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Three Secret Strategies

Three Secret Strategies of Satan to Destroy our Children, our Families, our Culture, and our Churchby Bro. Ignatius Mary(a Hermit of St. Michael) (The first of several essays on the motifs and nature of the post-modern worldview) Satan has a secret. It is the secret about his three primary strategies to destroy us. If Satan can convince our culture to adopt the...

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How POKEMON and Magic Cards Affect the Minds and Values of Children by Berit Kjos

St. Michael’s Scriptorium & Library Special Collections Spiritual Warfare Library Spiritual Warfare Library Index | Main Library Index | St. Michael’s Call Home How POKEMON and Magic Cards Affect the Minds and Values of Children by Berit Kjos Who are the strange little creatures from Japan that have suddenly become global super-stars? Most kids know the answer well: They are called Pokemon...

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Confronting the Devil's Power

Confronting the Devil's Power Pope Paul VI General Audience November 15, 1972 What are the Church's greatest needs at the present time? Don't be surprised at Our answer and don't write it off as simplistic or even superstitious: one of the Church's greatest needs is to be defended against the evil we call the Devil. Before clarifying what We mean, We would...

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Should Christians Participate in Halloween?

St. Michael’s Scriptorium & Library Special Collections Spiritual Warfare Library Spiritual Warfare Library Index | Main Library Index | St. Michael’s Call Home Should Christians Participate in Halloween? by Bro. Ignatius Mary (a Hermit of St. Michael) Evoking Intense Emotions Halloween always evokes intense emotions whenever someone cautions about this holiday as popularly celebrated. One reason for this is that most of...

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Enneagram - The New Age, A Christian Critique by Ralph Rath

St. Michael’s Scriptorium & Library Special Collections Spiritual Warfare Library Spiritual Warfare Library Index | Main Library Index | St. Michael’s Call Home ENNEAGRAM (Taken from The New Age: A Christian Critique by Ralph Rath, published by Greenlawn Press, 107 S. Greenlawn, South Bend, IN 46617.) Out of nowhere, the enneagram burst onto the Christian scene and became very popular with publishers...

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A Closer Look at Centering Prayer by Margaret A. Feaster

St. Michael’s Scriptorium & Library Special Collections Spiritual Warfare Library Spiritual Warfare Library Index | Main Library Index | St. Michael’s Call Home A Closer Look at Centering Prayer by Margaret A. Feaster The Centering Prayer Movement has become very popular in Catholic circles today. People sign up for it in retreat centers, in workshops, and sometimes in their own parish. These...

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The Danger of Centering Prayer by Fr. John D. Dreher

St. Michael’s Scriptorium & Library Special Collections Spiritual Warfare Library Spiritual Warfare Library Index | Main Library Index | St. Michael’s Call Home The Danger of Centering Prayer by Fr. John D. Dreher (Pastor of Our Lady of Czenstochova Church in Coventry, Rhode Island) In the mid-seventies, Trappist Abbot Thomas Keating asked the monks, Could we put the Christian tradition into a...

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