From Forums of the Virgin Mary [translated]:
Shocking confessions of demons in exorcisms that reveal their most astonishing doctrines.
What Christians know about the logic that the devil handles, his plans and his personality, is not something that arose from pure philosophical speculation or mere theory, but is the result of observation of his behavior in reality.
The fathers and doctors of the Church established what we know today as doctrine, through the experience of seeing him act, facing him and speaking with him in exorcisms.
And these principles are corroborated by our contemporary exorcists.
Here we will talk about the things that please and displease the devil, what becomes his greatest ally and his greatest enemy, according to what prominent exorcists have proven, and which is in line with Catholic doctrine about the devil, so that we can discern better how evil moves.
Father Marcello Pellegrino Ernetti compiled in the traditional book Catechesis of Satan, the words spoken by the demons themselves, through the mouths of the possessed, during exorcisms, when he ordered them to confess, in the Name of Jesus, what they most liked and disliked.
And he established that what he disliked most was:
Confession.
The Eucharist or Communion.
Eucharistic Adoration.
The love of the Virgin Mary and the prayer of the Rosary.
The apparitions of the Virgin Mary
Obedience to the Pope.
The prayer of contemplative souls.
The exorcists.
And on the contrary, Father Pellegrino established that what he liked most was:
The profanation of consecrated Hosts.
The liquidation of innocent children.
Drugs.
Divorce.
Sects.
His theologians.
Women’s short skirts and indecent dresses.
The discos.
Television.
Priests and bishops who belong to Freemasonry.
The ecclesiastics who deny its existence.
The secularized clothing of priests.
And Father Francesco Bamonte, the current exorcist of the diocese of Rome, after being elected president of the International Association of Exorcists, made a magnificent study on the inverse catechism preached by the devil.
There he analyzed what the devil appreciates and seeks, and what, on the other hand, bothers and weakens him, according to the behavior and sayings of the demons in exorcisms.
It is an inverse catechism because it reverses what pleases and displeases God.
According to Bamonte, the first thing that draws attention in exorcisms is the delicate action of God and the Virgin compared to the action of the devil.
The devil is authoritarian, his fury is destructive and makes it notorious.
On the other hand, God’s action is hidden, silent, healing, but in the end it is effective and vigorous. While the attitudes and reactions of the demons towards the Virgin, who is their great enemy, attest to the truth of the words that God addressed to Satan, “I will put enmity between you and the Woman, between your offspring and her offspring: she will crush you.” his head, and you will bite his heel,” Genesis 3:15.
A second thing that draws attention during exorcisms is the terrible fear and hatred of the devil towards the offering we make of ourselves to God, out of love.
Especially if it is done in a spirit of reparation for our sins and the sins of others.
The exorcist cited examples of the angry reaction of the demons, until then hidden within the possessed, because they could not bear that he did such a catechism to those in his power.
When he invited the possessed person to offer his heart to God, the devil became furious at that moment.
Because he cannot bear that the evil he has done becomes good for the person. [scroll for more:]
A third thing that catches your attention is the negative value that the devil gives to forgiveness.
Once he ordered the demon to say to him in the name of Jesus: “What could be more repugnant to you than to continually offer our lives to God?”
And immediately he exclaimed, “forgiving everything and everyone.”
Then Bamonte concludes that the offering of our lives to God is truly authentic when it makes us merciful to others, forgiving them.
A fourth recurring characteristic in exorcisms is the devil’s insistent request to be worshiped, as if he were God.
He does not want to accept that he is His “creature”; he deceives himself into believing that he is God.
And he is eager to receive from men that worship, which belongs only to God.
The priest said that many times the devil has said in exorcisms: “Worship me, I am God! Get on your knees when my name is called. I am the almighty!”
To which Bamonte replied with the writing “Go away, Satan! It is written: worship the Lord your God and serve him only!”
And the demon replied, “Never! I am god! Look around you and you will see how everyone follows me, how everyone seeks what I want to give them!”
A fifth characteristic attitude of the devil is to speak frequently of extermination and destruction.
He mocks everything beautiful, good, healthy, clean, and harmonious, and threatens to disfigure and destroy it.
His particular hatred towards the sacrament of marriage and family affection is felt.
He says, “I don’t like the way women dress. We have to strip them more and more, so that sex becomes more and more dominant and can destroy more and more families!”
Other times he defined the sexual organs as “the center of the world.”
And living in chastity as a “junk choice,” while pondering promiscuity.
A sixth verification is his hatred for little ones.
Once he shouted at Bamonte, “Take that disgusting book of the Apocalypse. It is written about that Woman who gives birth. I always try to eat children. Do you know how?” and she described it with terrible words.
A seventh thing is stock investing.
It turns things upside down, considering good as evil and evil as good.
For example, several times, when presented with a relic, he has said “What a stench! It is the stench of those who elected Him!” referring to Jesus Christ, Whom out of hatred and contempt he almost never mentions.
When he is sprinkled with holy water, the demon protests, stating that he does not want to be washed with that water, that “it stinks and burns him.”
And he has also said, “There is a god for those who hate and this god is my god.”
An eighth thing is that he tries to divide men and set them against each other continually with his invectives.
He loves to emphasize that he likes to see the hatred between men and human evil; he says that “it is the ‘food’ that feeds me and strengthens me.”
At the same time, he states very clearly that his main activity among men is temptation.
Once, when Bamonte was reciting the exorcism ritual, calling the demon “the root of all evil, the source of vices, the seducer of men, the deceiver of people,” he told him,
“Our duty is to tempt, always, anyone, anywhere and in any way. Someone falls into our net, someone falls into it forever!”
And a ninth thing that draws attention is the power that the devil gives to prayer, no matter how bad it may be.
Because he himself experiences first-hand the power and effectiveness of prayer, to the extent that exorcism is a prayer of the Church in the Name of Christ.
Once the devil himself, despite himself, had to confirm it, saying, forced by God, “If you lived on your knees before Him and sang praises to Him as the angels do, we would not have all the powers that you give us.”
Well, that’s it, we wanted to talk about the values that the evil one cultivates and those he hates, so that we can better understand how evil works.
And I would like to ask you what other things you think the devil likes and degrades.
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