340 reverence has to be approached in relationship to this thing. We're just kind of, anybody can handle

00:20:57.380 it, et cetera. But we go from that. And then we have politicians that are receiving Holy Communion

00:21:02.860 and not just politicians. It's in parishes. A lot of times scandal arises when people who are public

00:21:08.560 manifest sinners are going up receiving communion and the priest isn't doing anything about it.

00:21:13.060 You know, like for example, people who are in public illicit marriages and things of that sort.

00:21:20.140 And so you'll have those kinds of people when they're coming up. What that does is that it does

00:21:26.380 two things. One is that in the minds of people, it nullifies the teachings of St. Paul, that if you

00:21:32.840 receive Holy Communion in the state of mortal sin, you are guilty of the same. In other words,

00:21:36.780 they don't see this as a grave sacrilege that the priest is just doing it and not thinking a thing

00:21:41.980 of it or people are just going up. So again, it reduces people's perceptions of the reality of

00:21:48.600 Christ being there because if he was really there, we would be approaching it in a fundamentally

00:21:53.100 different way. And so I think those two things together and other things actually are reducing

00:21:58.820 people's perception of this, of what the Eucharist actually is. And so over the course of time,

00:22:04.540 because this has been going on for 40 or 50 years, it's because this reduction of the reverence

00:22:11.040 and the care and concern we've taken in relationship to how the Eucharist is given out and then also

00:22:16.520 to whom may receive it and who not, et cetera. If people actually saw the priest denying certain

00:22:23.400 politicians, for example, that are pro-abortion communion, what would happen was people would say,

00:22:29.260 okay, the church is serious about his teaching that this is God. But when they're not, well,

00:22:35.100 then they're just like, well, how serious are they? And how serious are they that, you know,

00:22:39.600 because anybody, or they'll just drop the Eucharist and then they just pick it back up and nobody does

00:22:45.240 anything. Over the course of time, this is going to erode people's perception that this is actually

00:22:51.760 God because if it's God, then we should have a certain fear of the Lord and the handling of it.

00:22:56.380 What are some of the other areas that you've seen that you think are reducing belief in the

00:23:02.560 Blessed Sacrament, but also ways in which we could actually bring reverence for or belief in the

00:23:09.740 true presence of Christ in the Blessed Sacrament back?

00:23:12.620 Well, I think that there's two parts to it. The first is that the church needs to do something

00:23:21.240 about the reverence in which priests have regarding the offering of mass because of the fact that a lot

00:23:29.100 of priests are just very sloppy, how they handle the Eucharist is very sloppy. They don't, you know,

00:23:34.180 even, and of course, you've heard stories about, you know, things like after mass, they just pour the

00:23:39.260 precious blood down this aquarium and things of this sort. I think those things are kind of waning a

00:23:43.720 little bit. I suppose they do happen here and there. I also think the fact that they, so I think

00:23:50.240 liturgically they need to get reverence straightened kind of out, but then I also think that, and then

00:23:57.600 also requiring the people to go back to the receiving of Holy Communion at the altar rail, I think would be

00:24:03.220 important because I think that a lot of people don't seem to understand is that it's called an altar

00:24:09.420 rail for a reason. It's not just because it demarks the area where the altar is. That's not the actual

00:24:15.940 real reason for it. The reason for the altar rail is the fact that the, in every sacrifice, there's three

00:24:23.140 components, the offertory, the slaying of the victim, and the receiving of the communion. You have to

00:24:28.880 consume the victim, right? So we see this in the priest's sacrifice. He does the offertory during mass, and

00:24:34.080 then he, the canon of the mass, the actual consecration is the slaying of the victim

00:24:37.920 sacramentally. And you even see this even in Christ's own sacrifice. But then, of course, then

00:24:43.560 there's the consuming of the Eucharist. Well, what the priest offers, the lay people cannot cause 0.68

00:24:49.860 bread to turn into wine. And so they have the priest, whereas the priest does that, and so his sacrifice

00:24:57.060 is different. This is why Benedict required the change in the prayer, may your sacrifice and mine be

00:25:03.940 acceptable to God the Father Almighty. This was done intentionally to make sure there was a

00:25:08.600 distinction between the sacrifice which the priest was giving and then sacrifice which the lay people

00:25:12.960 were doing. Well, the sacrifice that the lay people do is to offer up their sacrifice in union with the

00:25:18.900 sacrifice of the priest, okay? So they're attending mass, they're offering up their prayer sufferings and

00:25:24.620 good works in union with the priest who's offering this mass, and that initial offertory, and then the

00:25:29.800 slaying of the victim is their willingness to die to themselves in relationship to whatever the will

00:25:34.120 of God is. But the consummation is done at the altar rail. So the altar rail is technically speaking

00:25:40.880 the altar of sacrifice of the laity. And so it's where they complete their sacrifice there. Well, when you

00:25:48.340 strip all that stuff out, and if you were to put that stuff back in, and if you were to have people

00:25:53.960 kneeling, and all that was put back into place, it creates a psychological perspective on the individual

00:26:01.260 that this is truly a sacrifice, this is truly our Lord, and that this is truly what we need to be

00:26:06.400 doing to treat Him in a way that is dignified in a manner that is worthy of Him. Beautiful.

00:26:12.180 We need, indeed, need to bring it back. The U.S. bishops just made and tried with the Eucharistic

00:26:21.780 Congress to do some of that. They had Eucharistic processions, they had adoration times. In fact,

00:26:29.460 the adoration times at the church, at the Congress in Indiana, it was full, actually. It was amazing

00:26:36.600 to see literally thousands of people adoring our Lord in a crowded, crowded church, everybody kneeling

00:26:43.320 down and praying to our Lord. So let's speak about the power of Jesus exposed in the monstrance in

00:26:50.360 the church. And for all those listeners who might wonder about that, I'm speaking about when the

00:26:54.900 consecrated host, we believe, in the Catholic Church, is Jesus, is visible, and being held in

00:27:01.020 a golden holder called a monstrance. So let's speak about the power of our Lord's presence exposed in

00:27:07.460 the monstrance. And I've heard that there's been, you know, sort of blessings done in that way with

00:27:13.100 the monstrance that have caused great healings and things like that. Can you speak to that as an

00:27:18.280 exorcist? What have you seen? There is in the, I believe it's either in the Ritual of Milan or the

00:27:25.000 Melkline Ritual. It's in one of those two. I'm pretty sure it's the Melkline Ritual. It's called

00:27:31.380 exorcism done before, in front of a Blessed Sacrament, Quorum Santisum. So it's done in front of

00:27:35.740 the Blessed Sacrament. And what we have found as exorcists is that when you do the solemn exposition of

00:27:43.140 the Blessed Sacrament, and then you begin the session and you do that ritual, or just, even if

00:27:48.180 you're not doing that ritual, but just to have the Blessed Sacrament exposed, the impact it has

00:27:55.500 on the particular demon is significant. There are cases where we, it took us, there was one case that

00:28:01.260 would take me literally days to get this demon to the surface because he was so ensconced. And once I

00:28:09.080 switched and I couldn't get him to the surface very easily, once I used that ritual, as soon as the

00:28:14.220 Blessed Sacrament is exposed in front of the demon, and he has to look at it, he, this guy would come up

00:28:21.700 to the surface almost immediately. And so, and they all, they all talk about, and even the, we, so we use

00:28:28.480 it quite a bit now in relationship to our exorcisms where we expose the Blessed Sacrament and then

00:28:34.420 up on the altar, and then we come down, and then the exorcism is done in the body of the Church.

00:28:39.380 And what we have found is, is that, and this is reported to us primarily by the people who are

00:28:44.340 possessed, is that it's much harder for the demon to sustain the exorcism with the Blessed Sacrament

00:28:52.100 exposed than when it's not.

00:28:53.560 Hmm. Beautiful. So, Father, any final thoughts for us with regard to the demonic as it pertains to

00:29:01.480 the Eucharist, and the need for people to come back to true belief in Jesus, Jesus' true presence?

00:29:09.580 Well, as an exorcist, we have noticed that how deep a person's devotion is to the Eucharist has

00:29:17.660 having a direct impact on how rapidly even that they can actually be liberated. And also, I think

00:29:25.240 that, and so, and I, you know, it's interesting because right before you receive Holy Communion,

00:29:32.240 you know, the priest says, we say that my soul may be healed, so that Christ himself is the source of

00:29:38.300 all healing. And so, I think that people fail to realize how much the Eucharist can heal people's

00:29:45.700 moral and spiritual difficulties and problems, and some even, in some cases, psychological, although not

00:29:51.760 all. But it also, I think that the importance primarily has to do with the fact that this is

00:29:58.080 God, that this is, that this is what the Church has always taught, Christ himself taught it. And as a

00:30:04.960 result of that, if, if, if it is, which I think it's actually correct, what Vatican II said, it's the

00:30:12.300 source and summit, that the Eucharist is the source and summit. Why? Because it's actually God. It's the

00:30:17.200 second person of the Trinity, and by circumcession, the doctrine of circumcession, it's the whole

00:30:21.760 Trinity, actually, present. So, it's the body, blood, soul, and divinity of Christ. This is what

00:30:27.600 our goal ultimately is. It's to be in heaven with Christ, to be able to see him. Now, we don't

00:30:32.540 necessarily see him in the Blessed Sacrament, but we do see him in the sense of knowing and believing

00:30:37.020 that he is present in the Eucharist by faith. And so, once people have a greater love

00:30:43.400 and appreciation and true belief that this is really the body and blood, soul, and divinity

00:30:50.400 of Christ, then it basically, from that flows everything else in relationship to, not just

00:30:57.260 the grace into the person's life, but in relationship to what the Church teachings are, and all of

00:31:01.960 that. So, it's, it really is the, the, the key doctrine. This is actually one of the reasons

00:31:08.660 why, historically, the Eucharist was called the mystery of faith. You know, the fact that Christ

00:31:15.220 has died and Christ will come again is a mystery of faith, but Christ, that is the, in the Eucharist,

00:31:21.080 is the mystery of faith. And if we don't believe in the mystery of faith, then pretty much everything

00:31:27.700 else that we believe in is to not. And I think this is one of the reasons why we need to really

00:31:33.560 refocus. The Church needs to really start preaching this, again, and making clear to people, this is

00:31:39.440 truly what we are, and we need to start treating him in the Eucharist as if he was.

00:31:43.760 Indeed. Indeed. Father, if you wouldn't mind ending us off with your blessing, please.

00:31:49.820 Benediccio Dei Omnipotentes, Patris et Filii, et Spiritus Sancti, et Super Vos, et Manit Semper. Amen.

00:31:56.700 Amen. Amen. Thank you so very much, Father. God bless you, and God bless all of you.

00:32:03.560 And we'll see you next time.

The John-Henry Westen Show - August 15, 2024

Exorcist Fr. Ripperger Details The Importance of the Eucharist in Spiritual Warfare

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