All great points, bravo.
The thing that got me away from Ripperger was his constant revealing of what information he received from demons during exorcisms and how he then turns around and applies it to current events. There was one such instance where he claimed that a demon said things were coming to a head soon (paraphrasing) and I had to ask "so we're using the Roman Ritual for divination now?"
On top of that, his complete blindness to the situation with Bergoglio and adherence to the NO conservative party line just made me swear off of him altogether.
EXACTLY! And that is an interesting point you bring up – using the Roman Rite for divination! Phew!!!
He speaks so cavalierly about what should be treated with the utmost formality, discretion, and even secrecy. His referring to devils as “guys,” his incessant bragging about “beating up demons,” is puerile and irresponsible.
And he is now breeding a host of other creeping ghouls posing as devil biters. How about this trending piece of work?
Another problem I have with Ripperger and the conservative NO’s is authoritarianism. You will note that they beat the drum incessantly about authority, the veritable pinnacle of their apologia pro the fetid imposture they worship as the true ecclesiastical hierarchy. I have found that they are eminently satisfied with a fleshless skeleton – a tempo-material power (read:authority) stripped of all relation to Catholic truth, doctrine, and morality. They literally idolize authority. They worship authority. They slavishly serve authority,
per se. When Vatican II accomplished the dissolution of Doctrine and Authority, the followers and servants of the miscreants choose authority over truth. The Catholic must choose truth over authority, because of ordination. Authority is ordered to Truth, and not vice versa. But these did not. These chose wrongly; and they are working feverishly to pollute the understanding of the entire membership of the Church.
If you go to the Regina Prophetarum blog, you will find novus ordo priest Sean Kopzcinski ever disseminating his novel religion of authority worship. He never insists on the integral Faith. Rather he incessantly insists on the need for authority. Nor does he define authority. Nor does he teach the essential attributes of ecclesiastical authority. Nor does he distinguish ecclesiastical authority from human purely authority. Nor does he propound the
sine qua non principle that the Faith is not ordered to authority, but authority is ordered to the Faith. Faith is the term. Authority is not a term.
Kopzcinski is one of the best examples I can produce of the idol worship and authoritarianism running through the entire novus ordo. Before they openly worshiped pagan deities, the hierarchs forced their subjects to worship their illegitimate imposture in the name of authority. If we could build a statue to commemorate this fall into servitude, we would name it, not Lady Liberty, but Lord Authoritarius.
The end of all this error is idolatry. For having made naked authority their god, they are now incapacitated, as a punishment. When their overseers openly worship pagan deities, these slaves are powerless to resist, powerless to denounce, powerless to break away. They have lost all salt, and all power of virtuous operation.
There is a real distinction between true and legitimate authority and usurpation, the latter being the cause of all authoritarianism. Authoritarianism is the ape of true authority. Wherever you find depravity and usurpation, you will find tyranny, which is no more than authoritarianism posing as authority. Consider the authoritarianism of the communists and their proxy armies. Race authoritarianism. Sodomitical authoritarianism. Perversity and disorder are not merely shoved in our faces. We are beaten into submission by a virulent and jealous tyranny.
Now look at Ripperger et. al.. He and his “deliverance brotherhood” are taking authoritarianism to a new height – or to a new nadir. Not only do they worship naked authority as does Kopzcinski, but they add a twist of their own. They insert authoritarianism into “exorcism culture.”
God give me the grace to articulate what is in my mind.
I’m certain that demons are very much under the authority of God and the Celestial Hierarchy. They cannot so much as flinch without permissions. The Angelical ranks are composed in a wonderful order, and this order is replete with Divine and delegated authority. Authority might even be the hallmark attribute of the Intellectual Order.
And most certainly real exorcists understand this structure, adhere to it, and use it to the utmost advantage, being themselves in authority over demons by virtue of their Orders and Faculties.
But this real authority can be inverted, aped, usurped, duped, or exploited by demons, who desire only to deceive men.
I purchased ($0.99 kindle, thankfully) the Deliverance Prayers book put out by Ripperger. Another waste of cents, and another thing I never use.
As I skimmed it and perused the whole thing, my stomach was more and more in knots. It literally gave me anxiety. One false move, and you are going to become subjected to demons by trying to expel them. You are given a plethora of prayers (most likely “touched by” Ryan Grant), and a rulebot’s dream of caveats, proscriptions, warnings, threats. It is perfectly pharisaical, perfectly levitical, and perhaps cabbalistic. All of the threatenings boil down to one thing – do you have authority over the person, place, or thing you are praying over?
I’m just a layperson. I am not educated in theology and demonology. But my gut forces me to ask questions. First of all, why are laypeople in the demonic novus ordo being glutted with a superfluity of binding prayers that they are unable to wield? And who is doing the glutting but invalidly ordained clerics in business to propagate a false church?
I ask anyone here with learning – did the Church engage laypeople in minor exorcism ministration systems in the past? Were laypeople drafted into spiritual armies, and sent into battle with angelic princes, alone and armed only with books of prayers?
Why are laypeople being glutted with useless information about who has authority over demons, and in what circuмstances? Why are novus ordo “exorcists” the new tradlebrities? Why is exorcism trending, all the while demonic power continues to grow unchecked? Weren’t laypeople always simply urged to stay in the state of grace, to cast all their cares upon the Lord, to stay far away from all forms of superstition, and to have recourse to God, to the Mother of God, and to the Saints and Angels, to fight their battles for them?
What is this novel form of lay empowerment?
And why does it reek of levitical, tyrannical, authoritarian gnat straining?
Novus Ordo Inc. is luring people into a great big sucking vortex, which has satan for its eye. Witchcraft and idolatry are everywhere, their various and manifold forms designed to capture even the Elect, were that possible.