When being spiritually attacked

[pacoenelsaco]

I’m not sure if this is the right forum to put it in, but it involves my family and so I figured I’d ask about it here.

Basically what’s going on is that my wife decided a while ago that she wanted to become Catholic. She feels as though she’s learning a whole lot more in the Catholic church then she did in her prior baptsit church, she says she always feels at home in the Catholic church, she loves the religion, and so recently she’s began attending RCIA classes. Unfortunatly though ever since she started (about 3 weeks ago) she’s been feeling uneasy. Like when she’s at home she has random feelings of paranoia and what not and just this morning while I was on my way to work, it was kind of hard to make out because of my bad connection on the metro, but she called me and it sounded like she was telling me that she was spiritually attacked. As in she felt a dark presence in the house, and it began to speak to her and tell her evil things, and she said that it even revealed itself to her for a second and she was terribly afraid.

I’m no stranger to this sort of thing. I know for a fact that it was the devil trying to scare her/intimidate her because she’s starting to make a sincere effort to become more religious and to join the Catholic faith and so I know that initimidates him and so he’s trying to scare her. I’ve heard about this kind of stuff happening many times to many people and to be honest my family and I unfortunatly have had experiences like this in the past where the devil has tried to scare us by appearing to all of us as well. And it really bothers me because it was bad enough when the Devil would try to scare me and only me, but now he’s trying to intimidate my family.

It enfuriates me because that’s my family and I definetly don’t want him messing with them. But at the same time it worries me because I can’t be at home with her all the time. And so what if this keeps happening to her while I’m gone? She’s currently pregnant as well and so I’m worried that if this keeps happening, she’s gonna get so scared that she might end up losing the baby. Not to mention this is all new to her so that makes it even more terrifying for her. I don’t know, we’re definetly gonna talk to our priest about this when she goes to her classes tonight and see if he can possibly come by our house and bless it. We also pray actively and invoke God to come into the presence of our house. But I’m just worried about what to do if this keeps happening. Has anyone ever been through something like this?

 

[Dorothy]

Yes, do speak the priest as soon as you can.

A suggestion: It would be good if you both prayed together a bit every day. Perhaps the Rosary or some other form of prayer.

 

[Scoobyshme]

Keep in mind that whenever there is a strong effort on the part of the Holy Spirit in someone’s soul, there is also a strong effort on the part of the demonic against that effort. We are in a mortal combat for our immortal souls against principalities and powers, the powers of darkness.

The Sacraments are particularly powerful against efforts of the demonic, as is fasting, and prayer, especially the rosary. The rosary is the preferred small arms weapon against the demonic in our day. It’s incredibly powerful. The Pope says the entire rosary every day, as did Mother Theresa of Calcutta, and almost all the Saints. There’s a reason for that!

If you don’t know how to say the rosary, you may download the .mp3 files from the following link and learn them (they’re completely free):

alabamacatholicresources.com/the_rosary.html

God bless!

 

[pacoenelsaco]

Thank you so much for you’re advice. I will DEFINETLY pray a rosary with my wife when I get back home from work and I’ll continue to do so with her once everyday.

 

[felicerose]

I’m not sure if this is the right forum to put it in, but it involves my family and so I figured I’d ask about it here.

Basically what’s going on is that my wife decided a while ago that she wanted to become Catholic. She feels as though she’s learning a whole lot more in the Catholic church then she did in her prior baptsit church, she says she always feels at home in the Catholic church, she loves the religion, and so recently she’s began attending RCIA classes. Unfortunatly though ever since she started (about 3 weeks ago) she’s been feeling uneasy. Like when she’s at home she has random feelings of paranoia and what not and just this morning while I was on my way to work, it was kind of hard to make out because of my bad connection on the metro, but she called me and it sounded like she was telling me that she was spiritually attacked. As in she felt a dark presence in the house, and it began to speak to her and tell her evil things, and she said that it even revealed itself to her for a second and she was terribly afraid.

I’m no stranger to this sort of thing. I know for a fact that it was the devil trying to scare her/intimidate her because she’s starting to make a sincere effort to become more religious and to join the Catholic faith and so I know that initimidates him and so he’s trying to scare her. I’ve heard about this kind of stuff happening many times to many people and to be honest my family and I unfortunatly have had experiences like this in the past where the devil has tried to scare us by appearing to all of us as well. And it really bothers me because it was bad enough when the Devil would try to scare me and only me, but now he’s trying to intimidate my family.

It enfuriates me because that’s my family and I definetly don’t want him messing with them. But at the same time it worries me because I can’t be at home with her all the time. And so what if this keeps happening to her while I’m gone? She’s currently pregnant as well and so I’m worried that if this keeps happening, she’s gonna get so scared that she might end up losing the baby. Not to mention this is all new to her so that makes it even more terrifying for her. I don’t know, we’re definetly gonna talk to our priest about this when she goes to her classes tonight and see if he can possibly come by our house and bless it. We also pray actively and invoke God to come into the presence of our house. But I’m just worried about what to do if this keeps happening. Has anyone ever been through something like this?

When you get attention from the dark forces, that means you are doing something that will trouble them. So don’t stop.

Besides praying the rosary and asking a priest to bless the house, you could also plead the Blood of Jesus Christ upon your family.

You can find a detailed explanation here bible-knowledge.com/blood-of-jesus-how-to-plead-for-protection-and-deliverance/

Something else you could do is to make prayer requests. Ask prayer groups to help you. Be specific. Mention what it is you want. Besides your local church, there are many online websites that offer help in terms of prayer requests. Some are :
stanthony.org/prayers/submit.asp
virtualrosary.org/postprayer.php
unity.org/cms-global/form/ViewForm.do?formTemplateCode=requestPrayer

May God protect you and your family.

 

[Thoma25]

Well, if it’s a battle they want, then give them one!

First, make sure your soul is clean. Go to Confession on a regular basis, preferably weekly. Have your wife do an examination of conscience and make an act of contrition, since she can’t receive the Sacraments.

Attend Mass frequently, especially your wife. Prayers during the Elevation are especially powerful. Though she can’t receive Communion, she should make a spiritual communion. A spiritual communion should be made every day, regardless of Mass attendance.

Attend regular Eucharistic Adoration. Temptations can assail someone even before the Blessed Sacrament, but it costs the assailants dearly to be that near to Christ. That’s irrelevant, though: many needed graces are received before the Blessed Sacrament that will help to overcome spiritual assaults.

Make extensive use of the sacramentals. Have holy water in your house, and make liberal use of it. Get a few crucifixes and have them blessed. Get a Saint’s medal, preferably a third class relic, have it blessed, and wear it. Saint Benedict’s medal with the exorcism prayer would be especially powerful.

Prayer! Pray to the Blessed Virgin and invoke her intercession frequently. It has been shown that the demonic can’t stand to be near the Blessed Virgin. As another poster said, the Rosary is an especially powerful Marian devotion.

Pray the St. Michael prayer, especially after Mass. There’s also a St. Michael chaplet that you can acquire and pray.

Above all else, don’t worry about it. Why fear something that flees from a drop of holy water? They’re just phantoms and illusions that can’t cause any real harm. They’re only meant to frighten, because they can’t do much else. Stand firm, don’t be dissuaded, and everything will work itself out.

 

[joeantony]

Hi,

Good suggestions by everyone. If I can repeat.

1-Daily Mass, if not at least spiritual communion.
2-Rosaries , as many as possible, every day.
3-Prayer to St Michael. Keep doing it all the time.
4-Keep a blessed benedictine cross all time time.
5-Keep some holy water at home and use it often.

Many things you can do. But believe that our Lord will not abandon us. More than anyone else he wants us to be free from the enemy. Devil too works under the will of God. He too cannot do anything outside of what God allowed him to do. trust in Him who came to save our souls.

Will keep you and your family in my prayers .

With prayers,
Joe

 

[pacoenelsaco]

Well, if it’s a battle they want, then give them one!

First, make sure your soul is clean. Go to Confession on a regular basis, preferably weekly. Have your wife do an examination of conscience and make an act of contrition, since she can’t receive the Sacraments.

Attend Mass frequently, especially your wife. Prayers during the Elevation are especially powerful. Though she can’t receive Communion, she should make a spiritual communion. A spiritual communion should be made every day, regardless of Mass attendance.

Attend regular Eucharistic Adoration. Temptations can assail someone even before the Blessed Sacrament, but it costs the assailants dearly to be that near to Christ. That’s irrelevant, though: many needed graces are received before the Blessed Sacrament that will help to overcome spiritual assaults.

Make extensive use of the sacramentals. Have holy water in your house, and make liberal use of it. Get a few crucifixes and have them blessed. Get a Saint’s medal, preferably a third class relic, have it blessed, and wear it. Saint Benedict’s medal with the exorcism prayer would be especially powerful.

Prayer! Pray to the Blessed Virgin and invoke her intercession frequently. It has been shown that the demonic can’t stand to be near the Blessed Virgin. As another poster said, the Rosary is an especially powerful Marian devotion.

Pray the St. Michael prayer, especially after Mass. There’s also a St. Michael chaplet that you can acquire and pray.

Above all else, don’t worry about it. Why fear something that flees from a drop of holy water? They’re just phantoms and illusions that can’t cause any real harm. They’re only meant to frighten, because they can’t do much else. Stand firm, don’t be dissuaded, and everything will work itself out.

I will definetly take to heart everything you said here. Thank you so much for you’re advice.

I definetly did pray with my wife while I was on the phone with her. I prayed to her Guardian Angel, to St. Michael, to the Virgin Mary, definetly of course prayed to God asking them all to protect her and ward off those demons so they could leave her alone and of course it worked and she then felt a lot better. But I will definetly (along with my wife) keep trying our best to constantly keep improving in our spritual lives so as to have these demons leave us alone for good.

I know what you mean also when you say that temptations can occer even when you’re in front of the blessed sacrament. I had an experience like that once where I had just gone to confession and I was praying before the blessed sacrament and then I randomly just started having all these thoughts come into my head about how God wasn’t real and many other evil things that normally would never even cross my mind. My father later on spoke to me about it and told me not to worry because the devil was attacking me because he knew I was going down the right path.

And yeah, I told my wife to not really worry about this so much either because I know they can’t hurt us and because they’re just trying to scare us. It’s just that she’s not used to going through stuff like this, so it’s all rather new to her. But I trust in the Lord and I know we’ll be ok

But as a precaution, I would ask everyone who’s read this (regardless of wether you reply or not) to please intercede for me and my family that these demons may leave us alone to worship our God in peace. We’d greatly appreciate it.

 

[Scoobyshme]

Well, if it’s a battle they want, then give them one!

First, make sure your soul is clean. Go to Confession on a regular basis, preferably weekly. Have your wife do an examination of conscience and make an act of contrition, since she can’t receive the Sacraments.

Attend Mass frequently, especially your wife. Prayers during the Elevation are especially powerful. Though she can’t receive Communion, she should make a spiritual communion. A spiritual communion should be made every day, regardless of Mass attendance.

Attend regular Eucharistic Adoration. Temptations can assail someone even before the Blessed Sacrament, but it costs the assailants dearly to be that near to Christ. That’s irrelevant, though: many needed graces are received before the Blessed Sacrament that will help to overcome spiritual assaults.

Make extensive use of the sacramentals. Have holy water in your house, and make liberal use of it. Get a few crucifixes and have them blessed. Get a Saint’s medal, preferably a third class relic, have it blessed, and wear it. Saint Benedict’s medal with the exorcism prayer would be especially powerful.

Prayer! Pray to the Blessed Virgin and invoke her intercession frequently. It has been shown that the demonic can’t stand to be near the Blessed Virgin. As another poster said, the Rosary is an especially powerful Marian devotion.

Pray the St. Michael prayer, especially after Mass. There’s also a St. Michael chaplet that you can acquire and pray.

Above all else, don’t worry about it. Why fear something that flees from a drop of holy water? They’re just phantoms and illusions that can’t cause any real harm. They’re only meant to frighten, because they can’t do much else. Stand firm, don’t be dissuaded, and everything will work itself out.

Good post. I might add that one can also use blessed salt (like holy water), and it lasts longer. Holy water and blessed salt carries the prayers used to bless them, and lasts as long as the substance does. So, for holy water, the prayers are carried with the holy water till it evaporates. Holy salt lasts longer, I think. And I think the blessing for Holy Salt carries a prayer of exorcism. So, that’s pretty helpful, although not as well known as holy water.

 

[pacoenelsaco]

Good post. I might add that one can also use blessed salt (like holy water), and it lasts longer. Holy water and blessed salt carries the prayers used to bless them, and lasts as long as the substance does. So, for holy water, the prayers are carried with the holy water till it evaporates. Holy salt lasts longer, I think. And I think the blessing for Holy Salt carries a prayer of exorcism. So, that’s pretty helpful, although not as well known as holy water.

Really?..Ya know I’ve been Catholic all my life and I’ve never heard of Holy Salt. Go figure. You learn something new everyday , lol. Well, I’ll definetly look into Holy Salt. Since it lasts longer.

 

[Scoobyshme]

Really?..Ya know I’ve been Catholic all my life and I’ve never heard of Holy Salt. Go figure. You learn something new everyday , lol. Well, I’ll definetly look into Holy Salt. Since it lasts longer.

You should be able to just buy some salt at the store (without iodine) and take it to any priest and have him bless it.

Here’s a link to the blessing formula for salt (and other things, too):

evmcc.org/media/MYEXORCISMBLESSINGSFORSACSBOOKLET.pdf

Here’s the one for salt:

P: Our help is in the name of the Lord.
R: Who made heaven and earth.
Exorcism of Salt (necessary for Exorcism of Water)
exorcise you by the living (+) God, P: O salt, creature of God, I
holy (+) God, by the God who by the true (+) God, by the
water by Elisha the prophet, so ordered you to be poured into the
restored. I exorcise you so that its life-giving powers might be
that you may become a means of salvation for believers, that you
may bring health of soul and body to all who make use of you,
and drive away from the places and that you may put to flight
where you are sprinkled; every apparition, villainy, turn of
devilish deceit, and every unclean spirit; adjured by him who
will come to judge the living and the dead and the world by fire.
R: Amen.
nd everlasting God, we humbly P: Let us pray. Almighty a
kindness and love, to bless implore you, in your immeasurable
nd gave to the use of mankind, (+) this salt which you created a
health for the minds and bodies so that it may become a source of
of all who make use of it. May it rid whatever it touches or
protect it from every assault of sprinkles of all uncleanness, and
evil spirits. Through Christ our Lord.
R: Amen.

 

[felicerose]

Scoobyshme, great tips! Holy salt is definitely powerful

Try using rock salt or sea salt. Not the processed fine salt type. Mix a little into the holy water for stronger effect (a tip from local church exorcists).

Cleansing of a house begins with the people who live there. Confession is ultimate exorcism for it is exorcism of the soul. There is no point in cleansing a house if any of those who live there keeps bringing the ‘dirt’ in.

Once you ‘push’ the demons out, keep them from getting back in with regular prayers. You can even place the blessed salt on window sills and door sills.

Walk around your house and area around the house, praying. Pay attention to how you feel. If you feel ‘bad’ or ‘alarmed’ in a particular area, there may be a ‘home’ there. Perhaps a vase inherited from ancestors. Or maybe an icon or relic that may mean nothing to you but may be an idol. It’s amazing what family trees ‘hide’.

 

[pacoenelsaco]

Scoobyshme, great tips! Holy salt is definitely powerful

Try using rock salt or sea salt. Not the processed fine salt type. Mix a little into the holy water for stronger effect (a tip from local church exorcists).

Cleansing of a house begins with the people who live there. Confession is ultimate exorcism for it is exorcism of the soul. There is no point in cleansing a house if any of those who live there keeps bringing the ‘dirt’ in.

Once you ‘push’ the demons out, keep them from getting back in with regular prayers. You can even place the blessed salt on window sills and door sills.

Walk around your house and area around the house, praying. Pay attention to how you feel. If you feel ‘bad’ or ‘alarmed’ in a particular area, there may be a ‘home’ there. Perhaps a vase inherited from ancestors. Or maybe an icon or relic that may mean nothing to you but may be an idol. It’s amazing what family trees ‘hide’.

Yeah, I’m definetly going to confession first thing tomorrow morning. We spoke with our priest last night and told him about what was going on. He gave us a book with special prayers for this sort of thing and told us to not give in to fear and to fight back with prayer. He also said that he was gonna come by tomorrow evening to bless the house and he was gonna look into potentially having mass in our home. Which DEFINETLY makes me feel a WHOLE lot better. Knowing that the Lord God will physically be there in our home. What more consolation do my family and I need after that?

I don’t think there’s anything there in our home though that may be causing it to be haunted. We live in an apartment complex and we never had these feelings the whole almost 2 years we’ve been living there. Like I said before, it wasn’t until my wife began attending RCIA classes that this whole mess started, so I’m pretty sure it’s nothing in our home. It’s just the devil trying to intimidate and scare my wife. But I’ll keep my eye open though. Just in case.

 

[Dorothy]

Yeah, I’m definetly going to confession first thing tomorrow morning. We spoke with our priest last night and told him about what was going on. He gave us a book with special prayers for this sort of thing and told us to not give in to fear and to fight back with prayer. He also said that he was gonna come by tomorrow evening to bless the house and he was gonna look into potentially having mass in our home. Which DEFINETLY makes me feel a WHOLE lot better. Knowing that the Lord God will physically be there in our home. What more consolation do my family and I need after that?

I don’t think there’s anything there in our home though that may be causing it to be haunted. We live in an apartment complex and we never had these feelings the whole almost 2 years we’ve been living there. Like I said before, it wasn’t until my wife began attending RCIA classes that this whole mess started, so I’m pretty sure it’s nothing in our home. It’s just the devil trying to intimidate and scare my wife. But I’ll keep my eye open though. Just in case.

What a wonderful priest you have! God bless all of you.