 Okay, hey friends. This is Dan Burke and Stephanie Burke. We're you're watching behind the scenes divine intimacy radio We're gonna be talking again with Monsignor Rosetti the author of Diary of an American Exorcist and Before we jump into the show I want to tell you about a really important opportunity Which is a book study that will be leading called Entered on introduction to devout life for the first time offered to the public and it'll be September of 2022 so if you want to sign up for that go to spiritualdirection.com forward slash book study and Another thing I'm pretty excited about Dr. Elizabeth Mitchell is an on-flier Catholic who is a very an exceptional communicator teaching a course for us School of spiritual formation living at the hand of the Lord the thought of st. Edis Stein an in-depth look at her life otherwise known as St. Teresa Benedict of the Cross and Dr. Mitchell is just just like Monsignor Rosetti a delight to listen to and Will really raise your heart and mind to heaven If you you sign up for that course and we also want to remind you before we start the show that The 2022 Avila summit is now being offered virtually. So if you can't get there, it's up and I'm sure what they're it's it's up in Washington, DC The event is called spiritual warfare and discernment of spirits We have Bishop Strickland Father McManus Monsignor Rosetti himself whom who's our guest today Kathleen Beckman and Dan and I Will all be speaking on spiritual warfare and its different aspects its promises to be Amazing, please pray for us because it's you know when you enter into these kind of events It's always a little difficult and bumpy because you know who doesn't like it It's July 15th through the 17th and if you cannot make it Physically which we still have seats. So check it out. We just have a few left You can now sign up to do it Virtually so go to spiritual direction.com forward slash events and Check up all of our check out all of our upcoming events always at spiritualdirection.com forward slash events Cool, let's start the show. Okay ready in your market. Oh, this is Dennis Ebony Burke Welcome to divine intimacy radio your radio haven of rest your hermitage of the heart your monastery of the mind Will we lift our hearts and minds to heaven to draw on the wisdom of the saints to help us to be warriors? Jesus in this life, right not a warrior spirit just warriors for Jesus not sissy's No, but the Lord is our power in our strength. That's we can do all things in him and for him, right? So who's our guest today? Okay our guest today is the author of diary of an American exorcist Demons possession and the modern-day battle against evil and This is Monsignor Steven Rossetti PhD He is the president of the St. Michael Center for Spiritual Renewal and a research associate professor at the Catholic Catholic University of America in Washington DC. He's a licensed psychologist and the author of several books He has participated in hundreds of exorcisms During his journey to the priesthood. He experienced a spiritual episode in which in two seconds He learned 80% of what an exorcist needs to know you can find their work at Catholic exorcism dot org You can also look up Catholic exorcism in your app store and find a ton of resources such as prayers resources How to contact them how to listen to their online sessions? resources specifically for priests to get training and deliverance and then Resources that laity can use safely and effectively in their families And for themselves for their own freedom. So welcome Monsignor Rossetti. It's always awesome to have you. It's a great way back with you both You know, I just want to say before we jump in, you know, we have a lot of guests in the show And they're all good people Monsignor Rossetti is at the top of that list and I think his cohort there at the St. Michael Center All these folks are given their lives to all of their life all of their heart soul to helping people to get free and These are these are just people that we endorse 100% without reservation and send people to so Super reliable Holy good Priests priests and helpers. So make sure you check them out and support their work. You will be blessed But without without question or hesitation, right? No matter, you know, where you are in your spiritual journey And I want to just you know, do a little testimony here pile on we were We were both involved in some Deliverance yesterday and then I took someone through deliverance yesterday all lay led You know all all within the confines of what is safe And we were both feel feeling heaviness and and Monsignor Rossetti called it being slimed and we said, you know, will you pray over us between shows between shows? So he just prayed over us online and I can tell you it's like the lights have been turned on I feel a lightness and I just praise God for his mercies and and how he works through our priests And thank you Monsignor Rossetti for the gift of your priesthood We just we're just so grateful for all of our priests and thank you for Doing that for us. Well, I'm just it's a joy for me to be with the Berks So you're wonderful people and a wonderful ministry and one of the joys of this ministry is means to us terrific people And you said they're about going to the Avalos summit and being with a wonder of hundreds of terrific people Absolutely surrounded by so much joy and so much faith and peace, you know, it's just a blessing just to be there Well, I want to start our time together with a question that Jordan actually has There's a new book out. I think probably the most comprehensive treatment of exorcism angelology That's ever been published and Jordan asked Is there a proper disposition as you approach studying these things like it? Is it can it be curiosity toss or kind of a dangerous? Journey and to studying these things if you're not, you know, let's say in a state of grace or if you're Struggling still with a bit your mortal sin. Is this something you ought to be studying and buying these books and that sort of thing What are your thoughts about that? Well, I Have seen some recent books and I think I know the book you're talking about which is a wonderful resource There's two extremes one is to say Satan doesn't exist and and sadly there even some Fortunate people leadership in the church who don't believe that so that's that's sad, which is this not true It's day feed a the other is Too much interest in this sort of stuff. Especy curiosity There's a good curiosity about trying to understand the truth And there's a bad curiosity which is feeding a form of pride And I do find sometimes there are people become these Self-styled experts on the subject and may not be in a state of grace. That's a very dangerous situation So we should be informed. I like what the both Stephanie and Dan you're doing in this field I think you're called to it and you're just very good at it And so that's you can see a grace working through you terrific and you too should be reading you should be informed but but when it crosses the line it becomes this Excessive curiosity and it's not good. Yeah. Yeah, okay. Well, let's transition to to another question here When when we are live in this session right now, there is all kinds of chaos breaking forth out there Screaming, you know Protesting, you know when this is airing we just found out Earlier this week by God's grace on the feast of the Sacred Heart That Roe v. Wade was turned turned overturned right and sent back to the states For the people to decide, you know, what we should be involved in or what we should be allowing so When you see that because the examples are extraordinary They're really really disturbing our son Jordan and I were looking at some of the video footage that was happening at some of these protests You have to think that some of these people have entered into Horrible partnership with the enemy. They may be possessed It's just awful and we're not judging and I'm not judging It's just it's just a reflection on the behaviors that you're seeing We're not talking about just holding a sign and walking around There are some things that are happening that that's not normal. It's not normal for people to do what they're doing so Is the month our demons and possession as prevalent as Prevalently as prevalent as we think they are or as we sense during this time. It just feels like it's everywhere I Share your concern, you know that there are footprints I call them footprints of Satan in our society today Which are not we're not there when I was a kid for example people going into schools and shooting innocent children That's incredibly evil They didn't do that when I was a kid didn't happen the conflict and division this country right now Which are which is in the violence and the rage and the there were over 95 Violent acts against the Catholic Church Catholic Church is in the last year at the bishops That's that's a sign of Satan Satan hates the Catholic Church and wants to destroy it. So there are these signs That Satan is having a real influence today But so which is why we need to respond to this with prayer With peace with love with unity. We can't respond to hate with hate No, it's children an exorcism for example that you can't hate the demons We don't like what they do we reject what they do But you can't hate the demons because that hatred of feeds the demons So we respond to hatred with love and unity and peace Yeah, yeah fascinating We were talking with one of your compatriots You're interestingly about this recently and about the difference between the old right and the new right and he said he was surprised To find how effective I mean the old they're both effective But surprised to find how the new right is is also very effective more than he thought it would be But he commented about the power of love in that conversation, which was really striking and even having You know loved ones in the room with those were suffering and how can you comment on that was really yes thought yeah, yes in the end got John's gospel tell God his love. It's true. It was true and Satan can't stay there's no love in hell So when when when there's love in the room real love real charity in the room That's a powerful force and cast because it's in the end God's the one in Jesus that casts out the demons So yes, we respond To the demons with with love and charity even though we reject what what they do It's a matter of fact when I start actually isn't a real tough one all sometimes say I Guarantee you I promise you I tell the demons that you're gonna lie through this whole thing and that you're the father life But I'm gonna tell you the truth From do my best as a human being to tell you the truth all the way all the way through can't stand can't stand the truth It can't stand love Yeah, yeah, you know what it what it brings to mind is the many conversations and and I've I've Embrace this myself is that when we have loved ones that are far from God We may not like their behavior We might recognize that it's that it's not of God and they might be far from the church and fallen away But the power of love in a family the power to say not condone the behavior But to love to keep yourself in the relationship to try to rebuild that bridge over which truth can pass is Incredibly incredibly powerful and and just does a lot of good. So That's just a shout out to moms and parents when you're struggling, you know, build that bridge of love You don't condone you speak truth, but you love sacrificially pray Offer up mouses and all those things and especially pray the rosary. Yeah, just to remind our Folks who are listening our guests is Monsignor Rosetti diary of an American exorcist I wanted to also do give a shout out to EWTN with great gratitude for allowing us to air these shows and Just for supporting us and you can you can find his book as well there at the EWTN's religious catalog You can also find it spiritual direction calm whatever whatever is easiest but thing about the catalog is Every book you ever wonder like is there a place I can go? Where I have no doubt that all the books are faithful all of their books are vetted by a Group of theologians that are employed to do this sort of thing to read these books and bet them And so you can always trust EWTN's religious catalog on any question where you go and you key You want to you want to make sure you get faithful books So God be praised for mother Angelica and EWTN and and we're grateful to them So make sure you support them right and another place you can go is spiritualdirection.com forward slash shop Everything we have there is vetted as well We're about to head into a break But when we get back one of the questions and I think this is just so important. I love this question Says how does dabbling in the occult effect future generations? Okay, because we tend to think you know Our sin only is our sin only affects us. It doesn't hurt anybody. You know, it's only about us So how does dabbling in the occult affect future generations and does fighting against it? Within our own lives also impact future future generations. So I love this question So when we get back from the break, we'll we'll get Monsignor Rosetti to answer this for us. Okay, so we'll be right back So we need to go to 13 13 a little bit over 13 Okay, on your markets that go. This is Dan Stephanie Burke Welcome back to divine intimacy radio and we are with one of our favorite guests and His name is Monsignor Rosetti. He's written an excellent book Diary of an American Exorcist and doing some of the best work In the world, I think particularly in the United States and helping people to get free providing just a myriad of very innovative resources using modern technology like You can get their exorcism app on your phone that has prayers for the lady Which it's in it's really well done Catholic exorcism in the app store if you look it up there And then Catholic exorcism org will take you to the St. Michael Center Particularly want to point priests there especially priests who feel called to deliverance ministry Whether they're experiencing it in the confessional or people are just coming to them There are special there's special training Monsignor Rosetti put together just for priests So please go out to Catholic exorcism work and take advantage of those and tell your fellow priests and you know It's a really faithful safe sound reasonable, but You know full of the teachings of the church and in no way Minimizing spiritual warfare, but certainly in a very Responsible faithful way dealing with it more effectively than any any group. I've ever seen I don't mean to in any way Say others aren't doing it well, but it just The Monsignor Rosetti and the father Luke are just doing an exemplary job there Right and and also for all the laity. Yeah anybody who's having any kind of difficulties great place for Online video sessions where they can receive deliverance ministry through what they do There's prayers for the laity that can be used safely in your family. So wonderful wonderful resource So let's go to the question that I asked before the break How does dabbling in the occult effect? ourselves and future generations and does fighting against it also impact future generations fascinating question It's a complex question that the church has never definitively talked about a generational sin So what I'm going to share with you is our experience our theological reflection, but it's not day-fee day. So We are only culpable For our own sins. So the sins of my grandparents or whatever. I'm not I'm not responsible for those sins But can I be affected by them? Sure. I can that starts with Adam and Eve. I Adam and Eve sinned and we're all we're all you know, we're been affected by it So yeah, and and baptism while wiping away the effects of original sin does not wipe away all the sequelae all other the symptoms if you will so we've seen there are in fact generational effects of sin and I know that's hard for people to accept to say it's not fair You know, yes, I said before is your mother's told you growing up life is not fair but God does allow it and So which is why in every one of our online deliverance sessions we will lift any generational curses and Generational sins and that sort of thing and does it affect generations after sure it does And we've seen some this last night. We did a session on this and there were some real powerful effects So our experience has been that there are generational effects and that these prayers do help Have you heard of there's there's a real popular movement in the church Healing your family tree that sort of thing. Is that any thoughts about that? Well, I'm not familiar with that particular movement But but we certainly do generational healing prayers and the end Stephanie mentioned you can find them on our our website Under deliverance prayers for the laity. So so we and I would say Individuals have a special authority over their own bodies their spouses and their children So you don't need a priest to pray these with you just go into the app say these prayers for you and your family Great, great. Okay. Here's another one that I think a lot of people don't realize how problematic it is Often they don't believe in it or they don't you know Buy into it or some some priests don't buy into it But tell us about who exactly are the Freemasons? Why do so many people belong to this group? You know, what it is their goal one world order. Do they have satanic ties or worship? What are the effects of having Freemasonry in your family line, which is a huge thing because I've seen this personally myself That can help lead you to Discover that you can get it eradicated in other words What are the signs in your in your life or in your family that might indicate? There's Freemasonry which would indicate you should probably look at it and then get it eradicated. What do you do? Like what is our response to Freemasonry might seem Extreme say what's wrong with Freemasonry did a bunch of guys are hanging around and do a social organization. It seems harmless Well, the church has Brownly condemned Freemasonry and as late as the 1980s and actually it's they said very very seriously if you belong to these organizations, you are cut off of From the sacraments, which is very powerful save and the statement from the Vatican also said that the local bishops Can't overturn that it, you know that that that this is from the Holy See itself. The question is why? Well, when you go into the specifics of it and they're the real spirituality behind it You begin to realize it's an occult organization whether whether you intended or not and so especially as you move up on the ranks It becomes more and more You know a problem so in our experience has been that yes The church's teachings is true because we see the effects of Freemasonry in families So we have every and every one of our deliverance sessions We have the people pray the prayer to lift the curses of Freemasonry and then we we ratify that as as church And you can see the effects of this down through families You see these strange continuing patterns of diseases and conflicts and those sorts you see it down through the generations the same pattern of Different kinds of diseases and conflicts and suicides murders homicides, you know strange diseases So and when you pray the prayers often times it lifts, you know, I was a little bit surprised I went through the prayers. We went through the prayers. Just we we didn't have any I had no knowledge of any in my family you neither you and yours right now I had a question perhaps in my family line, but we just decided to go ahead and pray it Yeah, as a matter of just you know prudence Which by the way can be found on the Catholic exorcism app Okay, in the in the prayers for the lady there the prayer to renounce it is there Prepare yourself it lasts about 45 minutes to do it once it needs to be prayed three times And then ratified by a priest So it's it's tough It's nauseating to read and renounce because then you realize how horrific This organization is and how demonic it is, but you know, you were saying yeah, what's what surprised me about it Really is one, you know, I had heard about Freemasons I knew the Vatican, you know official documents Condemned it and all of that, but I thought I sort of thought of it as a little bit of a conspiratorial sort of thing But then when I went through the prayers, I was shocked at how many demons they call on by name In the rituals. I mean, I actually it really I don't mean just shock like oh wow, isn't that interesting? I was shocked like oh lord How I didn't even want to I didn't want to say the names of the demons to do the Renunciations it was so disturbing to me because I had heard these names, you know Just in various places study before but they actually profess, you know promised themselves at every level and Tell me if I'm wrong here once you know, but just in my memory to a specific demon As they progress up the 33 degrees or whatever Yeah, the the masons would say no, no, that's that's an improper interpretation But I think when you look at it and are honest about it You you see that they're invoking Evil spirits whether they intended or not Yeah, just as a side note a book that I picked up and listened to many interviews of Father Murr on Murder in the 33rd degree Fascinating read to help you understand, you know some of the challenges in the church today and how Free masonry is kept in here there But grateful by God's grace that anyone who's been afflicted by that can be free and So folks ought to check that out, but what's our next question Stefan? Okay? So Let's see, okay Can we pray spiritual warfare for entire countries and what are the best ways to do this? So we're looking at Ukraine is you know in war Russia's, you know Got a part in all this huge part in this we have our own issues here at home, you know are there? Spirits for entire countries and how do we pray to? Participate in this, you know spiritual warfare for humanity. Is it is it even something we can do? Yes Obviously individuals can have a demonic influence With a suppression obsession or up to a possession Can a country or community have a sort of kind of demonic oppression the answer is yes It's a matter of fact one senior exodus told me once he thought that the the Nazi high command in World War two He thought they're all possessed and in fact the Holy father thought that that Hitler was possessed So and pray the prayers although it didn't work from a distance, you know, but yes The more we sin the more evil there is the more sway it gives the Satan and it can't be in a country You know in a community in a state wherever so I Regularly pray the Leo 13 prayers for our country. I try to do it every day And I and I encourage people to say the rosary offer your masses for for the liberation of our of our nation Okay, awesome. Okay. Here's a another question can As an individual can we remove or successfully keep it base so to speak generational spirits from another Family that's in your own home. Okay, so right, you know, if you're if your wife has Your mom your mother-in-law living with you and while she's not with the faith and she is rejected the faith or she's off The wires whatever it is Can you protect your family from those kind of issues or if another family comes to stay? Well, the issue is how much Effect you have over someone is not in your family So we've talked about that we have a special authority over our own bodies over our spouses over our children So we have a special authority our own families But if someone else is living with us or or next door, whatever how much effect and we have well That's like any time we pray for somebody else if I pray for Somebody else outside in my family. Is it going to have a positive effect? Of course it will the Lord will hear that prayer how much that's up to the Lord and up to the individual Will they will he will he not accept it? But but let's not despair of the power of prayer For anyone including, you know in laws or whomever, right, right? And I think especially beginning with the father of the home So very important that he gets on board with those prayers. So we're grateful go for having Monsignor Rosetti again on with us Please make sure you go when you support all their work take advantage of the good work. They're doing Catholic exorcism work and then their their app They're worthy of your support and they're doing as much good as any good organization on the planet to helping people to get free and They're they're priests there who just love the Lord and they're pouring out their entire lives To serve you and the church. So please support them as well. Please support EWTN We're so grateful that they allow us to use their airwaves every week to help you to Find a deeper and more fulfilling path to heaven and with that with that Until next time make the God of peace make you perfect in holiness May he preserve you whole and entire spirit soul and body Irreproachable at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. Amen. Amen and those hanging on for a minute If you want to become a part of the book study that I mentioned introduction to the devout life coming up soon in September spiritualdirection.com forward slash book study and We'll let you in but you got to ask so we know to send you the link. All right. God bless Thanks again Monsignor for being with us. We really appreciate it It's always a joy to be with you too anytime. I can't wait to see you soon. Yeah, we're great I'm looking forward to all the talks Awesome pray for us I do we know what the father dance is going to talk about and you know what I just want to make sure that