J. Pasano

J. Pasano

We drive you from us, whoever you may be, unclean spirits, all satanic
powers, all infernal invaders, all wicked legions, assemblies and sects;
in the Name and by the power of Our Lord Jesus Christ, + may you be
snatched away and driven from the Church of God and from the souls made
to the image and likeness of God and redeemed by the Precious Blood of
the Divine Lamb. + Most cunning serpent, you shall no more dare to
deceive the human race, persecute the Church, torment God's elect and
sift them as wheat.+ The Most High God commands you,+ He with whom, in
your great insolence, you still claim to be equal; "He who wants all men
to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth" (I Tim., II,4).
God the Father commands you. + God the Son commands you. + God the Holy
Ghost commands you. + Christ, God's Word made flesh, commands you; + He
who to save our race outdone through your envy, "humbled Himself,
becoming obedient even unto death" (Phil.,II,8); He who has built His
Church on the firm rock and declared that the gates of hell shall not
prevail against Her, because He will dwell with Her "all days even to
the end of the world" (Mat., XXVIII, 20). The sacred Sign of the Cross
commands you, + as does also the power of the mysteries of the Christian
Faith. + The glorious Mother of God, the Virgin Mary, commands you. +
The blood of the Martyrs and the pious intercession of all the Saints
command you. +

Thus, cursed dragon, and you, diabolical legions, we adjure you by the
living God, + by the true the holy God, + by the God "who so loved the
world that He gave up His only Son, that every soul believing in Him
might not perish but have life everlasting" (St.John, III); stop
deceiving human creatures and pouring out to them the poison of eternal
damnation; stop harming the Church and hindering her liberty. Begone,
Satan, inventor and master of all deceit, enemy of man's salvation. Give
place to Christ in whom you have found none of your works; give place to
the One, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church acquired by Christ at the
price of His Blood. Stoop beneath the all-powerful Hand of God; tremble
and flee when we invoke the Holy and terrible Name of Jesus, this Name
which causes hell to tremble, this Name to which the Virtues, Powers and
Dominations of Heaven are humbly submissive, this Name which the
Cherubim and Seraphim praise unceasingly repeating: Holy, Holy, Holy is
the Lord, the God of Armies.

V. O Lord, hear my prayer.

R. And let my cry come unto Thee.

V. May the Lord be with thee.

R. And with thy spirit.

Let us pray. - God of heaven, God of earth, God of Angels, God of
Archangels, God of Patriarchs, God of Prophets, God of Apostles, God of
Martyrs, God of Confessors, God of Virgins, God who has power to give
life after death and rest after work, because there is no other God than
Thee and there can be no other, for Thou art the Creator of all things,
visible and invisible, of whose reign there shall be no end, we humbly
prostrate ourselves before Thy glorious Majesty and we beseech Thee to
deliver us by Thy power from all the tyranny of the infernal spirits,
from their snares, their lies and their furious wickedness; deign, O
Lord, to grant us Thy powerful protection and to keep us safe and sound.
We beseech Thee through Jesus Christ Our Lord. Amen.

From the snares of the devil, deliver us, O Lord.

That Thy Church may serve Thee in peace and liberty, we beseech Thee to
hear us.

That Thou may crush down all enemies of Thy Church, we beseech Thee to
hear us.

(Holy water is sprinkled in the place where we may be.)

Imprimatur: +Henri, O.M.I.

Vicar Apostolic of James Bay - Aug. 15, 1967, Source: The Catholic
Dispatch (cdia@earthlink,net )