Spiritual Warfare Guide

Spiritual warfare is very real. There is a furious, fierce, and ferocious battle raging in the realm of the spirit between the forces of God and the forces of e

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In 2015, doctors told George Pickering II his 27-year-old son was brain-dead and prepared to end life support. But George refused to accept it. In a desperate act of love, he brought a gun to the Texas hospital and barricaded himself inside his son’s room, demanding more time.

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Fr. Gabriele Amorth: "Almost always, in cases of evil presence, the eyes look completely white. If the pupils are looking up, the demons in possession are scorpions. If looking down, they are serpents.”
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Today, his act stands as a powerful reminder: sometimes, a father’s instinct knows what science doesn’t.

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In 2015, doctors told George Pickering II his 27-year-old son was brain-dead and prepared to end life support. But George refused to accept it. In a desperate act of love, he brought a gun to the Texas hospital and barricaded himself inside his son’s room, demanding more time.

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As police surrounded the ward, something incredible happened — his son squeezed his hand, showing signs of life. Treatment continued, and against all odds, he made a full recovery. Pickering was arrested but received a reduced sentence.

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(10/10) Tech-Savvy Evangelist: A self-taught programmer, Carlo created a website at age 11–12 cataloging Eucharistic miracles and Marian apparitions, earning him the nickname “God’s influencer.” #Catholic

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10 Things You Might Not Know about St. Carlos Acutis
(1/10) Born in London, Raised in Italy: Carlo was born on May 3, 1991, in London, England, to Italian parents, but his family moved to Milan, Italy, shortly after. His English roots included a half-English grandmother.

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(9/10) Nutella Lover: Carlo had a sweet tooth, particularly for Nutella, the Italian hazelnut spread, and enjoyed ice cream with friends, showing saints can enjoy simple pleasures.

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Team @TeamYouTube please take a look at this again, regarding the age restriction. It's still appropriate for under 18.

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@MrBeast I'm too unlucky to be part of this I guess...never won a lucky draw, not even once in life.

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"Not to forget that love should be accompanying them always. Sort of like saying the Rosary. It can become a mechanical, repetitive chore, or it can be a prayer of the heart. And this is the. I will call it a danger, but it's not really a danger.

Whenever you pray, there's no danger. But it can be a defect, a common defect because we are creatures of habit. The more we do something, the more it becomes second nature. And the mind and the heart is less engaged. That's the imperfection of our nature.

So it is good for us to call to mind from time to time the fundamental importance of love in everything we think, say and do. The Blessed Mother was a master of this. She was a master of the simplicity of love.

It wasn't the big things that made her a great saint, it was the little things, but with great love. So when even walking to the kitchen or preparing a meal, or sweeping the floor, she was mindful of the love that gave merit to these simple acts.

So we should not run after spiritual niceties and good feelings. That comes and goes. When it comes, we embrace it. If it doesn't come, we don't run after it. There are people, I'm sure you know, that think that religion is proven by feeling.

So the more I feel a spiritual high, the more I'm pleasing to God. And if I feel that God is not there, then I must be displeasing to Him. Well, guess what? The opposite is true. My ways are not your ways God says.

When we are suffering, whether it's interior or exterior, God is resting in us, we are consoling Him. When we are feeling high with spiritual consolations, there's no suffering, no disturbance, then God is suffering and we are resting.

This is the spiritual interplay that happens with all the mystics. When God needs to rest and be consoled, He allows us to share in His suffering. When we need to be rested and consoled, then God suffers and He allows us to rest. Commit that to memory.

Because this is a teaching that is found in the writings of all the mystics. Alright? And this is further proof that the Holy Spirit's working in us. If we were not to feel this interplay between consolation and desolation, the Holy Spirit would not be acting in us, something would be wrong.

So we should expect that these bouts, highs and lows of consolation and desolation, but they don't bring us out of God's love.

Hence the importance of equanimity, of immutability, that no matter what comes or goes, the highs and lows the consolations, desolations which will come, and they're good. The soul does not get displaced from God. All right?" - Fr. Joseph Iannuzzi

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"Now, how can a soul contain anything created, when the soul is immaterial? How can it contain the created acts of material things? Right? I would ask... I would answer that question by asking you a question. Jesus did this, by the way, and so do the Jesuits. As a joke.

When I was in Rome, I studied at the Gregorian, and the joke was a Dominican from the Angelicum University, Angelicum, went to the Gregorian and asked a Jesuit, father, is it true that you Jesuits answer a question with another question?

He said, who told you that? Well, Jesus asked the Pharisees, if you recall, when they asked Him, by what authority do You do these things? He said, I will answer you if you answer My question. Did John the Baptist come in the name of God or by his own authority? And they didn't answer Jesus. So Jesus didn't answer them.

So back to my question to you. I will answer that question with another question. When we sprinkle holy water, right, for the souls in purgatory on the ground, this is a pious, traditional practice of many Catholics and Christians.

They put their hand when they entered the church into the holy water, they bless themselves, and they sprinkled a little on the ground. How does that material water influence the immaterial souls in purgatory? See the connection.

Souls that are immaterial or bodies that are material in the ground, that have died and their souls are in purgatory, can be influenced by immaterial things or material things.

Material blessed water can influence an immaterial soul in purgatory, or an immaterial blessing of a priest or an exorcism can influence a physical body that's possessed. You see the connection.

Similarly, the soul has the capacity, even though it's immaterial, to contain the material order. God in the beginning did not create any separation between the two, before Original Sin. The separation came after Original Sin.

That is, the separation between matter and non matter, or physical and metaphysical. They were coalesced in the beginning. They were one. Yes, they were different, but they were not separated.

They were distinct without being separated. Just like the Trinity. Three distinct persons, but they're inseparable, just like the body and blood of Christ. They're different, but yet they're inseparable." - Fr. Joseph Iannuzzi

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"Baptism takes away Original Sin. But as the Council of Trent relates, concupiscence remains in the baptized even after the Sacrament of Baptism is administered to them. This was not the case in God's model A, plan A of prayer and action in Adam and Eve before sin.

There was no concupiscence in Eden. We are born with Original Sin, we are baptized, that takes it away, but the concupiscence remains, which is the inclination to sin.

And for this reason Jesus instituted the Sacrament of Confession, of Reconciliation, of penance, so that even after we are baptized, we can still be forgiven. Why did Jesus give to us Adam and Eve's offspring, conceived in original sin, baptized and living with concupiscence, the Sacrament of Confession?

Well, according to the writings of some Church Fathers and ecclesiastical writers, the answer is the angels and Adam and Eve had no impairment of the intellect, memory or will before their rebellion or sin.

Therefore, they were able to see all the ends of their actions before they committed them or did them or performed them. So Adam knew, not only by God telling him that if he had partaken of the forbidden fruit, he would certainly die, but also because he had infused knowledge that revealed this to him.

And he was also given the infused ability to see all of this progeny. Well, Adam and Eve, according to some Church Fathers and ecclesiastical writers, as well as the angels before their rebellion, had a vision of all their actions' impacts. In other words, they could see the impact of all their actions on all future generations and all the creation God had put at their disposal.

Well, because we are conceived in Original Sin, our intellects, wills and memories, like those of the angels in Adam, indeed before their rebellion and sin are impaired. So we don't have this infused mystical vision to see all the ends of our actions as did the angels before their rebellion in Adam and Eve before sin.

This is why Jesus gives us the Sacrament of Confession, knowing that our intellects are impaired, are dimmed. We don't or act always with perfect clarity of thought, but out of ignorance, as Augustine puts it." - Fr. Joseph Iannuzzi

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The Sacred Silence of The Traditional Roman Catholic Mass