The Rite by Matt Baglio

Author:Matt Baglio [Baglio, Matt]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Religion, General, Biography & Autobiography, Biography, Religious, Christianity, Christian Theology, catholic, Matt, Angelology & Demonology, Exorcism, Clergy, Baglio
ISBN: 9780385522700
Publisher: Random House Digital, Inc.
Published: 2011-06-08T23:56:06+00:00

EVER SINCE THE LESSON delineating the causes of possession, Father Gary had pondered how to accurately assess whether a person was suffering from a curse. To him, the symptoms bordered on superstition.

One woman complained to Father Carmine that her marriage had failed because of a curse. As Father Gary watched, however, it was clear to him that Father Carmine didn't believe her; and instead of praying the Ritual, he'd performed a simple blessing and admonished her not to believe in such notions.

Later Father Carmine explained that such cases are common and warned, “You must never believe when a person says to you ‘I have a curse on me,’ In the majority of the cases, it's not true. Especially if another person told them that they were cursed, never, never give credence to this other person's words. The people who have a real problem will never tell you that the cause is demonic. Usually it is the last thing they think about.” And even if Father Gary suspected a curse at work, Father Carmine cautioned him to proceed slowly and prudently. “If you think the person might be cursed or have a problem, simply do a quick blessing over them. Tell them to calm down, that you are going to say a simple blessing, or pray the Ritual under your breath so they don't hear. If you told the person, ‘Yes, it's true, you've got a curse on you and now I am going to exorcise you,’ you could do huge damage to their psyche.”

Hoping for more clarity, Father Gary asked Father Daniel how to discern the presence of a curse, and Father Daniel described a scenario involving one: A young couple is engaged but the man's parents are against the match. The in-laws invite the woman over for dinner and give her something to eat, perhaps a piece of cake (sometimes bones are ground up into a powder and baked in the cake, as are bits of dried blood or other substances). Soon after she eats the cake, she begins to feel pain in her stomach or suffer from a severe headache. These “symptoms” always correlate with either seeing her fiancé—for example, going out on a date or planning the wedding— or with going to church (because the agent of the curse is demonic). Armed with such a story, Father Daniel told Father Gary that if the exorcist prays a blessing over the person and she reacts negatively, it is highly likely that she is afflicted.

In the lore of exorcism, perhaps nothing is as infamous (because it is so spectacular) as the victim vomiting strange objects or copious amounts of fluid, sometimes even blood. Most of us remember Linda Blair's projectile vomit in the film The Exorcist, and Father Carmine had a case wherein a woman vomited buckets of sperm. Such action typically signifies a curse; the person has eaten cursed food that he or she needs to eject. Vomiting objects such as finely woven hair or beads, and even blood clots, is a common indication of a curse as well.

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