Originally posted by MadMadMike
From Western Catholic Reporter Canada:
Parenthood Demands Tough Love.
By Father JACQUES JOHNSON
It was nearly midnight when I received a call from a mother who asked me to come, as her six-year-old boy could not sleep because he was afraid of
something.
I left the rectory and drove to the house and asked the mother what was going on with the boy. She said that she did not know, only that he was afraid
of something and would not go to bed.
So she called a priest? What mother calls a priest?
Charlie was curled in the fetal position on a chair, crying softly. I took the little boy in my arms, talked to him and prayed for him, asking God to
remove the fear from his heart. After a little while Charlie felt more comfortable and soon he was himself again.
The mother then asked that I bless her trailer. I took holy water and went around the trailer, blessing every room.
Like it or not, I think "trailer" is the key word here.
After I was finished the father asked me if I had felt anything strange while I went around the different rooms. "As a matter of fact in the first
room I felt something that caused a shiver down my back," I said. I wondered what it was.
see next one...
So we all went into the room which belonged to a teenaged son. The ceiling and walls were covered with violent and repugnant "heavy metal" posters.
Little Charlie came in with us and could not disguise his horror as he covered his eyes and started to whimper.
And "pops" counldn't see that for himself.
I told the parents that these were bordering the satanic and that Charlie's reaction was a confirmation that harbouring these could not be healthy for
the family living there. "Just as holy pictures in our homes generate positive energies and blessings from God, so these violent unholy pictures
produce the opposite," I said.
"Oh yes father, thank you for telling us what is truly wrong with our family".
Christian parents need to discern what is good and life-giving for their family and what is destructive.
That's all the father needed to hear as immediately he went to work, ripping down the posters and burning them in a barrel outside. While he was busy
at that, the older son came home. He was very upset that his room was being invaded and his pictures were being reduced to ashes.
But the son should be happy. Because now they have more room to put up little crosses with "Hey-Suess" on them (images of
death) and pictures (white Hey-Suess -- more lies). Some may even have the crown of thorns with blood running down his face.
The father would not hear his son protesting the destruction of the posters. Without a word he just kept ripping away and burning. Soon the house was
cleared of them. The parents asked that I pray for them again. Then I went home.
Q.) Jesus or Lucifer?
A.) One in the same.
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