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Offline rosary93

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Have you ever felt the tangible presence of Satan?
« on: April 28, 2017, 05:11:07 PM »
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  • Have you ever felt the tangible presence of Satan?

    I was just wondering how common this experience is in the lives of others? I sense the presence of the evil one when certain anti-Christ people are nearby. It is really awful. I tend to think that if you have not been through this, you must not be very close to the Lord? Just saying...


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    Re: Have you ever felt the tangible presence of Satan?
    « Reply #1 on: April 28, 2017, 08:48:31 PM »
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  • Yes, I have at times...

    And I know what you mean about certain people giving you a feeling of an evil presence...

    I try to pray whenever I am in a situation like that, and I am grateful at such times that I almost always wear a Saint Benedict medal.   :)
    "Jesus, Meek and Humble of Heart, make my heart like unto Thine!"

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    Re: Have you ever felt the tangible presence of Satan?
    « Reply #2 on: April 28, 2017, 08:49:06 PM »
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  • Absolutely, yes.  In the presence of certain persons, in certain geographic locations, when occultic items are in proximity.  Be sure to wear your brown scapular, a Miraculous or St. Benedict medal, St . Michael.  Having a Rosary on your person helps both to discern and protect.  I think this is normal for a Catholic to be aware of the enemy of our souls.  I'd be afraid if someone told me they are never bothered by the devil.

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    Re: Have you ever felt the tangible presence of Satan?
    « Reply #3 on: April 28, 2017, 10:52:00 PM »
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  • Yes, in certain places and near certain persons. No place as strongly as inside an NO parish, where everything seems topsy turvy to me. From the lighthearted banter of a homily, to the confusion at the distribution of the Holy Eucharist where several people descend upon the altar to collect chalices and patens and the ensuing shuffle in the aisles as a few faithful position themselves to receive from the priest. 

    In contrast, I feel the overwhelming calm when passing in front of a Tabernacle, or falling to my knees at adoration. 

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    Re: Have you ever felt the tangible presence of Satan?
    « Reply #4 on: April 28, 2017, 11:56:40 PM »
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  • "I tend to think that if you have not been through this, you must not be very close to the Lord?"

    I would think this is going a little bit far. Smacks of pride.  One might just as easily surmise it is because the Devil is feeling real close to you, and has opened his mouth for the final chomp.


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    Re: Have you ever felt the tangible presence of Satan?
    « Reply #5 on: April 29, 2017, 01:11:02 AM »
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  • Have you ever felt the tangible presence of Satan?

    Yup.  
    It amazes me when people CAN'T perceive it.
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    Before some audiences not even the possession of the exactest knowledge will make it easy for what we say to produce conviction. For argument based on knowledge implies instruction, and there are people whom one cannot instruct.  - Aristotle

    Offline Nadir

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    Re: Have you ever felt the tangible presence of Satan?
    « Reply #6 on: April 29, 2017, 01:48:41 AM »
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  • Feelings aren't everything!
    Help of Christians, guard our land from assault or inward stain,
    Let it be what God has planned, His new Eden where You reign.

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    Re: Have you ever felt the tangible presence of Satan?
    « Reply #7 on: April 29, 2017, 07:36:54 AM »
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  • Feelings aren't everything!
    We are wonderfully created with five senses; touch, smell, hear, taste and see. Therefore we can feel when something is amiss. But you are right, feeling isn't everything. The devil, the angel of light, the father of lies, the subtle serpent, is cunning. We must be careful of accepting something or someone at face value. We are to discern:
    1 John 4(NRSVCE)
    Testing the Spirits
    Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God; for many false prophets have gone out into the world. By this you know the Spirit of God: every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God, and every spirit that does not confess Jesus is not from God. And this is the spirit of the antichrist, of which you have heard that it is coming; and now it is already in the world. Little children, you are from God, and have conquered them; for the one who is in you is greater than the one who is in the world. They are from the world; therefore what they say is from the world, and the world listens to them. We are from God. Whoever knows God listens to us, and whoever is not from God does not listen to us. From this we know the spirit of truth and the spirit of error.


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    Re: Have you ever felt the tangible presence of Satan?
    « Reply #8 on: April 29, 2017, 08:13:55 AM »
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  • This is a hard question to answer because, as Nadire has said (and Jovita's post above), feelings are not always right. There are a couple of people who's presence is not pleasant, rather, very uncomfortable. Yet, when you get to know them they are good people when it comes down to it. They are willing to help even if they complain about it etc. And yet, there are those who are outright malicious, avariceous but I don't feel a bad aura around them. 

    It is also true that every person has their own personal aura, determined by spiritual state, mental and even physical state of being. And even if we can't always determine the air surrounding a person, animals can. There are a number of stories where creatures attack one person but not another, though they both are strangers! I myself was once at some friends' house, who have a truly insane dog. This dog had just recently ripped up the uncle of the family, so the mother was warning me before leaving the vehicle. I got out of the car; the dog comes up to me and sniffs; I pet the vicious beast... and all are amazed! (It treated me like family, to be honest...)

    For many people, it should probably be said that they have a "negative energy" rather then a Satanic presence. Have you ever been around a person who's presence just makes you feel so tired? It's like they just suck the energy from you and the surrounding area!

    Rather then feel an evil presence around someone, there have been times where I became inexplicably frightened at night, and it feels like something malicive is standing in the middle of the room watching me. Does that count?


    Now, all that being said, is it possible that some people do not necessarily have a Satanic presence, but we are feeling the emptiness of their soul?

    Lastly, I don't deny that there are those who truly do have demonic presence around them, I think we've all had our fair share of brujeria and those who dable in it. Or it may even be intuitive that there is something not right with a person. Even places certainly have a disturbing feel in some cases!
    Many people say "For the Honor and Glory of God!" but, what they should say is "For the Love, Glory and Honor of God". - Fr. Paul of Moll

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    Re: Have you ever felt the tangible presence of Satan?
    « Reply #9 on: April 29, 2017, 11:33:34 AM »
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  • Feelings aren't everything!
    In my previous post, I want to clarify that I'm not referring to "feelings" of the emotional or sentimental type. The "sense" of Satan is primarily in the intellect.  Sometimes negative emotions follow.  Often, I don't "feel" anything.  I just suddenly "know" something is spiritually very wrong, so I take action, by prayers, by avoidance, by removing myself if possible.  I've been this way for as far back as I can remember; say, 2 1/2 - 3 years.  
    I rarely talk about it, even among fellow trads, because it has led to other thinking and then gossiping that I'm mentally ill, or myself under demonic influence,  which I certainly am not!
    Often, the place, person, object to which evil has attached itself is NOT discernible via the physical senses, or else it is, but is concealed at first. A few examples where later on, the presence of evil was confirmed.  I was waiting at night on the sidewalk for a city bus.  Everything I stood adjacent to a dry cleaning business, closed until morning, I "sensed" evil.  If I moved away from the dry cleaner, about two storefronts down, everything seemed fine.  I didn't give it much thought or try to analyze, I simply stood back from actual bus stop and jogged up to the bus when it arrived.  It wasn't until I was in the bus and pulling away that I saw the upper floors of the building housing the dry cleaner.  On about the 6th or 7th floor was the office of a psychic, the window lit up by a large flashing neon sign.  
    I've met people, yes, even traditional Catholics, whose outward appearance and demeanor looked fine, only to later discover what was wrong.  A couple in their 60s, members of the Rosary Society, who allowed their 30 year old son to live in their basement with his male "partner."  A young teacher who spoke sweetly, but was later dismissed when it came to light she was listening at night to death metal music, an avid fan.  Conversely, there are times when a person whose physical appearance and demeanor is distasteful, but give me no dense of evil.  This happens normally with non-Catholics.  Most of the time, however, I never learn what's wrong.  
      

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    Re: Have you ever felt the tangible presence of Satan?
    « Reply #10 on: April 29, 2017, 11:52:52 AM »
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  • Seraphina,

    I think in many of these discussions that we forget the fact that we have a guardian angel that often prompts us of danger. You should thank your guardian angel when He warns you and you listen to him. 

    Jesus and Mary,
    David


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    Re: Have you ever felt the tangible presence of Satan?
    « Reply #11 on: April 30, 2017, 01:32:51 AM »
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  • On a related topic;

    Italian priest Sante Babolin said that Satan is behind several recent attacks in various parts of the world against the Virgin Mary, noting that she is a powerful advocate for him during exorcisms.
    “In my experience – so far I have performed 2,300 rites of exorcism – I can say that the invocation of the Most Holy Virgin Mary often provokes significant reactions in the person being exorcized,” he told Mexican weekly Desde la Fe.
    Fr. Babolin, who also taught at the Gregorian University in Rome, said that “in face of the failure of the onslaught by non-believers, now, in order to offend and confound the Catholic people, the Virgin Mary, whom the devil hates, is being attacked.”
    Desde la Fe noted the recent events of the Spanish drag queen Borja Casillas, who masqueraded as the Virgin Mary and mocked her in a performance, as well as a woman who dressed up as the Virgin Mary and simulated an abortion during a protest in Argentina.
    The Italian exorcist said that “as proof of this hatred” of the devil toward the Mother of God, “while I was insistently invoking the Most Holy Virgin Mary, the devil answered me: 'I can't stand That One (Mary) any more and neither can I stand you any more.'”
    Fr. Babolin also noted that “the Second Vatican Council declares that Mary, daughter of Adam, in accepting the divine message, became the Mother of Jesus, and embracing with her whole heart and without the hindrance of any sin the saving will of God, consecrated herself totally, as the servant of the Lord, to the person and work of her Son.”
    The priest pointed out the passage in the book of Genesis – which is evoked in the Rite of Exorcism – where God says to the serpent that “she will crush your head.”  
    In this ritual, he said, the exorcist says to the devil: “Most cunning serpent, you shall no more dare to deceive the human race, persecute the Church, torment God's elect and sift them as wheat (...) The sacred Sign of the Cross commands you, as does also the power of the mysteries of the Christian Faith (...) The glorious Mother of God, the Virgin Mary, commands you; she who by her humility and from the first moment of her Immaculate Conception crushed your proud head.”
    Fr. Babolin also said that “the strongest reactions” of the devil during the exorcism occur “when references are made to her apparitions.”
    Because of this, he frequently pronounces the name of Holy Mary with her titles of Lourdes, Fatima or Guadalupe. In the latter case, he said, “I use this formula: 'Holy Mary, Our Lady of Guadalupe, Queen of Tepeyac.'”
    The exorcist warned that “the instrument the (the devil) normally uses to trap us is money, since it offers the possibility of satisfying the impulses that converge in pleasure and power.”
    Satan “subjugates us to himself manipulating the truth and offering us his dazzling light, showing us his version of 'freedom' and promising us the instant gratification of our whims.”
    “As far as interpersonal communication, the sense of sight overtakes the sense of hearing; and consequently the image over the word; that is to say, desire precedes reflection,” he said.
    Fr. Babolin encouraged Catholics to denounce attacks on the faith as well as to organize and participate in prayer events, pray the Rosary, and participate in Masses at places where offenses were committed.

    http://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/why-the-devil-hates-mary-especially-during-exorcisms-93682/

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    Re: Have you ever felt the tangible presence of Satan?
    « Reply #12 on: April 30, 2017, 11:47:03 PM »
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  • From St Teresa of Avila;

     “From long experience I have learned that there is nothing like holy water to put devils to flight and prevent them from coming back again.  The also flee from the cross, but return; so holy water must have great value.  For my own part, whenever I take it, my soul feels a particular and most notable consolation.   In fact it is quite usual for me to be conscious of a refreshment which I cannot possibly describe, resembling an inward joy which comforts my whole soul.  This is not fancy, or something which has happened to me only once, it has happened again and again and I have observed it attentively.  It is let us say, as if someone very hot and thirsty were to drink from a jug of cold water: he would feel the refreshment throughout his body.
    I often reflect on the great importance of everything ordained by the Church and it makes me very happy to find that those words of the Church are so powerful that they impart their power to the water and make it so different from water which has not been blessed..
    One night, too, about this time, I thought the devils were stifling me; and when the nuns had sprinkled a great deal of holy water about, I saw a hug crowd of them running away as quickly as though they were about to fling themselves down a steep place.
    I will only describe something that happened to me one night of All Sous Day.  I was in an oratory: I had said one nocturne and was repeating some very devotional prayers which follow it – they are extremely devotional: we have them in our office book – when actually the devil himself alighted on the book, to prevent me from finishing the prayer.  I made a sign of the cross and he went away.  I then began again and he came back.  I think I began the prayer three times and not until I had sprinkled some holy water on him could I finish it.”
    St. Theresa of Avila said she would die for one drop of holy water since what gave it it’s effectivity was the precious blood of Jesus.  She believed this because of the ancient saying that you say when blessing yourself with holy water.  “By this holy water and by thy Precious Blood wash away all my sins, O Lord.”
    http://www.traditionalcatholicpriest.com/2013/07/17/st-theresa-of-avila-on-the-power-of-holy-water/

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    Re: Have you ever felt the tangible presence of Satan?
    « Reply #13 on: May 01, 2017, 03:34:00 PM »
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  •  think I began the prayer three times and not until I had sprinkled some holy water on him could I finish it.”

    I think the devil is largely responsible for a lot of "weird" things that happen to us. It is up to us to resist through prayers, holy water, etc.
    and it seems that evil often triumphs over good. I realize that evil will not triumph in the End but it amazes me that it triumphs so often

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    Re: Have you ever felt the tangible presence of Satan?
    « Reply #14 on: May 01, 2017, 06:33:00 PM »
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  • Sounds like a bunch of feelings oriented women bragging about having special favors.

    If any of you were for real obseesed by a demon, you'd have a heart attack. 
    The Vatican II church - Assisting Souls to Hell Since 1962

    For there shall arise false Christs and false prophets, and shall show great signs and wonders, insomuch as to deceive (if possible) even the elect. Mat 24:24