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Generational curses	Lorrie	Monday, May 21, 2007
Question: My parish priest tells me the church does not teach generational curses because the Church does not believe in it. The Church does believe in generational patterns. He, personally, believes that tongues was at the time of Pentecost and he, personally, does not accept it for today.
Question Answered by Bro. Ignatius Mary, OLSM Dear Lorrie: Well, your priest is wrong. The Church does not officially teach anything at all about generational curses that I am aware of. That is something that is known clinically by exorcists and deliverance counselors. Anyone who says generational curses do not exist would most likely be an opinionated person who has no experience with spiritual warfare, exorcism, or deliverance and thus is not qualified to offer an opinion. To say the Church does not believe in generational "patterns" is silly. We all share traits and behavioral patterns that we pick up from our parents, grandparents, etc. If he wishes personally to not believe in generational curses, that is his business, although I doubt he is qualified to make such a conclusion, but he has no business implying the Church doesn't believe in this when the Church has not said any such thing. I might add that Father Amorth, the exorcist for the diocese of Rome, believes in and has experience dealing with generational curses and talks about them in his books. Concerning speaking in tongues, your priest and anyone is free to believe that tongues ended in the first century. Indeed there is a great deal of evidence to support that view. Tongues was one of the signal gifts. After the first century, the signal gifts were no longer needed to authenticate the Christian ministry. This is not to say that tongues cannot exist today. They can. But the gift of tongues experience on the Day of Pentecost has no relationship to the private prayer "tongues" that is allegedly spoken by charismatics today, and little relationship to the public tongues they speak either. There are documented cases when the "tongues" that are spoken by charismatics have been proven false or have been actually cursing God and not praising Him. I personally know one of the priests who proved this in a particular charismatic meeting. We must be very careful on this issue. Tongues is the easiest phenomena of all to counterfeit by one's own psychology, or by the devil. For a full exposé on the charismatic gifts, what the church teaches, what popes and bishops have said, what the Scriptures seem to indicate, and on the dangers of the Protestant Pentecostal contamination in the Catholic Charismatic Renewal, click here (this is a PDF file). 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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Generational curses

Lorrie

Monday, May 21, 2007

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My parish priest tells me the church does not teach generational curses because the Church does not believe in it. The Church does believe in generational patterns. He, personally, believes that tongues was at the time of Pentecost and he, personally, does not accept it for today.

Question Answered by Bro. Ignatius Mary, OLSM

Dear Lorrie:

Well, your priest is wrong. The Church does not officially teach anything at all about generational curses that I am aware of. That is something that is known clinically by exorcists and deliverance counselors. Anyone who says generational curses do not exist would most likely be an opinionated person who has no experience with spiritual warfare, exorcism, or deliverance and thus is not qualified to offer an opinion.

To say the Church does not believe in generational "patterns" is silly. We all share traits and behavioral patterns that we pick up from our parents, grandparents, etc.

If he wishes personally to not believe in generational curses, that is his business, although I doubt he is qualified to make such a conclusion, but he has no business implying the Church doesn't believe in this when the Church has not said any such thing.

I might add that Father Amorth, the exorcist for the diocese of Rome, believes in and has experience dealing with generational curses and talks about them in his books.

Concerning speaking in tongues, your priest and anyone is free to believe that tongues ended in the first century. Indeed there is a great deal of evidence to support that view. Tongues was one of the signal gifts. After the first century, the signal gifts were no longer needed to authenticate the Christian ministry.

This is not to say that tongues cannot exist today. They can. But the gift of tongues experience on the Day of Pentecost has no relationship to the private prayer "tongues" that is allegedly spoken by charismatics today, and little relationship to the public tongues they speak either. There are documented cases when the "tongues" that are spoken by charismatics have been proven false or have been actually cursing God and not praising Him. I personally know one of the priests who proved this in a particular charismatic meeting. We must be very careful on this issue. Tongues is the easiest phenomena of all to counterfeit by one's own psychology, or by the devil.

For a full exposé on the charismatic gifts, what the church teaches, what popes and bishops have said, what the Scriptures seem to indicate, and on the dangers of the Protestant Pentecostal contamination in the Catholic Charismatic Renewal, click here (this is a PDF file).

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.