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SunsetMemories
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Does anyone know of any powerful Sacramentals that help in protecting one from all forms/kinds of evil? What are best to be worn, carried, and for the home? I appreciate any replies.
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Catholic1954
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A blessed medal of St. Benedict; wear it around your neck.
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Memaw
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Holy Water. I carry a little bottle of it with me all the time. Use it lots in my home. God Bless, Memaw
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tawny
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The blessed Crucifix & Holy Water.
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Sunbreak
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Sacramentals are only as powerful as your faith. They are not magic charms.
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Marie5890
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^^^^^^ This.
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Crusaderbear
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Carry your faith with pride and fortitude, it is all you will need.
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midori
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Don’t use sacramentals in a superstitious way, but perceive them as vehicles for grace and blessings.
My grandmother’s children came together when she was passing away. Although there were decades of animosity and discord, things were very quiet and peaceful and beautiful. After the funeral home took her away, the usual snappishness and arguments resumed. I put it down to the stress and emotions of losing their mother, although it had been several years’ in the coming and was no surprise.
I found out, though, that my mother had taken some of the blessed salt I had given to her, and had sprinkled some in my grandmother’s bedding. When the funeral home took her, they wheeled away the bed and bedding and salt.
I bring my Exorcism of Salt prayer and a can of salt to my priest and ask him to perform the blessing for me. I like to cook with it and periodically bless the rooms in my house, and the boundaries of my property.
My grandmother’s children came together when she was passing away. Although there were decades of animosity and discord, things were very quiet and peaceful and beautiful. After the funeral home took her away, the usual snappishness and arguments resumed. I put it down to the stress and emotions of losing their mother, although it had been several years’ in the coming and was no surprise.
I found out, though, that my mother had taken some of the blessed salt I had given to her, and had sprinkled some in my grandmother’s bedding. When the funeral home took her, they wheeled away the bed and bedding and salt.
I bring my Exorcism of Salt prayer and a can of salt to my priest and ask him to perform the blessing for me. I like to cook with it and periodically bless the rooms in my house, and the boundaries of my property.
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Sensy86
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st. Benedict cross. I wear one and also I have one on my wall.
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Magdalena59
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I haven’t ever heard them called magic charms but I know sacramentals are powerful and can be a means to express your faith in God and a means that God uses to draw us closer to Him and to work through our lives and protect us. Besides the ones given to us by our Blessed Mother - miraculous medal, brown scapula- many saints have voiced their thoughts on the strength of sacramentals. Such as St. Teresa: “From long experience I have learned that there is nothing like holy water to put devils to flight and prevent them from coming back again. They also flee from the Cross, but return; so holy water must have great virtue.”
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Magdalena59
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Fr. Richard Heilman has a great book called Church Militant Field Manual. This is a subject he speaks a lot of in his book. I learned a lot. I highly recommend it. Johnette Benkovic from Women of Grace talks highly of sacramentals also, you could probably find more information at her website.
Sacramentals I have: I wear a miraculous medal and a brown scapula. There is a certain prayer a priest says for those wishing to wear the brown scapula. I have Saint Benedict medals at each family members bedside and by a doorway, a crucifix in most rooms. Also, a blessed Saint Benedict crucifix. I have a large spray bottle of Holy Water I use to bless our home at least once a week, I am working up to more often. I always ask the Blessed Mother’s intercession when using the Holy Water. I haven’t any blessed salt yet but am hoping to get some soon. I also have a green scapula in each bedroom. And I have different Holy Oils that have been blessed by being touched to different saints relics and I have some relics from different saints.
Also, in 1432 there was a plague in Lisbon and a priest had the people write the name of Jesus down and place his name around different places in their homes and to speak his name frequently throughout the day and night and those that did were spared from the plague, so I did that too. His name is written throughout our home.
I view sacramentals just as the Church says: CCC 1667 - sacramentals are sacred signs which bear resemblance to the sacraments. CCC 1670 - by the Church’s prayer they (sacramentals) prepare us to receive grace and dispose us to cooperate with it.
There is a lot more in the catechism about sacraments 1667 - 1673.
I hope this helps.
God bless.
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Dorothy
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Amen! They are there to remind us to pray and do good works to please the Lord.
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Still_Hoping
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I found this site and this prayer is powerful. I find that lighting a church candle (blessed), having a container with holy water, the crucifix and the rosary in the home offers protection when praying any devotional or prayer especially the rosary. I prayed this prayer when I felt evil around me in my home. There is even a YouTube version. I use to say it once a day for several days and then it was gone. The greatest weapon IMHO is praying the rosary daily especially in the evenings with the sacramentals aforementioned. 
Here is the link to the prayer.
catholicprayerstotheworld.blogspot.ca/2009/08/prayer-against-every-evil.html
Above all have trust in Jesus. You must profess your confidence regardless of your fears. He is victorious and through Him we will be also.
Here is the link to the prayer.catholicprayerstotheworld.blogspot.ca/2009/08/prayer-against-every-evil.html
Above all have trust in Jesus. You must profess your confidence regardless of your fears. He is victorious and through Him we will be also.
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Memaw
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Never underestimate God working thru the Sacramentals HE has given us. God Bless, Memaw
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Magdalena59
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Very true.
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AttendeDomine
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I recently posted about a certain Fr. Chad Ripperger in another thread. I’m going to once again point folks in his general direction.
OP, if you go to the media section of Fr. Ripperger’s website (sentrad.org/multimedia/) and do a CTRL+F search for the words “Spiritual Protection,” you’ll find an excellent talk on Sacramentals that ward off evil. (Keep in mind that Father posts these talks online for free, but he does have a “penanceware” concept which he requests that folks be respective of should they listen to his materials. You’ll find more information on that at the top of the his multimedia page, just beneath the image of St. Pius X.)
As someone else has pointed out, Sacramentals are obviously not to be treated in a superstitious way. That means that we mustn’t attribute power to them as if they have such power all on their own. We should acknowledge that any power they have is a direct result of the prayers that a priest has used over them, and that we must dispose ourselves to having faith in God and the authority of His Church.
Having said that, Fr. Ripperger is an exorcist, and his testimony is one of many as to the usefulness of Sacramentals.
OP, if you go to the media section of Fr. Ripperger’s website (sentrad.org/multimedia/) and do a CTRL+F search for the words “Spiritual Protection,” you’ll find an excellent talk on Sacramentals that ward off evil. (Keep in mind that Father posts these talks online for free, but he does have a “penanceware” concept which he requests that folks be respective of should they listen to his materials. You’ll find more information on that at the top of the his multimedia page, just beneath the image of St. Pius X.)
As someone else has pointed out, Sacramentals are obviously not to be treated in a superstitious way. That means that we mustn’t attribute power to them as if they have such power all on their own. We should acknowledge that any power they have is a direct result of the prayers that a priest has used over them, and that we must dispose ourselves to having faith in God and the authority of His Church.
Having said that, Fr. Ripperger is an exorcist, and his testimony is one of many as to the usefulness of Sacramentals.
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Lormar
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All of what has been mentioned I use. And pray. And I am still fighting a major spiritual battle and am worn out and burnt out.
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Dorothy
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It would be good to speak to a priest about that.
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Moro_Rock
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Psalm 90 (91) “You who dwell in the shelter of the Most High …
and Psalm 22(23) The Lord is my shepherd …”
They’re not conventional sacramentals, but they’re powerful psalms
of protection and peace .
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