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I experienced a horrible thing spiritually this weekend. I was helping my mother renovate her hardwood floor. My mother is a diehard feminist liberal, very anti-christian, prochoice, pro everything I am against. You can imagine that our relationship is very shallow. I stand up quietly for my traditional Catholic beliefs.
Anyway I went to stay overnight and lying in the guest room, I was assaulted by horrific images of abortion. The experience was prolonged and powerful. I felt assaulted by demonic presence. I prayed as hard as I have ever prayed, every prayer I could think of, especially to St. Michael the Archangel and to Our Mother for these babies. It helped but it was at least 2-3 hours.
I need to go to confession although I have said the Act of Contrition for my sin. I intend to go at the next scheduled confession time. But would God have allowed this to happen to me as punishment? Is it possible that my mother’s house has a demonic presence? I always feel uncomfortable there. My husband has promised to go with me when he can and has advised me not to spend the night.
Interested in any advice you may have.
 
Speak to your priest and don’t go in that room again without Holy Water and sacramentals. I will pray for you and your mum. Peace
 
If it was your own home, I would have recommended having it blessed - but if your mother is against it then that’s not really going to be an option. If things calm down once you get away from there, it would seem to be attached to the house and not to you. Personally, I would still feel better seeing a priest one way or another!
 
I am sorry you had to go through that. I would talk to your priest about what you experienced when you go to confession. He may have some suggestions on how to deal with a situation where you are confronted by oppressive images and feelings when you are at your mother’s house. It wasn’t clear to me why you feel you have sinned. I am sure he can help with that too.
 
Musician said:
I experienced a horrible thing spiritually this weekend. I was helping my mother renovate her hardwood floor. My mother is a diehard feminist liberal, very anti-christian, prochoice, pro everything I am against. You can imagine that our relationship is very shallow. I stand up quietly for my traditional Catholic beliefs.
Anyway I went to stay overnight and lying in the guest room, I was assaulted by horrific images of abortion. The experience was prolonged and powerful. I felt assaulted by demonic presence. I prayed as hard as I have ever prayed, every prayer I could think of, especially to St. Michael the Archangel and to Our Mother for these babies. It helped but it was at least 2-3 hours.
I need to go to confession although I have said the Act of Contrition for my sin. I intend to go at the next scheduled confession time. But would God have allowed this to happen to me as punishment? Is it possible that my mother’s house has a demonic presence? I always feel uncomfortable there. My husband has promised to go with me when he can and has advised me not to spend the night.
Interested in any advice you may have.
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“Have Holy water, will travel.”

Never go anywhere overnight outside of your own home without it.

I am so very sorry for you that this happened, and even sorrier for your mother, who needs as many prayers as you can say for her.

If the demonic force is so strong in your mother’s home, I would no longer spend any time other than what is strictly necessary there. No more overnights either.
 
Thanks for your answers. I am very sure she never had an abortion but she did encourage my sister to have one and even paid for it. Not while in this house though. I just wonder if her far left feminist beliefs have opened the door to evil there. If so why was I so strongly assailed by such awful images, all abortion related?
 
Well, your mother does appear to have materially cooperated in a grave evil, in the encouragement of and paying for your sister’s abortion. The demonic senses nothing so much as that which is holy. Your faith is detestable to them, and you were in “their house.” Yet, what you experienced set you to prayer - exactly the opposite of what they wanted. You might speak with your Priest/spiritual director about this, so that you can discern any future attacks for what they are.
 
Musician,

Sensitivity to the spiritual realm happens in two ways.
  1. A person is demonized (this is not you)
  2. The Lord opens your spiritual eyes and so that you can see and bear witness. (your case)
Ask the Lord to guide you in helping your mum. Listen carefully to the Lords word.

If you are in the situation where you need to stay with your mum, take Holy Water and say St Michael Prayer. Ask the Lord for spiritual protection in the room you are staying in.

If you are confronted by horror again, then simply state “In the name of Jesus, I ask you to leave”. It has worked for me many a time.

It is a good idea that both you and your husband go to confession. The bible does state:

Numbers 14:18;
‘The Lord is slow to anger, abounding in love and forgiving sin and rebellion. Yet he does not leave the guilty unpunished; he punishes the children for the sin of the parents to the third and fourth generation.’
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Last of all God gave you Free.
 
Musician said:
I experienced a horrible thing spiritually this weekend. I was helping my mother renovate her hardwood floor. My mother is a diehard feminist liberal, very anti-christian, prochoice, pro everything I am against. You can imagine that our relationship is very shallow. I stand up quietly for my traditional Catholic beliefs.
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This is the part I find bothersome. What you saw may have been your own imagination working on you. It sounds like you separate yourself from your mother because she holds different beliefs. That relationship you have with her, and what you think about her thoughts and actions, are powerful enough by themselves to trigger such visions whether or not there is demonic involvement.

Reconsider the fourth commandment; it says to honor parents, not to judge them. If you can learn to accept your mother, love her unconditionally, and build a relationship the way she is, you will have done something more pleasing to God than keeping your distance, and more likely to evangelize or get your ideas across to her. As long as you are shallow relationship with, and believe you are superior to her, you are not being a light for her darkness. And the talk about “opening a door…” If you go over to her place in fear and judgment, then you have opened the door for the darkness to enter you because you have given it power over you. If you have faith and trust, these things cannot hurt you.

Alan
 
I do judge that my mother has gravely disordered beliefs. She’s also very much into ridiculing my faith. I try to ignore it and be as loving as I can. In what way am I not honoring her, if you please?
 
Musician said:
I do judge that my mother has gravely disordered beliefs. She’s also very much into ridiculing my faith. I try to ignore it and be as loving as I can. In what way am I not honoring her, if you please?
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Maybe “honor” wasn’t the right word, but what tipped me off there may be room for improvement is that you wrote, “You can imagine that our relationship is very shallow. I stand up quietly for my traditional Catholic beliefs.”

If you hold her beliefs against her, then you may be keeping the relationship shallow. If she ridicules you, then she is not making it easy.

Among my own children; one is a seminarian, one is an atheist, one agnostic, and three practicing Catholics. I sent them all to Catholic schools K-8, and all have participated in the Mass at least as my cantor when I play for the 8 AM. But now they are all over the map, as they have made their own choices. I have just as deep a relationship with them all. Having different beliefs about religion or politics does not automatically mean a shallow relationship. Note that the agnostic is thinking of becoming practicing against because the other chose to become a priest and they respect each other and want to support each other. If we had polarized our relationship based on our beliefs, we would all be going our separate ways.

YMMV.

Alan
 
I would love to have a closer relationship with my mother. Unfortunately she’s a very hostile and negative person. I do my best.
 
Musician said:
I would love to have a closer relationship with my mother. Unfortunately she’s a very hostile and negative person. I do my best.
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I think you are doing a marvelously well as a daughter Musician. That is evidenced with you helping her to renovate her hardwood floor. I am sure it doesn’t stop there . That is no easy task!

Godbless

THT
 
Musician said:
I experienced a horrible thing spiritually this weekend. I was helping my mother renovate her hardwood floor. My mother is a diehard feminist liberal, very anti-christian, prochoice, pro everything I am against. You can imagine that our relationship is very shallow. I stand up quietly for my traditional Catholic beliefs.
Anyway I went to stay overnight and lying in the guest room, I was assaulted by horrific images of abortion. The experience was prolonged and powerful. I felt assaulted by demonic presence. I prayed as hard as I have ever prayed, every prayer I could think of, especially to St. Michael the Archangel and to Our Mother for these babies. It helped but it was at least 2-3 hours.
I need to go to confession although I have said the Act of Contrition for my sin. I intend to go at the next scheduled confession time. But would God have allowed this to happen to me as punishment? Is it possible that my mother’s house has a demonic presence? I always feel uncomfortable there. My husband has promised to go with me when he can and has advised me not to spend the night.
Interested in any advice you may have.
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I’m unsure why you think that you committed a sin. Here is what I mean.

I have read of several saints feeling like blaspheming God in a very strong way, and maybe for even several hours, almost uncontrollably. Their confessors just tell them it was the work of the devil tempting them and by rejecting to blaspheme they actually were pleasing to God. Now these saints actually prayed to God for poor souls who were not making it and asked God to be his sacrificial lamb to save them. So by allowing them to experience these very strong temptations they were being allowed to have their prayers fulfilled.

Now it might just be that what you are suffering in these temptations is for your mother and her sins. I don’t mean by that that it would be wise for you to persue temptations of this kind for her, but nevertheless, when you encounter them, to offer them up to God on her behalf.

From your descriptions of them, this was very hard on you, and it sounds to me as though you handled them quite well. The only thing I would add is that you offer them up to our dear Lord for your mother and for others who hurt him in these children.

One more thing I would recommend is that you hide a blessed green scapular of our Lady in your mother’s room or somewhere in close proximity to her. Then each day say the prayer on the green scapular for her: “O Immaculate Heart of Mary, pray for us now and at the hour of our death.” One of Mary’s benefits from this is that the person you pray for, will receive the gift of faith or return to the faith. For your situation it is a perfect blessing. You can get a free one by googling “green scapular”. Mary does expect you to believe that she will not go back on her word. If you rely on Mary and do as she asks, you will see a difference.​

“Like a shepherd he feeds his flock and gathers the lambs in his arms, holding them carefully close to his heart, leading them home.” (hymn)
 
Musician said:
I experienced a horrible thing spiritually this weekend. I was helping my mother renovate her hardwood floor. My mother is a diehard feminist liberal, very anti-christian, prochoice, pro everything I am against. You can imagine that our relationship is very shallow. I stand up quietly for my traditional Catholic beliefs.
Anyway I went to stay overnight and lying in the guest room, I was assaulted by horrific images of abortion. The experience was prolonged and powerful. I felt assaulted by demonic presence. I prayed as hard as I have ever prayed, every prayer I could think of, especially to St. Michael the Archangel and to Our Mother for these babies. It helped but it was at least 2-3 hours.
I need to go to confession although I have said the Act of Contrition for my sin. I intend to go at the next scheduled confession time. But would God have allowed this to happen to me as punishment? Is it possible that my mother’s house has a demonic presence? I always feel uncomfortable there. My husband has promised to go with me when he can and has advised me not to spend the night.
Interested in any advice you may have.
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Are you familiar with St. Faustina’s prayer of conversion? It is part of the Devotion to the Divine Mercy:

“O Blood and Water that gushed forth from the Heart of Jesus, I TRUST in You.” Say this three times and pray it each time you see your mom sin or talk about sinful subjects also you may pray Chaplets for her conversion. You can say it as often as you like whether you are in her presents or not.
 
So sorry to hear about this. It sounds terrible. I agree with what everyone else has said. Talk to a priest, and perhaps avoid spending the night.

I’ve had my fair share of negative spiritual experiences, especially when I was outside of the Church, so I know what it can be like. It’s not pleasant, to say the least, and it can ware on you. I will pray for you.
 
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