Prayers/advice on demonic oppression

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I like all the suggestions here. Someone mentioned Holy Water, I second that.
The book Onward Catholic Soldier has a lot of good advice.

Praying for you.
 
catholicmom2007 said:
Thank you all so much for all of these great links, prayers, and advice. We have 4 crucifixes in our home, holy water, and mutliple pictures with Bible verses on them. The only occult type things I have been associated with was in grad school.

I did a research paper on how the Nazis used theatrics (my masters was in theatre) in their propoganda and ceremonies and that included occult ceremonies. It was all only for academic purposes and NEVER for personal use. I also read Fr. Amorth’s book on exorcism before this started. I guess I thought since it was from the point of view of a priest and from the church it was ok. But now I’m thinking maybe not.

I recieve the sacraments every weekend since there is not a church within 20 miles of me.

I also remember that when I was confirmed at the Vigil, I kept thinking how much I didn’t want the oil on my head and when it was placed there in the sign of the cross it felt like sandpaper on a sunburn.

Last night I had another strange occurance. I felt my arm being pulled while I was almost asleep. I jerked my arm away and my husband asked what was wrong and I told him and he said that he saw my arm rising but he just thought I was dreaming. (He is very supportive btw and has encouraged me to speak with my priest).

Should I make a list of all these symptoms for my priest? I don’t want to forget anything.
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You should definitely tell your priest everything that is going on. He can help you to determine whether it is evil’s doing or a psychological disorder or something else. Write it all down, call him asap and see what he has to say. Don’t be ashamed to tell him, it’s very important that you do so. He can help you.
 
Thank you all so much, and please keep praying for me. As I was getting ready the day, I noticed scratched on my back that have no explanation.

I was wondering if confession is the appropriate place to discuss this or if it should just be a personal meeting.
 
catholicmom2007 said:
Thank you all so much, and please keep praying for me. As I was getting ready the day, I noticed scratched on my back that have no explanation.

I was wondering if confession is the appropriate place to discuss this or if it should just be a personal meeting.
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Confession is for confessing one’s sins. It’s generally not a place for getting into a long discussion with someone. There could be several people that also have to confess their sins, and u might end up taking up all the time that’s available for confession.

Trust me, it would be best if u pick up that phone right now, and call the parish office to set up a meeting that works for the both of u. Do not be afraid to do so. 🙂

And if u don’t know their number off-hand, they probably have a website which u can google for, and find out through there.

God bless!
 
Here are some Catholic sites with prayers for you to use:

catholicfirst.com/thefaith/prayers/simpleexorcism.html

catholicwarriors.com/pages/warfare_prayers.htm

oswc.org/default.asp

saintpiocenter.org/

Since you were baptized recently (in the Triune formula? Father, Son, and Holy Spirit?) we can say that you yourself are not possessed or obsessed. (Baptism is a form of exorcism.) Since you’ve been having similar experiences for most of your life, it’s possible that a) you have something in your possession that has been cursed, or b) you have what is called a generational curse.

If it’s the first case, pray the Rosary, the Chaplet of Divine Mercy, and the Prayer to St. Michael the Archangel that G_D show you what in your house is the source of the oppression.

One incident I read about, after going through the house and finding nothing occult or overtly evil, the person prayed to be shown what was causing their problems. Immediately a picture on the wall in the living room fell down. When they examined it closely, under the paper on the back, they found an occult symbol.

In another case, after advising someone to ask G_D to show her what the cursed item was, she immediately remembered a book of astrology that a friend had given her years before. She hadn’t wanted to get rid of it because it was a gift. She went into the attic, dug the book out of the box, took it to their firepit, and burned it.

If it’s the second case, discuss this with your priest. There are blessings that can be used to rebuke and release you and your family from such curses.
 
Definately talk to your priest. But if you have not been involved directly in the occult make sure no other family members have ie. been using a ouigi board, tarot cards, etc. Also, the location where you are, has it been in each place you live? Or just the place you are in now? Also, look at ancestors, were they invovled in the occult at all? Again, talk to your priest I’m sure he will know how to help you the best.

Lord please protect this woman and her family from the enemy. We know greater is He who is within us than He who is within the world. We praise You that You have guided her the the Church. Protect her from evil and guide her to peace in your Presence at Mass. In Jesus name. Amen.
 
I just wanted to update everyone. I went to confession today and my priest was not the one in the confession. I had never met him before. He told me to not worry and to keep praying like I normally do. Needless to say I was hurt because I feel like he didn’t take it seriously. I have emailed my normal priest for an appointment at his earliest convenience to discuss it. I have continued to pray the rosary with the same results. Please pray for me that my experience at Mass tomorrow morning is a good one.
 
catholicmom2007 said:
I just wanted to update everyone. I went to confession today and my priest was not the one in the confession. I had never met him before. He told me to not worry and to keep praying like I normally do. Needless to say I was hurt because I feel like he didn’t take it seriously. I have emailed my normal priest for an appointment at his earliest convenience to discuss it. I have continued to pray the rosary with the same results. Please pray for me that my experience at Mass tomorrow morning is a good one.
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I will keep praying! If your priest wont take you seriously find one that will. Somebody earlier said this and i totally agree.
 
Mass was worse today. My husband and I were asked to carry the wafers and wine to the front during Mass. I have never done that before and I was terrified. They gave us plenty of direction but I didn’t want to be near the priest. I knew when I passed him the wine our hands might touch and that thought made me sick. I went through with it and nothing bad happened. He said a blessing over us for bringing the gifts and I felt a little better. Then he started consecrating the Eucharist. The fog lowered, and I was deep in prayer when my husband nudged my arm and asked if I was ok. I was shaking from head to toe and he was worried. I was having blasphemous thoughts about the priest and the consecration and I was telling them in the name of Jesus to go away. It was a battle and when he pulled me out of it, I cried a bit. We took the Eucharist a bit later and I could see again clearly.

My priest said he would email me to set up a time to meet this week. Please pray I get enough restful sleep to make it through work this week until I can see him. I appreciate every one of you and your thoughts and prayers.
 
catholicmom2007 said:
Mass was worse today. My husband and I were asked to carry the wafers and wine to the front during Mass. I have never done that before and I was terrified. They gave us plenty of direction but I didn’t want to be near the priest. I knew when I passed him the wine our hands might touch and that thought made me sick. I went through with it and nothing bad happened. He said a blessing over us for bringing the gifts and I felt a little better. Then he started consecrating the Eucharist. The fog lowered, and I was deep in prayer when my husband nudged my arm and asked if I was ok. I was shaking from head to toe and he was worried. I was having blasphemous thoughts about the priest and the consecration and I was telling them in the name of Jesus to go away. It was a battle and when he pulled me out of it, I cried a bit. We took the Eucharist a bit later and I could see again clearly.

My priest said he would email me to set up a time to meet this week. Please pray I get enough restful sleep to make it through work this week until I can see him. I appreciate every one of you and your thoughts and prayers.
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Its getting worse because demons hate it when we pray for you. But that will last onky a little while, I suspect it will get worse and worse for a little more until finally they are forced to leave. Satan screams when he is in pain. God Bless. Ill keep praying.
 
I just wanted to update you on my progress. I met with my priest for an hour this week. He believed everything that I said. He blessed two Benedictine crosses for me to wear and keep. He questioned me intensely to rule out mental, emotional, or physical causes. He determined that it was spiritual warfare that was going on. He vowed to walk with me on this journey and to meet with me every two weeks for the next few months to guide me.

Most importantly, I showed him the brand that I kept seeing on the creatures in my dreams. I told him I believed it was a word but I couldn’t figure out what it was supposed to mean. He said it was Hebrew but he only knew enough to recognize it. It was a huge relief and yet also a huge burden to receive validation that it wasn’t all in my head.

My husband and I did some research and found a website that can translate Hebrew to English. We typed in the letters as closely as possible and when we clicked the translate button we were shocked. It translated as Lord of the Flies. My husband googled Beelzebub and the Hebrew letters were identical to what I had written.

I have never studied Hebrew. I couldn’t even recognize it. I am very scared. What does he want with me? He’s a major player and I’m no one special. I plan on telling my priest the next time we meet. Please pray for me.
 
catholicmom2007 said:
He blessed two Benedictine crosses for me to wear and keep. He questioned me intensely to rule out mental, emotional, or physical causes.
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Excellent! I wear a Benedictine crucifix as well! 🙂 And I’m not surprised about all the questions, that’s completely normal. All that stuff needs to be ruled out first, especially since (from what I understand) many people just have psychological/mental problems. But I had a strong feeling yours probably wasn’t based on a lot of your symptoms.
catholicmom2007 said:
My husband and I did some research and found a website that can translate Hebrew to English. We typed in the letters as closely as possible and when we clicked the translate button we were shocked. It translated as Lord of the Flies. My husband googled Beelzebub and the Hebrew letters were identical to what I had written.

I have never studied Hebrew. I couldn’t even recognize it. I am very scared. What does he want with me? He’s a major player and I’m no one special. I plan on telling my priest the next time we meet. Please pray for me.
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Personally, I wouldn’t wait for 2 weeks to mention this info to him, and would call him tomorrow, or meet him tomorrow after mass if you’re going to Sunday morning mass, especially since I think that kind of info is important for the priest to know (assuming that it is the name of the demon); I know names are generally quite useful in the exorcisms of people.

But anyway, as someone had mentioned earlier, I think you may have some kind of generational curse or something. Perhaps something that your ancestors or parents did that u never knew about. But I don’t know. Either way, please do work with your priest on this.

P.S. Just so u know, despite what u said about not being special… On the contrary, you are very special!! You are a child of our ever-loving heavenly Father! How could u not be special! So please don’t ever say anything like that. That’s what we call false humility, and something that we need to guard against.

Anyway, God bless and I’ll keep u in prayer! And know that the Lord is with you through it all, even now. 🙂
 
My priest asked a lot about generational stuff. Everyone that is alive in my family, plus one more generation back have been devout Christians. Not any of them were Catholic, but they were all Methodist, Baptist, or Pentecostal. Beyond that, I can’t say of anyone meddled in the occult or not. He didn’t seem to think that was the cause. He’s not sure what is causing it at this point. He thinks probably an attempt to scare me away from the Church. Thank you for the advice and prayers!
 
As for generational curses, it might not be that any of your relatives dabbled in the occult or anything like that; but it’s possible that someone placed a curse upon someone in your family line. Based on your priest’s reactions, I doubt that’s the case.

FWIW, here’s a link to something just published by the Archdiocese of Washington (D.C.):

Why Does Satan Hate You?

Never forget: We are all involved in spiritual warfare, whether we acknowledge that fact or not. You are VITALLY important to G_D’s plan in Salvation History. If you don’t think so, read the story of Judah and Tamar in Genesis 38. (Be patient – this may be long, but it’s important.) Genesis 38 describes how Judah arranged for Tamar to marry his oldest son Er; but Er died before giving Tamar a son. By law, Er’s brother (Onan) should have gotten Tamar pregnant, and the children would be considered to be children of Er. But Onan disobeyed, and so G_D killed Onan, too.

Eventually, Tamar was forced to trick Judah into having sex with her so she could get a child from the line of Judah. Why was it so important that Tamar’s child be from the line of Judah? We don’t know. All we know is that it was vitally important to G_D’s plan of salvation that Jesus come from the line of Judah, which meant that the child of Tamar was vitally important to our salvation. When you think of the children not born due to abortion or artificial birth control, you have children who are vitally important to G_D’s Plan who are being denied their chances to bring glory to G_D’s Holy Name. You say that you are not important. WRONG! You have no idea how important or what plans G_D has for you over the next few years; or what important part your children will play in saving others for G_D.

So make sure you have a blessed crucifix affixed to the wall over your bed. Say the Rosary every day. You might even get some holy water from church and bless your bedroom before going to bed at night, and in your bedtime prayers ask G_D to cover you and your family with the Blood of His Son Jesus. I will pray for you.
 
Hello everyone,

This is my first time here, I need major prayers asap. I am Christian, but I went to Catholic forum because the Catholics know more about these things.

My husband had done a house cleansing some months ago; he wasn’t the same ever since. He even admitted to me that he had been spiritually oppressed ever since.

Finally, out of nowhere, he not only accused me of having an affair, but he even had detailed scenarios and a name of a guy he swears I’m seeing.

Within three weeks, he accused me of an affair, he kicked me out of the house, and filed for divorce. He speaks to me in no way he ever has before; this being that he says the most hurtful and hateful things to me. He says the Holy Spirit led him to this conclusion. I am so destroyed over this and we have four children caught in the middle, including our one year old. My kids and I are going through the hardest time of our lives. I’ve tried to talk to him about it, but he doesn’t believe he is being oppressed anymore.

This entire situation has ruined my marriage. I love my husband very much as this has been so hard on us all. All I do all day is pray for the Savior to rip this spirit off my husband and that he sees I have not done these things.

I need everyone to pray, please. I am so desperate. It has now been over one month since it all happened. PLEASE HELP. 😦 Please pray for him and my family, his name is William.
 
amcminn84 said:
Hello everyone,

This is my first time here, I need major prayers asap. I am Christian, but I went to Catholic forum because the Catholics know more about these things.

My husband had done a house cleansing some months ago; he wasn’t the same ever since. He even admitted to me that he had been spiritually oppressed ever since.

Finally, out of nowhere, he not only accused me of having an affair, but he even had detailed scenarios and a name of a guy he swears I’m seeing.

Within three weeks, he accused me of an affair, he kicked me out of the house, and filed for divorce. He speaks to me in no way he ever has before; this being that he says the most hurtful and hateful things to me. He says the Holy Spirit led him to this conclusion. I am so destroyed over this and we have four children caught in the middle, including our one year old. My kids and I are going through the hardest time of our lives. I’ve tried to talk to him about it, but he doesn’t believe he is being oppressed anymore.

This entire situation has ruined my marriage. I love my husband very much as this has been so hard on us all. All I do all day is pray for the Savior to rip this spirit off my husband and that he sees I have not done these things.

I need everyone to pray, please. I am so desperate. It has now been over one month since it all happened. PLEASE HELP. 😦 Please pray for him and my family, his name is William.
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I will definitely keep you and your family in my prayers. My big concern is although your husband’s change could be spiritual, it could also be evidence of a neurological disorder. However, if he’s unwilling to discuss his own reactions to things those conversations won’t get very far.

You said, “… he doesn’t believe he is being oppressed anymore.” How badly was he being oppressed earlier, and when does he believe the oppression ended? You mentioned a house cleansing. I’m a little concerned because if he tried to take authority in an area where he didn’t have authority, that might leave him open to demonic oppression.

You indicate that you are Christian but not Catholic, so I don’t know how comfortable (or desperate) you would be to follow some of the suggestions people here will offer. I’ll start out by recommending you pray to St. Michael the Archangel for his help in freeing your husband. Remember prayer is not worship; prayer is making a request, a very old and formal way of saying “Please”.

St. Michael was the archangel who drove Satan and his minions from heaven during the Heavenly Rebellion; he’s also the angel that will bind Satan and all his minions in the Abyss for all eternity (as in Revelation). In asking for St. Michael’s help, you are not dissing Jesus by going to someone else, you are respecting G_D and the heavenly order He set up. He has given each and every one of us (both mortal and angelic beings) specific skills and duties to use and do in the Spiritual Warfare against the Evil One. Asking St. Michael for help is respecting G_D and the skills and strengths He gave to St. Michael. Here’s a prayer to get you started:

St. Michael the Archangel, defend us in battle.
Be our protection against the wickedness and the snares of the Devil.
May God rebuke him we humbly pray,
And do Thou O Prince of the Heavenly Host
By the Power of God
Cast into Hell Satan and all the evil spirits
Who prowl the world seeking the ruin of souls.

Sacred Heart of Jesus, have mercy on us.
Mary, help all Christians, pray for us.
 
PS: Don’t hesitate to PM me (by clicking on my username) or any of the priests her on Catholic Answers if there are issues you don’t want to discuss in public.
 
Likewise, PM me if you need anything!Follow all the advice already given on this thread too!
 
Thank you very much.

Muzhik, no advice you give me will offend me, I assure you. I appreciate anything you or anyone can offer.

When he was oppressed, and still being oppressed to this day, I saw him get pushed off of our bed; something was even picking up his arm and dropping it; and also, there was pulling on his leg. Come morning, he didn’t even remember; he didn’t even remember being pushed off the bed and it was very violent in the way he was pushed. When I told him of this, he started crying and said that the Holy Spirit is leading him to believe that I am the cause of all of this because I “brought demons home by cheating.” No matter how much I try to convince him that it’s not me and that I have not done anything, his thoughts are so badly manipulated that he does not believe me. He has also blacked out before… maybe a sign of a neurological disorder? I’m open to anything that would make sense and resolve this huge dilemma. All prayers are more than welcome and wanted. I just want my family back 😦
 
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