Most people are skeptical when it comes to ghostly possessions and hauntings, but not the Catholic Church.
Quebec Priest Luc Beaudoin has performed a dozen exorcisms since he
was ordained in 2006.
He maintains that all too often people open the
door to the spirit world without realizing the dangers.
“Sometimes, people have held seances or dark ceremonies at the homes I visit,” he said.
“You need to take these things seriously. You can’t play with those
types of practices. The Ouija board, for example, shouldn’t be taken
lightly.”
Beaudoin said someone needs to intervene if paranormal activity is present in a home.
“Evil has invaded the house and only faith can overcome it,” he said.
In an hour Beaudoin can exorcise a house by blessing the home, reciting prayers and reading carefully chosen psalms.
The priest said spirits often haunt areas where violence occurred and
show their trapped presence by creating sounds of footsteps and banging
on the walls.
He claims he once performed an exorcism on a house built
on an ancient Native American burial ground.
“There were really strange things happening in that house,” he said.
“From what people told me, they’d feel a presence like someone was
touching them.”
Beaudoin has never performed an exorcism on a person — he doesn’t
have the bishop’s permission. But he said he’s met people taken over by a
dark spirit.
“One way to know if a person is possessed is to have them drink holy water,” he said. “If they spit it out, it’s a clear sign.”
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You can walk into a room hours after people have left, but their odor is still discernible. Sometimes the smell is light and seductive, with the lingering mist from an expensive perfume. Other times the smell is old and musky, like the odors associated with homes that care for the elderly. Occasionally real estate agents will show you a property where previous owners have owned pets or engaged in heavy smoking. The people are gone, but the evidence of their presence is still there. So it is in the spiritual world. There are physical places that have been so influenced by good or evil, they carry the essence of their previous occupants.
ReplyDeleteHave you ever walked into a building or room that felt evil? Sometimes the spirit within us will pick up the lingering horrors of previous deeds committed in that particular place. Evil can actually taint a place to the extent that it is no longer useful for the kingdom.
While doing reseach for my best-selling Ebook, Exorcism At Midnight, I found so many instances worldwide where people had found evil present or brought it in through dabbling with the occult. Young people are especailly curious and often end up with suicidal voices in their heads.
On February 19, 2002, the late Pope John Paul reported that he had been involved in three exorcisms during his tenure as a Roman Catholic Priest. This stuff is real.
Leander Jackie Grogan