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"The Lion of the tribe of Judah, Be gone all evil powers!" — cover image accompanying Archbishop Viganò's appeal.

The former apostolic nuncio to the United States issues appeal during “these modern times of terrible tribulation” when the “Evil One has gone into a frenzy,” multiplying attacks tempting “souls into sin.”

By Edward Pentin, National Catholic Register, 4/10/20

On October 13, 1884, Leo XIII had a terrible vision of the assault of the powers of Hell against Holy Mother Church, and ordered the prayer to Saint Michael the Archangel to be said at the end of Mass.

He also composed an Act of Exorcism and ordered it to be inserted into the Roman Ritual, and explicitly mentioned what he had seen: “The Church, the Spouse of the Immaculate Lamb, has been filled with bitterness and inebriated with poison by her crafty enemies, who have laid impious hands on her most sacred possessions. In the place where the See of Holy Peter and the Chair of Truth has been set up as the light of the world, they have raised the throne of their abominable impiety, with the iniquitous design that when the Pastor has been struck, the sheep may be scattered.”

In these modern times of terrible tribulation, when the pandemic has deprived Catholics of Holy Mass and the Sacraments, the Evil One has gone into a frenzy and multiplied his attacks to tempt souls into sin. These blessed days of Holy Week, which used to be the ideal time to go to Confession to prepare ourselves for our Easter Communion, now see us locked inside our houses, but they cannot stop us praying to Our Lord.  ….

Read more here:  https://www.ncregister.com/blog/edward-pentin/archbishop-vigano-to-bishops-priests-recite-exorcism-prayer-on-holy-saturda