Spiritual Combat Anyone?

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LittleFlower378 said:
Demonic oppression is when the devil acts from the outside such as loss of finances, loss of health. Demonic obsession is when the devil works on the soul of the person such as tormenting and disturbing the soul.
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I must have both.
 
Not necessarily so, it could just be temptations from the world, the flesh, or the devil.
 
This is a fictitious story of what oppression is. Let’s say a person goes to Mass on Holy Thursday every year. The one year she tries to go, the car breaks down. She takes it to the mechanic who tells her there is nothing he can find that can explain the car breaking down. Let’s imagine she tries the car again, and it starts up. While going to get gas, she accidentally hits a gas pump and everything bursts into flame. She goes to confession every other week but is often left with the thought that God doesn’t love her. She sounds like bad luck personified.

It doesn’t end there. Before her wedding day, her future husband dies in a plane crash. The relatives turn against her for some reason or other. Her health begins to fail.

The trouble is these things could just be caused by natural things. But, maybe not. There’s that little doubt somewhere. The standard reply to all this is that people always say, “Well, that’s life. Move on.” It may be true, but it may be a good thing for her to find some spiritual help, too.
 
Annie said:
I think the info needs to get out to people and I am grateful to Fr R for doing this, but it is a shame that we are so easily attracted to the apparent excitement of battling demons when we usually really need to focus on fighting ourselves.
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Ok, although I created this thread, I’ve no clue who Fr Rippinger is and am going to need google to find out.

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Annie said:
but it is a shame that we are so easily attracted to the apparent excitement of battling demons when we usually really need to focus on fighting ourselves.
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It’s not necessarily excitement. I want the demons to leave me alone but for some reason God thinks it benefits me to be harassed by them.
 
Gripper said:
It’s not necessarily excitement. I want the demons to leave me alone but for some reason God thinks it benefits me to be harassed by them.
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K, presumptuous to assume that IMO.

The spiritual Combat is something we have to deal with whether it’s a “small” temptation to full on needing an authorized exorcist. We are the Church Militant and we therefore have battles to fight. Seems so simple but isnt.
 
But that is why I said it is important to get the info out there 🙂 For people like you who need it.
 
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