Vatican's chief exorcist warns that practicing yoga is 'satanic' Gateway to Possession

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In a recent homily, Pope Francis reminded listeners that practices like yoga aren’t capable of opening our hearts up to God. “You can take a million catechetical courses, a million courses in spirituality, a million courses in yoga, Zen and all these things. But all of this will never be able to give you.freedom”, he explained

The Pope tells us that only the Holy Spirit can “move the heart” and make it “docile to the Lord, docile to the freedom of love”.
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Well, no, of course yoga cannot open the heart to God anymore than aerobic exercise, weightlifting or the atkins diet can open one’s heart to God.

The yoga that is practiced in parishes is purely about stretching and breathing – not unlike how westerners practice Tai Chi Chuan.
 
Father Amorth, often, said: ‘practicing yoga brings evil as does reading Harry Potter. They both seem innocuous but they deal with magic and that leads to evil.’
He added:‘Yoga is the Devil’s work. You thing you are doing it for stretching your mind and body but it leads to Hinduism. All these oriental religions are based on the false belief of reincarnation.’

Deuteronomy 18:9-14 When you come into the land that the LORD your God is giving you, you must not learn to imitate the abhorrent practices of those nations. 10 No one shall be found among you who makes a son or daughter pass through fire, or who practices divination, or is a soothsayer, or an augur, or a sorcerer, 11 or one who casts spells, or who consults ghosts or spirits, or who seeks oracles from the dead. 12 For whoever does these things is abhorrent to the LORD; it is because of such abhorrent practices that the LORD your God is driving them out before you. 13 You must remain completely loyal to the LORD your God.
 
My perspective is different since I consider him as a priest who is considerably senior to him. I hope, having left the FSSP only to find himself in an even more extraordinary situation he can with the help of a fatherly bishop find himself to a path of normalcy in his priesthood. I say this only to encourage you to pray for this priest but also the prelates of the Church who are trying to help him.
 
I knew Father Gabriele for years…of all things, I do not need someone to endeavor to explain him to me. As a theologian, I am quite capable of making my own assessment of him…especially given his situation across the last years of his life and when he died in his 90s.

To be clear: He was not “the Vatican’s chief exorcist”. He happened to be one of several priests who were designated exorcists by the Vicariato of Rome.
 
Yoga begins with Sun worship, That is breaking of the First commandment which has punishment till the fourth generation down the line
Deuteronomy 4:19
19 And when you look up to the heavens and see the sun, the moon, and the stars, all the host of heaven, do not be led astray and bow down to them and serve them, things that the LORD your God has allotted to all the peoples everywhere under heaven.
Leviticus 19:26
You shall not eat anything with its blood. You shall not practice augury or witchcraft.
Leviticus 20:6-8
If any turn to mediums and wizards, prostituting themselves to them, I will set my face against them, and will cut them off from the people. Consecrate yourselves therefore, and be holy; for I am the LORD your God. Keep my statutes, and observe them; I am the LORD; I sanctify you.
 
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The priest is ignorant about its ill effects even the elates are led astray

like i saying we don"t worship satan, we only practice his moves
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Your statement is incomprehensible. Lucifer is a being of pure spirit…he does not “move” in the way embodied beings move…even by the employ of analogy.
 
No I was mentioning about Yoga, but Harry potter was already stated by Rev Fr Father Amorth
 
What i meant was positions of yoga ,Practicing them
 
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In fact, this is a theme the Holy Father, wisely, returns to frequently. We are not saved by programmes or schemes or following jingles or other such campaigns. It is a salvific encounter of the soul with God that is the saving event. This is at the heart of the Holy Father’'s Ignatian spirituality – a school of spirituality too much under-appreciated in the Church today and which will be one of this Pope’s many great and enduring legacies in the Church…along with many others.
 
Indeed… The practice of yoga by health conscious – or health seeking – westerners has as much to do with an ashram as my preparing my daily spot of tea has to do with a Buddhiist tea ceremony – although they both involve the ritualised brewing, serving, and consumption of tea.

As Sigmund Freud said, sometimes a cigar is just that…a cigar. It does not have some underlying hidden and esoteric meaning.
 
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1 Corinthians 10:20 No, I imply that what pagans sacrifice, they sacrifice to demons and not to God. I do not want you to be partners with demons.

1 Timothy 4:1
[ False Asceticism ] Now the Spirit expressly says that in later times some will renounce the faith by paying attention to deceitful spirits and teachings of demons,
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I know how this is done with sola scriptura foks. Adding context defeats proof-texting.

The applicable Scripture we should look at is how St. Paul addressed the paganism in his day, with his own issue of yoga, which was people buying and eating meat that was previously part of pagan sacrifice, thus “copying Satan’s diet.” He wrote to the Church of Corinth where this was a divisive issue and said:
8 Now about food sacrificed to idols: We know that “We all possess knowledge.” But knowledge puffs up while love builds up. 2 Those who think they know something do not yet know as they ought to know. 3 But whoever loves God is known by God.[a]

4 So then, about eating food sacrificed to idols: We know that “An idol is nothing at all in the world” and that “There is no God but one.” 5 For even if there are so-called gods, whether in heaven or on earth (as indeed there are many “gods” and many “lords”), 6 yet for us there is but one God, the Father, from whom all things came and for whom we live; and there is but one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom all things came and through whom we live.

7 But not everyone possesses this knowledge. Some people are still so accustomed to idols that when they eat sacrificial food they think of it as having been sacrificed to a god, and since their conscience is weak, it is defiled. 8 But food does not bring us near to God; we are no worse if we do not eat, and no better if we do.
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The caveat he added was:
9 Be careful, however, that the exercise of your rights does not become a stumbling block to the weak. 10 For if someone with a weak conscience sees you, with all your knowledge, eating in an idol’s temple, won’t that person be emboldened to eat what is sacrificed to idols? 11 So this weak brother or sister, for whom Christ died, is destroyed by your knowledge.
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So if we skip gluing Bible verses to our opinions and instead try and find out what the Bible actually says on the subject, we realize that for a Christian who knows there is but one God and worships Him alone, there is nothing to yoga or meat. However, we might need to avoid the appearance of evil for the sake of those who are weaker in the faith, let’s say, we do yoga at a class where this sort of spiritual emphasis exists.

Now I am open if anyone has where the Bible says something otherwise, but we have to realize that whatever is said has to allow for St. Paul’s teaching that once we understand there is but one God that pagan idolatry is empty.
 
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Watch as I expose the satanic deception behind Yoga. Many think it is a harmless form of stretching and exercise. It is anything but that, Yoga is in fact a form of Hindu worship and it is an open door to demons. Yoga is meant to awaken the Kundalini spirit within the individual, a snake spirit said to be coiled around the base of the spine. Once awakened through Yoga stretches, it is said to travel up the spine to the brain and open the 3rd eye, or pineal gland of the individual, which is an occult satanic term used to refer to spiritual vision. Yoga stretches are also pulled right out of the Hindu Vedas (scriptures).
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And what official Church document is this from, please?
 
See, if we were talking just about kundalini yoga, I might be inclined to agree with the concern (as it stands I do appreciate Francis’ concern, I think it is well-meant). But kundalini isn’t popular and good luck finding people who actually know what they’re talking about to learn it from.
 
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See, if we were talking just about kundalini yoga, I might be inclined to agree with the concern (as it stands I do appreciate Francis’ concern, I think it is well-meant). But kundalini isn’t popular and good luck finding people who actually know what they’re talking about to learn it from.
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Absolutely. I don’t doubt for a second that kundalini yoga can be dangerous; even some practitioners say so. But that’s a different type of yoga entirely.
 
I would think the Holy Father himself is the Vaticans “Chief Exorcist”, no?

Maybe it’s the machismo and glory of the idea of a somewhat rebellious priest who is “chief exorcist”, smoking cigarettes and casting out demons in rainy alleys in Rome…
 
The Bible refers to satan “roaming the earth”.

I picture satan as an enormous being that can be over the entire earth all at once…
 
Now, in defense of Fr. Amorth, there is a reality to evil in the world. I personally believe Satan seldom uses the occult as a trap for the faithful. We are far too vulnerable to pride, complacency, lusts and other sins. I recommend Fr. Pacwa’s book Catholics and the New Age. Even if the occult is hardly the only trap. There is also the danger of deism, indifferentism, and now, Jedi religion. 😁 We can really get sucked into a very distorted understanding of God.

Neither should we spar at shadows. In my teens, there was a big Satanic scary that all rock music was demonic and words recorded backwards. Others said Proctor and Gamble products lead to demonic influence based on their seal. Yoga has a real connection to Hinduism though. So we have to look at what is real and what is not, while at the same time realizing that an connection is not necessarily a spiritual connection, which is why Paul said he could dine on meat sold out of the back of pagan temples.
 
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