Who Can Do an EXORCISM w/ Fr. Carlos Martins

[@SaintCharbelMiracleworker]

Please pray for Pakistani Christians. Past three days 21 churches burnt down, 1 graveyard desecrated, 38 houses burned including assets, etc so far. Why? They heard a rumour that a christian was blaspheming their prophet.

[@Angelina6518]

Yes! I will pray for Pakistani people. You’re in my Eternal prayer basket! ❤Praying from the heart ♥️. Courage!

[@shannonhondo260]

Just prayed for my brothers and sisters in Pakistan

[@cyrussm7524]

Praying for you my brothers and sisters in Christ.

[@irienerd8178]

God, please be with the Christians in Pakistan who are being persecuted for the love of you Lord.

[@joshnelson3803]

ANY Christian who understands the authority they have been given by Christ can command a demon to go. I have experienced it first hand in my own life and been in the room when others were delivered. Deliverance is possible outside of the Catholic Church but you must be firmly planted in Jesus and understand your authority through the Holy Spirit within you.

[@helwrecht1637]

Any member of the faithful can put on the Armour of God and pray.

[@1Hope4All]

True. Anyone can pray. But not anyone can drive out demons and perform exorcisms.

[@thehungarywaffleinc.7775]

What do you mean by that

[@KezzaTianzun]

@@1Hope4All Who says they can't? The Bible certainly does not say they can't. Show me the scripture from the Bible that only a catholic priest can cast out demons?

[@jameskeating4719]

Defend with prayer always seek a pro

[@Sizzllllnn]

@@jameskeating4719there is power in the name of Jesus. He’s the pro

[@Richard_Paradise]

This is The Priest of God, Fr. Carlos.

[@Unlikely_AnimalFamily]

Thank you for the Clarity Fr. Martins Good questions make a big difference! Thank you!

[@YewrinePish]

I ask the Blessed Mother to pray for my prayers lol. I ask her to help me, and then I pray to Jesus. It helps. I am shy.

[@lizziedoyle8530]

Tangent but I love the music you play in the Hallow ad. So happy and relaxing😊

[@bassamzard6620]

Thank you for your program May Lord Jesus, Very Blessed Mary and Good Saint Joseph bless you and bless the Flock of Jesus you are taking care of 💓🙏💗🌹⚘️⚘️⚘️⚘️⚘️⚘️⚘️⚘️⚘️⚘️⚘️

[@XOChristianaNicole]

Lol, “Moms and dads have the spiritual authority over their children.” My mother is how I caught demons, in the first place. It wasn’t until I put a black cowhide cross, she sent me, in a jar of salt to be buried - and prayed to Jesus/Yeshua for self-deliverance and all the demonic entities to be removed from my body and spirit, once and for all, for some truly horrific health issue to begin to be solved; which, my mother was my “caretaker,” at one point.

[@vedinthorn]

Makes sense to me. Jesus manifestly had to give authority to the apostles to cast out demons, and we don't even really know for sure how general that was, but it was overall for the purpose of their mission, so any time they were acting in that capacity, they should have been able to without issues. But even then they ran across some potent demons they couldn't cast out without prayer and fasting first. Possibly these were high level spirits powerful enough to convince the locals they were gods. Point being, the goal of at least Paul if not other apostles was to conquer the world in Jesus' name and overthrow the evil spirits which were in control of territory that, manifestly, God gave them power over a long time before. As such, unless God commands the assault on enemy territory, it isn't wise to do it because it's not part of the battle plan for reasons we don't need to worry about.

[@NAT-turners-Revenge]

My grandma (RIP 1934-2021) performed "exorcisms" often for those in the family and those she came across. I've witnessed these battles.... *NO NOT ANYONE* can do it. It takes a certain level of faith, discernment, etc. I've seen the blackened eyes, inhuman evil facial contortions, etc....

[@me-ds2il]

Very informative

[@jouzelfeather-pelt7686]

Explains why St. Catherine of Siena scared demons. She prayed. Don't think I'm implying people should go out and about seeking demons to pray them away. Seems foolish. However, I've been told there's a "pass" near where I live that spirits appear in people's cars. Friend of mine told me about it happening to him. So what would one do in that sort of situation? Avoid that pass entirely or face it with courage believing you have the strength of Our Lord and the sacraments on your side?

[@MS-ez1pe]

Be not afraid

[@eleanor9004]

Lay people for sure have to built faith in Jesus and the sacraments BUT you don't have purposely put yourself in a tight spot. The Church is very clear on that, you don't have to search for occult, you don't have to do "ghost hunters" and most of all you don't have to speak with the devil, he is going to beat you anyway, he's an angelic intelligence. But lay people can do deliverance prayers that aren't an exorcism. In an exorcism the priest with the authority that Christ gave to his apostles COMMAND to the demons to leave, in a private deliverance prayer the person pray to Jesus to come and get rid of everything. I don't know if I was able to explain myself.

[@DominicMazoch]

Actually, a lay person making a sign of the Cross is a minor exorcism. Or the blessing of a house entrance using the blessed chalk on Epiphany! There is the minor border of exorcist which deals with such.

[@3172bees]

I’d like an exorcist to cast out my mother in law please……..

[@jameskeating4719]

😂

[@skepticalbutopen4620]

😂😂😂

[@leojohn6702]

What to answer to non believers when they question the bible translating and versioning?

[@newgoliard6059]

The name of Christ will drive out demons no matter who you are. In order to have personal authority you need to be a Christian but even children can use the name of Jesus to cast out the devil. 💯

[@Wehttamecnabru392]

Unless the person willfully has a relationship with a devil, such as the scenario mentioned in the video.

[@musicisitall]

sometimes you have no choice .................

[@e.m.8094]

Mark 16:17

[@terrencedutoit5585]

These rules he speaks of is nowhere mentioned in the bible.

[@mrjeffjob]

You know what else isn’t in the Bible? The list of books that belong in it. Sunday worship instead of Saturday. Polygamy isn’t condemned either. The closing of revelation at the death of John. People interpreting Scripture for themselves. People who practiced Bible Alone. So, what exactly is your point?

[@-rr-4172]

@@mrjeffjob What do you mean by “belong in it”? Elaborate? Although the bible (especially in the Old Testament) presents polygamy as a part of the culture at the time, the New Testament moves toward monogamous relationships. Explicitly describing what it is; between ONE man and ONE woman.

[@nocturne2029]

So then, what grants an exorcist authority over the possessed person he is exorcising? Is it that they asked him to help them? I would imagine so, but I'm speculating. That's how it would work in the legal world, but I don't know if demons follow Canadian law!

[@williambarker8790]

@@nocturne2029 the bishop gives the priest authority to do the exorcism

[@chrishiles8524]

Serious question: Does this "no authority" notion apply to other places as well? Abortion clinics, Pride gatherings, Drag story hour venues?

[@benbennett5301]

Highly not recommended, as you a fighting a principality and you dont have automatic rights over those. Let God deal with it and only do what he tells you. Those are territorial demons/unclean spirits that infect nations/places rather than individuals. You can fight them but they can cause damage to your life if you act outside of Gods authority

[@benbennett5301]

Principalities power rests on the mob, It convinces people to worship it so it can hoard power. The way ordinary Christians can fight principalities is by saving souls. All the pagan "gods" do exist, but are principalities with a mask on

[@maxz9839]

You can pray for the people accordingly, but not pray over them/it to cast out demons, unless they ask you to

[@leojohn6702]

Btw. The church is not an author of the magical book. The church simply have to obey the bible. The church have not the right to add something or remove any letter from the Bible.

[@TheHammerofDissidence]

Seems you have no idea how the Bible was written then.

[@leojohn6702]

@@TheHammerofDissidence not by the church that’s for sure.

[@andegrvz]

The Bible we all know nowadays was canonized by the Catholic Church...

[@MrJordanMcCourt]

All Christians can cast out demons

[@jameskeating4719]

These comments are pretty interesting

[@SnoopyDaniels]

Catholic priests know about as much about exorcisms as atheists do about communion.

[@musicisitall]

beeing against magic.. but the church have made a magical book. a contradiction in terminis.

[@phyllischaffin4052]

The apostles weren't Catholic priests and Jesus gave them the authority to exorcize demons.

[@williambarker8790]

The Apostle were Catholic bishops according to tradition, and the authority to do exorcism comes from bishops and priest have to ask bishops to do the exorcism

[@phyllischaffin4052]

@@williambarker8790 No. The Bible does NOT say they were Catholic.

[@ready1fire1aim1]

Note verse 4 below (this is Isaiah talking about Yahweh) "seen any god except you": Isaiah 64 Names of God Bible 64 If only you would split open the heavens and come down! The mountains would quake at your presence. 2 Be like the fire that kindles brushwood and makes water boil. Come down to make your name known to your enemies. The nations will tremble in your presence. 3 When you did awe-inspiring things that we didn’t expect, you came down and the mountains quaked in your presence. 4 No one has ever heard, no one has paid attention, and no one has seen any god except you. You help those who wait for you. Compare to: John 1 Names of God Bible 18 No one has ever seen God. God’s only Son, the one who is closest to the Father’s heart, has made him known. and: John 6 Names of God Bible 46 I’m saying that no one has seen the Father. Only the one who is from God has seen the Father. and: 1 John 4 Names of God Bible 12 No one has ever seen God. If we love each other, God lives in us, and his love is perfected in us.

[@FreddyB41]

horrible ad placement, lol

[@musicisitall]

strange reaction 'she has the authority of God to have a relationship with the devil" ... such statements are directly against the holy word and bible...... strange guy.

[@Nazzul]

When imagination goes to far, we get people in costumes yelling at shadows and others with mental illnesses. Cmon people its 2023 lets at least to pretend to be adults.

[@Aridzonia1]

Yes only a roman catholic priest can perform a roman catholic exorcism. THATS BECAUSE ITS ROMAN CATHOLIC. There are more non roman catholic ministers that perform exorcisms with great success. What this priest is not telling you is that there is a great failure rate with the roman catholic exorcisms !

[@musicisitall]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/hKm9iZyiZq6lkMk totally different view.

[@KezzaTianzun]

Not one piece of scripture says exorcism can only be performed by a priest, that is nothing but Catholic invention that has not one iota of scripture to back it up. Jesus gave power to all faithful to cast out demons in His name.

[@jeanniefelix6534]

As my protestant friends have told me, everyone knows that the Catholics are the ones to turn to whenever an excorcist is needed

[@KezzaTianzun]

@@jeanniefelix6534 Your "protestant" friends were never believers if they believe that. False converts, the "wheat and chaff". Many professing Catholics like this priest will be among those on the day of judgement who say "Lord, Lord, did we not cast out demons in your name?" And will be told he "Never knew you". There is no power, no authority in the rituals of any catechism. All power rests solely in the indwelling Holy Spirit.

[@jeanniefelix6534]

@@KezzaTianzun so are u telling me your performing exorcisms? Helping those that are possessed?

[@KezzaTianzun]

@@jeanniefelix6534 I have never come across a person possesed. What I do has nothing to do with what the Bible says. If you have a problem with anything I've said, have a go at the Bible since all I'm doing is testifying to the truth of the Word of God.

[@KezzaTianzun]

@@jeanniefelix6534 I have not come across a possessed person, but indeed have come in contact with a house that had demonic spirits living in it. I was with my pastor at the time and all he did was pray over it and they left. Prayer direct to the Lord is all a true believer needs. The name of Jesus called upon by a born again believer carries great power against unclean spirits.

[@KezzaTianzun]

What gives a believer the power to cast out demons is the indwelling Holy Spirit. "James 4:7 Submit yourselves, then, to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. " "Mark 16:17 These signs will accompany those who have believed: in My name they will cast out demons, they will speak with new tongues;" "Mark 9:38 - 39 John said to Him, “Teacher, we saw someone casting out demons in Your name, and we tried to prevent him because he was not following us. But Jesus said, “Do not hinder him, for there is no one who will perform a miracle in My name, and be able soon afterward to speak evil of Me.” Specifically in Mark 9 - The person who was casting out demons in Christ's name was no priest, no ordained special minister or any of the like. He was a believer in Christ who was not even among the 12 disciples, such that Jesus himself told his disciples not to forbid the man from doing it for any man who casts out demons in His name is his follower! So show me where in your made up catechism designed only to control and hold a sense of superiority, that only a priest can exorcise?

[@christopherwatson1522]

That's... not what he said at all.

[@spicypepsi9238]

I thought the same, but listen again around the 6 minute mark. He’s referring to people’s freedom of will, that though we might have authority over demons in Jesus’ name, we do not have authority over people’s choice to serve them. Only when an individual wants to be free can we help them become unbound.

[@spicypepsi9238]

I still agree that he should’ve emphasized more strongly the authority we do have in Christ, rather than simply telling us about the authority we do not have.

[@KezzaTianzun]

Also you go on to say your ritual may last for "many weeks" which shows that it is ineffective, and your "rituals" do not work - because they do not have the Holy Spirit present in them. There is not one disciple or follower of Christ throughout Acts who did not cast a demon out immediately upon command - because they had the Holy Spirit indwelling them, the demons FLED instantly. You as a pagan, ritualistic and idolatrous priest, have no power to exorcise.

[@veredictum4503]

While I do not wish ill upon you, however, you sound very puffed up with arrogance. And since pride and arrogance was Lucifer's sin, you just might fall into his clutches. But then again, maybe not, if you are already in a state of such sin and sinking deeper, the demons will gleefully leave you alone. After all, you don't believe in the sacrament of confession ("whoseever sins YOU (apostles only not every man and his dog) forgive, they ARE forgiven, whosever sins you do NOT forgive are RETAINED). Therefore your POST-baptismal sins, small and large, will keep accumulating. Good luck on Judgement Day. You will find out Jesus founded ONE church, not 30,000 denominations all quarreling among themselves. Meanwhile, for someone claiming to be very biblical, you seem to have forgetten when the demons did NOT flee instantly, even from the apostles, Matt 17:19. Mark 9:14-38. And surely you'd say the Holy Spirit was very much in Jesus, because He is God? You forget the Devil came to Jesus in the desert, face to face, talked and taunted Him, WITHOUT fleeing. You know nothing of Angelology and Demonology, which the Catholic Church teaches as specialised topics to appointed exorcists. You should read up the case study of the woman (can't remember her name) whose son walked up a hospital wall and somersaulted over a nurse. Their Protestant pastor called the Catholic Church.

[@KezzaTianzun]

@@veredictum4503 It may sound like I am being arrogant, but that is not the case; simply passionate about what I believe. It can be difficult to translate tone into plain text. I agree that Jesus founded 1 church, but then the Roman Emperor Constantine went and did a whole bunch of shady things and now we have what we have today. *You wrote* After all, you don't believe in the sacrament of confession ("whoseever sins YOU (apostles only not every man and his dog) forgive, they ARE forgiven, whosever sins you do NOT forgive are RETAINED). Therefore your POST-baptismal sins, small and large, will keep accumulating. Good luck on Judgement Day. *Response* You are implying that only through the "sacrament of confession" can one's sins be forgiven. But this is not biblical at all. Yes, Jesus tells his apostles in John 20:23 that “If you forgive anyone his sins, they are forgiven; if you do not forgive them, they are not forgiven." However, to interpret this as to mean that only by confession to a priest in the "sacrament of confession" can you be forgiven is a hard stretch at best or downright heretical at its worst. You have to realise that this "sacrament" of confession was not even established till hundreds of years later. There are also no biblical accounts of believers approaching any of the apostles at any time to give "confession" to them. 1 John 1 goes into this about "confession": 8 If we claim to be without sin, we deceive ourselves and the truth is not in us. 9 If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness. It is Christ who forgives our sins, our confession direct to Christ himself is sufficient. Christians are indeed exhorted to confess our sins to one another, but not in this context, and that it is for the edification and building up of fellowship and the faith, not a requirement for our sins to be forgiven by God, but to be "reconciled with our brother". As for this idea that your sins "continue to accumulate" post baptism, this is another unbiblical doctrine that the Catholic church has made up as it went along. All sins are washed away at the moment we believe, we are a "New creation in Christ, old things have passed away, behold all things have become new." - 2 Corinthians 5:17 Does this mean we say oh great we're all done and don't need to ask Jesus for forgiveness anymore? No! We still go to the Lord and ask him to renew us daily, because everything that happens after you believe is part of your *sanctification*, not your *salvation*. Salvation comes to those who truly believe and are born again, there are many who profess to believe but bear no fruits of the Spirit in their lives, showing themselves to be "branches that bear no fruit" and are cut off from the vine. Another issue with this idea that only our past sins are forgiven, and that we need to continually ask for forgiveness for future sins to be forgiven, is that it takes away the finality of Christ's redemption for us. If you can be saved one minute, unsaved the next, saved again the next and unsaved the next, then the grace of Christ is insufficient and was not much of a redemption to begin with. We can have absolute assurance of our salvation. 1 John 5:13 says this: “These things have I written unto you that believe on the name of the Son of God; that ye may *know* that ye have eternal life, and that ye may believe on the name of the Son of God.” - We can KNOW we have eternal life, but with the Catholic idea we can lose it from committing a sin and "not confessing" then that means we can't know, which is contrary to scripture. Hebrews goes into it further: Hebrews 10:10, 14, 17, 18“By the which will we are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all…For by one offering He hath perfected for ever them that are sanctified…And their sins and iniquities will I remember no more. Now where remission of these is, there is no more offering for sin.“ Christ died Once for All - he has perfected those he has sanctified (born again believers) and their sins and iniquities he remembers no more, there is also no more offering for sin after this. This is precisely why it is impossible to flit in and out of salvation as the Catholic doctrine suggests, because if you lost it once then you could never get it back. If you were saved, then sinned and lost salvation, it would never be re-attainable because no more offering exists. As such, nobody in history would ever be saved. Once saved always saved is absolutely biblical.

[@KezzaTianzun]

​@@veredictum4503 Just to add as I forgot to include in my response - the devil did not flee from Jesus in the wilderness because he was allowed to be there. There is a great difference. Satan himself is a different entity compared to the other demons. While he fears God just as much as the others, he also knows God from ages past. God allowed Satan into the heavenly court, and even wagered against him to tempt Job in the Old Testament. The temptation of Christ was the culmination of that wager - Job was the precursor.

[@veredictum4503]

@@KezzaTianzun "...did not flee... because he was allowed to be there...etc". And Job. And that is correct. BUT that is not what you said originally - read your own comments. You used words like "ritual" and "pagan" and "idolatorous" and "no Holy Spirit" - so what you are saying is Catholic priests don't have Holy Spirit, are pagans, the "rituals" are empty. Did you know that the Ordination of a Catholic priest is via a Bishop who "lays hands on his head" and "breathes on him" the Holy Spirit. And each Bishop has to be able to trace his lineage - his own ordination - all the way up to the Apostles. This is the Apostolic Succession. Whereas, Protestant "pastors" or "ministers" don't have that, many are "elected" to a role by some committee. Even the older Protestants with some semblance of ritual - Anglicans, Lutherans - but those rituals are not Apostolic, because they were excommunicated 500 years ago. Back to "because he was allowed". Has it crossed your mind that the reason exorcisms today - which exorcists actually say are taking longer than even a mere 200 years ago - is exactly that, i.e. God has allowed. I personally know a case, someone had "problems". He went to see a priest. The moment he felt better, didn't go back to the church. And of course, the evils came back, exactly as the bible says. So, in an age today whereby sin and evil and abortion is everywhere, has it not crossed your mind that God is allowing the evil spirits to torment some longer, to teach them a lesson. The alcoholic gets liver disease, the smoker cancer, the greedy diabetes. So why not the evil doers get taught a lesson? God is not cruel, but waking them up, and then they will look for a priest. Now, Mr Sola Scriptura, Jesus also said one of the signs of his believers will be to heal the sick. Mark 16:17-18. Where are your protestant miracles? Benny Hinn or Joel Osteen prancing around a stage? Millions (or Billions after 2,000 years) of miracles in the Catholic Church. This is a collection of only the most famous so 0.00001% - www.amazon.com/Compendium-Miraculous-Encyclopedia-Revelation-Apparitions/dp/1505111366 Or this - www.miraclehunter.com/ But most of all, the creme de la creme, the slam dunk to end all arguments, are the Eucharistic Miracles (yes protestant, John 6 and 1 Cor 11:27 are literal, and Transubstantiation is a true doctrine. Which means protestantism - if you take John 6 literally and surely as sola scriptura should - then Jesus says "you have NO life in you". 152 Eucharistic Miracles and counting (Mexico under evaluation). The last approved was Poland 2015, the earliest Lanciano 8th century. Scroll by country - www.therealpresence.org/eucharst/mir/engl_mir.htm. Find a good priest (and I admit there are many bad priests, long story, but there was Judas amongst the Apostles)

[@vinceschenden7349]

​@@veredictum4503Thank you VERY MUCH for your reply! I get into it with Protestants, but I can't hold a candle to your skill in apologetics. Thanks for sticking up for His Church! God Bless You!