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Rome, Italy, Jan 8, 2017 / 04:25 pm (CNA).- Archbishop Erio Castellucci has a response to those who think the devil is not real: “they’re mistaken.”“All you have to do is witness an exorcism to understand that evil is a specific entity, as well as a reality,” he told the Italian daily Il Resto del Carlino. The Archbishop of Modena-Nonantola had seen possessed persons throughout his life, but he had never witnessed an exorcism. Then one of the two priest exorcists in his archdiocese called him. The priest had a “difficult case.”The exorcist visited the archbishop and invited him to witness the rite.“‘Come,’ he said to me, ‘because this man has been possessed for a long time, he comes to me once a week and your presence, as a bishop, may have an influence’,” the archbishop recounted.Archbishop Castellucci said he understood the urgency of the case when he saw how the possessed person reacted to the exo...
Rome, Italy, Jan 8, 2017 / 04:25 pm (CNA).- Archbishop Erio Castellucci has a response to those who think the devil is not real: “they’re mistaken.”
“All you have to do is witness an exorcism to understand that evil is a specific entity, as well as a reality,” he told the Italian daily Il Resto del Carlino.
The Archbishop of Modena-Nonantola had seen possessed persons throughout his life, but he had never witnessed an exorcism. Then one of the two priest exorcists in his archdiocese called him. The priest had a “difficult case.”
The exorcist visited the archbishop and invited him to witness the rite.
“‘Come,’ he said to me, ‘because this man has been possessed for a long time, he comes to me once a week and your presence, as a bishop, may have an influence’,” the archbishop recounted.
Archbishop Castellucci said he understood the urgency of the case when he saw how the possessed person reacted to the exorcism.
On July 3, 2015, Archbishop Castellucci went to a parish church in Modena where exorcisms are performed. The exorcist and the possessed person, a middle aged man, were there. He had barely entered when the demon-possessed man started to shout, “Get out, get out of here, you will have a bad death.”
The man then fell into a trance.
“Then it seemed as if he had woken up and in an instant drove his fingernails into the back of my hands,” Archbishop Castellucci continued. “He had a diabolical look on his face and he uttered unrepeatable insults and curses.”
The possessed man “told me I would die in a traffic accident and while he was saying it he looked pleased.”
Archbishop Castellucci reflected on the claim, saying “My life is in the hands of the Lord Jesus and certainly not in that demon’s. I wasn’t worried at all. The word of God teaches that the curses are ineffective.”
After this experience, the archbishop said that he does not rule out the possibility of participating in other exorcisms. The Italian exorcists themselves lament that they are few in number.
Archbishop Castellucci said discernment was important regarding alleged cases of possession. Many cases belong more to “the competence of a psychiatrist than an exorcist.”
He also stressed the importance of prayers of deliverance to help disturbed persons heal.
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(Vatican Radio) The English archdiocese of Southwark has announced that it has been granted permission by the Vatican’s Congregation for Divine Worship to add Blessed Oscar Romero to its liturgical calendar.The Archbishop of Southwark Peter Smith, said on January 1st that a ‘liturgical commemoration’ may be celebrated annually in St George’s Cathedral, on March 24th, the anniversary of Romero’s martyrdom.Romero, the former archbishop of San Salvador was assassinated as he celebrated Mass in March 1980, targeted because of his outspoken words and actions in defence of the victims of El Salvador’s civil war. In February 2015 Romero was declared a martyr, and he was beatified in San Salvador on May 23rd 2015.August 2017 marks the centenary of Oscar Romero’s birth, an event that will be celebrated in El Salvador and in Churches around the world. To find out more Philippa HItchen spoke to Julian Filochowski, chair of the London based Rome...
(Vatican Radio) The English archdiocese of Southwark has announced that it has been granted permission by the Vatican’s Congregation for Divine Worship to add Blessed Oscar Romero to its liturgical calendar.
The Archbishop of Southwark Peter Smith, said on January 1st that a ‘liturgical commemoration’ may be celebrated annually in St George’s Cathedral, on March 24th, the anniversary of Romero’s martyrdom.
Romero, the former archbishop of San Salvador was assassinated as he celebrated Mass in March 1980, targeted because of his outspoken words and actions in defence of the victims of El Salvador’s civil war. In February 2015 Romero was declared a martyr, and he was beatified in San Salvador on May 23rd 2015.
August 2017 marks the centenary of Oscar Romero’s birth, an event that will be celebrated in El Salvador and in Churches around the world. To find out more Philippa HItchen spoke to Julian Filochowski, chair of the London based Romero Trust ….
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Filochowski notes that Blessed Oscar Romero was born on the feast of the Assumption, August 15th, in 1917 and that the diocese of San Salvador has declared 2017 a jubilee year. There will be commemorative events all over El Salvador, as well as in other parts of the globe, he says.
In Britain there will be a special service at St George’s cathedral in London on the anniversary weekend, at which the postulator for the cause of Romero’s cannonisation, Archbishop Paglia, is expected to preach.
Ecumenical celebration
In September an ecumenical service is scheduled to take place in Westminster Abbey at which the former Archbishop of Canterbury Lord Rowan Williams will preach and Cardinal Vincent Nichols will attend. A special anthem by the Scottish composer James MacMillan will have its debut performance at that service.
Hopes for canonisation
But Filochoswki says this year “has become particularly exciting in the sense that we have great hopes that it will be the year of Oscar Romero’s canonisation”. The only requirement needed, he says, is a certified miracle and he believes that although three miracles were examined and rejected, a fourth one, currently under examination in San Salvador, may prove to be the necessary miracle for canonisation.
That examination process underway in El Salvador should be completed in first quarter of 2017, he says, and “if, as we believe, Pope Francis very much wants to see this canonisation happen during the centenary year”, the process could be prioritised, and “we might therefore see at least the announcement, if not actual canonisation, during this centenary year - which is our hope and our fervent prayer”.
