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Spirit Guides Christina Sunday, September 16, 2012

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Brother Ignatius Mary,

It doesn't say anything in the Catechism about Spirit Guides and I was wondering what the Catholic Church says about them.

When I was very ill, a friend of the family said one of my relatives that recently passed came to visit and told him to tell me that I should get the Anointing for the Sick and to have it done also, not only with the blessed oil, but with water from Lourdes. This friend said that my relative is my "spirit guide" and it is a very special job and is a big sacrifice - the relative taking on this position. And, that I should also pray to this relative for help. The family friend asked the relative if I would get better and the family friend told me that my relative did not answer the question.

So, at the friends suggestion, I got the Anointing for the Sick exactly how the friend stated. The priest used the blessed oil and the Lourdes water.

I placed my brown scapular on and I truly believe, after everything that I had gone through, which is too lengthy to go into (which I eluded to in previous posts); that by the grace of God, through Mother Mary I was healed.

- I suspect (I am not an expert), but I suspect big time that a ton of spiritual warfare was at hand (based on what I experienced and what I reviewed in your site).

But, I don't get it. Who was this person that the friend of the family was speaking with? We should not call up spirits? Why would an evil spirit give the family friend such protective, life saving advice for me? Could it have been my Guardian Angel? It doesn't make sense to me.

By the way, if the family friend had not recommended this, I would not have thought to do the Anointing.

(This family friend is Catholic but also dabbles in Tarot cards).

As always, I that you again for your answer.

Christina



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Dear Christina:

You need to inform your family friend that she is risking her soul by involving herself with Tarot Cards, Spirit Guides, and the like. Tarot Cards are divination, a sin against the First Commandment and a grave sin.

The Catechism states:

Divination and magic

2115 God can reveal the future to his prophets or to other saints. Still, a sound Christian attitude consists in putting oneself confidently into the hands of Providence for whatever concerns the future, and giving up all unhealthy curiosity about it. Improvidence, however, can constitute a lack of responsibility.

2116 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.48 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.

2117 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 a supernatural power over others - even if this were for the sake of restoring their health - are gravely contrary to the virtue of religion. These practices are even more to be condemned when accompanied by the intention of harming someone, or when they have recourse to the intervention of demons. Wearing charms is also reprehensible. Spiritism often implies divination or magical practices; the Church for her part warns the faithful against it. Recourse to so-called traditional cures does not justify either the invocation of evil powers or the exploitation of another's credulity.

If your family friend is sinning with this divination and also receiving communion then she is committing the second most serious sin possible — sacrilege against the Holy Eucharist.

Spirit Guides are demons. Have absolutely nothing to do with spirit guides. Angels are not spirit guides and neither are human spirits. In very rare instances God may allow a person in heaven or purgatory to visit a relative. This is very rare and the visitation will be to the relative directly, not through someone else like your family friend. 

As for the Anointing of the Sick, that is permitted only if a person is in danger of death. The Rite uses Holy Oil. The Lourdes water is meaningless and not part of the Rite.

Why would the devil be involved in this? The devil has no problem suggesting that you receive the Anointing of the Sick, which is a good thing, if it will draw you and/or the family friend into curiosity or belief in spirit guides. A common strategy of the devil is to do something good for a person to draw them into sin, and then later let the hammer fall of demonic attachment or worse.

Never listen to this family friend again on these matters. Warn that person to stop their dabbling in the occult divination (which is what Tarot is) and conjuring or accepting spirit guides. Her eternal soul is at risk.

God Bless,
Bro. Ignatius Mary



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