{"id":86815,"date":"2026-10-08T00:47:47","date_gmt":"2026-10-08T04:47:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/?p=86815"},"modified":"2026-09-28T11:22:20","modified_gmt":"2026-09-28T15:22:20","slug":"missions-in-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/missions-in-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Missions In Life"},"content":{"rendered":"

We have purposes in life \u2013 large ones, small ones \u2014 and they weave in and out of each other, sometimes \u2014 to repeat \u2014 joining with the mission of another person (or group of persons). We may have a main mission, but we also have many \u201clesser\u201d ones as well. For example, a journalist<\/span> may have the mission to expose a major scandal, but may later have another chore along this line to write about spiritual topics o<\/span>r expose another scandal while tending at home to the mission of raising children and caring for his parents.<\/p>\n

His mission may interweave with that of a shoemaker \u2013 in ways he and we would not imagine (for we are all connected \u2013 past and present). Beyond the visible mission is the need to keep the spirit clean (while proceeding in that endeavor) or the soul and family line is sullied in a way that inhibits its completion. If we have spirits hanging onto us, we must free ourselves of them to fully conclude our assignments from God and clear the family tree of what otherwise will be bondages that may manifest physically, emotionally, or spiritually.<\/p>\n

\u201cI have seen so many cases in the past thirty-five years that I could not even count them, or tell you all the cases we have had with this kind of familial spirit,\u201d writes Stella Davis, a Catholic laywoman from Virginia who has ministered around the world. \u201cThe same sickness in one generation will go on in the bloodline. This is called the \u2018spirit of infirmity\u2019 going through several generations. <\/span><\/p>\n

We go to<\/span> the root of this sickness in the Name of Jesus, and in the power of the Holy Spirit we cut out the s<\/span>pirit of infirmity, cast it out of the person, and send it to Jesus. Sometimes, the affliction skips a generati<\/span>on. Sometimes it\u2019s a demon. Sometimes, it\u2019s an ancestral spirit [which is discerned when a spirit barks out that it\u2019s not going because it has been there a long time]. Some go to the second, third, and fourth generations. Sometimes they are on both sides of the family, father and mother. But the great thing is that they are set free. To see the faces of the people when they come in and when they go out \u2013 your eyes sometimes cannot believe they are the same people! They leave with happy faces, joyful hearts, and freedom from their bondage.\u201d<\/p>\n

Many of our missions<\/span> are delayed, compromised, or even destroyed by ancestral baggage.<\/span><\/p>\n

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\u201cUntoward deaths in the family, especially of children, could well be part of the effect of bad \u2018spiritual environment\u2019 induced by ancestral sin,\u201d agrees Fat<\/span>her Hampsch, who points out that a man is three times as likely to be alcoholic if his grandfather was. The same is true for many diseases and those prone to crime or violence. \u201cIt is of critical importance to understand that there are tw<\/span>o kinds of evil that could be involved in infecting<\/span> the family tree, one interfacing with the other very often,\u201d adds Father Hampsch. \u201cThe first kind of evil may be called intrinsic evil, or sin. In the Lord’s Prayer, we refer to that with repentance in the prayer \u2018forgive us our trespasses.\u2019 <\/span><\/p>\n

“The second kind of evil mentioned in the last part of the Lord’s Prayer is extrinsic evil, which includes evil forces \u2014 devils, demons, and evil spirits that may atta<\/span>ck <\/span>us from without, which<\/span> we deal with in the phrase, \u2018deliver us from evil\u2019 \u2014 that is, from the Evil One. Wherever there is any attachment to sin (intrinsic evil) there is usually an attempt of the extrinsic forces, demonic forces, to lodge in those areas. But Jesus, Who says, ‘The prince of this world has n<\/span>o power over Me<\/span> (John 14:30), should be called upon to cleanse the bloodlines of the family tree, both living and dead, of anything of evil that may block the healthy state of the individuals within that family. Through Jesus’ Power <\/span>we can break any inherited curses or hexes that may have been transmitted through the generations, and cast out any evil spirits that may harass the living members of the family.\u201d<\/p>\n

During Mass Father Cerulli, for his part, tells those seeking his counsel to continue writing down any facts, thoughts, or memories about deceased relatives. After the gifts are brought up, he recites a prayer to break generational curses, especially those involving past occult activities. \u201cThen they bring up the family trees and they are placed in a basket that I raise up to the Lord for His healing,\u201d he expla<\/span>ins. \u201c<\/span>The Eucharist is celebrated and afterward the genograms are sealed in envelopes that are never opened and <\/span>given<\/span> to a community of nuns in Montreal who pray over them for three months, later disposing of them by burning them<\/span>.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

If troubled families can’t get to a healing Mass, priests advise, they should meet and discuss the is<\/span>sue.<\/p>\n

[resources: Life Missions, Family Healing<\/em><\/a> and other healing books<\/a>]<\/p>\n

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