This Real Exorcist Is Revealing Details On Driving Out Satan
Summary
In this episode of the John Henry Weston Show, Father Carlos Martins talks about demonic possession in the Catholic Church and how demonic activity underlies all the problems we are facing in the world today, including abortion, homosexuality, drug abuse, and so much more.
Transcript
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What Hollywood portrayed in the movie The Exorcist, with levitations, vomiting, spitting at the priest with an uncanny marksmanship,
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all of that has not been a movie for me. I have seen that first.
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My name is Father Carlos Martins. I'm a priest of the Catholic Church.
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People ask Exorcists all the time, is that movie accurate and did it depict what happens during possession and during liberation accurately?
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And the answer is, the short answer is yes. The only thing that I see in that movie that doesn't happen in an exorcism was the 360-degree head spin.
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In an interview with the New York Times, Nancy Pelosi and her daughter Alexandra spoke of the hammer attack incident with Nancy's husband Paul
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and claimed that over Thanksgiving she had priests coming trying to have an exorcism of the house and having prayer services, end quote.
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Well, the New York Post, however, seemed to cast doubt on the story since Nancy's pastor told the newspaper,
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as far as I know, no exorcisms or priest services were performed in her home.
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But exorcism is no joking matter. In fact, demonic activity underlies all the problems we are facing in the world today.
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It's tied to abortion, to the LGBT agenda, to sexual abuse, drug abuse, and so much more.
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A couple of months ago, I had a fascinating guest on this show by the name of Patricia Sandoval,
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who spoke about dealing with her three abortions, the aftermath of the abortions.
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But she also told the story of a man in Mexico who is possessed after the legalization of abortion in the country.
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The man is possessed by the very same demons that ruled Mexico before Our Lady of Guadalupe converted the nation
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and brought an end to the brutal child sacrifice going on there. Have a listen.
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Pope Francis tells Father Juan Rivas, take him to Father Amorith for an exorcism.
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These demons revealed we are the four demons that governed and controlled Mexico before the apparition in 1531.
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We are the demons of bloodshed and human sacrifice.
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Now that the Mexican people have betrayed the woman up above, we are now on the throne again.
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Please go to the John Henry Weston Show video page and look up the show with Patricia Sandoval to watch the full video.
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But demonic activity is also tied to the other battles in the culture war as well.
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It went viral because it was called Promiscuity Can Lead to Demonic Possession.
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The story was based on a book by an exorcist in England, a priest of Westminster,
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the leading diocese in the Catholic Church of England and Wales.
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And he wrote that promiscuity, as well as homosexuality and pornography,
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is a form of sexual perversion and can lead to demonic possession.
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And, you know, he offered what may be an explanation for the explosion of homosexuality in recent years.
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His name was Father Jeremy Davies, and he said, and I quote,
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Among the causes of homosexuality is a contagious demonic factor, end quote.
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In his book called Exorcism, Understanding Exorcism in Scripture and Practice,
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Even heterosexual promiscuity is perversion, and intercourse, which belongs in the sanctuary of married love,
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can become a pathway not only for disease, but also for evil spirits, end quote.
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Even the transgender craze can be linked back to the action of the evil one.
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One of the best-known modern-day exorcists, the late Father Gabriel Amorth, who died in 2016,
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he wrote that disordered ideas about gender, especially in children, can be a sign of torment from the devil.
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Demonic disturbances that torment individuals, called a diabolic obsession, he said, and I quote,
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can lead to confusion about one's gender, particularly in the young, he wrote.
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And his book was called An Exorcist Explains the Demonic,
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The Antics of Satan and His Army of Fallen Angels.
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But the Church is so divided on this question, it seems like it's suffering from multiple personality syndrome.
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Back in December, a priest in Germany actually praised the benefits of pornography.
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So in response, an American priest and exorcist, who's been an exorcist, I think, for about 15 years,
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responded, warning that pornography can open souls to demonic activity.
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That was Monsignor Stephen Rossetti, an exorcist for the Archdiocese of Washington and a licensed psychologist.
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a pornography addiction, like any serious sin, is an opening to the demonic, end quote.
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But the schizophrenia in the Church gets even worse.
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Last November, Swiss Bishop Joseph Maria Bonamain of the Diocese of Churr abolished the office of exorcist in his diocese.
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Bonamain said that, he said actually in an interview, that there would be normal solutions for most problems,
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and that people have, and that he's never been confronted with a person that needed a major exorcism.
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According to the report that came from Swiss radio and televisions called SRF,
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the bishop claims to have received the task from Pope Francis to solve the dispute between arch-conservative and moderate Catholics in his diocese,
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and he said that not having an exorcist was a step toward what he called normalization.
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Well, on the opposite side of the spectrum, and in line with traditional Catholic thought,
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in July of last year, the Archdiocese of Manila in the Philippines began construction on a large exorcism center,
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as exorcists have revealed that they now face 10 cases needing exorcism every day.
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In May, Cardinal Jose Advincula and Father Francisco Sequia, director of the Archdiocese of Manila's Office of Exorcism,
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led the groundbreaking ceremony to begin construction of the St. Michael Center for Spiritual Liberation and Exorcism in Makati City.
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Now, Father Sequia said that the center would exactly minister to those in bondage to the devil who are therefore the poorest of the poor and are usually overlooked, end quote.
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He added that they in the diocese are now looking to increase the number of exorcists in the country,
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even though there has already been a dramatic growth in exorcists.
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At that time, there were already 171 exorcists in various dioceses in the Philippines.
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So, as I said, exorcism and the demonic is no joke,
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and Father Carlos Martins is about to reveal that in his new podcast.
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What Hollywood portrayed in the movie The Exorcist, with levitations, vomiting, spitting at the priest with an uncanny marksmanship,
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I was an atheist until, as a young adult, the Lord brought me out of darkness.
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And since then, I have been living in his love.
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But I've also seen things, very evil things, things that I wish weren't true.
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The job of the exorcist, properly speaking, is not to cast out the devil.
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The job of the exorcist is to find out, why is the devil there?
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This is the first time I've opened my files about these battles to the public.
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Father, we always start our program at the side of the cross.
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In the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.
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We ask you to bless it in Jesus's most holy name.
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In the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.
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Very controversially, I guess, in some circles anyway, you are an exorcist.
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I'm going to start out by stating what it doesn't mean.
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So most people, and this is a part of a teaching.
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And so this is a series of, this is a line for which I'm known all over.
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The job of the exorcist is not to cast out the devil.
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The job of the exorcist is to find out why is the devil there?
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And then it's the exorcist's job to work with the victim to rescind those rights.
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It's, so most people think that, you know, an exorcist comes in, he faces the devil, and
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they go pitting against, one against the other.
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So, so, and the weapons that the exorcist has is the church equips him with a right, equips
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him with a trusty crucifix, equips him with holy water.
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And, and basically he, he goes in and clobbers the devil over the head.
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And that is, that is, that is not what happens at all.
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So if the devil is in somebody or in a place, he is there because he has gained the right
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And just like, I can't go into your home and kick you out of it because you have a right
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I can't go into somebody and kick out the devil as long as he has the right to be there.
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So I've got to, I've got to work on those rights.
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I want to back up a little bit to your own journey.
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How in the world did you end up becoming a priest, let alone becoming an exorcist?
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I was baptized as an infant, but I was not raised with religion.
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And when I was in university, I encountered a small group of students, just a handful,
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maybe it was about six, perhaps, and a small number of professors who were committed Catholics.
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And their Catholicism, their Christianity was so authentic that they emanated this profound
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And the story that I like to tell that exhibits this piece, the anecdote, is I was with one
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of these students one day in one of the coffee shops on campus.
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And somebody came in, we're sitting at a little round table, each having a cup of coffee.
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Somebody came in and informed him that his car had been stolen from the parking lot that
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morning, it was driven around campus and the back streets, and it was slammed into a great
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Well, I guess it just wasn't God's will for me to have a car right now.
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He could still enjoy the cup of coffee in front of him.
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And that, you know, our conversation went on at least for half an hour after that.
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And I can't tell you a single thing about what we talked about.
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I was mesmerized by the fact that this, he didn't give a rat's rump about his car, which
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And when one of them organized a retreat at the end of the semester, so I was in my, in
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between my second and third year of university at that point, I just finished the second.
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So he said the word retreat, and I understood vacation.
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And then once I saw what it consisted of, so, I mean, we had adoration, each man would have
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four hours a day at every six hours, you had an hour that would begin.
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I mean, even the Carthusians don't do something that, that kind of hardcore.
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And, you know, who do you think as luck would have it, as grace would have it, who do you
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So there I am in front of what looked to me like a cracker, right?
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So there, there, there is, I'm in front of what looks to me like a cracker.
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And, and I'm supposed to adore this and, and, and worship what looks to me in that manner
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And, and I, I, you know, I, this was beef before cell phones.
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So in order to get out, I, I had one of two things that I could say, I could say, I forgot
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something at home and then I had to leave to go get it and then just not come back.
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The other one was, I just, I feel ill, but you know, I had so much respect for the integrity
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So their, their witness had such a purity about it that I just, I couldn't bring myself
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And so I did what the, the most honest act I'd ever did in my life.
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I got on my knees and, and I said, God, I don't know if you're here or not.
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And I felt just completely foolish in doing this.
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Um, I mean, I felt, it felt like to me, the equivalent of kneeling in front of a tree and
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I mean, it, that's what the experience felt like to me.
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I said, Lord God, I don't know if you exist or not.
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I don't believe you do, but if you do, please reveal yourself to me and I will give you my
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If you do so, if you can give me the faith that I see in them, the joy I see in them,
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And so what happened then for the, nothing happened.
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I didn't hear anything, but I was surprised how easy it was for the rest of that hour to
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It wasn't overwhelming, but the anxiety of sitting there for an hour and doing nothing,
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And then the third shift, which happened at 3 AM, that's when the, the wheels of kind
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And, and in that, in that sometime during that adoration time, I had an experience of
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God where I knew that I was in front of almighty God.
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I knew that I was created in love and that experience was so powerful, so real, so striking
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So I, I went to that retreat as an atheist and I came out a believer.
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It was about seven years after that, that I got a call to the priesthood.
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Again, ironically, I was at a retreat, but you know, God, God speaks to people on retreats.
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And so I got the call there and it, you know, that one was in a sense, much less dramatic,
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or at least it didn't take as long for that experience to happen.
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On one of the days, the Lord just said, Carlos, I want you to be a priest.
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I promise to make you very happy if you choose that.
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And in that moment, the experience was as strong as my conversion experience was.
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And again, to this day, I've, I've never doubted it.
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It would, it's an experience that it feels just impossible to doubt.
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As a seminarian, I was involved in some deliverance cases, some spiritual warfare kind of case,
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As a deacon, that's when I was kind of thrown into things.
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I was stationed in Houston, Texas, and the companions, we compromised at the time,
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the, the exorcism ministry for Cardinal Daniel DiNardo, the archbishop.
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And there were, there were three priests involved in that ministry, all, all of them being part of my religious community.
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I went on to replace one of them when I became ordained as a priest.
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They were so busy dealing with people and possession cases and severe oppression cases that when something relatively minor would come in,
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like a house haunting where, where a house is infested, the people are not, but the place is,
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they just turned to me and said, okay, deacon, batter up, go get rid of the devil.
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And, and at the time I didn't have any training, but I knew, I just knew, I just had a kind of instinct.
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If the devil's there, he's going to be there for a reason.
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Like I was kind of, I guess, had enough wits about me to know that you don't get the devil in a place,
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in a person by making peanut butter sandwiches, uh, or by chewing the wrong flavor of gum,
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that, that there's something that has to happen that brings him into that situation.
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And so I went into those house, uh, exorcisms with the knowledge that something has to be undone
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that was done in order for the devil, uh, to depart.
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And so upon ordination as a priest, I was thrown right into the ministry and,
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and I've worked in within it ever since, uh, in two days, I fly out of state and help, uh,
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Father, if you could finish that story for us about the house, that was fascinating.
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If you can give us one example or, or an approximation of one, um, of what can go into
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our house to haunt it and how to stop that from happening, how to kick the devil out?
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So one of the very first cases I had, so a woman came to the parish and she requested her house
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to be blessed. And what I started to do was ask people, why do you want it blessed? I mean,
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you know, Catholics, we, we don't need a reason to have a house blessed. We just
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bless it because it's a good thing to do. Uh, we, we always do that. But I started asking that
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because sometimes people say, Hey, I want my house blessed. What they really mean is,
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uh, you know, there's something bad going on in my house and I, I want it addressed. I want to get
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rid of it. So, uh, so I asked her that and she said, things are happening in it. What kinds of
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things? Uh, well, she would have an object sitting, um, on a table, uh, safely on a table,
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safely on a countertop. The object would just suddenly unexpectedly fall to the floor. It was
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nowhere near the edge. It would fall and break. Appliances would turn on by themselves would turn
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off by themselves. Uh, but kind of the, the creepiest thing was there was a music box in one
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of the bedrooms that would start chiming randomly day and night. Uh, so this house was a house that
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belonged to her uncle. Uh, her house had been destroyed in a fire. And so he had lent the use
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of his house to his niece. He was deployed in Afghanistan at the time. So he was going to be
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away at least another three years. Um, and so his house was empty, let her use it. And so, and so
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forth. So she entered into the house and all of this stuff started to happen. The music box was one
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that it was the one that was the creepiest. And she described, um, sitting on the couch and, and at
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times thinking, gosh, you know, it's been hours since I've heard the music box. Maybe it stopped. And
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at that moment, it would start chiming almost as if it could read her thoughts. The devil cannot read
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our thoughts. He can anticipate, uh, what we're thinking by our body language, uh, by the patterns
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that he's observed by which he can deduce what we're thinking based on what we're doing. He can
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do that. He's very good at that, but he, he does not have access to our thoughts regardless. So I,
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I agree to go over and I, I bring my bag, everything I need to, to bless and exercise this house. And as
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soon as I arrive at the place, she, she, I stepped in and I saw the ceiling fan start spinning and it
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would spin really slowly. And then all of a sudden start spinning so fast. I mean, spinning as fast as
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the propeller of a plane, I spinning so fast that the, the fins on this fan were invisible. The, the,
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the thing was just a blur. It would create so much wind that papers and small objects in the,
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in the room were, were blowing around, bouncing around. So I go over to the counter to the kind
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of the Island counter in the kitchen. I put down my bag and I start taking out my things. And I asked
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her to go to the sink and, and bring me back a bowl with water. So I, first thing I'm doing is
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blessing the holy water, making holy water. When I'm done that, I move right into the prayers of
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exorcism for a place out of the ritual that the church has. And as I'm saying those prayers,
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boom, I hear the music box going now to give another dimension about that music box. It was sitting on a
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dresser and what, what creeped her out is the fact that there was nobody present in the house other than
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her. And so no one is winding this music box. And at times it would go off for hours without stop.
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It would stop randomly pick up sometimes after a great length of time, sometimes after a short,
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but it wasn't being wound. And so she, she went to investigate it and she could see the key
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inside on the side and she removed the key, but that had absolutely no effect on it.
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She tried to pick up the music box to remove it out of the house and it wouldn't budge. It was as if
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it was, it had four legs, but it was as if it was fused to the top of the dresser. So after making the
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holy water and after saying the exorcism prayers for the house, I go around blessing each room,
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sprinkling holy water everywhere. When I'm done the first floor, I move on to the second. Meanwhile,
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the fan is doing its own thing. It stops spinning in one direction instantly and starts spinning just
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as fast in the other direction with no slowdown and no buildup of momentum. I mean, something that
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would just be physically impossible in terms of, of the laws of nature. So I bless all of the rooms on
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the second floor. And the last one I leave is the bedroom with the music box. And so I entered into
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that room and there is the music box sitting on the counter and it's chiming away, sitting on the
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dresser, pardon me. So what I do is I put down the bowl with holy water and I reached down to pick up
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this music box and I pick it up without issue. I mean, it just picked up, it weighed maybe a couple
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of pounds, like what you would expect a typical music box to weigh. But as soon as I touched it,
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it stopped chiming. So the chime stopped. I open up the music box. So that's another thing. Typically
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a music box starts chiming when you open the lid. The lid was closed the entire time for this. So when
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I opened the lid, I found that there was absolutely nothing but empty space inside this box. There were
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no mechanical parts. There was nothing and there was no evidence that there ever were any. So there
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was no glue residue, no screw marks from anything having been in there. It was empty space. I could
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see the, the, the hole, the keyhole where the, the windup key would go, but it itself was connected to
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nothing. So I put down the music box. I blessed that room. She never had another phenomena again.
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So why was the enemy present in that house? Uh, the short answer is, I don't know, but obviously her
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uncle was into something that he shouldn't be into. And this presence is in his house. When he gave her
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permission to stay there as his guest, then she, in the legal realm, demons are legalistic entities.
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In the legal realm, she was equivalent as to being the owner. And so her having given me permission to
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bless the house and get rid of this phenomena was sufficient to stop it. Did that, did the demons
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permanently leave? I don't know. I, I highly doubt it, but they were quiet. They didn't have permission
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to act because the guest who is now the de facto owner had taken that right away from them. And I
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had ratified that right through the power of the church. So that, that was one of the first
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situations I had ever had. These exorcisms, how, how long does this take to do?
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The ritual of exorcism of a place might take you four minutes, maybe five. If, uh, if you're praying
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the prayers, praying them deliberately, uh, which you ought to the sprinkling of the holy water, which
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is, which is included in the right, which is, which is prescribed by the right as the last step.
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That really depends on how big the house is. When I bless a home, I bless every single room. I bless all
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four corners of the room and, uh, I make a pass through the center of the room. I bless every
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window and every door, every access point, so to speak, uh, to every room, to every home. I bless
00:29:28.080
the backyard. I bless the garage, the basement, the front door, the front stoop, the driveway and so
00:29:34.620
forth. So that I'm, I'm kind of hitting, um, I'm, I'm making a, a declaration. I'm staking a claim
00:29:43.720
by the Lord for this property, for everything in it and everyone in it for the entire property.
00:29:49.920
Do I need to do that necessarily? Maybe not necessarily, but staking the claim is itself
00:29:55.760
a prayer and is it, it is itself an act of authority. I want everybody to know, uh, also who
00:30:03.880
you are in the sense of the world, because there is a website associated with you. Um, love to tell
00:30:10.040
that story. It's exorcistfiles.tv. So what's happening is next week on Wednesday, there is
00:30:17.040
a podcast that is launching worldwide. Uh, that podcast was a collaborative effort between
00:30:24.160
two Hollywood producers, I heart media, the Vatican and myself. And so that was, um, an attempt
00:30:34.180
to bring about a knowledge and an awareness of demonic activity in the world that is present
00:30:41.540
today. And to have the Vatican wanted an exorcist, a seasoned exorcist to give a catechesis, um,
00:30:51.080
as to the devil, demonology and possession. Go check them out. Exorcistfiles.tv. This subject,
00:30:57.840
I think is so fascinating because people watch it on movies. Um, but there's a lot of stuff
00:31:05.160
on movies that isn't true. And, and you see all sorts of weird stuff. What's it like in
00:31:11.440
real life? I mean, from what you've seen, that's the question everybody wants to know, right?
00:31:16.260
Most of us of a, of a certain generation, and certainly you and I fall into that, uh, John
00:31:21.280
Henry, uh, we've seen the movie, the exorcist and, and that's kind of the benchmark movie worldwide
00:31:28.720
about the devil and about possession. Um, so people ask exorcists all the time, uh, did that,
00:31:37.020
is that movie accurate and did it depict what happens during possession and during liberation
00:31:42.080
accurately? And the, and the answer is the short answer is yes. Uh, the only thing that I see in that
00:31:48.100
movie that, that doesn't happen in an exorcism, uh, is what was, was the, the 360 degree headspin
00:31:56.780
that would break a human being's neck. Uh, and so the, the body remains the body during possession
00:32:04.240
and the body's limitations, it's, it's innate limitations are there. Now there are certain
00:32:11.660
limitations that are surpassed. So, so, uh, superhuman strength is possible. That's
00:32:17.900
provided by the demon though. It's not provided by the human body, but he cannot make the human body
00:32:24.180
do something that is against its innate nature. Uh, so for example, spinning ahead 360 degrees,
00:32:31.380
but the vomiting, the levitation, the room suddenly, and without warning dropping 35 degrees. And so a room
00:32:40.640
becomes frigid cold. Uh, and in fact, the windows and the doors can be open and the cold is contained
00:32:47.280
only within the room. Step six inches outside the room and you feel normal room temperature. And yet
00:32:54.660
six inches in to this open doorway. In fact, there doesn't even need to be a doorway. He, the, the
00:33:00.800
coldness can be contained in a, in within a, a 12 foot radius.
00:33:05.860
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at give.LifeSiteNews.com. And now back to the video. Just for clarity, Father, is this stuff that
00:33:35.300
you yourself have experienced? Yes, absolutely. The sensationalistic parlor tricks that the devil
00:33:41.760
does are just that. They are parlor tricks. They are an attempt by the demon to scare the exorcist,
00:33:51.160
to scare his assistants that would be there. The intercessors he'll have in the room,
00:33:57.400
the other people that are present. And so let, let me ask you a question. If you went into a room,
00:34:04.560
if you're invited to be an intercessor at an exorcism, and notice I'm asking that, I didn't
00:34:11.360
say spectator. You would never bring somebody in to be just a spectator. Why? It wouldn't be safe for
00:34:18.780
you to do that. If you're coming in as a spectator, you are already coming in. You're giving the devil
00:34:26.320
the right to a relationship. You're coming to observe him. That is relationship forming. It
00:34:33.020
wouldn't be safe for you for that to happen. But if you're coming as an intercessor, you have a role,
00:34:39.460
and you're going to fulfill that role. And that role is against him. So that prevents any kind of
00:34:45.760
relationship forming. But if you came into a room and you saw something levitate, you saw the crucifix
00:34:53.940
I had, I put it down on the table, and it begins levitating into the air. So it's three feet up off
00:34:59.540
the table. That might get you a little bit tense when you see that, right? So let's say you're in your
00:35:06.520
17th exorcism. And you've seen that every single time. Are you going to be as tense about it the 17th
00:35:16.160
time as you were the first? Probably not, right? After 200 times, you're not even going to put down
00:35:24.240
your cup of coffee, right? You're going to keep drinking. It becomes a parlor trick. Oh, the
00:35:29.740
levitating crucifix again. So what happens after time is the devil stops doing the parlor tricks
00:35:38.680
because they're just not effective. Their intended purpose isn't being met. And so he doesn't waste
00:35:47.240
his energy doing that. What he employs his energy in doing is resisting the prayers and the attack of
00:35:54.240
the priest. He resists the prayers of the church. And so he puts his energy in that in trying to
00:36:01.940
protect the real estate that he's claimed and prevent that from being lost.
00:36:06.900
So one of the things we learn or hear about with exorcisms is sometimes they can actually go on for
00:36:13.440
a long, long time. Sometimes even more than a year. How does that look like? What does that mean?
00:36:21.560
What does it mean when you said you have to unpack or find out what the root is and then undo the
00:36:27.660
rites? The most difficult part of exorcism is the diagnostic, is the figuring out why the devil is
00:36:34.560
there. And he can be there for a number of reasons. The most common is personal mortal sin. But it doesn't
00:36:42.440
have to be that. It can be a curse that was placed on a person. It can be what we call a generational sin,
00:36:50.820
that there was a covenant made in the family line that is present there. And that covenant
00:36:57.000
was brought in by a sin, by a mortal sin. And it subjects everybody in that bloodline
00:37:05.100
to a particular demon or demons. But generally speaking, an exorcism session might last anywhere
00:37:13.480
between an hour and a half to four hours. And after that, you're generally pretty exhausted.
00:37:22.100
But you would require about a year and a half of time on average to complete a possession case and
00:37:31.200
exorcise the devil. And so that's with an exorcism happening at least once a week. So to state it
00:37:37.880
differently, the average possession case lasts 75 sessions. Whoa, I have some that I am helping an
00:37:49.420
exorcist with. They've been, well, there's two cases he has. These are the most visceral cases that
00:37:58.220
I've ever had, that I've ever seen. I've never even read about cases this visceral. They've been in play
00:38:05.420
for over 12 years. So each one has a unique character. I really can't talk about those cases
00:38:10.860
because they're active, but there's kind of everything in between. There's some possession
00:38:15.980
cases that they're over in one shot, one session. Why would some be as quick as that and others be so
00:38:24.600
long? Well, it comes down to two things. One is what doors were opened and why. That's one.
00:38:32.060
Secondly, the nature of the demons that are involved themselves. If you have bigger demons,
00:38:39.220
you have bigger cases. The more powerful the demon, the more powerful the hold. And demons have
00:38:46.380
entourages. The demonic world is a very legalistic world, but it's also a militaristic world.
00:38:53.880
So you have legions, you have captains, you have generals. And so what they'll do as you have a
00:39:02.280
higher ranking demon present within a person, he's putting his foot soldiers in front of you and
00:39:09.360
behind them are other stronger legionnaires, so to speak. And so to get to him, you sometimes have to
00:39:17.940
go through a plethora of other ones. What's the greatest number of demons you've ever seen in a person?
00:39:22.260
There was one person who was born into a satanic cult. So this person was born into a cult that
00:39:34.720
worships Satan. And this person was born to a breeder. So satanic cults will have women that serve as
00:39:43.800
breeders. Satanic cults are very much a patriarchal society. And that's what makes them incompatible
00:39:50.840
with witchcraft or or Wiccan cults. So one is a patriarchal society, one is a matriarchal society,
00:39:58.120
they are natural enemies. So they, they don't typically work together. It's not to say that
00:40:05.380
they never have, but they loathe one another. A satanic cult will have breeders. And the, the priests,
00:40:13.780
the satanic priests, they will impregnate the breeders. And that's what ensures the longevity of
00:40:20.160
the cult. Satanic cults are not interested in recruiting new members. They raise their own
00:40:27.120
members. And when they birth children, they birth them off the record. So there's no registration of
00:40:34.440
the births. This is why, for example, I mean, well, people don't typically know this, but the vast
00:40:41.540
majority of the child pornography that is produced is produced within the context of satanic cults.
00:40:50.200
So the children are off the grid, the births are not registered, no one recognizes them.
00:40:57.700
And, and, and, and the proof of this, among other things is in the fact that, yeah, once in a while,
00:41:04.480
we hear about rings of child pornography being discovered by the police and there being stings and
00:41:11.900
so forth, and, and groups of people are netted within this, you know, we hear about 89 people were
00:41:19.180
arrested in this ring, consumers of pornography, three of them were judges, 18 of them were teachers,
00:41:24.960
et cetera, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. But what we never hear about, and you've never heard about
00:41:31.300
is the child actors being discovered. And the reason why is by the time that that pornography
00:41:38.840
is released, those kids are no more. They have been sacrificed in a satanic ritual. And so that's
00:41:44.900
that world. That world is a cruel world. And this is how the cults, first of all, they make money,
00:41:52.400
they make tremendous amounts of money selling this, but they protect themselves because
00:41:58.100
if, if to prove the pornography was produced here, where is the child that's in the video,
00:42:07.600
right? That, that child is, has been slaughtered long before that moment. So this person was born
00:42:15.740
to a satanic cult, was consecrated to Satan at various times in her life from the time
00:42:22.280
she was in the womb to the time, I mean, to birth and with, through different discrete
00:42:29.240
ceremonies. So when she escaped the cult, she was already a young adult. When I started the
00:42:38.380
sessions with this individual, they were easily the most violent that I had ever been part
00:42:45.560
of, immensely violent. She picked up one of the holders that was there, a big, enormous six foot
00:42:54.520
five, 300 pound man, and just tossed him with one arm across the room. She then pointed to a light
00:43:02.480
switch on the wall. And you know, your, your light switches, they have a cover plate, there's a screw
00:43:07.540
on top of the switch, a screw below that kind of keeps the plate in the wall. She pointed at the
00:43:13.060
light switch, one of the screws unscrewed itself, came flying through the air into her hand, and she
00:43:18.580
drove it into her left arm. We never saw the screw again. In her, the amount of demons are immense.
00:43:27.540
And in the, you know, her, her exorcism took years. In the early years, we would work for hours, we might
00:43:34.100
get one or two demons out. By five, six years into it, they were in one session, maybe a one, four hour
00:43:41.800
session, there might be 2,500 that are cast out. Oh my gosh. And, and, and how we would know the
00:43:50.180
number is we're not meeting them one by one. But by that point, we were already able to cast out
00:43:56.880
legionnaires and captains. So you cast him out, and you cast all the demons that are in his entourage.
00:44:04.480
And so at that point, we were covering a lot of ground. And she had experienced a tremendous amount
00:44:11.720
of freedom by that point. But, and, and how we knew how many were gone is we would compel a demon
00:44:18.320
to tell us how many were just cast out. And that would give us a map. And in the end, can you trust
00:44:25.280
what a demon says to you 100%? No. But by that point, these demons are up against a rope. There's been
00:44:33.240
years of battling, they're weakened. The Holy Spirit is present within her because by that time,
00:44:40.060
we had baptized her, we had confirmed her, none of these things had ever been done. So there was a
00:44:45.720
tremendous amount of grace operative within her. And so at that point, we were removing large amounts
00:44:52.880
of demons from her. One of the other things you do, Father, as it's related, of course, but you go
00:44:57.820
around and show relics of the saints at churches. Do relics assist you when you do exorcisms?
00:45:07.640
Yeah, absolutely. So I run Treasures of the Church, which is a Vatican ministry of relics of the saints.
00:45:13.640
So I conduct expositions worldwide within churches, schools, and prisons, bringing a large Vatican exhibit
00:45:21.440
of relics. I give a catechesis on the saints, teaching on the saints on their relics.
00:45:26.040
And then I allow people to go venerate them, to touch them, to bless themselves with them,
00:45:31.120
and so forth. So that's very much a ministry of evangelization. But it's also very much a healing
00:45:38.900
ministry. Relics heal. And we hear about in scripture in various places where that occurs.
00:45:45.060
But relics are also exorcistic. So where relics are, the demons are being fought. There's an invisible
00:45:55.220
war happening. And St. Jerome says famously in one of his letters, in his letter to Vigilantius,
00:46:01.800
that even the dust of the saints causes the demons to howl. And so there are deliverances that occur
00:46:11.160
within exorcisms. You see that happening regularly, where, for example, one of the things I do,
00:46:19.200
the relics are all laid out on blue tablecloths. The reliquaries are gold. The tablecloths have a
00:46:26.320
royal blue. Royal blue shows off gold marvelously well. I bring extra cloths because what happens,
00:46:35.000
and I noticed this years ago, and I had no explanation for this until the exorcistic dimension
00:46:42.420
of relics became much more evident through the exorcisms I was conducting and so forth. But simply
00:46:48.520
the regularity of this phenomena occurring. And that is, parents would come, they would bring a little
00:46:53.920
kid, five, six years old. They would bring him to the first table with the relics, and he'd promptly
00:47:00.440
vomit all over it. And so, you know, the parents would be met with embarrassment and shame.
00:47:07.820
And I started bringing extra tablecloths because this happened with such regularity. And so what
00:47:14.460
I discovered is that there's typically something happening in the lives of the parents that puts
00:47:26.820
them at enmity with God. There's some moral transgression in one or both that is there and
00:47:35.280
that is present. And the children are suffering because of it. So what happened to the kid,
00:47:41.920
what's happening is the kid is being delivered. And that vomiting is a manifestation of the cleansing
00:47:49.700
that's going on within him. And so what I've learned to do is just turn to the parents, put them aside and
00:47:55.680
said, look, I have no idea what's happening in your lives, but there's something that is not good.
00:48:00.860
And you probably know exactly what that is. Get rid of it. I'll give them a card if they want to talk
00:48:06.780
more. But that's what's going on in terms of the kids. There have been schools that I've set up at
00:48:16.500
or parish halls where there have been poltergeist phenomena that happen in there. People hear
00:48:23.080
footsteps, disembodied footsteps, moans, rattles. After the event with the relics are there, nothing.
00:48:30.620
Just a dead, silent, a peace. So there's an invisible battle happening with relics. So that
00:48:38.900
ministry, if any of your viewers are interested in, it's described at treasurersofthechurch.com,
00:48:45.520
which is the ministry's website. A couple things you said that are very interesting. One, you said
00:48:50.420
that it's most often due to mortal sin. Now, in our day and age, that's not a very foreign thing.
00:48:59.480
And we have, you know, pornography is ubiquitous and self-abuse, as it used to be called properly,
00:49:07.020
is normalized for everybody. It's recommended. And so that's rife. Are we dealing with an infestation
00:49:16.580
of demons like never before in history or what's going on?
00:49:18.720
There have been, in the last 10 years, a record number of possessions reported. And that is not
00:49:27.680
only why the Vatican opened a school for exorcism, but why the Vatican wanted the production of the
00:49:35.120
podcast series that is being released this coming Wednesday, is to give people the information that
00:49:41.800
there are implications when one lives a sinful lifestyle. And sin is being normalized within
00:49:48.920
Western society. You know, the homosexuality, masturbation, as you mentioned, pornography,
00:49:56.920
like none of that is, you know, 20 years ago, people never, if the mention of pornography or
00:50:04.560
masturbation came up, people were embarrassed by that. Nobody's embarrassed about it anymore. And among
00:50:09.500
the young, it's, it's, it's, it's talked about as, as, as a matter of fact, but you have also other
00:50:16.860
things that are affecting, not just say kids, teens, you have adults picking up demons in through,
00:50:26.320
through ways that they never expected, right? So one of the things you see popping up everywhere
00:50:32.520
is spas offering Reiki treatments, spas offering treatments whereby a practitioner will come lay
00:50:41.600
her hands on you and raise your energy level, right? So this is not massage. This is not physical
00:50:48.860
therapy. This is a spiritual action being done on you to raise your energy. Well, by definition,
00:50:56.100
this is, this is an act of the occult. This is invoking a power, an energy, a spirit that is
00:51:06.660
not of God. And so this is the equivalent, if you will, of using the Ouija board, where, where you're
00:51:13.040
opening a portal, you're allowing yourself to be used as a portal and a spirit to enter into you.
00:51:18.820
So this is entirely incompatible with Christianity. You have businessmen, for the sake of business
00:51:27.120
contact, it's become fashionable again. And I say again, I mean, it always was fashionable,
00:51:33.440
but now even within Catholic circles, right, even within evangelical Christian circles, it's,
00:51:39.900
it's fashionable to become a Freemason. People get in, in order to develop business contacts,
00:51:45.840
but you know what? Uh, this is, uh, a society rooted in the occult. The oaths one takes as a Mason
00:51:55.620
are occult oaths. And as I mentioned earlier, I think I mentioned it in the program here,
00:52:01.880
that the most frequent way, uh, you know, if I didn't, I'm mentioning it now, the most frequent
00:52:06.880
way that people get demons is through dabbling in the occult. The second most common is through
00:52:15.780
sexual sin. Uh, but why the occult? Well, because to dabble in the occult, to transgress in the
00:52:25.900
occult, one is taking the place of God. One is usurping the divine cosmology and the divine
00:52:34.420
authority of reality and taking control over realms or attempting to take control over realms and
00:52:42.480
dimensions that belong to sovereign God. You're pushing God out of the way. By definition, that is
00:52:51.000
the demonic rebellion. That's exactly what the demons did. And so you are imitating them 100%.
00:52:58.360
And in the sexual dimension, well, our sexuality is the way by which, and the, the proper use of our
00:53:05.780
sexuality is the way by which we most resemble God in our dignity. Human sexuality used in, in its
00:53:15.060
intended purpose brings about new life, new creation. It brings about a unity in the spouses,
00:53:21.260
a deeper and profound love for them, for one another. And to misuse it is to again, appropriate
00:53:28.480
the rebellion of the demonic. It's a crying out of, no, I will not serve God in the manner that he's
00:53:34.620
chosen. I'm going to do what I want. And so these two areas are easily the two areas where people pick
00:53:42.200
up the most demons. Wow. With all of this sort of supernatural stuff going on, levitation and things
00:53:49.580
like this, doesn't that, anybody who has doubts as to, you know, the spirit world, wouldn't that be
00:54:01.800
cured? Have you ever seen like an exorcism and what goes on in there lead to someone having a deeper faith
00:54:07.260
because they're like, wow, it's really real? Obviously. I mean, it would cause their categories to be
00:54:12.800
shifted. However, somebody who doesn't have faith already, you would never bring them into an exorcism
00:54:20.680
because at that point, you know, the devil is under incredible duress and he's going to look for
00:54:28.200
any mouse hole in which to crawl. And if that person who lacks no faith, if that home is even
00:54:36.560
more inviting than the home he currently occupies and to state it differently, if that host offers him
00:54:44.380
better and perhaps even more secure real estate than what he's got in victim A, then he will jump.
00:54:51.920
And now this person has become victim B. And now you have a situation where it's much,
00:54:56.620
much more difficult now to get rid of the devil.
00:54:59.500
So Father, I guess the ultimate question for us is what can we best do to guard ourselves from this
00:55:07.260
kind of demonic attack? You know, because people are susceptible, especially in a world rife with
00:55:15.840
mortal sin, with the occult being offered. You go to massage for massage parlor, the massage therapist
00:55:24.420
might very well say, hey, I can do this little thing for you to increase your energy. I'm sure it happens
00:55:30.300
Well, first of all, get rid of the sin out of your life. Get the hell rid of it. Period. Live in accordance
00:55:37.640
with the dignity of your baptism. That's one. Secondly, live your faith life. Strengthen your faith
00:55:44.940
through the frequent reception of the sacraments, through the reading of the Word of God, and developing
00:55:49.680
a prayer life. Become the person that Christ designed you to be. And thirdly, study your faith
00:55:58.140
and study, catechize yourself on the enemy and the kinds of things that he likes. And then you're
00:56:05.960
prepared. And, you know, one of the things to put in a plug for this podcast again, this is exactly one
00:56:12.200
of the areas. I mean, I tackle all of the areas. I elaborate. The entire thing is the entire podcast,
00:56:20.300
the entire series is an effort to inform people on how to break and end their relationships with Satan
00:56:27.460
and to inform them of how they might be even inadvertently establishing them and to forge
00:56:38.320
Father, last question for you. Daily Mass. It's been a bulwark for a lot of people. Your opinion on
00:56:46.120
The seven sacraments are the seven ways Jesus Christ left to heal the world. Period. And so to
00:56:54.940
refuse the sacraments is to refuse God. So they are the ordinary way by which one becomes holy. The
00:57:03.400
ordinary way. God can use extraordinary ways. And he does use them. But this is the ordinary way.
00:57:10.940
So Sunday Mass is a non-negotiable. It's a non-negotiable. The confession when one is in
00:57:19.740
the state of mortal sin is a non-negotiable. Baptizing a baby when the baby is still a newborn
00:57:26.840
is a non-negotiable. It's stupid and crazy that people are waiting months and sometimes years
00:57:34.980
to baptize a child because, well, we have to wait until Aunt Selma comes from Puerto Rico or from
00:57:41.220
Belgium in order to be present for the baby to receive the sacrament. This is stupid. You've now
00:57:45.480
turned it into a human endeavor. You've turned it into something else. It's not about Christ anymore.
00:57:50.980
It's not about God's life-giving gift being given to this child. You've changed it into something else.
00:57:58.480
So daily Mass is not required by the church, but boy, my gosh, it is a way. That daily encounter with
00:58:09.140
Christ in the Eucharist is exorcistic. And it forges us in the way of God. It raises our place for
00:58:18.660
eternity. So the church has taught from time immemorial, and it sanctifies us. And so I encourage
00:58:29.580
all of your viewers, your listeners, to attend daily Mass and to receive the sacrament of confession
00:58:37.220
frequently. You do not need big sins to go to confession. Every encounter with the Lord in
00:58:45.480
confession gives you sanctifying grace, which is the very life of God. Those two practices along
00:58:51.600
with a prayer life, my gosh, you're in great shape. Father Carlos Martins, thank you so much.
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What a wild ride. If you would close off for us by granting us your blessing, perhaps with one of
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May God bless you, the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit.
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