The Benedictine exorcism

  • Thread starter Thread starter Yehuda_Dion
  • Start date Start date
Status
Not open for further replies.
Y

Yehuda_Dion

Guest
Crux sancta sit mihi lux
Let the Holy Cross be my light

Non draco sit mihi dux
Let not the dragon be my guide

Vade retro satana
Step back, satan

Nunquam suade mihi vana
Never tempt me with vain things

Sunt mala quae libas
What you offer me is evil

Ipse venena bibas
Drink the poison yourself.

A very good prayer for ousting demons when you feel you’re being tempted. The passage gained general attention in 1647 when a group of witches who were being persecuted testified that they cannot do harm where there is a cross, and particularly not at Saint Michael’s Benedictine Abbey in Metten, where there were placed crosses with the formula’s initials (V.R.S, or vade retro satana)
 
Yehuda_Dion said:
Crux sancta sit mihi lux
Let the Holy Cross be my light

Non draco sit mihi dux
Let not the dragon be my guide

Vade retro satana
Step back, satan

Nunquam suade mihi vana
Never tempt me with vain things

Sunt mala quae libas
What you offer me is evil

Ipse venena bibas
Drink the poison yourself.

A very good prayer for ousting demons when you feel you’re being tempted. The passage gained general attention in 1647 when a group of witches who were being persecuted testified that they cannot do harm where there is a cross, and particularly not at Saint Michael’s Benedictine Abbey in Metten, where there were placed crosses with the formula’s initials (V.R.S, or vade retro satana)
Click to expand...
Thanks for posting this!

How is the proper way to say/use this prayer? (with incense, out loud, with Holy Water being sprinkled around, in Latin only, etc…)
 
A_G said:
Thanks for posting this!

How is the proper way to say/use this prayer? (with incense, out loud, with Holy Water being sprinkled around, in Latin only, etc…)
Click to expand...
It is not per se a Benedictine “exorcism” (as if it were their “rite of exorcism”–which of course I should note would be reserved for an actual Priest-exorcist and would be the one the Church per se uses not a special one for an Order…)

…it is what is found on the medal.

Here:

osb.org/gen/medal.html
 
Is that prayer inscribed on the medal itself? I can’t find any pictures showing the back of the medal or seeing that inscribed in the medal :confused:
 
manny85 said:
Is that prayer inscribed on the medal itself? I can’t find any pictures showing the back of the medal or seeing that inscribed in the medal :confused:
Click to expand...
Yes…via the initials on the cross and around the edge
 
Bookcat said:
It is not per se a Benedictine “exorcism” (as if it were their “rite of exorcism”–which of course I should note would be reserved for an actual Priest-exorcist and would be the one the Church per se uses not a special one for an Order…)

…it is what is found on the medal.

Here:

osb.org/gen/medal.html
Click to expand...
Code: 
 That prayer is a simple exorcism.  Simple exorcisms curb the influence of Satan and every demonic attack less than possession  is what the Church recommends.  

The Church permits lay people to pray prayers of deliverance  or  simple exorcisms.  

"Current Norms for Governing Exorcisms"  forbids  lay people to conduct public solemn exorcisms.
“Inde Ab Aliquot Annis, On The Current Norms Governing Exorcisms, Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, September 29, 1985” does not forbid simple exorcism prayers.
See this document translated by Father Gabriele Amorth, Exorcist of Diocese of Rome.
Code: 
 All these terms,  private, public, solemn  are formal technical terms.   The instructions given by Pope Leo XIII for his famous exorcism prayer  were never abrogated  by the above document  because  he only intended lay people to use as  private exorcisms.  Fr. Joseph  explained this to me in several letters.  

  Exocism is a sacramental.  Sacramentals don't import graces the same way as sacraments.

 The Leonine Prayers are important prayers for this time.
BP
 
Status
Not open for further replies.
Back
Top