Memoirs of an Exorcist: My Life Fighting Satan by Marco Tosatti & Gabriele Amorth

Author:Marco Tosatti & Gabriele Amorth [Tosatti, Marco & Amorth, Gabriele]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi, pdf
ISBN: 9781497642447
Publisher: The Mondadori Group
Published: 2014-09-16T06:00:00+00:00

Spiritual sufferings and gains

You’ve said that often the long periods required for the most difficult liberations bring a spiritual gain to the families of the possessed… Has this also had an impact on your life?

Without a doubt! I’ve seen the spiritual gains that the Lord grants in compensation for the suffering that these people endure. With the sufferings offered to God, souls are saved. And the Lord has many suffering souls.

I wrote A Life Behind a Smile, the story of a beatified woman, who will be canonized soon, Alessandrina Maria Da Costa, to whom we owe the consecration of the world to the Immaculate Heart of Mary. Well, several testimonies report that she lived the Passion, had stigmata, and in the last thirteen years of her life she took no food, but lived exclusively on the Eucharist alone. She suffered constantly: atrocities day and night, since she never slept.

This woman, following a revelation from the Lord, saved millions of souls. Think of Our Lady of Fatima, what she said to the three children: there are many who go to Hell because there’s nobody to sacrifice and pray for them. Sacrifice comes before prayer. It’s more powerful. I’ve met many hopelessly, incurably ill people who have told me, “I’m so thankful to the Lord for this disease, I offer everything to the Lord for the salvation of souls…” or, “I will not give it up, this is my mission for the salvation of souls.” Bed-ridden people… The Lord gains spiritually from everywhere.

We are very tied to the earth, and to earthly things. But we don’t often think about the fact that the earth doesn’t last long, and eternity lasts forever. If you only knew how many pamphlets with the Ten Commandments I hand out! First things first, I see what medical attention they’ve received, documents and analyses. Then I interview them: I ask if they pray, if they go to mass. Whether they go to confession. I have a stack of these pamphlets. And I say, “Look at the Decalogue and study it well.” I always start with the third commandment: keep the Sabbath holy. Then I go to the sixth—I don’t dwell on every single one. “Do not commit impure acts.” This is not the gravest sin, but there lies our weakness. The gravest sins are ones of pride and hubris. But the violation of the sixth commandment is the most common sin; so much that Saint Alfonso de’ Liguori said, “One goes to Hell either for this sin, or not without this sin.” All men have it: it’s our greatest weakness.

Then, in the course of the conversation, I recount the episode of that youth who goes to Jesus, and asks, “Good teacher, how does one go to Heaven?” And Jesus replies, “Observe the commandments.” And then he says, “You see that we don’t stay long on earth. And afterward, there’s no third path, Heaven or Hell. You cannot escape!”

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