Manual for Spiritual Warfare by Paul Thigpen

Author:Paul Thigpen [Thigpen, Paul]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi, pdf
Tags: REL000000 Religion / General
ISBN: 9781618906540
Publisher: TAN Books
Published: 2015-01-29T05:00:00+00:00

SPIRITUAL WARFARE IN THE LIVES OF THE SAINTS

In the lives of the saints we sometimes read about battles with the Enemy. Some involved only the ordinary activity of temptations, while others displayed more extraordinary manifestations of demonic activity. In our own warfare, we have much to learn from their example.

Our Blessed Lady

During the seventeenth-century beatification process for St. Frances de Sales, one of the Annecy Monastery Visitation nuns made a formal statement about an exorcism she had witnessed. A young man had been possessed by a demon for five years, and the exorcism was being performed in the presence of the relics of St. Francis by Bishop Charles Auguste de Sales of Geneva, who was the saint’s nephew and successor in the Episcopal see.

According to her report, during one of the sessions the demon shouted furiously, “Why should I leave?”

One of the Visitation nuns present, perhaps frightened, invoked the Blessed Virgin: “Holy Mother of God, pray for us!”

On hearing those words, the demon screamed even more loudly: “Mary! Mary! There’s no Mary for me! Don’t say that name; it makes me shudder! If there were a Mary for me, as there is for you, I wouldn’t be what I am! But for me there is no Mary! If I had just one instant of the many [instants] that you people waste . . . ! Just one lone instant and a Mary, and I would not be a demon!”1

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