“We preach this, not because

our discourse about the devil

is sweet to us, but because the
doctrine about him is full of
security for you”

Saint John Chrysostom

As a Catholic Nation, why are
we open to demonic
harassments?
As a Catholic Nation, why are
we not becoming holy and
there is misery around us?
“Some of you might say: ‘But
Father, how old fashioned
you are to speak about the
devil in the 21st century!’ But
look out because the devil is
present! The devil is here…
even in the 21st century!
…We must learn from the
Gospel how to fight against
Satan.”
Pope Francis
Saturday 12 April 2014
 The Ministry of Liberation
“The kingdom of heaven is “Then having summoned the
twelve apostles, he gave
at hand! Cure the sick, raise
them power and authority
the dead, cleanse the lepers, over all the devils and to cure
cast out devils.” Mt 10: 8 diseases” Lk 9: 1-2

“And these signs shall attend “God anointed Jesus of

those who believe: in my Nazareth with the Holy Spirit
name they shall cast out and with power, and he went
devils.” Mk 16:17 about doing good and healing
all who were in the power of
the devil” Acts 10:38
In a lecture given on October 24, 1995 the future
Pope Benedict stated that “preaching is connected
with the “casting out of devils” (1:39): …preaching
takes shape in no bright,
happy world, but
in a world tyrannized
by demons, into which
it intervenes so as to
liberate”.
And in his book, Jesus of
Nazareth, the Pope tells us that
“The first task is preaching: to
give people the light of the word,
the message of Jesus … because
the world is ruled by the powers
of evil, this preaching is at the
same time a struggle with those
powers”.
“Our struggle is
not against human
foes, but against
cosmic powers”
St. Paul
Demonic Strongholds can cause the following;
- Extraordinary Demonic Attack of Possession, Oppression,
Obsession and Infestation
- Blockages to God’s blessings, guidance, protection and graces
- Outbreak of paranormal and psychic phenomena
- Sufferings that are not crosses anymore; they are
burdensome, make us miserable; they are not life-giving
- Temptations that very strong and persistent
-Varied and unrelenting harassments and blocks to the spiritual
life
-Uncaused anger, sadness and fears
-Series of “bad luck” and freak accidents
-Obstinacy in sin
- Non commensurate results to energy expended in spiritual
endeavors and programs
 St. Pope John Paul II
said, “The devil
is still alive and active
in the world.“
Pope Francis
"We must always remain vigilant, on
guard against deception, against the
seduction of evil ", because the devil,
against whom Jesus truly fought and
won, " always tries to come back," to
"take possession of us. "
 “This matter of the devil
and of the influence he
can exert on individuals
as well as on communities,
entire societies or events,
is a very important chapter
of Catholic doctrine which
should be studied again,
although it is given little
attention today”.

- Pope Paul VI
Notes from the Vatican
Fr. Pedro Barrajon, LC
- When Christianity is forgotten, the vacuum is
filled with the occult (more than rationalism)

Msgr. Luigi Negri

- The Church betrays Itself when It denies Its
power of exorcism which is a work of charity
- The devil has created a dominant culture that
brings about individual possession
Dr. Carlo Climati
-In today’s society, there are
more young people into the
occult and Satanism
- Occult practitioners take
advantage of the sufferings
of other people; when they
are vulnerable
Fr. Francesco Bamonte, ICMS
- In today’s culture, we see the greatest
esotericism / occultism, widespread magical
practices, Divination, spiritism, Satanic sects
- Occult practices are the major causes of
possession
- Uncertainty in life and loss of Faith
makes person turn to occult and
even Satanism
- We must exhort faithful not to go
to magical practitioners
- Some causes of possession are those who participate in
spiritism, mediumship, have amulets and are victims of
curses (due to a third party)

Fr. Gabriele Nanni

- Demons take many forms of the
deceased
- There is an increase of victims of
the devil with fewer priests and
even fewer exorcists
-Studies have shown that in Italy (15-18 years old);
= 76% are attracted to the occult
= 78% have contact with satanism (44% through
music)
Fr. Rene Laurentin
-Children are victims of satanic rituals
-In Africa, 20 years ago,
there were no exorcists and
there was the fear of the witches,
today with the coming of exorcists,
they have removed this fear
US Report
The Rev. David Fleming … is one of 50 U.S. priests
recently chosen to train in the rite of exorcism.

It is the church’s first effort in the United States to

coordinate a “comprehensive and systematic formation
process for this particular ministry,” Fleming told the
Catholic Mirror, Des Moines’ diocesan newspaper.
It is a big moment for exorcists. Dioceses in
Italy and Spain are also increasing their ranks
because of an “unprecedented rise” in demonic
possession, Madrid Archbishop Antonio Maria
Rouco said last year, after nominating eight
priests to undergo training to rid people of their
demons.
Church leaders attribute the rise in possessions
to people who are dabbling in the occult:
practicing witchcraft, visiting a psychic, even
playing with a Ouija board.
Mexico Report
To some it may seem extraordinary, but priests
say the country is under attack by Satan, and
that more exorcists are needed to fight him.
"We believe that behind all these big and
structural evils there is a dark agent and his
name is The Demon. That is why the Lord
wants to have here a ministry of exorcism and
liberation, for the fight against the Devil," says
Father Carlos Triana, a priest, and an exorcist,
in Mexico City.
Mexico's exorcists say there is
unprecedented demand for their services.
Some are even not taking new cases, as
they are having to exorcise demons
almost every day. "This didn't happen
before", says Father Francisco Bautista,
another exorcist in Mexico City.
Who are exorcists? The instructions from the Roman
Ritual point out that an exorcist is someone who is
expressly and particularly authorized by the Ordinary
(bishop) to perform an exorcism.

According to Canon Law Canon 1172 no.1, “no one can

legitimately perform exorcisms over the possessed
unless he has obtained special and express permission
from the local ordinary.”

Exorcists use the Roman Ritual

of Exorcism
Exorcism, according to the Catechism of
the Catholic Church (no. 1673) is “when
the Church asks publicly and
authoritatively in the Name of Jesus
Christ that a person or object be protected
against the power of the Evil One and be
withdrawn from his dominion.”
Exorcist
Who are exorcists?
“The exorcist is an explicit symbol of the battle
between the Church and the devil”
Deliverance Minister
Who are deliverance ministers? They may be
priests, religious or lay persons with the charism of
deliverance.

They use deliverance prayers (Minor exorcisms and

Prayers of liberation and not the Roman Ritual of
Exorcism) to expel evil spirits from the demonically
obsessed and oppressed.
St. Alphonsus Liguori (17th
century) the noted moral
theologian and Doctor of the
Church said that “private
exorcism is permissible to all
Christians; solemn exorcism is
permissible only to ministers
who are appointed to it.”
 Different Forms of Spiritual
Warfare Prayers

Prayers of Liberation
Lay, religious, priests, exorcists

Minor Exorcisms
Priests, exorcists

Major Exorcisms
Exorcists
Animism / Paganism
Foundational beliefs
Pantheism - The universe is God; hence
nature has powers which can be used for
good or bad.

Man does not worship and serve the

powers of nature as ends in themselves,
he has an ulterior motive; the desire to
control it.
Power is needed to
make rain, give good
crops, secure
employment, heal
diseases, guarantee
fertility.
Man prays, implores and sacrifices not
out of devotion but to manipulate the
spirit world.

Sacrifices and offerings are not made to

expiate sin but to maintain filial relations
with the spirit world. There is no sin,
only taboo
Polytheistic - Animists believe in a
plurality of gods, both co-equal or in
hierarchy. These gods are believed to
have specific spheres of control. There is
belief in a supreme deity but one who is
uninvolved (deism) or unconcerned with
man’s welfare so man seeks out lesser
powers and gods to meet their desires.
Animism is therefore pantheistic, power
and fear based, man-centered,
polytheistic and deistic.
The Church and Paganism
Beloved, do not
trust every spirit
but test the spirits
to see whether they
belong to God.
1 John 4:1
 The Breaking of the First
Commandant

“I am the Lord thy God; thou shalt not have strange gods
before Me”
In the Old Testament, Paganism was Idolatry
In the New Testament world, Paganism was
Demonic
“They sacrifice their sons and their daughters to
devils, to the idols of Canaan”
“They sacrifice to devils and not to God,
to gods whom they know not”
Deut. 32:17
“So what am I saying? That
meat sacrificed to idols is
anything? Or that an idol is
anything? No, I mean that
what they sacrifice, [they
sacrifice] to demons,
not to God, and I do not
want you to become
participants with demons.”
St.Paul
“To sacrifice to an idol is not
only an act of weakness, but an
act of adoration of the devil, a
blasphemy against Christ, an
act deserving damnation.”
St. Justin the Martyr
“The pagan marvels were the
work of demons, in the
arrogance of their foul pride
which made them ambitious to
be the gods of the pagans”
St. Augustine
The fundamental cause
for the worship of idols
“must be sought in the devils,
who cause men to adore
them under the form of idols,
therein working certain things
which excited their wonder
and admiration.”

St Thomas Aquinas
 Occult Powers
The Power in Paganism
Occultism is the theory and
practice invoking superhuman, but
not divine, powers in order to obtain
results that are beyond the capacity
of mere nature
Occult Powers and God
“When you come into
the land that the Lord your God is
giving you, you, must not learn to
imitate the abhorrent practices of
these nations. No one shall be found
among you who makes a Son or
daughter pass through fire, or who
practices divination, or is a
soothsayer, or an augur, or sorcerer,
or one who casts spells, or who
consults ghosts or spirits, or who
seeks oracles from the dead.
For whoever does these things
is abhorrent to the Lord; it is
because of such abhorrent
practices that the Lord your
God is driving them out
before you.”

Deut 18: 9-12

"Many persons of both sexes
unmindful of their own salvation and
straying from the Catholic Faith, have
abandoned themselves to devils,
incubi and succubi, and by their
incantations, spells, conjurations,
and other accured charms and crafts
… are a cause of scandal and
danger to very many”
Papal Bull of Pope Innocent VIII
against Witchcraft
“All practices of magic or
sorcery, by which one attempts
to tame occult powers, so as to
place them at one’s service and
have supernatural power over
others – even if this were for the
sake of restoring their health –
are gravely contrary to the virtue
of religion.”
CCC 2117
“All forms of divination
are to be rejected:
recourse to Satan or
demons, conjuring up
the dead, or other
practices falsely
supposed
to ‘unveil’ the future.
Consulting Horoscopes, astrology,
palm reading, interpretation of
omens and lots, the phenomena of
clairvoyance, and recourse to
mediums, all conceal a desire
for power over time, history and,
in the last analysis, other human
beings, as well as a wish to
conciliate hidden powers.
They contradict the honor,
respect, and loving fear that
we owe to God alone.”
CCC 2116
Folk Catholicism

Inculturation is important in evangelization but the

challenge here is that we must be very careful in
order that we do not inculturate elements of our
animistic / occult idolatrous past. Then we fall into
Syncretism. What is inculturated are our
traditional Filipino values.
“Those who, in the name of inculturation,
run into syncretism”
The “need for constant vigilance against
all possible forms of syncretism”
“Syncretism is harmful”
St. Pope John Paul II

“Interreligious dialogue when badly

understood leads to muddled thinking or to
syncretism”
Pope Benedict XVI
“The correct integration of the
authentic values of cultures into
the Christian faith. It liberates
from occultism and vanquishes
evil spirits, for it is moved by the
power of the Holy Spirit.
POPE Benedict 16th
Nov. 2011. Ouidah, Benin
 Spiritual Effect of Syncretism
Catholicism
Folk Catholicism

Paganism

Occultism / Idolatrous Beliefs and

Esotericism Superstitions

Blocking of Blessings
Spirit-world
contamination
Vulnerability to spirit
world attacks
Syncretism in the Philippines

Catholic Faith + Folk Religiosity

Catholic Faith + New Age Movement
Scapular
Anting-anting
Novenas
Orasyons
Devotion to the angels
“Alagang dwende”
Sacred Heart statue
Buddha
Image of the Child Jesus
Good luck figurine
House Blessing
“Padugo” and Feng Shui
St. Benedict’s Medal
“Tabi-tabi po”
Belief in Heaven
Belief in Reincarnation
Mass for the Dead
Incense for the Dead
Anointing of the Sick
Energy and Magnetic Healing
The Spiritual World
The Angels
The Faithful Angels
The Fallen Angels Elementals
Man
Alive on the Earth
In Heaven Wandering
souls
In Purgatory
In Hell
Nature Spirits or elementals.

– Some examples are fairies, elves, dwarves,

mermaids, gnomes, pygmies, satyrs, salamanders
(balls of light), sylphs (air fairies), undines (water
fairies) , nymphs,, etc.
– In the Philippines they are known as diwata,
gigante, tikbalang, dwende, nuno sa punso, siokoy,
sirena, tiyanak and the like.
According to Fr. Gabriele Amorth, it is wrong to
“accept the prevalent opinion that there are spiritual
beings that are not mentioned in the Bible. These are
the invention of spiritists, of followers of the occult,
of those who espouse
reincarnation, or of those
who believe in ‘wandering
souls.’ there are no good
spirits other than angels;
there are no evil spirits
other than demons.”
“A demon can also deceive men by some action
from without. By his natural powers he can
fashion from the air a body of almost any form
and shape, and then assume it and appear
visibly therein; he can clothe or vest himself with
material substances and thus appear in sensible
form”

St. Thomas Aquinas

Wandering Souls

Is there such a thing as “wandering

souls”; that is, souls who do not
know that they are dead and must
be helped by psychics to go into the
light in order to leave this world and
enter a higher plane of existence?
The teaching of the Church is very
clear; “The New Testament …
repeatedly affirms that each will be
rewarded immediately after death in
accordance with his works and faith”
(CCC. 1021) and again “Each man
receives his eternal retribution in his
immortal soul at the very moment of
his death, in a particular judgment”.
(CCC. 1022)
“(Evil) spirits are
deceivers, not by
nature, but by
malice. They make
themselves gods
and souls of the
departed, but they
do not make
themselves devils,
for they really are
so.”
- St. Augustine - “City
of God;”
How the devil attacks

Ordinary - Temptation Alternate

States of
Sin – Obsession,
Extra-ordinary Oppression, Possession
Consciousness Occultism and
Infestation

5 senses
Material faculties
Psychic
Spiritual
Faculty
Faculties

Emotions Imagination

Will Intelligence
 3 Openings to Extraordinary
Demonic Attack
1) The Occult (Contamination and / or Victim)
- Exorcist cuts curses and consecrations, renouncement
and confession of the victim
2) Obstinate Sinful Lifestyle
- Confession and conversion
3) Psychically Open
- Offering and Consecration or renouncement
EXTRAORDINARY DEMONIC ATTACKS
OPPRESSION AND OBSESSION
Eyes – frightening apparitions
Ears – suicidal and blasphemous voices
Touch – bruises, pains, internal movements and sexual
harassments
Smell – foul odors
Emotions – uncaused depression, anger and fears
Imagination – demonic images, superimpositions and
sexual and blasphemous images
Memory – obsessive remembrances of past hurts and
objects of trauma
Environment – paranormal and psychic manifestations
Will – addictions and obstinacy in sin
Intellect – intrusive thoughts, difficulty in concentration,
paranoia and doubts regarding the Faith
Spiritual – dryness in prayer, sloth and spiritual desolation
Health – deterioration, non diagnosis of sicknesses,
heaviness, drained, erratic blood pressure, tumors
and freak accidents
Sleep – night terrors, uneasy sleep and insomnia
Relationships – divisions and deteriorations of
relationships
Work – drop and failure in business and non
commensurate results to energy expended
Possession
Full takeover of the
body and its senses
hence the
effectiveness of the
sacramentals. The
victim will have no
recollection once the
state of crisis is over
Symptoms
Convulsions with frothing or foaming in the
mouth
Physical pain such as pinpricks, ants crawling
under the skin to more tortuous pains like
blisters and burns
Rigidity of the limbs
Muscular flexibility and contortions like arching
of the back
Preternatural Strength inconsistent with the one’s age
or physical appearance also turning one’s head to face
the rear or to have it twisted almost round
Levitation or excessive weight making the body
impossible to lift
Swelling of the throat, face, tongue, or stomach and the
bulging of the eyes
Vomiting of alien objects. Pins and needles and also
nails, glass, blood pottery, feathers, coins, hair, thread,
etc.
Loss of bodily functions like temporary loss of sight,
hearing and speech and falling into a cataleptic state or
trance
Fasting or the inability to eat or drink for long
periods of time
Language or the ability to speak in languages
previously unknown to the demoniac and to
understand questions put to them in those
tongues
Voice becomes deeper than the normal voice of
the afflicted. They speak from their bellies or
from very deep in their throats. Sometimes the
lips will not even move. The voice is more like
that of an animal
Trance experience and visions
Clairvoyance or the power to perceive
matters beyond the range of the senses.
Knowledge of the secrets of others and
the location of hidden objects
Blasphemy, obscenities and curses
against the sacred
Immoral gestures and actions rejecting
Christian morality and piety
ANATOMY OF POSSESSION
- “Engkantos” in
the house
- Grandfather – Obsession
- Brought to
Healer / Spiritist - Good Luck healers, fortune-
- Father - Mason Statues tellers, sorcerers

- Blood Rituals - Pagan rituals for - Talismans and

- Offerings good luck amulets
- Imaginary Friend
- “Padugo”

- No confession /
-Played spirit of
Mass
Oppression
the glass under
- No grace in soul
a Balete Tree
- Ghost Hunting
- New Age powersPossession
- Wicca
- Developed
- No Sacramentals
Psychic Ability
- Passions are not
- Tarot Cards
kept in check
 5%
40%

60%
Obsession

80%
Oppression

100%
Possession
 5%
40%
Exorcism

60%
80%
Deliverance Prayer

100%
Fr. Gabriele Nanni, an exorcist and
a lecturer at the course on
Exorcism at the Pontifical
University, Regina Apostolorum,
and had worked in the Sacra
Romana Rota (the top tribunal in
the Vatican). He published a
doctoral thesis on exorcism. He
stated that in a room filled with
3,000 people, 20 would be
possessed.”
Infestation
Infestation is when extraordinary demonic activity
is centered on an animal, thing or place. A
“haunted house” would fall under the term
infestation if the cause is proven to be demonic in
origin.
ROOM BASEMENT ROOM RIVER

TOILET

HOUSE
Type of Case

Possession
15%

Oppression Infestation
55% 21%

Obsession
9%
Remember: Animism is pantheistic, power
and fear based, man-centered, polytheistic
and deistic.
 Moral Effect of Syncretism
Catholicism

Folk Catholicism

Paganism

Amoral Split Level Christianity

Rituals Sunday “Spare tire

Legalism
Catholic God”
mentality
Power
The New Evangelization is not anymore
converting pagans to Christians but
purifying the pagan dispositions in our
Faith
Sacramentals

a. Holy water
b. Exorcized / Holy Oil
c. Exorcised Salt
d. Blessed Candles
e. Blessed religious medals (like the St. Benedict’s
medal and the Miraculous Medal of Mama Mary)
The rosary, the scapular, holy cards
(especially those depicting the
archenemy of Satan, St. Michael) and
the blessed statues of the saints.
Occult and
Esoteric
Practices

“You shall have

no other gods
before Me”
Exodus 20:3
 Office of
Exorcism
• Witchcraft, Casting spells or
curses like
• Evil eye
• Gayuma
• Barang,
• Kulam
• Magick
• Wicca
“You shall have • Developing Psychic Powers,
no other gods
before Me” • Opening of the Third Eye
• Power of the Mind
 Archdiocese of Manila
Office of Exorcism
• Science of the mind
• Mind Control Programs
• Silva mind control program
• Mood altering programs
• New Age Movement
• Gnosticism
• Reading New age books
• Gnostic gospels,
“You shall have
no other gods
• Bible codes,
before Me”
 Archdiocese of Manila
Office of Exorcism
• Celestine Prophecy
• Alternative religions
• Reincarnation and past life
readings
• Satanism
• Satanic rituals
• Satanic Bible
• Foretelling, Fortune telling
“You shall have
• Card readings, Tarot card reading
no other gods
before Me”
 Archdiocese of Manila
Office of Exorcism
• Crystal ball or Crystal Gazing
• Palm reading, Palmistry, Kudlit
• Oracles
• Reading of omens,
• tea leaf reading,
• reading of animal body parts
• Psychic Readings
• Horoscopes and astrology
“You shall have • Feng shui, Geomancy and similar
no other gods
before Me”
rituals
• Numerology
 Archdiocese of Manila
Office of Exorcism

• Water divining
• Divination using rods, wands or
pendulums for finding water,
treasure etc
• Automatic hand writing or spirit
writing
• Astral Travel/Projection, remote
“You shall have viewing
no other gods • Trance channeling, Mediumship
before Me”
 Archdiocese of Manila
Office of Exorcism
• Consulting Spirit Guides, Familiar
Spirits, Guardian Spirits,
Ancestral spirits or Nature
Spirits (like fairies, dwarves,
elementals)
• Séances, Spiritism, Necromancy,
Communication with the dead,
Spirit Questing
“You shall have • Consulting albularyo,mangkukulam,
no other gods mangbabarang, mangtatawas,
before Me”
Curaderos, manghihilot
 Archdiocese of Manila
Office of Exorcism
• Shamanism, Espiritista, spiritism
• Animism and paganism
• Ouija Board, Spirit of the Glass,
Spirit of the coin, Pendulums, etc.
• Soul Attachments Ascended
Masters
• Psychic Healing, Reiki, Crystal
Healing, Faith Healing, Pranic
“You shall have Healing, Animal Magnetism or
no other gods Mesmerism, Energy Healing,
before Me”
Magnetic Healing
 Archdiocese of Manila
Office of Exorcism
• Offerings to Pagan Gods, Idols,
nature spirits and other similar
rituals – Food Offering, Animal
Sacrifice and blood letting
• Voodoo, Santeria, Macumba,
Sufism and other forms of local
witchcraft
• Oracion - magical Incantations
“You shall have • Sorcery
no other gods
before Me”
• Pyramid power and similar types
of practices
 Archdiocese of Manila
Office of Exorcism

• Amulets & Talismans - anting-

anting, charms,
• Esoterism - Transcendental
Meditation
• Heavy metal music, death metal
music
“You shall have
no other gods
before Me”
 Archdiocese of Manila
Office of Exorcism
• Secret Oaths to pagan gods as
part of initiation ceremony into
organization, fraternities, sororities
and other organization which
practice these ceremonies
• Pacts with Satan or other deities
and pagan gods
• Free Masonry and other Secret
“You shall have Societies and their organizations
no other gods
before Me”
 Archdiocese of Manila
Office of Exorcism

• Cults
• Scientology
• Cabala
• Edgar Cayce's teachings and
readings
• False Mysticism – consulting
angels
“You shall have
no other gods
before Me”
THE VATICAN WAS
CONSECRATED BY POPE
FRANCIS TO ST. MICHAEL LAST
JULY 5.

“ST. MICHAEL DEFENDS THE PEOPLE

OF GOD FROM ENEMIES AND ABOVE
ALL FROM THE GREATEST ENEMY
OF ALL, THE DEVIL”
“The sculpture
reminds us that evil
is vanquished”
The mission of life of St. Padre Pio;
“To wrench souls from Satan”
“It is the enemy that
should fear us, and
not we him.”
St. Faustina of the Divine
Mercy
If we are at war with the devil, we are
at peace with God.

Saint John Chrysostom