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Demonic Items?	Maria	Monday, March 28, 2011
Question: Brother Ignatius, My grandmother was diagnosed and went through cancer treatments a year or so ago. Over the past few months she had been experiencing stomach pain and bloating. Last week she recieved confirmation from her doctor that the cancer had spread to her stomach and into her chest. My family and I went to visit her after she recieved the diagnosis and she was laying in her bed in her bedroom, looking ill and weak. When we first entered the room, I noticed a velvet black plush doll with glow in the dark moons and stars on it to the right side of her bed and it just stuck out at me and I was sort of wierded out by it. It wasn't until later when my father pointed it out to me that it "creeped him out" that I was sure there wasn't something right about it. He asked my grandmother where she had got it from and she said a friend had given it to her. He told me to grab it and I did and I handed it to him and he took it outside and later, he told me he told it "in the name of Jesus Christ, leave". We took it on the way home with us and left it far outside of our gate that leads to our home as to let it know that it was not welcome. It has been sitting there ever since and we do not really know how to properly dispose of it. The questions I have to ask are these: How are we to go about disposing of it? Do we need to cleanse my grandmother's home? and does she need to renounce it? I really don't think she knew that it was bad and she said she doesn't remember who gave it to her. My mother and younger brother both agreed that there was something not right about the doll. From afar, it looks like a teddy bear, but it is shapped like this mystical man. We think it may be a voodoo doll of some type. Our family dog has made note to avoid it when we have passed it out by the woods and the road to take a walk. My granmother has been healthier since we removed it. I am 19 and Catholic. My parents were married in the Catholic Church. My father has been conflicted about going to Mass, he went this past Sunday but didn't go the week before with us. He said then that God was everywhere and not in a building. My mother and I had already tried to explain to him the importance of the Eucharist and the Mass and he seemed recpetive, but last Sunday did not attend. The Sunday after the doll incident he did attend though. I thought I would add this incase it may have anything to do with the doll incident and also to ask if it is our duty to tell him it is a considered a sin to not attend Mass when you are able? Is there anything we are responsible for or that we should do? After our conversation about the importance of Mass with my mother, he would try to quarrel with me about it and I would just say: "Haven't we already been over this?" The second time he tried to start something up, I just said nothing. I would really appreciate your adivce about this, thank you for taking the time to read this and God bless you. -Maria
Question Answered by Bro. Ignatius Mary, OMSM(r) Maria: Your father did the right thing to remove this doll and to pray over it. You do not, however, want this thing "guarding" your lane. The doll needs to be destroyed, burned if it is burnable, and then buried in the ground. We have a document that explains how to do this: Procedure for Destroying Objects (pdf file). As far as your father beginning to have doubts about the Mass, it is possible that demons attached to this object could be encouraging him. I would pray the Breaking Curses and Spells prayer found in our Spiritual Warfare Prayer Catalog. This is needed for your grandmother too. If she is not able to pray it, then the family can pray it on her behalf. As for the idea that God is everywhere, that is true, He is. But God has chosen to be with us in a special way in the Eucharist. He wishes us to experience Him in the Eucharist. Jesus, himself, said that we must eat his flesh and drink his blood to have life (John 6). To miss Mass on purpose is to insult God. It is profound rudeness. It also risks one's soul. To thumb one's nose at God, which is what deliberately ignoring Him does, is not exactly the way to heaven. God loves us so much that he came to earth and allowed himself to be tortured and killed for our sins. The Mass is a re-presentation of that Sacrifice, which Jesus commanded that we participate. How dare anyone refuse that gift. Jesus says, "If you love me, you will keep my commandments" (John 14:15). Jesus commanded that we attend to Mass and to receive the Eucharist. To fail this on purpose is not loving Jesus. One can say they love God until the cows come home, but they are lying to themselves for if they love our Lord, they will keep His teachings. What the devil wants most is for us to avoid the Sacraments. God gave us the Sacraments to ensure that we can be in Heaven with Him forever. Thus, the devil will work overtime to convince us that the Sacraments are not needed. Your father needs to get us head out from where the sun don't shine, stop the pity-party and his pride, and get himself to the Sacrament of Confession to confess his failure to come before God in the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, and then to receive the Eucharist as Jesus commanded. His soul depends upon it. By the way, after God gave the Ten Commandments to Moses, the presence of God was in a box -- the Ark of the Covenant, kept in a tabernacle. Today, God's Real Presence is in the Eucharist kept in a vessel reposed in a tabernacle. Indeed, God is everywhere, but He chooses to place His presence in a special way in the Ark of the Covenant during the Mosaic Covenant, and in the Eucharist, presented in the Mass, in the New Covenant. If this is how God chooses to present Himself, what arrogance is it of ours to suggest that this is not so, or that it is not important, or that it is not required that we participate in the celebration of His sacrifice, and the feast of his body that He Himself said that we must have if we are to have eternal life? You father needs a slap upside the head. Perhaps some of the pamphlets at Catholic Anwers would help concerning the Sacraments, especially the third set of pamphlets listed on the page linked. We will be in prayer for your father, grandmother, and the whole family. God Bless, Bro. Ignatius Mary For information on how to receive help see our Help page. We suggest that before contacting us directly for help you try the Seven Steps to Self-Deliverance. These self-help steps will often resolve the problem. Also our Spiritual Warfare Prayer Catalog contains many prayers that may be helpful. If needed you can ask for a Personal Consultation.

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Demonic Items?

Maria

Monday, March 28, 2011

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Brother Ignatius,

My grandmother was diagnosed and went through cancer treatments a year or so ago. Over the past few months she had been experiencing stomach pain and bloating. Last week she recieved confirmation from her doctor that the cancer had spread to her stomach and into her chest.

My family and I went to visit her after she recieved the diagnosis and she was laying in her bed in her bedroom, looking ill and weak. When we first entered the room, I noticed a velvet black plush doll with glow in the dark moons and stars on it to the right side of her bed and it just stuck out at me and I was sort of wierded out by it. It wasn't until later when my father pointed it out to me that it "creeped him out" that I was sure there wasn't something right about it. He asked my grandmother where she had got it from and she said a friend had given it to her. He told me to grab it and I did and I handed it to him and he took it outside and later, he told me he told it "in the name of Jesus Christ, leave".
We took it on the way home with us and left it far outside of our gate that leads to our home as to let it know that it was not welcome. It has been sitting there ever since and we do not really know how to properly dispose of it.

The questions I have to ask are these: How are we to go about disposing of it? Do we need to cleanse my grandmother's home? and does she need to renounce it? I really don't think she knew that it was bad and she said she doesn't remember who gave it to her.

My mother and younger brother both agreed that there was something not right about the doll. From afar, it looks like a teddy bear, but it is shapped like this mystical man. We think it may be a voodoo doll of some type. Our family dog has made note to avoid it when we have passed it out by the woods and the road to take a walk. My granmother has been healthier since we removed it.

I am 19 and Catholic. My parents were married in the Catholic Church. My father has been conflicted about going to Mass, he went this past Sunday but didn't go the week before with us. He said then that God was everywhere and not in a building. My mother and I had already tried to explain to him the importance of the Eucharist and the Mass and he seemed recpetive, but last Sunday did not attend. The Sunday after the doll incident he did attend though. I thought I would add this incase it may have anything to do with the doll incident and also to ask if it is our duty to tell him it is a considered a sin to not attend Mass when you are able?

Is there anything we are responsible for or that we should do? After our conversation about the importance of Mass with my mother, he would try to quarrel with me about it and I would just say: "Haven't we already been over this?" The second time he tried to start something up, I just said nothing.

I would really appreciate your adivce about this, thank you for taking the time to read this and God bless you. -Maria

Question Answered by Bro. Ignatius Mary, OMSM(r)

Maria:

Your father did the right thing to remove this doll and to pray over it. You do not, however, want this thing "guarding" your lane. The doll needs to be destroyed, burned if it is burnable, and then buried in the ground.

We have a document that explains how to do this: Procedure for Destroying Objects (pdf file).

As far as your father beginning to have doubts about the Mass, it is possible that demons attached to this object could be encouraging him.

I would pray the Breaking Curses and Spells prayer found in our Spiritual Warfare Prayer Catalog. This is needed for your grandmother too. If she is not able to pray it, then the family can pray it on her behalf.

As for the idea that God is everywhere, that is true, He is. But God has chosen to be with us in a special way in the Eucharist. He wishes us to experience Him in the Eucharist. Jesus, himself, said that we must eat his flesh and drink his blood to have life (John 6). To miss Mass on purpose is to insult God. It is profound rudeness. It also risks one's soul. To thumb one's nose at God, which is what deliberately ignoring Him does, is not exactly the way to heaven.

God loves us so much that he came to earth and allowed himself to be tortured and killed for our sins. The Mass is a re-presentation of that Sacrifice, which Jesus commanded that we participate. How dare anyone refuse that gift.

Jesus says, "If you love me, you will keep my commandments" (John 14:15). Jesus commanded that we attend to Mass and to receive the Eucharist. To fail this on purpose is not loving Jesus. One can say they love God until the cows come home, but they are lying to themselves for if they love our Lord, they will keep His teachings.

What the devil wants most is for us to avoid the Sacraments. God gave us the Sacraments to ensure that we can be in Heaven with Him forever. Thus, the devil will work overtime to convince us that the Sacraments are not needed. Your father needs to get us head out from where the sun don't shine, stop the pity-party and his pride, and get himself to the Sacrament of Confession to confess his failure to come before God in the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, and then to receive the Eucharist as Jesus commanded. His soul depends upon it.

By the way, after God gave the Ten Commandments to Moses, the presence of God was in a box -- the Ark of the Covenant, kept in a tabernacle. Today, God's Real Presence is in the Eucharist kept in a vessel reposed in a tabernacle. Indeed, God is everywhere, but He chooses to place His presence in a special way in the Ark of the Covenant during the Mosaic Covenant, and in the Eucharist, presented in the Mass, in the New Covenant. If this is how God chooses to present Himself, what arrogance is it of ours to suggest that this is not so, or that it is not important, or that it is not required that we participate in the celebration of His sacrifice, and the feast of his body that He Himself said that we must have if we are to have eternal life? You father needs a slap upside the head.

Perhaps some of the pamphlets at Catholic Anwers would help concerning the Sacraments, especially the third set of pamphlets listed on the page linked.

We will be in prayer for your father, grandmother, and the whole family.

God Bless,
Bro. Ignatius Mary

For information on how to receive help see our Help page. We suggest that before contacting us directly for help you try the Seven Steps to Self-Deliverance. These self-help steps will often resolve the problem. Also our Spiritual Warfare Prayer Catalog contains many prayers that may be helpful. If needed you can ask for a Personal Consultation.