"Seeking the ruin of souls" are the last words prayed when asking Saint Michael the Archangel to protect us in our spiritual battle. This is exactly what is occurring among too many of our brothers and sisters.
The Enemy has altered strategy since Christ conquered Death on the Cross. The Enemy knows the end of time is upon us. So we rarely hear or see the obvious possessions in modern times. Demonic possession has become a more sophisticated battlefield, aligned with the signs of the times.
Because of the Church, we have full access to the Real Presence of Christ: Body, Soul, and Divinity. Therefore the Enemy must take on a new perception of deception. Yet the Enemy really has always attacked us essentially in the same manner as done from the beginning.
The image of Man has been twisted and turned inward, just as the Enemy did in the Garden. The difference today is that the possession is not easily apparent as prior to the Age of the Apostles. The possession today is conpletely artificially good and beautiful.
The deception of the Enemy is our belief that the image we create artificially is authentic because that image is self-made. Each time a person self identifies as something self-created, the Enemy has taken ground within the soul of that person. Possession of the soul becomes self-fulfilling and there lies the greatest spiritual warfare of our time.
In many ways, the Age of Enlightenment became the Possession of the Mind. That is, our thinking led to the heresy of atheism, the rejection of God in favor of our own arbitration and governance. The Law of God was replaced by the laws of Man. And the Will of God quickly became the will of the majority.
Our great Republic built on Western Tradition AND Judeo-Christian values is nearing its end, if we let it. The restoration of our Republic requires a renewed fervor in Western ideals.
Even more essential to restoring our Republic is the victory over our current spiritual possession. We must believe in God, the One True Creator and Almighty whose Son died and rose again. And whose Spirit is alive in the Church. We must attack the artificially generated self-creation image of Man and depend upon the truth, beauty, and goodness of God creating each of us in His image.
From the Love of God the authentic nature of each person as either a man or a woman in the making. From the Will of God comes our inalienable rights and those laws we are to choose for governance. And from the Divine Mercy shall come victory over our Spiritual Warfare today.
