A Question About Demons...

[cymisgreat]

Hello to all!

To start, I would like to say I’m a full practicing Catholic, which would mean I believe in God the Father, as well as Satan, the Father of Lies. I do believe in demons, and in possession full-heartedly.

So my friend who goes to college over in Utah just got done talking with me about something she experienced last night…

She was with a friend of hers (we’ll call him Greg) and one of his friends (we’ll say Jim) that she hadn’t known for long. Greg is a very spirit-filled, non-denominational Christian, and I’ve always known him to be quite a God-lover. In addition, he is pretty charismatic in his beliefs (i.e. speaking in tongues, prophesy, etc…). So they were all out at a park around midnight, and they were talking with Jim about his faith, and he told them that he had never said the “salvation prayer” (even though he was saved about 2000 years ago…We’ll just go along with it for the sake of the story.) So they led him through the prayer and prayed for him, but then they heard a cackle-like laugh out of nowhere. There was no one else in the park, no animals around, and my friend said she was physically not able to speak. Once it stopped, she was able to speak again, and they all wondered what it was. It happened again, with the same result. So they left, and Greg went on to explain about “mocking spirits” that usually come up to try to hamper a Christian’s belief.

This experience, along with the fact that she is a Christian in a school that 1% of students are Christians, and 60% are Mormon. She feels very oppressed at times about her beliefs, and thank the Lord that she is strong in her devotion to Christ.

I guess the question I have is, would a demon appear in such a case? I believe the story to be true, but I’m just curious if anyone knows how the Church would respond to this instance.

All responses are welcome and greatly appreciated!!

-Pax

 

[Bob_Crowley]

Hello to all!

To start, I would like to say I’m a full practicing Catholic, which would mean I believe in God the Father, as well as Satan, the Father of Lies. I do believe in demons, and in possession full-heartedly.

So my friend who goes to college over in Utah just got done talking with me about something she experienced last night…

She was with a friend of hers (we’ll call him Greg) and one of his friends (we’ll say Jim) that she hadn’t known for long. Greg is a very spirit-filled, non-denominational Christian, and I’ve always known him to be quite a God-lover. In addition, he is pretty charismatic in his beliefs (i.e. speaking in tongues, prophesy, etc…). So they were all out at a park around midnight, and they were talking with Jim about his faith, and he told them that he had never said the “salvation prayer” (even though he was saved about 2000 years ago…We’ll just go along with it for the sake of the story.) So they led him through the prayer and prayed for him, but then they heard a cackle-like laugh out of nowhere. There was no one else in the park, no animals around, and my friend said she was physically not able to speak. Once it stopped, she was able to speak again, and they all wondered what it was. It happened again, with the same result. So they left, and Greg went on to explain about “mocking spirits” that usually come up to try to hamper a Christian’s belief.

This experience, along with the fact that she is a Christian in a school that 1% of students are Christians, and 60% are Mormon. She feels very oppressed at times about her beliefs, and thank the Lord that she is strong in her devotion to Christ.

I guess the question I have is, would a demon appear in such a case? I believe the story to be true, but I’m just curious if anyone knows how the Church would respond to this instance.

All responses are welcome and greatly appreciated!!

-Pax

It’s possible. I heard this story from the pastor who married my wife and I. He and some others went on a short “mission trip” to the Solomon Islands some years ago. They were praying in a hut or house with a group of the locals, who apparently have quite a powerful prayer life.

As they prayed, they all heard this hissing sound, quite loud, start up and move around the room they were in. It was a simple house with no equipment for sound effects etc.

They wondered what it was about. The answer they came up with was that it was the Rainbow Serpent, which figures quite strongly in aboriginal mythology. It seems there was an aboriginal contingent with them, and the RS wasn’t happy they were there.

Anyway that’s what I heard from him.

I’ve a DVD at home featuring Bishop Fulton Sheen. He mentions a priest friend of his who at one stage was in a village in Vietnam. I don’t know when. Apparently there was one girl the other kids were afraid of. She had a veil over her face. When he lifted it, he said it was the ugliest face he’d ever seen. It wasn’t the physical features, but something behind it. Anyway he presented the host in a frame, and she became quite violent. Then he removed the host, and she laughed at him. He then went on to have a conversation with her in perfect French, Spanish and Latin, although she’d never learnt any of those languages.

So he thought she might be possessed, did an exorcism, and she became a normal kid.

So it’s possible. I’d try to find a natural explanation first, but considering the predominant LDS religion in her school, I wouldn’t be surprised. My old pastor suspected the Utah Cathedral would in the Anti-Christ’s time become the devil’s cathedral, since he believed the anti-Christ would be an American. Over the top maybe, but to quote another pastor, “There’s a very strange psychic world out there.” I usually found the old pastor was right in whatever he said, or if he predicted something, it nearly always happened.

As far as that goes, I had a bit of demonic harassment last night myself. Whether it’s related to one or more of my posts I don’t know. I think it might have been.