Seven Step to Self Deliverance

[DeniseNY]

Interested in opinions on this. I was googling info on St Padre Pio and came across it.

saintpiocenter.org/selfhelp/sevensteps.shtml

 

[dividus]

Thanks so much for the link. I have been reading about St Pio for the past few weeks. I find the many stories and anecdotes I have read to be truly inspiring.

 

[tawny]

Thanks for the link, Denise.

 

[71326]

Other religious ministers, psychologists, counselors, and others including the Deliverance Counselors of our agency, are also bound either by law, ethical codes, or contract with the client to keep private and confidential all that is revealed to them. www.saintpiocenter.org/selfhelp/sevensteps.shtml

In fact, there is no universal agreement with non-Catholic ministers. At my former place of worship, it was a judgement call for them whether a case warranted being told to public authorities. Their intentions may be to get to the bottom of a scandal, but in using other than supernatural means, they would not be fully trusting in their priestly office nor soliciting the highest power.

In reading about exorcism in the early Church, you needed a form of asceticism to have success in expelling demons, along with prayer and strict discipline, thought of as a spiritual gift. The deliverance was given by the power of Christ.

I much like the idea of prayer signatures, e.g. in renunciation of sins of ancestors. We also pray with our invocations to Michael the Archangel, guardian angels and saints.