What's the Devil's greatest weakness?

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Ok, give it your best thoughts. I think it’s truth, because he’s such a big liar.
 
Satan was defeated by Christ’s death and resurrection. The devil’s greatest weakness is the Mass.
 
The Devil had an encounter with St Makarius. He said everything you do I do better. You fast while I eat nothing. You keep vigil while I never sleep. You study the Bible while I know it by heart in the language that it was spoken, Yet there is one thing in which you exceed me. That is in humility.
 
Satan’s greatest weakness is that he does not possess love. For without love there is no humility. Without love there is no compassion. Without love there is no mercy or forgiveness. And without love there is no salvation.

You see, love is our greatest strength as children of God, while love is Satan’s greatest weakness because he chose to sever his relationship with God. That is why Jesus gave this answer when asked what the greatest command was…

Jesus said unto him, “Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.”

Even when Satan sometimes defeats me in everyday battles, it is love that perserves me and will win the war for me. He can make me fall, but he can not take away the love in my heart for my Savior and my neighbors.

True story. Once in a dream he stood over me laughing and taunting me as I lay paralyzed on the ground in a semi fetal position. I was so weak i could not move and was feeling defeated, as though I could not battle life any longer. I had almost given up on life and was at a low point, depressed about everything. But something miraculous happened, that love for Christ was still burning in my heart, he had me down but there was one flame he could not extinguish. With that flame, that glimmer of love that remained in my heart, I began to laugh back at him. I reminded him that the only battle that mattered was the one he lost to Christ. He could beat on me all he wanted but he could not change that fact. That love that remained in my heart, he couldn’t stand it as he then fled from me. Sometimes I think I’m only here because of love. Whiteout it, im sure I’d be long gone by now.

Love is our greatest strength, and love is Satan’s greatest weekness.
 
What’s the Devil’s greatest weakness?

Mary.
On the way back to the Petits-Fosses, Bernadette revealed how at a certain moment the Apparition seemed different from before. Suddenly loud yells, belched from the Gave, had rent the sacred silence of Massabielle. They ‘challenged, crossed, collided with one another, like the clamour of a brawling crowd.’ One voice, more furious than the rest, dominated them all and roared out: ‘Get out of here! . . . Get out of here!’ Bernadette guessed rightly that the threatening curse was by no means addressed merely to her humble self, but was an attack directed beyond her to the Vision of Light standing above the eglantine. The Vision merely glanced in the direction of the rushing stream. This single look, one of sovereign authority, reduced the invisible mob to silence!

St. Bernadette Soubirous: 1844-1879 by Abbe’ Francois Trochu
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In performing exorcisms, Fr. Chad Ripperger said that when he mentions the name MARY, our Blessed Mother, that the devil and his demons BEG him not to call upon Her. She is a creature–but one who has NEVER been under sin’s hold.

So humility YES but PARTICULARLY MARY, the Most Holy Dei Genetrix causes the devil and his demons PAIN.

For the rest of us, sinners, as St. Francis de Sales said to the nuns–right before dying–that HUMILITY is the virtue we must (ask God and Our Lady to help us) develop.

In escaping the cult I had been in, St. Francis de Sales’ advice has been very important to me. At times, I have again feared that I will go to Hell for disobeying the cult leader. But, I figure and hope that by being humble, God will be merciful to me.
 
There’s also the fact that Satan means something along the lines of ‘sated one.’ This is sate, or in other words, satiation, or surfeit. The Devil is a pleasure seeker, and the opposite to that is asceticism or austerity. Before He encountered the Devil in the desert, Jesus was fasting and praying for 40 days and nights. This self denial is just the opposite of the Devil’s sate, in preparation for their encounter.
 
It’s his own pride. He can never get over the fact that a mere mortal and a woman, Mary, was sinless and the closest thing to perfect besides Jesus. The devils pride cannot take this and it infuriates him.

My spiritual director told me this
 
Dolphin said:
It’s his own pride. He can never get over the fact that a mere mortal and a woman, Mary, was sinless and the closest thing to perfect besides Jesus. The devils pride cannot take this and it infuriates him.
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It has always been the plan of God (since Genesis 3:15) to use a woman (The Blessed Virgin Mary and her offspring, Jesus Christ) to crush the serpent’s (Satan’s) head.
 
Mother Mary is the holiest because she has the most humility. She experienced so much spiritual
anquish at the foot of the Cross she had to be miraculously kept alive. Hence, Queen of Martyrs.
I had a dream and met the devil. He lured me to him by having muddy twenty dollar bills strewn in the gutter. I started picking them up and got surrounded by a few thugs. They were human and led me into a dark hut. No one said anything because they hated me so much they couldn’t speak. I’ll never forget the evil look. He gave me the evil eyes, both filled with utter hatred, completely devoid of any mercy. The truth is also a powerful weapon against the father of lies.
BTW: I quit playing the lottery.
 
Before I begin, I want to point out that I am approaching this topic from a practical perspective rather than a purely theological one. My experience with the demonic is somewhat more visceral than theoretical.

Yes, the Devil’s greatest weakness is humility. However, using humility against the devil in a combative situation is not an easy thing to do. Satan and the other demons readily acknowledge that humility is their weakness. @poche already spoke to this fact in their story of St. Makarius. Over the millennia, demons have found that they can use humility against the humble soul if that humility is not properly ordered or firmly seated enough.

‘Humility’ comes from the concept of humus, meaning earth or soil. True humility is not reducing one’s self to the lowest of the low, but rather accepting one’s true place in the order of Creation. For example, for a bishop to place his priests above himself (not that their welfare is above his own but rather that the priests are more important than the bishop) is false humility. In this case, a demon could lead the bishop astray with this incorrectly seated sense of humility.

In confronting demons with humility, we recognize our own place within the ordered world just as we recognize the demons place in the world. It is in seeing creation as it is, not as demons try to portray it, that humility triumphs of Satan and his demons.
 
We need to avoid vainglory and realize that without God’s grace we are vastly outmatched by the least demon. We must be humble enough to ask for help at the first sign. Mother Mary! Help me!
 
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In performing exorcisms, Fr. Chad Ripperger said that when he mentions the name MARY, our Blessed Mother, that the devil and his demons BEG him not to call upon Her.
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There was an excellent interview with Catholic exorcist Fr. Pedro Barrajon, and he relates his experiences with Satan and the Virgin during an exorcism. The original article was from 2005 from a German website which I couldn’t find. But I was able to locate an archived version of it. (Link is below. Here’s an excerpt:)
A. At the end, the priest says to the demon, “Go away! Disappear!” The demon usually answers, “No, I don’t want to.” It rebels and revolts. Sometimes it says “You have no power over me. You are nothing to me.” But after a while, its resistance weakens. This usually happens after the invocation of the Holy Mother, she’s very important for that. No demon ever dares to insult her during an exorcism. Never.

Q. Doe he have more respect for Mary than for God himself?

A. Apparently. Otherwise no holds are barred, and everyone is insulted: the priests, everyone present, the bishops, the Pope, even Jesus Christ. But never the Virgin Mary. It’s an enigma.
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http://www.signandsight.com/features/530.html
 
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Thank you for this info, Mark! One glance from our Holy Mother is torment for them, the demons.

Michelle
 
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The Eucharist, the Sign of the Cross, Mary, St. Padre Pio, St. Joseph (called “Terror of Demons”) probably St. Michael the Archangel, humility, trust in God

From St. Faustina:

Jesus made known to me how very pleasing to Him were prayers of atonement. He said to me, The prayer of a humble and loving soul disarms the anger of My Father and draws down an ocean of blessings. After the adoration, half way to my cell, I was surrounded by a pack of huge black dogs who were jumping and howling and trying to tear me to pieces. I realized that they were not dogs, but demons. One of them spoke up in a rage, “Because you have snatched so many souls away from us this night, we will tear you to pieces.” I answered, “If that is the will of the most merciful God, tear me to pieces, for I have justly deserved it, because I am the most miserable of all sinners, and God is ever holy, just, and infinitely merciful.” To these words all the demons answered as one, “Let us flee, for she is not alone; the Almighty is with her!” ( Diary , 320).
 
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We must never underestimate Satan, but put our faith in Jesus Christ. Satan is a fallen angel that still has his full angelic intellectual faculties, which are far greater than ours. We can not battle him or resist him without the grace of God. Satan hates the blessed Virgin Mary more than anything because she is a creature that God raised to a higher place than all the angels in heaven. Jesus made it so Mary would crush the head of the serpent. Satan hates Mary most because she leads most souls to her son and she will crush him.
 
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