Understanding Exorcism and Latin Mass

Sometimes in session it gets a little brutal 'cause if the demon's speaking in

Latin, I can usually understand what he's saying

right away 'cause I can hear it

fairly well. I had a proficient reading knowledge of

it, needed to work a little

bit on the speaking side of it. Composition-wise, I was okay at it.

I'm one of those guys, I can speak it, but I have to sit

and think of the grammar.

Sometimes making responses. In fact, I had one demon that got- he was a little

snooty, 'cause what he would do is if I, you know, used the accusative when I was

supposed to use the ablative, he would just ignore me like he didn't

have to pay

attention.

Oh my gosh.

But at the end of it I told him, "Hey, you know, you really helped my grammar."

So the other thing is, you know, you mentioned, you know,

demons follow you around.

Well, if I see them, it's actually a good thing,

'cause then I can keep track of

them and I know what they're up to. It's when they get quiet you have to

worry.

You have to understand, by the time I started this thing I had

already been writing

articles about the, the traditional Latin mass.

I had become intellectually convicted this is better.

By this time I have the theological and philosophical framework to seeing why

it's better. But then also people who are possessed, a- almost all of

them will say it's harder to attend the Old Rite than the New.

One of the things that we'll actually watch for

is where the demons are pinging.

So, like, if it's a part of the offertory, we'll take a look at that part of the

offertory 'cause that tells us something about the dynamics

of the possession case.

And this is something that other people, you would hear in confession regularly,

and people would complain about this, that the- when they were going up to

communion, that all of the sudden they'd have...

You know, through the whole mass they're able to

just focus, they have a good and

devout mass, and then they walk up and all of a sudden they just get barraged

by

these impure thoughts. They generally find the Old Rite just

harder to get

through. The pattern that I was noticing in hearing the confessions of

Old Rite

priests and New Rite priests, and the pattern that I was noticing is,

is that

the Old Rite priests by and large struggled less with

chastity issues. There was some kind of a difference,

and I didn't know what it

was. What I started doing as a pastor is you would get men who were married,

they

might fall in relationship with the sixth commandment like once every six months to

a year, but by and large they were actually being chaste.

And so I started telling them, "Why don't you just do Lauds

and Vespers from the

Old Rite every single day and see if that takes the edge off of it?" Well, to a

man, every single one of them-

Wow

... said as long as they did it, it stopped.

Wow.

A number of the exorcists who are in the New Rite

that started saying the Old Rite

office said there was a shift that they noticed interiorly.

I think it's more discipline, it's the Latin language, which

is a sacred language.

It's also the fact that it basically goes back to Christ

said, "If you

knock and it'll be opened." Well, if you don't knock,

it's not likely to be open.

And so the fact that they reduced, in the prayers of the New Rite breviary

they

reduced it down. You're just not praying as much,

you're not praying as much as the

psalter. I think that it's a burden 'cause it takes a

while, but they said once

they started doing it, they just notice a lot of...

Most of the exorcists that I knew just didn't have a problem in

chastity to begin

with, but they would say that other areas of their spiritual life

just cleaned

up.