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    The document discusses demons and how to fight them. It explains that there is a hierarchy of demons that vary in rank and power, including higher-level demons called "prince demons". When cleansing homes or praying for people afflicted by demons, it is not necessary to know the demon's name. The Catholic Church has blessed sacramentals like holy water, crucifixes, and relics of saints that can help repel evil. Other effective defenses include receiving Holy Communion, invoking the Precious Blood of Jesus, guardian angels, and saints.

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    The document discusses demons and how to fight them. It explains that there is a hierarchy of demons that vary in rank and power, including higher-level demons called "prince demons". When cleansing homes or praying for people afflicted by demons, it is not necessary to know the demon's name. The Catholic Church has blessed sacramentals like holy water, crucifixes, and relics of saints that can help repel evil. Other effective defenses include receiving Holy Communion, invoking the Precious Blood of Jesus, guardian angels, and saints.

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    The document discusses demons and how to fight them. It explains that there is a hierarchy of demons that vary in rank and power, including higher-level demons called "prince demons". When cleansing homes or praying for people afflicted by demons, it is not necessary to know the demon's name. The Catholic Church has blessed sacramentals like holy water, crucifixes, and relics of saints that can help repel evil. Other effective defenses include receiving Holy Communion, invoking the Precious Blood of Jesus, guardian angels, and saints.

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    The document discusses demons and how to fight them. It explains that there is a hierarchy of demons that vary in rank and power, including higher-level demons called "prince demons". When cleansing homes or praying for people afflicted by demons, it is not necessary to know the demon's name. The Catholic Church has blessed sacramentals like holy water, crucifixes, and relics of saints that can help repel evil. Other effective defenses include receiving Holy Communion, invoking the Precious Blood of Jesus, guardian angels, and saints.

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    Spiritual Warfare –

    Fighting Demons
    Demons & How to Fight Them
    Demons
    These are generally called up for a short time,
    enough to perform a specific task, and are then banished.
    Like the hierarchy of angels, there is also a hierarchy of
    demons.  They vary in rank, function and power.  There
    are higher demons sometimes referred to as demon
    princes. They are usually well known and have their
    names publicized in books, as well as having relatively
    clearly defined specialties/spheres of influence.
    Sometimes these may also actually be known to some
    cultures as a god.

    It should be well noted, however, that in the area of


    cleansing/liberating homes or places as well as praying
    over people for spirit attachments or oppressions, it is
    NOT necessary to know the demon’s name because they
    will lie.  Only in an official Church-sanctioned ritual of
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    Exorcism is it advantageous to know the name by
    commanding the possessed to reveal its name.
     
    A basic rule of thumb is that the demon princes or
    well-known higher demons are not the type that inhabit
    homes or oppress people.  They are too filled with self-
    importance to bother with such activity.  These are left
    to lower-level demons or those who are attached to
    higher level ones.  This is why the knowing of the name
    is irrelevant.  It is the power of the Lord, not our own
    power that casts out.

    Fighting Demons
    What can be effective in the confrontation of
    negative, inhuman forces?  The Catholic Church has had
    holy things called “sacramentals” that are of aid to those
    who work in the area of confrontation with demonic
    forces.  Sacramentals are objects that are given a special
    blessing by the Church.  What the blessing does is takes
    the objects from their ordinary, worldly use and sets
    them aside for a holy purpose.  It becomes a pure and

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    godly object that carries the positive energy of God’s
    grace with it.  It is this that both disturbs and helps to
    repel that which is pure evil.  Fr. Fortea makes it clear
    that it is the power of Jesus Himself that has been placed
    upon the sacramental that makes it a powerful ally for
    those in deliverance ministry.

    Holy Water is a powerful sacramental of the


    Church.  Besides reminding us of our Christian Baptism,
    it also serves as a protection from evil.  Fr. Fortea further
    praises this sacramental by adding that “holy water is
    more effective because it symbolizes purity and
    cleanliness.

    Other sacramentals that are powerful include a


    blessed crucifix (which represents the defeat of satan by
    the sacrifice of the Cross), relics of the Saints (as Fortea
    explains: “they are filled with the spiritual anointing of
    these saints and call to mind the life of heroic sanctity the
    particular saint lived.”

    When considering the spiritual armor when


    confronting the demonic, none can be more powerful
    than a worthy and devout reception of Holy Communion

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    (Catholics, Orthodox and some High Anglicans celebrate
    the Real Presence of Christ in the consecrated bread and
    wine which is transubstantiated into His Body and Blood
    in the Eucharist).

    Calling upon the Precious Blood of Jesus is a sure


    shield as is also the invoking of our guardian angels, our
    Blessed Mother and Saints such as SS. Michael, Joseph
    and Benedict.

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