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So, this has been making the rounds on social media recently. It's not surprising at all. We all know Hollywood loves to mock Christians and pull this kind of stuff. You know it. I know it. It's not a secret anymore. And you don't ever see them doing it to the Muslims.
But this also reminds me of an episode of Battle Ready with Father Rehill on Radio Maria where he said this.
>> Well, what you feed on you become. And when I say feed on, I mean like what are you taking in through your eyes and through your ears? Because that's forming your soul. So, you know, let's take it to the extremes. If you're going to, you know, spend hours a day looking at pornography, you're going to become a depraved individual who's constantly in a state of mortal sin. If you spend the day listening to hours of chant, Gregorian chant, it's going to uplift your soul.
So, for the rock music, um, there's different varieties. I mean, some of that stuff is just downright evil. You know, the the Aussie Osborne and Metallica and all that stuff, you know, that's not good for you. Um, the pop music is probably just as bad, if not worse, because it's all about um just the world and the flesh and uh all that sort of thing. And some of it can be downright evil. You know, like I've talked about Taylor Swift before. She started out as a country music singer with pretty harmless lyrics. You know, her first big song was about Tim McGrath and her crush on him, but now she's gone into a dark phase where her music is got a lot of witchcraft embedded in it. So, you don't want to be listening to any of that stuff. you know, uh, when I'm in the car, I tend to put on Sirius XM and I I have a few channels that I listen to. One is a jazz channel, one is instrumental, one is uh, I think it's called the highway, which is country, but it's pretty tame country. It's not country used to be all about cheating and drinking. Country music today, the new country music is pretty harmless for the most part. Um or I put on uh the chaplet of St. Michael and I pray that while I'm driving because you can do that through YouTube. So you you have to pick and choose carefully cuz what you're like what I said, what you're feasting on is what you become. >>
And there's another clip of him I'd like to share with you in this video. And by the way, if you want to listen to the whole thing, I left a link to the full audio on radio Maria in the description box below.
>> Okay, so very disturbing. this every day there seems to be something disturbing. But this most recent uh bill that's been made into a law in Canada called the the the C9 bill. It's alleging to protect people from hate speech. That's the the alleged motivation behind it. But what it actually does, what it actually does is it's you could go to jail now for quoting the Bible in Canada. You can go to prison for quoting the Bible in Canada. So clearly they don't value free speech up there, nor do they value Jesus Christ. It's that simple. And I I pity the Canadians because I I have many friends who were Canadians. This is horrible. Horrible. But you see, I've been talking about this stuff for years. It's coming. The persecution of Christians is coming. It's at the door. It's at the door. This is all one measure after the next to slowly and quietly constrict the noose around the neck of the Christian. This is what they're doing. And you know our our one bastion of hope is the Lord himself who that's where we put our trust and our hope is in in Jesus Christ and uh and his power and of course we have at our assistance the holy angels of heaven you know because the battle is in the spirit realm which then bleeds into the material realm and that's what's happening right now and uh we have to pray against this because this is our border, our border country. And you know, there's many in our own United States government who would love to do this. They would love to do it. They're probably just using Canada's the litmus test to see how it goes over. Will the Canadians just roll over and accept it? We'll see. Uh but I'm I'm telling you, you know, if they if this comes to America, you've got to be out in the streets protesting. You have to be calling up for every bill they propose that goes against Christianity uh and the human being, the human person. We need to be more active in protest. Not this stupid no king's protest. Not that garbage. I'm talking about you call up your congressman or your senate. You say we're done with you. We will not be voting for you anymore if you continue to go down this path. And I would I hope the bishops will do the same thing. you know, if you can sway whole dascese to say we're not going to have this, uh that's what we need to be doing, you know, and uh enough of this uh we can't voice our opinion as Catholics. We certainly can. We certainly can and we should and we must because this is too much. the Liberal Prime Minister uh appointed by Trudeau, who's another complete mess of a person whose values are completely uh warped and twisted. Uh pushing this with all his might. So pray for uh the liberation of Canada from these ridiculous laws. >>
And we know what's currently taking place in the Middle East and everyone is affected. Every nation on earth is affected by what's happening there. Therefore, with that in mind, I thought it's fitting that I share this with you from Father Iani.
>> The straight of Hormus was open to the USA before and Russ and Europe before uh this war was waged on Iran and uh as a result of it being closed to us, it's affecting our affordable transportation by way of car or plane. that will definitely result in food ch food food uh shortages. Why do I say that? Because it will impact the transportation of fertilizer. Farming industry requires fertilizer to produce food and this will lead in turn to increasing food prices. Um so it's really turning out to be a colossal disaster what's going on in the Middle East. No one can deny that in terms of economics. Okay. Now the media is giving you all different angles of their version of the truth. I'd say the western media is heavily spun because of things that have recently be brought been broadcast about negotiations taking place. Whereas Iran denies such a thing and so do other countries and other television networks not in the west but in the east. Once again, thank God I'm not a politician. I'm not a military strategist. I'm a priest and therefore I don't speak with authority in this field. But simply share that which has been relayed by reliable sources and credible individuals who work for the military who have made public statements. And um what all this leads to is worry, fear, insecurity, and sometimes panic. All of these do not lead us into intimacy with the Trinity. They lead us away from it. Now, is it a surprise that the news is replete with negativity? This has always been the case, at least in my lifetime. The vast majority of the news is negative and negativity does not lead you to intimacy with the Trinity. Certainly, we cannot avoid or ignore the reality around us because it affects us and we have to be in lock step with what's going on so as to manage our daily lives and our family and our economy and so forth. Nonetheless, God has permitted this. He has not willed it. Okay, I want to make that clear. I've come across some Catholics because of course I work in parishes and some of them not many I'd say maybe 4% have maintained that oh this is part of God's plan this is part of God's will no it's not part of God's will why is it not part of God's will God's ordaining will and his permitting will his ordaining will wants something his permitting will does not want it but tolerates it because God never imposes his ordaining will upon our free human will. God wants us all to be saved. That's his ordaining will. Scriptures attests to this. God wants no one to be lost, but he will not force us to be saved. So God permitted the fall of the angels. He permitted the damnation of Lucifer. And a third, he also permitted the fall of man and woman in the Garden of Eden with original sin. Did God will this simply because it happened? Of course not. Nor does he will what's going on in the Middle East today. Because it involves a lot of deception and killing. Thou shalt not kill is a commandment the church permits. And the church has authority in the field of morality killing for unjust reasons and without an imminent threat. Okay? I heard somebody once say, "Oh, there's an imminent threat in Iran because they're killing people. They're beheading, etc." If that's the case, then China is an imminent threat and also are these other countries that are killing people. Right? So, no, that's not what the church defines as an imminent threat. Okay? We have yet to see the imminency of this threat. There has been a lot of talk just as there had been during the Iraq invasion that there were weapons of mass destruction and we hear a similar tone here. But we have yet to see the proof and yet the war is going on. Many Catholics, the vast majority of Catholics do not maintain a steady daily prayer life and as a result they give in to these sentiments that lead them away from intimacy with the Trinity that I mentioned such as fear, worry, insecurity and sometimes panic. In the lives of all of us in this time of conflict, of civil unrest, there are periods of worry, sometimes fear, insecurity, sometimes panic, sometimes sorrow. When we find ourselves at a crisis in life, it is not presumptuous to assert it is our blessed Lord weeping in us that we should whenever we experience these moments of challenge, cross, trials, acknowledge that it is the Lord in us wanting to rest in us in those moments. Indeed, Jesus may weep in us at times over the insensitivity of others, even over leaders of nations, over the hardness of the hearts of individuals in or outside of the church due to past injuries sustained at the hands of others or by life's misfortunes. And after he wept, he relived at the last supper his sorrow, which he considered an invaluable means for the glory that we would receive if we keep our faith to the end. Let us recall that at the last supper which I visited actually not the last supper itself but the painting of Da Vinci just a few months ago at the beginning of this year in Milan. He stated that he will not feast with his disciples again until he does so in his father's kingdom. So there's optimism even in the face of sorrow. >>
By the way, some of you have mentioned in the comments that I've been covering a lot of dark stuff on this channel. things like the crazy or stupid things people say and do online. For example, consecrating themselves to Lucifer. However, if you pay closer attention whenever I cover those things, I always take the utmost care, for example, by blurring the spirit board, muting certain parts of the audio when they're cursing, and avoiding images that are too scary or outright demonic. And my aim is really to inform and educate others about spiritual warfare. You may already know a lot of what these priests are teaching, but many people out there are still completely ignorant about these things, just like this.
But I've been ghost hunting and doing paranormal investigations for years. And like a lot of people in this field, I collect spirit boards. There's one there. There's one there. Uh let's see. I have a pillow that's a Ouija board print. And I even have a little coaster. And I have a few more just kind of laying around. And nothing bad has ever happened. And this is a subject I love to talk about because a lot of people don't know the origin behind these fears that we tend to have towards Ouija boards, which started with the exorcist. Because before that, Ouija boards and spirit boards like this were just cheap little for fun party tricks. People were not getting possessed and having horrific hauntings happen because of them until The Exorcist came out. And of course, if you're familiar with the novel or the movie that is based on the novel, that is a big plot point in it. Another fun fact real quick is that the supposedly true story of a little boy being possessed that inspired the novel and the movie, that all took place in St. Louis, Missouri. And I've gone to the locations associated with that story. If you are into this kind of stuff, you have to go to St. Louis and check it out. But anyways, the exorcist comes out and all of a sudden everyone and their mom is encountering demons on these boards. Nothing but good old hysteria. And myself and many of my friends that also do paranormal investigating have used Ouija boards countless times, countless times, and have had nothing truly malevolent ever happen. Now, could bad stuff potentially happen? Sure. The very first time I used an Ouija board when I was a young teenager, we had some really wild stuff happen in the house afterwards. At the time, I interpreted that as evil and malicious and scary. But in hindsight, with the experience that I have, I look back and it's like, oh no, that was just some really interesting paranormal phenomena. But I was never hurt. No one was ever hurt. No one got possessed. So, moral of the story for Aua boards and other, you know, fun ones like the Holy Spirit board, it's not playing with fire. You are playing with a piece of wood or chipboard with engravings or with printed paper adhered to it, and that's it. There's nothing inherently bad or evil or dangerous about a piece of chipboard with printed paper on it. It's a tool for spirit communication and it's all about how you use it and I've used them a good jillion billion times and not possessed yet.
And this story shared by this young man Tom, let me share it with you again to show the reality out there. Not everyone is wellinformed about spiritual warfare, angels, demons, and exorcisms. He was a drug addict before and this happened when he was around 20. Did not believe in God. Did not even believe in anything supernatural back then. and his girlfriend when this happened had a tumor in her brain and was also a drug addict.
>> You know, I had no belief in these kind of spiritual things. Every once in a while, my grandma would let us sleep at her house. We went to my grandma's house and we were sleeping in a spare room and um I remember she was brushing her teeth in the bathroom and I was laying in bed watching something on TV or something and um I just heard this thud in the bathroom, you know, and I and I went out to the bathroom and she was like having a seizure and um she was like shaking and stuff like that and you know I grabbed her and I was holding her and I was trying to make sure she was okay and uh pulled her out of it and took her into back into the spare room we were sitting in and I sat her down in this chair and she was kind of coming too but she was a little disoriented like she was like what happened you know kind of shook up a little bit like wondering where she was at I remember she looked outside the window and she was looking outside the window and she said who's that and I we were on the second second story of a house right so it's like who you who you talking about outside the window you know I was like there's there's nobody you know you just you just had a seizure um everything's okay though we're okay don't worry and she was like no there's there's somebody standing outside. I can see them standing outside in the yard because you could see the yard from where the window was, right? And I, you know, it's weird that I wasn't more freaked out than I was, but I looked out the window, there's nobody there. As as time went on, the seizures, they did happen more and more. And every time she would have a seizure, she would talk about seeing this guy. But one of the threads the that started to appear after each one, you know, we're talking maybe once every few weeks to once a week to sometimes multiple back toback and then nothing for a while was that the man was getting closer. Like he started he was way out in the back of the yard, right outside the window, out back or whatever. And then like each time she would say, "Okay, like he's closer. He's getting closer. He's getting closer." And she would kind of be coming out and it was like she was like delirious, right? Like she would be half in a dream, half out of a dream coming out of these seizures. And she would be like, "He's coming. He's coming." Like saying things like that, right? Eventually over time, you know, it got to the point where he's in the room. He's right behind you. He's right next to you. He's right next to me. He's right here. Don't you see him? He's sitting right here. And I didn't think anything, it didn't bother me one bit, you know. I thought that um I thought it could be explained. You know, it's like she has a tumor in her head. She's hallucinating. This is schizophrenia or something, right? Like this is some type of hallucination. This is a side effect of that. This is not real. It's not real. That's is what I kept telling myself. She kept saying, "He's getting closer. He's getting closer." And then the narrative changed from he's getting closer to he's trying to get in. You know, she would have seen it, but she would be like hitting her head, you know, like and just saying like, "He's trying to get in. He's trying to get in. He's trying to get in." And I'd like hold her hand down, you know, so she would like stop hitting herself, you know, and be like, "Okay, relax, relax." just, you know, there's nobody trying to get in your head. And I remember the day one time when she kind of stopped fighting, you know, and she said he got in. And I remember when that happened, like the seizure stopped, you know, like he like stopped like struggling a lot. I remember like the look in her eyes changed. Like just as I'm sitting here talking to you and you're sitting here talking to me, you can see my body, right? like you can see my eyes and all these things, but just this this flicker happened. It was like a flicker. And I could just tell that although I was looking at the same body and the same person on the outside, the person on the inside was not the same. Like I don't really know how to explain it other than the room the air in the room felt tight very like this the divide shifted very and she looked at me straight in the eyes and just like this grin like came up on her face you know she like smiled at me and I was like okay K like are you okay are you done what's going on you feel better and she got up for a second and like I went back and just kind of like it was weird I was like looking around you know kind of checking the room out and stuff, like looking at looking at her hands, you know, kind of like checking things out and then looked at me and like smelled me, you know, and like like smelled and then like looked me straight in the eyes like they were like looking through my eyes, you know, and she was like, "Why are you so scared? I can smell the fear on you." Like, and I'm like, "She does not talk like that." you know, like the her mannerisms of her voice, like she kind of had a bit of a a southern draw, like a bit of a city talk, southern draw type way that she spoke and suddenly just became very like well spoken, right? Very proper grammar, big words that she would never really use, you know, looked at me and like you you smell like fear and like smiled at me. There was there was something deep deep down in my my spirit at this time which I didn't even believe in yet that just told me that what I was experiencing was like what all the horror movies were about you know like exorc you see these types of things right and I was just thinking like that's not there's no way that's not real like it's not real this isn't happening like this is something else but I remembered somewhere deep down in me I was like that's exactly what's happening right now I remember having some type of morbid fasc fascination with the experience. I would try and have conversations with it. Like the first time it happened, you know, like the first time back to what we were just talking about and I smell like fear, you know, and I was like, "Who are you?" You know, didn't say anything to me and I was like, "What do you want? Where are you from?" Didn't say anything, which kind of like mock me a little bit, joke with me. And but, you know, that that experience like ended, right? And she came back too and she didn't really like know what had happened, right? And time went on, you know, and like it didn't happen again for a little while. It started to happen that every time she would have a seizure, the guy would come back. Like it would be like this violent like she would have this violent episode and um then like she would snap out of the episode and like it wouldn't be hurt, you know? It would be like this this this entity, right? And it got to the point where it started to happen with such increasing frequency where I was sort of unfased by it. the the entity would come in to her body and I would be like, "Hey, what's going on, man? Welcome back." Yeah, it's still me, you know, I'm not not scared of you. But uh and and I remember talking to it, you know, I would ask it like, "Who are you? Where are you from?" And I remember I remember this moment clear. It was a long time ago. I don't remember every word that he said to me, but I remember this moment very clearly where he just looked at me and says, "You know who I am. You know, you know what I am." That type of thing. And like in my head I was just thinking demon, you know, demon. I had no frame of reference for what a demon was. I I was not raised in any way to believe it. And I was thinking to myself at the time like you're talking to a real demon right now or you could be or you're talking to a split personality of some kind that's caused by a brain tumor. Um I wasn't afraid of it. And I think that's because I was in such darkness myself and I had no belief in a higher power. And the fact that I I started to doubt my own story I was telling myself about it being some type of rational explanation because if it was simply a hallucination of her mind, it wouldn't have this recurring theme that would continually be touched on and built upon like a continuous narrative. Like if every time it happened it was something different like, "Oh, I'm a milkman. Oh, I'm a dragon. Oh, you know, blah blah blah." Like, okay, well then you've lost your mind. But there was a continuity to it. the continuity is strange and the feeling is strange and the way she's t it's all just so odd, you know, like I started to really doubt my own sanity obviously, you know, obviously like I need to know, you know, and I remember I was like, listen, if if you are what you say you are and what you're telling me is true, then you need to reveal yourself to me and show me that you're real because right now I think that you're just a fraction for a part piece of somebody else's imagination. Like, you're a byproduct of a mental illness, you know? And the part where it really started to become real was that moment when I said, "You need to show me that you're real." And I remember that night I was laying in bed. She was next to me. It was the middle of the night and I had never gotten sleep paralysis in my life and I've never gotten it since. This is the only time in my life anything like that has ever happened. But I remember like waking up in the middle of the night and just feeling like I was stuck to the bed, like fully conscious, but my body was totally asleep. There was a window, you know, to the right of us, um, with the blinds kind of partially opened. I could see this dark figure like very slowly, like I could see the shadow out of the corner of my eye through the, um, through the blinds, you know, like walking down the way. And I remember Kay was laying next to me and she was shaking And she's like, "You got to wake up. You got to wake up. Somebody's trying to get in. You got to wake up." But I couldn't move, right? So, I'm sitting there like like trying to talk. The figure like came on and she was like trying to shake me to wake me up, you know? Which is weird thinking about it too cuz like if I'm having sleep paralysis, how can she see that? If that's if it's just sleep paralysis, how can she see that too? How can we both and she's awake and I'm paralyzed? Like how is that possible? And I remember the being came by the window and it just slipped like right through the door. Like this tall dark shadow just like passed right through the solid door. And it came over to the foot of the bed and it came over and it got on top of me. And it was like laying on top of me. And I remember like I was in my body and my mind I was like screaming, you know, like I wanted to get up. I wanted to fight. I wanted to jump up. I wanted to yell. I wanted to get the hell out of there, you know? But I could not move no matter what. like I could not move my body. I remember this being got over top of me and it was doing like, you know, like what you do with the baby, you know, like peekab-boo, peekab-boo, peekab-boo, and it was doing that, but it got over top of me and it was like doing it, but every time it did it, it it was like a its face got more and more like twisted and dark. Like it was a at first like it was like a very old man, you know, like long cheekbones and pale like gross dead looking skin like the skin of a dead man, you know, scabs and stuff like that on his face and yellow teeth and just like just gross looking, right? and going like this and I could see him and then he would hide his face and then he would do it again and his face would get more like ugly each time he did it, you know, to the point where there's like like worms coming out of his eyes and like his hair was like snakes or something and there was like blood and scabs and they just like were festering all over his face and he was like right and every time he would do it it would just get more and more disgusting and you know he was like laughing you know like he would like knew that I was like stuck right and And I remember like it went away and like I I woke up and it was like like I flew out, you know, like really fast and I was like covered in sweat and I was like, "Okay, all right. Don't do that to me ever again. I believe you. I believe you are who you say you are. I believe you." Like, and that was a a really huge shift in my entire worldview in that moment because like my rational mind could not explain how is this possible? like how is there this continuation of the narrative and then how could this happen where I'm having sleep paralysis for the first time in my life. My girlfriend's awake next to me trying to wake me up seeing the same thing I'm seeing and she's not having sleep paralysis. And that was the same day I had asked that being to show itself to me. Like when all those things started to happen like my entire worldview just completely started to shift you know I was like you are dealing with something way above your pay grade right now you know like you are in a situation where it was very isolating even more because I would even if I tried to tell anybody nobody believed me you know it was like if you try and explain this to somebody they look at you like you're crazy and especially me having no credibility being you know a criminal and a drug addict and an alcoholic like no people are like, "Oh, he's just lost his mind. He's lost his mind. He's a crazy person." So, you know, not to get off topic, but when I see people out on the streets who are homeless and they're talking to people and they're doing stuff like that, I'm like, "That person might actually be having more than a mental episode, you know, we look at them and we don't believe them because they're crazy, you know, but that person could be very oppressed, you know, and we just treat them like trash." And it's really sad, you know, but it's like, where do you go for help? You know, I didn't believe in any church. I didn't believe in any real God at this point. I had no relationship with God, I should say. And I was so stuck in that life that I couldn't get out. Although I wasn't directly possessed like she was, I was trapped by darkness all the same. You know, I couldn't get out. Um, even despite all of that, I couldn't just walk away. You know, I I stayed in that darkness for a while. >>
Well, that is all for the video this time. Again, thank you so much for taking a little bit of your time to be here with us. Always remember that if ever you have any feedback or suggestion, please don't ever hesitate to let us know in the comments below.