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THANK YOU FOR PRAYING FOR A PRIEST EACH DAY! VOLUME XXVII ISSUE 4 MARCH 2018 April 2018 Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday 1 2 3 Rev. 4 Rev. 5 Rev. 6 Rev. 7 For the souls of For prayer For our Tony Stan James Thomas our deceased requests Holy Father, Gargotta Gregorek Holland Kredel FOP members received Pope Francis Pittsburgh, PA Pittsburgh, PA Pittsburgh, PA Pittsburgh, PA Rev. 8 Rev. 9 Rev. 10 Rev. 11 Rev. 12 Rev. 13 Rev. 14 Joseph John Daniel Nicholas Kenneth Thomas John Luisi Lynam Mahoney Mastrangelo Oldenski Sparacino Sweeney Pittsburgh, PA Pittsburgh, PA Pittsburgh, PA Pittsburgh, PA Pittsburgh, PA Pittsburgh, PA Pittsburgh, PA Rev. 15 Msgr. 16 Rev. 17 Rev. 18 Rev. 19 Rev. 20 Rev. 21 Paul Cuthbert Clifford George Dwight Ian John Zywan Alexander Graham Lewis Merrick Taylor Theodore CSSP Pittsburgh, PA Port of Spain Port of Spain Port of Spain Port of Spain Port of Spain Port of Spain Healing and Deliverance Ministry Rev. Msgr. 22 Rev. 23 Rev. 24 Rev. 25 Rev. 26 Rev. 27 Rev. 28 By Fr. Dwight Merrick, Trinidad Fraternity John John Robert Wilfred Michael Roland AB George Allard Dreher Giardina Gregoire Kelley Lepire Pearce Over the weeks of late January their medication they’d be fine”, join the very first cohort of students at Providence, RI Providence, RI Providence, RI Providence, RI Providence, RI Providence, RI Providence, RI and early February 2018, our daily capturing his general disbelief that the Pope Leo XIII institute. Rev. 29 Rev. 30 readings seemed to focus quite a bit most people seeking this kind of Imagine a School for Exorcism Michael Gerry on the ministry of Jesus in casting help had in fact psychiatric problems. ministry starting off with its very first Roy Sabourin out evil spirits and in exorcism. This But it would not be too far-fetched class of fifty-five men!! Amazing, the Providence, RI Providence, RI allows me to share in a preliminary to add that they were in the majority hand of God, a move of the Spirit, way my personal overview of among priests in their view on the God’s timing, are all applicable what I see as the restoration of the deliverance and exorcism ministry. comments, with just three men being deliverance and exorcism ministry in It is true even today, that about fifty permanent deacons and all the others A PRAYER FOR PRIESTS the US as well as the Caribbean over percent of the clergy in my diocese being priests. Even more surprising, O Jesus, Eternal High Priest, live in (name of priest), act in him, speak in and the last ten years or so. Previously, I still resist any idea that the evil one is was the fact that so many of these men Fraternity of Priests, Inc. through him. Think your thoughts in his mind, love through his heart. Give traced the phenomenal development at work in people’s lives in this way. were quite young and recently ordained PO Box 442 him your own disposition and feelings. Teach, lead and guide him always. of Catholic men’s ministry from the But this skepticism is changing, like to the priesthood. Also noticeable was Steubenville, OH 43952-5442 Correct, enlighten and expand his thoughts and behavior. Possess his soul, period 2000 to 2010 and described it or not! In the year 2005, Dr. Margarett the high percentage of us who seem to Phone: (740) 283-4400 take over his entire personality and life. Replace him with yourself. Incline it as nothing short of a tremendous Schlintz and her team with the support be involved in Catholic Charismatic him to constant adoration and thanksgiving; pray in and through him. Let him move of God’s Spirit. In this article, of some bishops, began “Healing in Renewal. How could anyone explain Email: [email protected] live in you and keep him in this intimate union always. I am positing that a similar move the New Millennium”, a one week this rapid turnaround within the http://www.fraternityofpriests.org of God’s Spirit might be at work training and education workshop Catholic Church regarding the views O Mary, Immaculate Conception, Mother of Jesus and Mother of priests, pray to explain the sudden resurgence for priests and deacons and their of bishops and priests on the need for and intercede for (.....). Amen. of interest among former Catholic team members at Mundelein Major deliverance and exorcism ministry for doubters and skeptics who no longer Seminary. This ran for several years our people, except as a move of God’s Please cut and return this form with your donation. your with form this return and cut Please laugh at the work of the devil in the with over one hundred participants Spirit. lives of individuals events and even each year, testing the waters so to To be fair, it must be said that there City, State and Zip and State City, situations. speak. By 2006, Fr Clifford Graham are still numerous priests especially Street During the 1990’s, despite having from Pittsburgh, now part of the those who don’t understand or accept a Vicar General who was himself Port of Spain Fraternity in Trinidad, Charismatic spirituality as legitimate, Name an exorcist for over thirty years, stumbled upon this training. Over who still find it impossible to believe (Please print legibly) print (Please one bishop I knew could not care the next few years (2006-2009), four that evil spirits can access the lives to receive our Newsletter? our receive to less about claims that something priests from Trinidad attended these of people so readily and that so many Do you know anyone who would like like would who anyone know you Do evil might be afflicting a person, a workshops just for our learning. Then afflicted persons who seem beyond the fully and wisely, and not to ask for money that is not needed. not is that money for ask to not and wisely, and fully home or a situation. I still remember in 2013, a Trinidadian priest who was help of doctors, psychiatrists and other - you send a gift. We stand accountable before God and you to honor that trust. We pledge: To use your gift care gift your use To pledge: We trust. that honor to you and God before accountable stand We gift. a send you him asking why there are so many very much involved in deliverance scientists, may in fact be victims of The Fraternity of Priests pledge of financial accountability: We take very seriously the trust you put in us when when us in put you trust the seriously very take We accountability: financial of pledge Priests of Fraternity The demons in the Caribbean while he ministry became ordained as an evil spirits or demonic forces. I recall never heard any of his American auxiliary bishop of my diocese of Port a meeting of clergy about six years ago $10 $25 $50 $100 Other $_________ Other $100 $50 $25 $10 priest friends mention any such of Spain. Before the end of 2013, he (around 2012), when four of the five This donation is to help the Fraternity of Priests in continuing their work of ministering to priests. to ministering of work their continuing in Priests of Fraternity the help to is donation This problems in the US. But as recently commissioned three exorcists for the presenters were of this mind and pretty Dear Father Bob Franco, Bob Father Dear as 2010, I have heard a bishop here Archdiocese of Port of Spain, and much made fun of priests who claim to in Trinidad joke “if folks would take promptly sent us off to Mundelein to encounter evil spirits affecting people’s ...continued on page 3 ...continued from page 1 few years, it has been nothing short impact within families, particularly Dear Fraternity Brothers and Friends of the Priesthood lives. In the main however, in growing of astounding to learn just how the because people do not understand evil one does and does not work in what’s happening. The literature ohn Wimber, a deceased evangelical finds its purpose numbers, lay persons and priests EPISCOPAL ordinary people’s lives as well as how speaks of how a demonic presence can pastor and teacher on the gifts of the and fulfillment across our dioceses are becoming ADVISORS more and more aware of the activity he can and cannot access our minds. and does work through families until Holy Spirit, told of an incident that to the degree it J and work of the evil one at every Following are a few case studies stopped and prevented from doing so. took place around the time of conversion. is connected to Archbishop John Myers level; from individuals to bad laws to which demonstrate broadening scope The tragedy of the celebrity’s death is He was walking down a busy street and Jesus Christ, the Newark, NJ pressure groups promoting devilish of this aspect of healing encompassing known to many but who would have saw a man wearing a sandwich board. The Risen Lord. Bishop Sam Jacobs agendas. Within the last ten years there healing of memories, healing in the thought that her only child would die man was facing him and the front side of As we approach Houma-Thibodaux, LA has also been significant shifts in our womb and the work of evil spirits the same way? Once an evil spirit the sign said, “I’m a fool for Christ.” John Easter this year, through families. has found a victim, that spirit has Bishop Paul Bemile understanding as priests of phenomena thought to himself, “You sure are!” But then let us remember I happened to be there when one ‘legal’ rights to continue seeking Wa, Ghana like the Harry Potter series of novels.