The Exorcist

 

The Exorcist

 

I was watching tv on my break at work this past weekend and I stumbled onto perhaps a Catholic show in which a fundamentalist Christian of some kind was interviewing a Catholic priest that is an accomplished, veteran exorcist. I could not see all of the show, but I did glean some takeaways of interest.

 

1.     Like Christ, the exorcist, as a seminarian, was perhaps recovering alcoholic, was visited by Satan to get a drink, but he banished Satan and Satan left, defeated, appearing as a handsome man.

2.      Years later, he attended a party in Miami with some women friends, and the same man, the Devil, walked up to him, and said that he needed to leave, because this was not his place, so they left, and the women were very shaken by the encounter.

3.     The exorcist also recounts how witches will pay for an abortion, and thus offer the killed baby to Satan, as a form of child sacrifice.

4.     The exorcist had no time for the transgender movement, dismissing it as a moral abomination.

5.     He noted that exorcists could tell if someone had recently sinned, because the evil stench or psychic stain or malice permeated the whole community and vicinity for hours afterwards. I assume that if we do good or evil, the aura around us impacts the community, not just us.

6.     If exorcists, so deep in faith and piety, are seeing demons walking among us as human beings, then it makes sense that, as one of my friends told me, he knows when angels are visiting us, waling among us as humans, just to see how we are doing, and to comfort and assure us that God is with us and rooting for us.

7.     If we were as deep in faith and piety, as exorcists or other pious believers, we would talk to angels and demons, and perhaps benevolent and malevolent deities, regularly, perhaps daily.

8.     The world of spirit is all around us, and in us.