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Talisman and curses	Nivlem	Sunday, January 22, 2012
Question: Dear Bro, I came across two uneventful incidents that I hope you can enlighten me. 1) Church. Some yrs ago, there was a rotation of priests endorsed by the archbishop attached or to run the parishes. There was this particular parish who had two parish priests, one after the another who fall ill seriously to the point of taking permanent medical leave. The third priest who took over the parish priest post sense smth was not rite in his room after a few mths. He asked the archbishop for permission to renovate but request was not accepted. He went into deep prayer and was 'prompted' to go to certain places around the church and the retreat centre. He found many talisman (taoist) placed. He then went for a pilgrimage to the Holy Land and upon arrival back to our country, he had high fever. It comes and goes and comes back again. He was forced to take medical leave for a mth. News went to the bishop and they are flying down an exorcist from rome. Rumour has it that when this church was being built, the priest who overseed the renovation of the church got into an serious argument with the contractor. That could be the source of all these 'talisman' placed around. My question is this: Why couldn't the power of the blessing prayer for the church or the holy water sprinkled around, break the effects of these talisman or curses? Ppl keep asking me this qn but I do not know the correct answer. 2) Similar, a blessed picture of saint michael was given to my cousin-in-law's grandad 30 yrs ago. Things went haywire. They suddenly became poor and all their property was sold. After his death, the picture was placed in a new home of my cousin-in-law. Quarrels after quarrels took place. One day, her dad was cleaning the picture frame and it accidentally fall from his hands and broke revealing certain 'items' that are associated with hindu spells or curses hidden. Peace and happiness came after they threw it away. My question again points to the first incident. Isnt the blessing from a priest upon a picture powerful enough to break such demonic curses or whatever u may call it?? Must we be so specific in our prayers? How can we tell if a object given to us has evil attachments? Thanks Bro for your time and insight.
Question Answered by Bro. Ignatius Mary, OMSM(r) Dear Nivlem: I do not know what "ppl" or "qn" means. To all readers, please do not use "texting" language. Please type your questions in English. If an abbreviation is not known to all seven billion people on the planet, did do not use it. Thanks. Anyway, what you are describing is called and "indirect hex". The items that were found in hidden places were items that were used to cast a kind of spell called a hex. It is indirect because it used some item to which evil is transferred (similar to a blessed object to which the "transfered" the blessing of God). A direct hex is one whereby elements of food, for example, are adulterated with some substance, often times a substance which is very nasty. As long as the item which is a hex is present as it will likely still have an effect. The presence of a blessing will not necessarily cancel out the effects of a hex. An analogy can be made to those who are demonized or possessed. A mere blessing will not necessarily get rid of the demons. It may take deliverance prayers or a solemn exorcism to rid the person of demons. Also, there are some of the is more powerful than others, thus one demon may be scared off by the presence of a blessed object, yet that same object will have no effect on other demons. Even in solemn exorcism there can be demons so powerful that it takes dozens of exorcisms or even more over a long period of time. We have had clients who had received a solemn exorcism once a week. God, of course, can exorcise a person in a blink of an eye. The reasons He does not heal immediately can include such things as tht He is waiting for the person to learn something, the person has not been forthright in renouncing sin, when we get something easily we tend to take it for granted whereby if it takes work are more likely to appreciate it, and all sorts of reasons that only God knows. It is interesting to note that In the story where Jesus cast out the demons called Legion, that they do not come out of the man immediately even at the command of Christ himself. They resisted. (Mark 5:8-13) For he had said to him, "Come out of the man, you unclean spirit!" And Jesus asked him, "What is your name?" He replied, "My name is Legion; for we are many." And he begged him eagerly not to send them out of the country. Now a great herd of swine was feeding there on the hillside; and they begged him, "Send us to the swine, let us enter them." So he gave them leave. And the unclean spirits came out, and entered the swine; and the herd, numbering about two thousand, rushed down the steep bank into the sea, and were drowned in the sea. Jesus said he "had" (past tense) commanded the demons to leave. Thus, we see that the demons did immediately leave upon the command of Jesus. Instead, they resisted and negotiated with Jesus. The resistance of demons to depart is an experience that every deliverance counselor and every exorcist as observed. The first step in cleansing a house, a parish Church, or any other building is to find the hexed object. That object needs to be destroyed. We have instructions on our website about how to destroy occult objects. Then the building needs to be blessed. It is possible that more than the standard blessing of a building will be needed. In our Spiritual Warfare Prayer Catalog, linked below, we have a House Cleansing and Blessing (PDF file) which incorporates the cleansing of property ritual from the 17th century. This blessing form is far more intensive and thorough than the standard blessing. I hope that answers your questions. God Bless, Bro. Ignatius Mary For information on how to receive help see our Help page. We suggest that before contacting us directly for help you try the Seven Steps to Self-Deliverance. These self-help steps will often resolve the problem. Also our Spiritual Warfare Prayer Catalog contains many prayers that may be helpful. If needed you can ask for a Personal Consultation.

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Talisman and curses

Nivlem

Sunday, January 22, 2012

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Dear Bro,

I came across two uneventful incidents that I hope you can enlighten me.

1) Church. Some yrs ago, there was a rotation of priests endorsed by the archbishop attached or to run the parishes. There was this particular parish who had two parish priests, one after the another who fall ill seriously to the point of taking permanent medical leave. The third priest who took over the parish priest post sense smth was not rite in his room after a few mths. He asked the archbishop for permission to renovate but request was not accepted. He went into deep prayer and was 'prompted' to go to certain places around the church and the retreat centre. He found many talisman (taoist) placed. He then went for a pilgrimage to the Holy Land and upon arrival back to our country, he had high fever. It comes and goes and comes back again. He was forced to take medical leave for a mth. News went to the bishop and they are flying down an exorcist from rome. Rumour has it that when this church was being built, the priest who overseed the renovation of the church got into an serious argument with the contractor. That could be the source of all these 'talisman' placed around.

My question is this: Why couldn't the power of the blessing prayer for the church or the holy water sprinkled around, break the effects of these talisman or curses? Ppl keep asking me this qn but I do not know the correct answer.

2) Similar, a blessed picture of saint michael was given to my cousin-in-law's grandad 30 yrs ago. Things went haywire. They suddenly became poor and all their property was sold. After his death, the picture was placed in a new home of my cousin-in-law. Quarrels after quarrels took place. One day, her dad was cleaning the picture frame and it accidentally fall from his hands and broke revealing certain 'items' that are associated with hindu spells or curses hidden. Peace and happiness came after they threw it away.

My question again points to the first incident. Isnt the blessing from a priest upon a picture powerful enough to break such demonic curses or whatever u may call it?? Must we be so specific in our prayers? How can we tell if a object given to us has evil attachments?

Thanks Bro for your time and insight.

Question Answered by Bro. Ignatius Mary, OMSM(r)

Dear Nivlem:

I do not know what "ppl" or "qn" means. To all readers, please do not use "texting" language. Please type your questions in English. If an abbreviation is not known to all seven billion people on the planet, did do not use it. Thanks.

Anyway, what you are describing is called and "indirect hex". The items that were found in hidden places were items that were used to cast a kind of spell called a hex. It is indirect because it used some item to which evil is transferred (similar to a blessed object to which the "transfered" the blessing of God). A direct hex is one whereby elements of food, for example, are adulterated with some substance, often times a substance which is very nasty.

As long as the item which is a hex is present as it will likely still have an effect. The presence of a blessing will not necessarily cancel out the effects of a hex. An analogy can be made to those who are demonized or possessed. A mere blessing will not necessarily get rid of the demons. It may take deliverance prayers or a solemn exorcism to rid the person of demons.

Also, there are some of the is more powerful than others, thus one demon may be scared off by the presence of a blessed object, yet that same object will have no effect on other demons.

Even in solemn exorcism there can be demons so powerful that it takes dozens of exorcisms or even more over a long period of time. We have had clients who had received a solemn exorcism once a week.

God, of course, can exorcise a person in a blink of an eye. The reasons He does not heal immediately can include such things as tht He is waiting for the person to learn something, the person has not been forthright in renouncing sin, when we get something easily we tend to take it for granted whereby if it takes work are more likely to appreciate it, and all sorts of reasons that only God knows.

It is interesting to note that In the story where Jesus cast out the demons called Legion, that they do not come out of the man immediately even at the command of Christ himself. They resisted.

(Mark 5:8-13) For he had said to him, "Come out of the man, you unclean spirit!" And Jesus asked him, "What is your name?" He replied, "My name is Legion; for we are many." And he begged him eagerly not to send them out of the country.

Now a great herd of swine was feeding there on the hillside; and they begged him, "Send us to the swine, let us enter them." So he gave them leave. And the unclean spirits came out, and entered the swine; and the herd, numbering about two thousand, rushed down the steep bank into the sea, and were drowned in the sea.

Jesus said he "had" (past tense) commanded the demons to leave. Thus, we see that the demons did immediately leave upon the command of Jesus. Instead, they resisted and negotiated with Jesus.

The resistance of demons to depart is an experience that every deliverance counselor and every exorcist as observed.

The first step in cleansing a house, a parish Church, or any other building is to find the hexed object. That object needs to be destroyed. We have instructions on our website about how to destroy occult objects. Then the building needs to be blessed. It is possible that more than the standard blessing of a building will be needed. In our Spiritual Warfare Prayer Catalog, linked below, we have a House Cleansing and Blessing (PDF file) which incorporates the cleansing of property ritual from the 17th century. This blessing form is far more intensive and thorough than the standard blessing.

I hope that answers your questions.

God Bless,
Bro. Ignatius Mary

For information on how to receive help see our Help page. We suggest that before contacting us directly for help you try the Seven Steps to Self-Deliverance. These self-help steps will often resolve the problem. Also our Spiritual Warfare Prayer Catalog contains many prayers that may be helpful. If needed you can ask for a Personal Consultation.