October 29, 2024 • 53 mins
In this episode of The Heart of Fiat Crucified Love, Catholic evangelist and missionary Mary Kloska speaks about the necessity of raising children in an atmosphere of truth, beauty, goodness, holiness and love. She speaks of the ways that the evil one tries to distort this as well as what adults can do to protect children from his influence.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:06):
Hello, God bless you, and welcome to the heart of
Fiat crucified Love. We have a whole lot to talk
about today, and I've been putting off doing this podcast
because I like to have time to set things up,
to be super prepared. But that will never happen, not
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in my life. So I thought, I have an hour
and I'm just gonna sit down and record. I did
jot down some notes the other day of what I
want to talk about, and we're going to just do it.
So I do apologize for the informality of all of this.
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This week on the podcast, we're going to talk about
spiritual warfare for children. There's a whole lot I have
to say on that. So let's start with a prayer
and the song that I picked out. It's a Russian song.
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It's a Russian children's song, Tom dali nabiesnoy. It's to
our lady, and the words are there with you in heaven.
Somebody is waiting for you. Her name is Mary. She says,
come along, children, and then it says hide us Mary,
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and nothing battle happen to us, Protect us Mary, Sorry,
and nothing batt'll happen to us if we hide ourselves
under your dress, right, like you imagine a little kid
hiding under the dress of their mother. Give us your
hand and we'll go with you because we want to
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be with you.
Speaker 3 (01:52):
Right.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
Ask God for mercy for us. We want to be
with you in all difficult times. Right. And then the
last verse is good Mother Mary, I love you and
I give you my heart. Okay. So it's very simple,
but very beautiful. So we're going to sing the song
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and say a prayer and talk about spiritual warfare for children.
We need to protect our children and give them the
instruments that will keep them safe in this fallen world
and get them to Heaven quickly. So in the name
of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit. Amen, Come,
Holy Spirit, fill the hearts of your faithful and enkindle
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in us the fire of your love. Send forth your spirit,
and we will be recreated, and thou will renew the
face of the earth. Sweet Jesus, we ask you to
pour your precious blood upon us, upon our thoughts, our words,
our ears as we listen to you, upon everyone who
will see this podcast now or in a hundred years.
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We pray for our children, those in our families, those
who we take care of, those who have no one
to pray for them, those in foster care, those who
should be in foster care. For the orphans, we pray
and ask that you may protect them. We consecrate them
to your sacred Heart and the precious Blood, and we
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also consecrate them to our lady and to Saint Joseph.
Hail Mary, full of grace, So lordous with thee blessed
art thou among women, and blessed is the fruit of
thy womb. Jesus, Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for
us sinners now and at the hour of our death. Amen.
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I don't usually play this acoustic guitar. It's that beautiful
fender that was donated to me by actually, sadly, the
family of a man who committed suicides. We pray for
him as we sing as well. So Tom dullyabianoy toto
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steal tea tomso body pie didy did h Oops, that
was wrong. I'm not used to.
Speaker 4 (04:36):
That ant naic body. Here ena strash nomenia. Yes, craig
y platzo Dustmenapa smell a snake.
Speaker 2 (05:01):
He do ye're hacho maya beat.
Speaker 1 (05:07):
Stu boy.
Speaker 3 (05:12):
Be lusty bold girl be pressianas.
Speaker 2 (05:21):
Misty snami booda sami true be cha.
Speaker 4 (05:33):
Uhada smarty here inenu strash nomina, yesle creep you're your
plots so dastnaminaka smellss snake you do ah had your body.
Speaker 3 (06:02):
H beat stop boy do braa mardy your teepia lib
spy your sis you nayep yah under.
Speaker 4 (06:29):
Cher nia now smarty enu strush nominia, yeslea creep your
plots dust anamniaa smell say to.
Speaker 2 (06:55):
Yeah, had you body h beat stop?
Speaker 3 (07:04):
Yeah, body stup.
Speaker 2 (07:13):
Obviously I should practice guitar as much as I practice piano. Okay,
So the podcast Spiritual Warfare for Children, Why did I
do that song? Because we need Mary, because we need
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our lady. We need to go to her as children,
and we need to bring our children to her. You
know how mothers know what their children need better than
the children know. Our lady knows what we need and
what our children need better than we do ourselves. Right,
She has that clarity of vision in our lives. You know,
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when you study psychology and healthy attachments, especially between small
children and their parents or their caregivers. Psychologists talk about
the importance of a parent to really pay attention to
what that child really needs. Right. Sometimes they can cry
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and it means that they're hungry, or you know, they
think that they, you know, want one thing, and really
they're just tired. It's being able to see the authentic
need of a child and respond to it that creates
healthy attachment.
Speaker 4 (08:39):
Right.
Speaker 2 (08:41):
And we as fallen creatures, succeeded that at times or
failing that at times. But our lady is a creature,
but she's perfect. So she's a perfect mother. You know.
We might be, you know, praying for one thing, and
our lady sees at our deepest is something different, right,
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And so we need to go to her ask children
and ask her help. And we need to go to
her with our children and with the children that we
take care of, the children that we pray for, and
ask her to see their deepest needs and to provide
for them and to make up for maybe what's not
visible to us. Right. So I wanted to talk a
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little bit about just the pedagogy of a child. And
you know, how a child functions when you look at
the way that God wired the brain of a child, right,
They learn from mimicry. They don't like study a book
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on language and then start to speak. Some adults do that.
I tend to learn languages more like a child would.
Though They watch what you say and what you know,
how your mouth moves. They listen, and then they mimic
right those sounds da da da right. And the same
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comes for like the interior life of a child. What
they see around them, what they experience around them, what
they hear around them, affects them, affects the wiring of
their brains. Right. There's no image that a child can
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see that you can erase from their mind, and it's
a beautiful thing when you think about them being raised
in an atmosphere of love and a loving family with
like all beautiful images. All the art in the porch
room is art that I did with the children I
take care of in Chicago. When we get bored, they
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always want me to paint with them, and it's cheap
children's paint, but I always up with an icon, so
I thought, well, I'll fill this room with it. But
it's a beautiful activity to do with children, to have
them contemplate that which is holy, and to then what
do they do? They imitate it, they recreate it. Very
often when I start to paint, the kids have another
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idea and they're painting, but they're watching me, and slowly
their picture transforms into mine. And I always say, you
don't have to do what I'm doing, and they're like, oh,
it's my own idea, but it's just so pretty. But
they get so excited because then we'll have two of
the same pictures. But it's a good thing when you are,
you know, painting things that are beautiful and true and
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full of the love of God. Right, it makes children
think about that. It's a painful thing when a child witnesses,
or experience or hears something that's evil. And it shouldn't
panic any of you that know your children have been
exposed to that you know, something that's evil, because the
blood of Christ and prayer can wash and purify the
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mind even from things that you know, maybe we you know,
wish that we didn't see, or that somebody we love
didn't see. God can recreate us, but it's much easier
to just program us properly through truth and beauty and
love right goodness. So not only does what we see
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and hear around us affect us in a human way,
but it affects us spiritually. Right. You think about you
think about what you look at. And when you read
a child a really good book or you show them
holy pictures, you take them into a church and they
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gaze at the beauty, especially old churches that are really beautiful,
they begin to think about that. I knew a little
girl once who had a struggle with nightmares, and it's
because she was allowed to watch awful things on her
iPad and I could kind of see the connection between
what she was dreaming and what she was watching. So
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I didn't exercise with her at night before she went
to bed. And I always always say, before you go
to sleep, you have to name me something that is good,
something that is true, and something that is beautiful, and
then that's what you're going to dream about. Right. God
is goodness itself. Christ is truth, and authentic beauty is
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a reflection of God. So it's a way for her
to open her up herself up to that natural grace
that God wants to give us through truth and beauty
and goodness, so that her mind was full of that
and then she would dream and she would be fine. Right.
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We also see in children how their behavior is reflected
in what they watch. So I am very annoying to
the children I take care of sometimes because there's certain
things I won't let them watch if I'm there. I
don't have control always, but if I'm there, and they'd
say why, and I'd say, because then you act like that,
and I don't want you to behave that way. I
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don't want you to speak that way. I don't want
you to treat other people that way. I don't want
you to imitate things like this, and so I won't
let you watch it. Right, So often we as adults
forget that as adults, we have reasons so we can
filter things. You can watch a movie on World War
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Two that might have a scene of fighting or violence
that you don't like, but you watch it because there's
a great lesson to be learned in the movie. You
can filter it out, and with your brain you can
know that that's not the way you're supposed to treat people.
And you can also think, in your own mind, you
know this isn't true, this isn't going on right now,
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this is a story. Children have a hard time doing that,
So if they watch a show that has violence, or
something evil. They think that's in their bedroom at night.
It's hard for them to reason that that is something
made up or something from long ago. And if they
see people treating someone badly, it's hard for them without
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that fully developed reason to recognize that that's not what
they're supposed to do. I mean, we're created to mimic, right,
That's how parents teach. You take a baby's hand and
you wave, and you wave and you wave, and finally
one day they see you and they start waving at you. Right.
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So it's very important that we protect the innocence of
our children. That we only let them look at and
listen to and experience that which is good and true
and beautiful and holy, because we want our children to
be good and true and beautiful and holy. Right, So
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you want to expose them to that. And I know
sometimes there's an argument, well, kids have to learn that
that stuff's fake or you know, that's hiding them from reality.
But children when they're born are not fully developed, right,
And if you expose them to the evil that's in
this world too early, it can damage the way that
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they function, that they that they behave, that they think, right,
it damages their mind and their emotions, their whole approach
at looking at life, and of course spiritually as well.
So it's very important to protect the innocence of children.
And then, believe me, there's enough evil in the world
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that as they grow up, they'll experience the evil, and
then you can, if you have a good relationship with them,
teach them how to deal with that. Right, So you
want to be gentle with that sensitivity of a child's
heart and only expose them to what is good and
true and beautiful. Right, it says it in scripture. I
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also want to talk for a moment about the scripture
that says that I is the lamp of the body,
right Wellever, it's not just true for children, it's true
for us. People wonder why my house is, you know,
full of holy images and things, And it's because even subconsciously,
as I look around and I see things, it reminds
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me to look to Heaven and it fills my thoughts
with things that are good and true and beautiful and holy.
So that then if somebody approaches me with a problem
or there's a decision I can make, I do it
with that reference, right, with that foundation of having goodness, truth,
beauty and holiness in my mind, right, that's the foundation.
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And even Christ said the eye is a lamp of
the body. If we look at things that are evil,
then we begin to have that evil interfoltrait into how
we behave in the world. It was interesting when the
Passion of Christ came out and some of the young
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people were telling me it actually didn't affect them that
much because they've been desensitized by the world and exposure
to so much violence that they become numb. And it's
one of the reasons this time of year there's a
great sadness in seeing how people mock pain. Right, it's October,
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Halloween is coming up, and how do people decorate for
this feast that's supposed to be of all saints. November
first is the Feast of all Saints, and we're supposed
to be celebrating all the saints in heaven and the
evening before All Hallows Eve, the Holy Evening is October
thirty first, where we should be celebrating holiness and the
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gift of salvation that Christ want for us on the cross.
Right on Halloween, people should be meditating on the passion
of Christ. And Satan knows that and so what does
he do. He turns the hearts of people to a
mockery of the passion of Christ, and he tries to
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desensitize them. So you see all these absolutely horrible decorations
of blood and a violence of death, and it belittles it.
And if people aren't offended by it, which they should be,
then they're desensitized by it. Right, And it is a
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mockery on the gift that Christ himself gave to us.
It's very bad to have blood and gore and death
everywhere as a min mockery for Halloween. Instead, it's Halloween
is supposed to remind us of all Saints Day, where
we look to heaven to the saints who have died.
Some died a gory death in martyrdom, right, their heads
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were cut off and their you know, bodies were burned
or thrown with it, you know, an anchor into the sea.
It's they suffered great things for Christ. But you don't
want to mock that like people do on Halloween. You
want to honor their great love of God that help
them to endure great suffering. So it's very important this
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time of year to shield children from not only being
desensitized to pain and suffering, but to mock it the
mockery of the passion of Christ. And you want children
to always be taught compassion, so if they see someone hurt,
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they help them. If somebody has dyed, it's a serious thing, right,
It's not something to be mocked. So that's just something
I want to mention on the side that we don't
want to glorify evil and mock suffering like many do
this time of year. The eye is the lamp of
the body. If you even look, I have a great
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custody of my eyes. I don't look at things like that,
even when they're in my face. My neighbors have things
like that. I won't let myself look at it, because
you have your eye is the lamp of the body.
I don't want that darkness, that desensitation, that evil to
enter into my body through my eyes through what I'm
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looking at. I want my mind filled with the beautiful
triumph of Christ on the cross through his pain that
one for us, haven't right, That's that's how we're supposed
to focus. And you know, I'll just met this time
of year. Another big problem that people when they falsely
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celebrate Halloween as this dark, gory, scary, bloody thing is.
They're opening themselves and their children up as a portal
to evil, and even as a joke. You don't want
to play with evil. Some people might not understand that.
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I have been involved in the exorcism and deliverance ministry.
I have worked with former Satanists. I know what they
do on Halloween, it's their high holy day. I know
the eucharistic hosts that are stolen and desecrated. I know
how they worship demons, right. I know how they take
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innocent children and either abuse or sacrifice them. I've heard
it firsthand. There's lots of evil that goes on, not
just the glorification of evil, but the pain concretely that
happens to their victims. And you don't want anything to
do with that. So you could say, well, I'm not
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a Satanist. I just hung this ugly demon on my
tree outside. Why would you attract satan to your home? Right?
Why would you want your children to have the image
of a demon in their mind. Wouldn't you rather have
them have the image of the good Shepherd?
Speaker 3 (23:35):
Right?
Speaker 2 (23:36):
Why in a world where sin has already overtaken so
much Because of people's freely choosing it. Would you expose
your children to voluntary extra demonic activity? And I think
people don't realize that objects can attract spirits. Right, you
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have a beautiful blessed image of the crucifix, right the cross?
Here's that? Oh you can't see it. I have, you know,
the sacred Heart here? And if it's blessed, especially, what
does it do? It attracts the gaze of God to
my home. It doesn't only fill my brain with a
good meditations. And like a meditative prayer, it says to God,
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I honor and I love the gift of your love
and the sacred Heart, and I want you to reign
in my home. And then Satan looks at that picture
and says, I don't want to be around that. I
can't conquer the heart of Christ. And she has that
in her home, right, And Satan looks at my mind
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and says, Wow, that woman's looked at a lot of
holy images. Right, She's meditated on that, and it'll be
hard for me to tempt her to get her to
think wrongly. So it's a protection to have holy images
and it tracks God. Children understand this at the most
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simple level, I brought some of my nanny kids into
my home this summer when they were visiting close by,
and they said to me later, you know, Mary, your
house is so beautiful. The only person who would ever
not think your house is beautiful is the devil. I
don't think the devil would like your house. There's too
many holy things. Well, there's a great truth in that, right.
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Satan can't stand to be near something that is holy,
and the demons are the same thing. So if you
hang up pictures of demonic activity, if you have you know,
evil video games or books or Wiji boards, or you
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know fake demon ghosts, you see people hanging up all
over in your home, around your house, what you're saying
is I'm opening my to this and I want to
allow Satan to be here, right, And the angels are
coming from heaven to protect you, but they respect your
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free will and they will have a harder time defending
you from evil if you are putting those things around
your house saying that evil is welcome because they have
to protect you. Right, your respect your free will. So
you want to be careful this time of year of
not glorifying evil, being a witch or a Satanist or
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a demon is not funny. It's not funny to play
with evil. It's very serious. Now. Satan hates holiness, and
I've seen it by holding a miraculous metal up against
the skin of a possessed person and he screams. He
can't stand to be around holiness. And the greatest holiness
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next to the blessed Sacrament itself on earth, is a
newly baptized infant. Right, children and themselves are very innocent.
And when you baptize them and you ask the Trinity
to live in a new way in their hearts as
children of God, they radiate a great holiness. And if
Satan cannot make them sin because they don't even have reason,
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like they can't send a baby cannot sin, then what
he does is he tries to hurt them. So he
would try to get them to see evil, to be afraid. Right,
he convinced their parents that having evil things in the
home is not going to hurt them, But it does.
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Every family I've ever worked for, especially with babies at night,
who put up gory Halloween decorations, Their children have nightmares
at night, and they'll go to doctors, psychologists, read books.
Why are my children having nightmares. Well, because you've invited
I've even seen multiple times infants who are before the
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age of reason, you would say they wouldn't even notice
things like that, that as soon as they put up
gory and evil things start waking up with night tears
and they're like, why is my baby screaming from three
to four every night? Well, you sort of invited Satan
into your home, you know, or why not when you're here,
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But when we're here, well, because I'm praying the Rosary
and prayers of Saint Michael's protection about them the entire night.
So Satan, if he can't make a child's sin, is
going to try to just hurt them. And his ultimate
goal is to destroy anything that reminds him of God.
And an infant who's baptized is a pure reflection of God. Right,
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And so why does Satan cause things like child sacrifice
on Halloween? It happens, it happens today. Why does he
encourage abortion and other kinds of abuse? Because he wants
to hurt people. Satan's whole point is to hurt. So,
if you want your children to be good and holy,
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most parents, even secular parents, want their children to be good, right,
and peaceful and all of that. Then don't celebrate how
and if you must dress up like a cowboy, fine,
I wouldn't partake in it because it has nothing to
do with God. I would say, focus on all Saints Day,
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and if you want your children to dress up, have
a Saint party. My sister used to have a Saint
party and the kids would dress up like saints and
get together and have games. But at the very least,
do not let them look upon, or even be around,
the evil that's here, that's in the world right this
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time of year. Don't let them look at the demons.
Don't let them mock death or pain. Don't let them
look at like bloody clowns, Like what is that? That's
telling a child that the innocent joy of a clown
right with a painted face is supposed to look like
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fun and innocent, but really is going to hurt them
and be evil. You know, it confuses their little brains.
These things are all portals. Don't mock the demon of
suicide by hanging, you know, a dead body from a
rope on your porch, because it calls upon the demons
of suicide, right, they're attracted to that decoration instead put
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a statue of Our Lady crushing the head of Satan
on your front porch. You know, have a crucifix in
your rooms so that the blood of Christ can pour
through your house and protect you and protect your children.
Children are affected by evil, and they're particularly vulnerable because
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they're so holy. Satan wants to hurt them. He can
tempt them to do things that are wrong. But unless
you're old enough to understand, children aren't held accountable for
like sin. You know, instead, they're just affected by the
evil that's around them, causing them fear and a distorted
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view of life that later is going to affect the
way that they make decisions as an adult. You want
to take a child that comes to you from God
like a blank slate and fill them, program them with
goodness and truth and beauty and holiness, and that will
be the foundation from which they form a secure, strong
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attachment with God, and that will be the springboard of
how they relate to the world the rest of their lives,
how they relate to their husband or wife and their children,
how they relate to making political decisions, how they relate
to new things that come out that they're not sure
is just like evil is it good? You know, there's
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a lot of discernment in life, but you're giving them
a clear board where Satan can't confuse them if you
just expose them to that which is good and true
and holy and beautiful. Right, it's very important, and it's
very important, And I don't mean to scare you, because
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everywhere you go in October there is evil, and there
is glorification of death and their skeletons and there's you know,
a skeleton in itself can remind us of death in
a holy way if you're using it that way. But
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you don't want to ever guide a child through fear,
and you certainly don't want to be little or mock
suffering and death, because it's something real that will hit
their lives someday and it's not funny. It's actually serious,
and you don't want to expose them to the tiniest
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bit of the occult that's so prevalent. Just because they
see somebody dress up like a witch doesn't mean someday
they're going to do witchcraft. Okay, But you don't want
to normalize evil. You want children, when they encounter it
later in life, to be scandalized by it. So that
they like to be like whoa I can't believe because
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then they will run from it.
Speaker 1 (33:48):
Right, And.
Speaker 2 (33:51):
Children aren't born like capable of making adult decisions with
all of these things. And so as a parent or
a caregiver, you have a responsibility to protect them. Right.
We weren't made for this world. We were made for heaven.
And I don't think that they would celebrate Halloween the
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way that the world does, with evil and demons and
blood and gore and mockery in heaven. And we want
to begin to live our heaven while on earth. So
I encourage you to surround your children, not only this
time of year, but all year long with things that
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they can look at, that they can hear, that they
can experience that are only full of truth, goodness, beauty, love, holiness. Right,
watch the programs that they watch on TV? Do you
want your children to act the way that those characters are?
If not, don't let them watch it. What music are
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you listening to in the car? What are the lyrics
that the kids might pick up?
Speaker 4 (35:03):
Right?
Speaker 2 (35:05):
God wants us to be on our toes so that
we can protect our children. What does he say in scripture?
Woe to you if one of you causes these little
ones to send to experience evil. Woe to you if
you expose a small child to demons. Better for you
to have a stone wrapped around your neck and thrown
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into the sea than to cause a little one to stumble.
Woe to you if you scandalize a child by exposing
them to what is evil. And so I think in
today's world there's so much evil that sometimes people excuse
away lesser evil because it's not as bad as the
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greater evil. But our goal is our lady, right, I
don't even have I should have brought a good statue here.
All I have is this icon, although it's kind of
it's not even a beautiful But look at a beautiful
image of our lady and that purity and that childlike
innocence that comes from her, that humility. Evil can't be
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around our lady. And keep that as your measure of
what you have in your home, what your children are
exposed to, and ask her to be their mother and
to help them be protected by her. Right. The world
isn't perfect, and even the best parents cannot always protect
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their children from evil. But you can teach your children
to battle like spiritual warfare, but without fear, simply by
giving them the tools of prayer of you know, when
something scary or evil is around, just burst into song
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like that Tom Dahali nabis right Ali Lujah. You know
he's got the whole world in his hands, this little
light of mind. Teach them to sing. It's beautiful defense
against evil. Teach them to use holy water. The last
time I was at work, the kids were fighting so
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much about my holy water. We ended up with a
holy water fight in the house before Mass on Sunday
and everyone was soaked. But at least we had holy water.
Speaker 3 (37:25):
Right, and.
Speaker 2 (37:27):
Teach them that they can fight away evil that if
they're afraid to pray, and if they're old enough to
pray the Rosary. Sometimes children will wake me up at
night and say, you know, miss Mary, can you just
pray a decad of the Rosary? That's when I feel
at peace again? Or can you pray that angel prayer
that you pray right the Angel of God. Teach children
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to pray, to seal them in God, to pray when
they get up in the morning, to pray at night
before they go to bed, and to pray before meals.
Teach them that their first instinct when they are frustrated
with someone is to pray for them instead of hit
them or to scream, you know, teach them the power
of prayer. Praying for our enemies helps us to forgive them.
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Praying for healing helps us to have hope that someone
we love will be better. Prayer brings peace, and you
want to give children an atmosphere of peace, and so
teach them that. Teach them that because the devil doesn't
give up easily, and he is not going to leave
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your children alone. So I wanted to talk a little
bit about God's love in creation, the effect of a
mother's love in utero. A child begins to experience the
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power of spiritual protection from their parents from the time
they're conceived in their mother's will. Parents have the most
powerful authority over their children. So if a parent prays
over their child, it is more power than any other prayer.
If you bless your children every night before they go
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to bed, with the sign of the Cross on their forehead,
it does more good for them than anybody else praying
for them. Well, imagine a child in you to row
you are with them always. If you are looking at
things good and holy, you are praying, you are singing
to the Lord. You are going to Mass, You're receiving communion.
Jesus as he enters you touches a child. Imagine developing
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in an atmosphere of holy peace and love. Right, it's
so beautiful. The next level of authority in the spiritual
realm is grandparents grandparents. You have a powerful spiritual authority
over your children. So may or your grandchildren. So maybe
you feel bad because your son left the church. Pray
with your grandchildren though, Bless them, don't curse them. You know,
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sometimes people get frustrated with their kids and they say
bad things. Don't do that. That throws a spirit of
negativity at them. Bless them, It throws the Holy spirit
at them. Right, pray for them. It does way more
than you know. And aunts and uncles, you have an authority.
Brothers and sisters, you have an authority. Maybe not like
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a parent or a grandparent. I as a nanny, I
claim spiritual authority over the children, especially when I'm working.
So maybe right now i'm at home alone, I don't
have as much authority. But if I go to work
and the parents are gone, the parents have handed me
their authority over their children. While they're gone, right, I
get to make decisions. I take care of them. So
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I bring along my Spiritual Warfare book, and when they
go to bed, I pray deliverance prayers for them. I
pray prayers of blessing on them. You can do a
phenomenal work for the children that you love just by
claiming the authority that you have. And you know when
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you feel like maybe something's off in a house. As
a nanny, sometimes at night I'm like, ah, there's evil
going on here. These people might not understand it, but
there is. I had an exorcist suggests this once, and
it's true. Turn on your phone onto some monks that
are chanting Gregorian chant. It's very powerful against evil. And
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if they're praying the Rosary and Gregorian chant, it's incredible.
It doesn't even have to be super audible. You can
turn it way down low. Demons will know it's on,
but if the children hear it, it's a calming effect
on them. I always have the mass going whenever I
know there's an online mass on my phone while I'm working,
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just to get the graces and so that Satan knows
somehow where I am working with these children. We're connected
to the holy sacrifice of the Mass. Right at night,
when I go to bed, I turn on the TV.
I don't own a TV, but the places I work,
the image of adoration live somewhere, so that the house
where I am is connected to those who are praying
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in front of the blessed sacrament all night. Often I
go to Nipakalonov in Poland. Right how city of Mary
that Maximilian Colby founded, But there's many. If you go
to YouTube and google live Adoration, have those images in
your house right, Keep it on your TV, even when
the kids are playing. It invites the spirit of God.
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It says our home wants to be a sanctuary of
heaven and not a sanctuary of hell. Like some people,
especially this time of year, they make their home look
like hell. And that's not good for anyone adult or children.
But you, knowing better, even if the children aren't yours,
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can help by you know these different little ways. These
little ways. Teachers and educators, you have a power, powerful
authority over your kids too, Maybe not like a parent,
but pray for your kids and expose them to good.
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You don't have to tell them the evil of what's
around them, just instead distract them and redirect them towards
what is good and true and holy and beautiful right
and like as a foster parent, I just want to
note that that these foster children that we get have
so much negativity bound to them. If they've been abused
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or neglected, there's an evil that they've been exposed to
in that A lot of times a trauma. A lot
of them have just been spiritually neglected, right, They've never
been around something good and true and holy. So I
have all sorts of those beautiful, different, bored books that
I read to the children, showing them holy images, take
holy water and bless them, Pray deliverance prayers. Consecrate the
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children in your care to the Sacred Heart and the
Immaculate Heart. Pray for them because in the time that
they're in your care, you have a great authority over them.
You have a parental authority, and you know where you're
not supposed to. You can take them to church, but
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you're not supposed to get them baptized in your church
or something like that unless you adopt them. You are
allowed to pray for them and to pray the blessing
of God over them, and that can do a lot.
It can do a lot besides raising a child in
an atmosphere of love and good and truth and holiness.
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Sacraments are a protection for children. And I've seen in
orphanages where babies are brought that have been cursed, who
are crying and pain when they are baptized, the difference.
There was a little girl I was. I was friends
with their family who had been terribly sexually abused, and
she was a mess. She was four and when she
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was adopted, she was baptized and she went back to
school and her teacher said, what happened to you over
the weekend. You're completely different. She could see a natural
difference in the healing they received in that sacrament. Right,
make sure that your children are formed in the sacraments,
that they understand that communion is not just getting that bread,
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you know, but that they know that's the heart of Jesus,
that they have to go to confession and have a
clean heart to receive him, that they need to love
him and to respect him. Keep the sacraments close. Take
your children to daily Mass if you can, or adoration,
Pray the Rosary. Pray the Rosary in your family. It
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is such powerful spiritual warfare. And when you teach your
children in the rosary, when they grow up and they
leave the church and they're struggling and they don't know
what to do, they'll pick up a rosary and pray.
It gives them the instruments to get back home if
something happens. It doesn't mean there's many people I know
who will raise solid Catholic and leave the church. It
doesn't mean that they'll never leave, but they are aware
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of those tools that can help them get back home right.
And there's several people I know who have fallen from
the church, but who keep a rosary by their bedside
and pray it when they're afraid or struggling. And our
lady is their mother, will get them back home. We'll
get them back to the church. We'll get them to heaven.
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Sometimes you might say, you know, there's so much evil
in the world, kind of like it's none of my business.
But we look back to Genesis where you know God
questioned Cain and Abel, and what was the response given,
Am I my brother's keeper? We are our brother's keeper.
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I don't feel only morally responsible for the children that
are in my home. The little kids I see riding
their bike. When I see them going past the house
that has particular evil on the front porch, I pray
for their protection. Right when I meet children in a store,
maybe if you work in a homeless shelter or something,
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I think about the children who are in these prayer
groups that we formed in Pakistan and the Cameraroon, in
Ethiopia and Nigeria, all over the world. I am my
brother's keeper. I will be asked, did you give these
children goodness, truth and holiness? My nanny kids. Maybe they're
not mine. Maybe I can't make every decision for them
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like their parents. But when I share things with them,
am I sharing what is good and true and holy
and beautiful? Right? So we kind of are our family's keeper.
For those there's a lot of things you can do
to protect your children from evil, and I've said that,
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But for those who have been exposed, right, and like
I get that, and foster children, it's very powerful to
pray to the blood of Christ. It's the blood of Christ,
Saint Paul says, that brings us peace. It's the blood
of Christ that heals, It's the blood of Christ that
recreates us. It's a new creation that we have through
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the Blood of Christ. So pray the litany of the
Blood of Christ. In my book Mornings with Mary, there's
a beautiful prayer to consecrate infants and children to the
Blood of Christ. Do that right, give them to our lady,
call upon guardian angels, call upon their patron saints. And
if maybe they have a name that's not a saint name,
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assign a saint that you've decided that and somehow relates
to them, and you're gonna pray for them, Teach them
the Bible, read them scripture, recite scriptures, seeing scripture, speak
scripture to them. And I'm a fan of getting these
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little children's books that have like a scripture quote and
then like a rhyme or something so that children hear that.
Because if we were created by the word of God,
the second person of the Trinity, right, and the Father said,
let there be Henry, let there be Elizabeth. Right, he
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created us with his word, and when we fell and said,
he recreated us by his word, who took flesh in
Jesus Christ, and who died to pour his blood upon
us to save us, to feed us with his eucharistic heart.
So you scripture, Holy images and holy books, crafts, like
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I said, to paint things to you know, if little
kids really like legos, there's some like church sets, you know,
that they could do. And the kids I take care
of just naturally love to build churches out of magnetiles
because there's a lot of You can make a lot
of steeples with the triangle ones. But it doesn't mean
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they can. You know, you only allow children to do
things that are directly having to do with God. God
is also in the natural, but bring him to mind everywhere.
They can play outside and think about basketball, but you
can always teach him a lesson about life and perseverance,
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right and like Saint Paul was an athlete, you can.
You can bring him into their everyday lives, and that
is a protection for them. It's a real protection for them.
Blessed are the peer of heart. They shall see God.
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And that's really my greatest excuse for the strictness I
have about not allowing children to be exposed to evil,
especially this time of year. Jesus said, Blessed are the
peer of heart. They will see God. Don't you want
your children to see God? You have to keep their
hearts pure to preserve their innocence, and so I pray
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that this is just a little bit of an example
of ways that you can help your children in spiritual warfare.
That you can even before they have maybe a battle,
you can give them a foundation of holiness, and that
you can teach them to love God so much that
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his presence is like a protection around them all the
days of their life. Glory be to the Father and
to the Son and to the Holy Spirit. As as
it was in the beginning, is now and ever shall
be world without and Eva Alilujah.
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Speaker 2 (00:06):
Hello, God bless you, and welcome to the heart of
Fiat crucified Love. We have a whole lot to talk
about today, and I've been putting off doing this podcast
because I like to have time to set things up,
to be super prepared. But that will never happen, not
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in my life. So I thought, I have an hour
and I'm just gonna sit down and record. I did
jot down some notes the other day of what I
want to talk about, and we're going to just do it.
So I do apologize for the informality of all of this.
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This week on the podcast, we're going to talk about
spiritual warfare for children. There's a whole lot I have
to say on that. So let's start with a prayer
and the song that I picked out. It's a Russian song.
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It's a Russian children's song, Tom dali nabiesnoy. It's to
our lady, and the words are there with you in heaven.
Somebody is waiting for you. Her name is Mary. She says,
come along, children, and then it says hide us Mary,
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and nothing battle happen to us, Protect us Mary, Sorry,
and nothing batt'll happen to us if we hide ourselves
under your dress, right, like you imagine a little kid
hiding under the dress of their mother. Give us your
hand and we'll go with you because we want to
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be with you.
Speaker 3 (01:52):
Right.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
Ask God for mercy for us. We want to be
with you in all difficult times. Right. And then the
last verse is good Mother Mary, I love you and
I give you my heart. Okay. So it's very simple,
but very beautiful. So we're going to sing the song
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and say a prayer and talk about spiritual warfare for children.
We need to protect our children and give them the
instruments that will keep them safe in this fallen world
and get them to Heaven quickly. So in the name
of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit. Amen, Come,
Holy Spirit, fill the hearts of your faithful and enkindle
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in us the fire of your love. Send forth your spirit,
and we will be recreated, and thou will renew the
face of the earth. Sweet Jesus, we ask you to
pour your precious blood upon us, upon our thoughts, our words,
our ears as we listen to you, upon everyone who
will see this podcast now or in a hundred years.
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We pray for our children, those in our families, those
who we take care of, those who have no one
to pray for them, those in foster care, those who
should be in foster care. For the orphans, we pray
and ask that you may protect them. We consecrate them
to your sacred Heart and the precious Blood, and we
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also consecrate them to our lady and to Saint Joseph.
Hail Mary, full of grace, So lordous with thee blessed
art thou among women, and blessed is the fruit of
thy womb. Jesus, Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for
us sinners now and at the hour of our death. Amen.
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I don't usually play this acoustic guitar. It's that beautiful
fender that was donated to me by actually, sadly, the
family of a man who committed suicides. We pray for
him as we sing as well. So Tom dullyabianoy toto
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steal tea tomso body pie didy did h Oops, that
was wrong. I'm not used to.
Speaker 4 (04:36):
That ant naic body. Here ena strash nomenia. Yes, craig
y platzo Dustmenapa smell a snake.
Speaker 2 (05:01):
He do ye're hacho maya beat.
Speaker 1 (05:07):
Stu boy.
Speaker 3 (05:12):
Be lusty bold girl be pressianas.
Speaker 2 (05:21):
Misty snami booda sami true be cha.
Speaker 4 (05:33):
Uhada smarty here inenu strash nomina, yesle creep you're your
plots so dastnaminaka smellss snake you do ah had your body.
Speaker 3 (06:02):
H beat stop boy do braa mardy your teepia lib
spy your sis you nayep yah under.
Speaker 4 (06:29):
Cher nia now smarty enu strush nominia, yeslea creep your
plots dust anamniaa smell say to.
Speaker 2 (06:55):
Yeah, had you body h beat stop?
Speaker 3 (07:04):
Yeah, body stup.
Speaker 2 (07:13):
Obviously I should practice guitar as much as I practice piano. Okay,
So the podcast Spiritual Warfare for Children, Why did I
do that song? Because we need Mary, because we need
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our lady. We need to go to her as children,
and we need to bring our children to her. You
know how mothers know what their children need better than
the children know. Our lady knows what we need and
what our children need better than we do ourselves. Right,
She has that clarity of vision in our lives. You know,
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when you study psychology and healthy attachments, especially between small
children and their parents or their caregivers. Psychologists talk about
the importance of a parent to really pay attention to
what that child really needs. Right. Sometimes they can cry
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and it means that they're hungry, or you know, they
think that they, you know, want one thing, and really
they're just tired. It's being able to see the authentic
need of a child and respond to it that creates
healthy attachment.
Speaker 4 (08:39):
Right.
Speaker 2 (08:41):
And we as fallen creatures, succeeded that at times or
failing that at times. But our lady is a creature,
but she's perfect. So she's a perfect mother. You know.
We might be, you know, praying for one thing, and
our lady sees at our deepest is something different, right,
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And so we need to go to her ask children
and ask her help. And we need to go to
her with our children and with the children that we
take care of, the children that we pray for, and
ask her to see their deepest needs and to provide
for them and to make up for maybe what's not
visible to us. Right. So I wanted to talk a
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little bit about just the pedagogy of a child. And
you know, how a child functions when you look at
the way that God wired the brain of a child, right,
They learn from mimicry. They don't like study a book
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on language and then start to speak. Some adults do that.
I tend to learn languages more like a child would.
Though They watch what you say and what you know,
how your mouth moves. They listen, and then they mimic
right those sounds da da da right. And the same
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comes for like the interior life of a child. What
they see around them, what they experience around them, what
they hear around them, affects them, affects the wiring of
their brains. Right. There's no image that a child can
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see that you can erase from their mind, and it's
a beautiful thing when you think about them being raised
in an atmosphere of love and a loving family with
like all beautiful images. All the art in the porch
room is art that I did with the children I
take care of in Chicago. When we get bored, they
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always want me to paint with them, and it's cheap
children's paint, but I always up with an icon, so
I thought, well, I'll fill this room with it. But
it's a beautiful activity to do with children, to have
them contemplate that which is holy, and to then what
do they do? They imitate it, they recreate it. Very
often when I start to paint, the kids have another
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idea and they're painting, but they're watching me, and slowly
their picture transforms into mine. And I always say, you
don't have to do what I'm doing, and they're like, oh,
it's my own idea, but it's just so pretty. But
they get so excited because then we'll have two of
the same pictures. But it's a good thing when you are,
you know, painting things that are beautiful and true and
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full of the love of God. Right, it makes children
think about that. It's a painful thing when a child witnesses,
or experience or hears something that's evil. And it shouldn't
panic any of you that know your children have been
exposed to that you know, something that's evil, because the
blood of Christ and prayer can wash and purify the
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mind even from things that you know, maybe we you know,
wish that we didn't see, or that somebody we love
didn't see. God can recreate us, but it's much easier
to just program us properly through truth and beauty and
love right goodness. So not only does what we see
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and hear around us affect us in a human way,
but it affects us spiritually. Right. You think about you
think about what you look at. And when you read
a child a really good book or you show them
holy pictures, you take them into a church and they
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gaze at the beauty, especially old churches that are really beautiful,
they begin to think about that. I knew a little
girl once who had a struggle with nightmares, and it's
because she was allowed to watch awful things on her
iPad and I could kind of see the connection between
what she was dreaming and what she was watching. So
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I didn't exercise with her at night before she went
to bed. And I always always say, before you go
to sleep, you have to name me something that is good,
something that is true, and something that is beautiful, and
then that's what you're going to dream about. Right. God
is goodness itself. Christ is truth, and authentic beauty is
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a reflection of God. So it's a way for her
to open her up herself up to that natural grace
that God wants to give us through truth and beauty
and goodness, so that her mind was full of that
and then she would dream and she would be fine. Right.
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We also see in children how their behavior is reflected
in what they watch. So I am very annoying to
the children I take care of sometimes because there's certain
things I won't let them watch if I'm there. I
don't have control always, but if I'm there, and they'd
say why, and I'd say, because then you act like that,
and I don't want you to behave that way. I
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don't want you to speak that way. I don't want
you to treat other people that way. I don't want
you to imitate things like this, and so I won't
let you watch it. Right, So often we as adults
forget that as adults, we have reasons so we can
filter things. You can watch a movie on World War
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Two that might have a scene of fighting or violence
that you don't like, but you watch it because there's
a great lesson to be learned in the movie. You
can filter it out, and with your brain you can
know that that's not the way you're supposed to treat people.
And you can also think, in your own mind, you
know this isn't true, this isn't going on right now,
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this is a story. Children have a hard time doing that,
So if they watch a show that has violence, or
something evil. They think that's in their bedroom at night.
It's hard for them to reason that that is something
made up or something from long ago. And if they
see people treating someone badly, it's hard for them without
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that fully developed reason to recognize that that's not what
they're supposed to do. I mean, we're created to mimic, right,
That's how parents teach. You take a baby's hand and
you wave, and you wave and you wave, and finally
one day they see you and they start waving at you. Right.
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So it's very important that we protect the innocence of
our children. That we only let them look at and
listen to and experience that which is good and true
and beautiful and holy, because we want our children to
be good and true and beautiful and holy. Right, So
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you want to expose them to that. And I know
sometimes there's an argument, well, kids have to learn that
that stuff's fake or you know, that's hiding them from reality.
But children when they're born are not fully developed, right,
And if you expose them to the evil that's in
this world too early, it can damage the way that
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they function, that they that they behave, that they think, right,
it damages their mind and their emotions, their whole approach
at looking at life, and of course spiritually as well.
So it's very important to protect the innocence of children.
And then, believe me, there's enough evil in the world
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that as they grow up, they'll experience the evil, and
then you can, if you have a good relationship with them,
teach them how to deal with that. Right, So you
want to be gentle with that sensitivity of a child's
heart and only expose them to what is good and
true and beautiful. Right, it says it in scripture. I
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also want to talk for a moment about the scripture
that says that I is the lamp of the body,
right Wellever, it's not just true for children, it's true
for us. People wonder why my house is, you know,
full of holy images and things, And it's because even subconsciously,
as I look around and I see things, it reminds
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me to look to Heaven and it fills my thoughts
with things that are good and true and beautiful and holy.
So that then if somebody approaches me with a problem
or there's a decision I can make, I do it
with that reference, right, with that foundation of having goodness, truth,
beauty and holiness in my mind, right, that's the foundation.
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And even Christ said the eye is a lamp of
the body. If we look at things that are evil,
then we begin to have that evil interfoltrait into how
we behave in the world. It was interesting when the
Passion of Christ came out and some of the young
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people were telling me it actually didn't affect them that
much because they've been desensitized by the world and exposure
to so much violence that they become numb. And it's
one of the reasons this time of year there's a
great sadness in seeing how people mock pain. Right, it's October,
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Halloween is coming up, and how do people decorate for
this feast that's supposed to be of all saints. November
first is the Feast of all Saints, and we're supposed
to be celebrating all the saints in heaven and the
evening before All Hallows Eve, the Holy Evening is October
thirty first, where we should be celebrating holiness and the
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gift of salvation that Christ want for us on the cross.
Right on Halloween, people should be meditating on the passion
of Christ. And Satan knows that and so what does
he do. He turns the hearts of people to a
mockery of the passion of Christ, and he tries to
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desensitize them. So you see all these absolutely horrible decorations
of blood and a violence of death, and it belittles it.
And if people aren't offended by it, which they should be,
then they're desensitized by it. Right, And it is a
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mockery on the gift that Christ himself gave to us.
It's very bad to have blood and gore and death
everywhere as a min mockery for Halloween. Instead, it's Halloween
is supposed to remind us of all Saints Day, where
we look to heaven to the saints who have died.
Some died a gory death in martyrdom, right, their heads
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were cut off and their you know, bodies were burned
or thrown with it, you know, an anchor into the sea.
It's they suffered great things for Christ. But you don't
want to mock that like people do on Halloween. You
want to honor their great love of God that help
them to endure great suffering. So it's very important this
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time of year to shield children from not only being
desensitized to pain and suffering, but to mock it the
mockery of the passion of Christ. And you want children
to always be taught compassion, so if they see someone hurt,
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they help them. If somebody has dyed, it's a serious thing, right,
It's not something to be mocked. So that's just something
I want to mention on the side that we don't
want to glorify evil and mock suffering like many do
this time of year. The eye is the lamp of
the body. If you even look, I have a great
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custody of my eyes. I don't look at things like that,
even when they're in my face. My neighbors have things
like that. I won't let myself look at it, because
you have your eye is the lamp of the body.
I don't want that darkness, that desensitation, that evil to
enter into my body through my eyes through what I'm
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looking at. I want my mind filled with the beautiful
triumph of Christ on the cross through his pain that
one for us, haven't right, That's that's how we're supposed
to focus. And you know, I'll just met this time
of year. Another big problem that people when they falsely
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celebrate Halloween as this dark, gory, scary, bloody thing is.
They're opening themselves and their children up as a portal
to evil, and even as a joke. You don't want
to play with evil. Some people might not understand that.
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I have been involved in the exorcism and deliverance ministry.
I have worked with former Satanists. I know what they
do on Halloween, it's their high holy day. I know
the eucharistic hosts that are stolen and desecrated. I know
how they worship demons, right. I know how they take
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innocent children and either abuse or sacrifice them. I've heard
it firsthand. There's lots of evil that goes on, not
just the glorification of evil, but the pain concretely that
happens to their victims. And you don't want anything to
do with that. So you could say, well, I'm not
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a Satanist. I just hung this ugly demon on my
tree outside. Why would you attract satan to your home? Right?
Why would you want your children to have the image
of a demon in their mind. Wouldn't you rather have
them have the image of the good Shepherd?
Speaker 3 (23:35):
Right?
Speaker 2 (23:36):
Why in a world where sin has already overtaken so
much Because of people's freely choosing it. Would you expose
your children to voluntary extra demonic activity? And I think
people don't realize that objects can attract spirits. Right, you
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have a beautiful blessed image of the crucifix, right the cross?
Here's that? Oh you can't see it. I have, you know,
the sacred Heart here? And if it's blessed, especially, what
does it do? It attracts the gaze of God to
my home. It doesn't only fill my brain with a
good meditations. And like a meditative prayer, it says to God,
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I honor and I love the gift of your love
and the sacred Heart, and I want you to reign
in my home. And then Satan looks at that picture
and says, I don't want to be around that. I
can't conquer the heart of Christ. And she has that
in her home, right, And Satan looks at my mind
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and says, Wow, that woman's looked at a lot of
holy images. Right, She's meditated on that, and it'll be
hard for me to tempt her to get her to
think wrongly. So it's a protection to have holy images
and it tracks God. Children understand this at the most
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simple level, I brought some of my nanny kids into
my home this summer when they were visiting close by,
and they said to me later, you know, Mary, your
house is so beautiful. The only person who would ever
not think your house is beautiful is the devil. I
don't think the devil would like your house. There's too
many holy things. Well, there's a great truth in that, right.
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Satan can't stand to be near something that is holy,
and the demons are the same thing. So if you
hang up pictures of demonic activity, if you have you know,
evil video games or books or Wiji boards, or you
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know fake demon ghosts, you see people hanging up all
over in your home, around your house, what you're saying
is I'm opening my to this and I want to
allow Satan to be here, right, And the angels are
coming from heaven to protect you, but they respect your
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free will and they will have a harder time defending
you from evil if you are putting those things around
your house saying that evil is welcome because they have
to protect you. Right, your respect your free will. So
you want to be careful this time of year of
not glorifying evil, being a witch or a Satanist or
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a demon is not funny. It's not funny to play
with evil. It's very serious. Now. Satan hates holiness, and
I've seen it by holding a miraculous metal up against
the skin of a possessed person and he screams. He
can't stand to be around holiness. And the greatest holiness
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next to the blessed Sacrament itself on earth, is a
newly baptized infant. Right, children and themselves are very innocent.
And when you baptize them and you ask the Trinity
to live in a new way in their hearts as
children of God, they radiate a great holiness. And if
Satan cannot make them sin because they don't even have reason,
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like they can't send a baby cannot sin, then what
he does is he tries to hurt them. So he
would try to get them to see evil, to be afraid. Right,
he convinced their parents that having evil things in the
home is not going to hurt them, But it does.
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Every family I've ever worked for, especially with babies at night,
who put up gory Halloween decorations, Their children have nightmares
at night, and they'll go to doctors, psychologists, read books.
Why are my children having nightmares. Well, because you've invited
I've even seen multiple times infants who are before the
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age of reason, you would say they wouldn't even notice
things like that, that as soon as they put up
gory and evil things start waking up with night tears
and they're like, why is my baby screaming from three
to four every night? Well, you sort of invited Satan
into your home, you know, or why not when you're here,
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But when we're here, well, because I'm praying the Rosary
and prayers of Saint Michael's protection about them the entire night.
So Satan, if he can't make a child's sin, is
going to try to just hurt them. And his ultimate
goal is to destroy anything that reminds him of God.
And an infant who's baptized is a pure reflection of God. Right,
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And so why does Satan cause things like child sacrifice
on Halloween? It happens, it happens today. Why does he
encourage abortion and other kinds of abuse? Because he wants
to hurt people. Satan's whole point is to hurt. So,
if you want your children to be good and holy,
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most parents, even secular parents, want their children to be good, right,
and peaceful and all of that. Then don't celebrate how
and if you must dress up like a cowboy, fine,
I wouldn't partake in it because it has nothing to
do with God. I would say, focus on all Saints Day,
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and if you want your children to dress up, have
a Saint party. My sister used to have a Saint
party and the kids would dress up like saints and
get together and have games. But at the very least,
do not let them look upon, or even be around,
the evil that's here, that's in the world right this
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time of year. Don't let them look at the demons.
Don't let them mock death or pain. Don't let them
look at like bloody clowns, Like what is that? That's
telling a child that the innocent joy of a clown
right with a painted face is supposed to look like
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fun and innocent, but really is going to hurt them
and be evil. You know, it confuses their little brains.
These things are all portals. Don't mock the demon of
suicide by hanging, you know, a dead body from a
rope on your porch, because it calls upon the demons
of suicide, right, they're attracted to that decoration instead put
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a statue of Our Lady crushing the head of Satan
on your front porch. You know, have a crucifix in
your rooms so that the blood of Christ can pour
through your house and protect you and protect your children.
Children are affected by evil, and they're particularly vulnerable because
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they're so holy. Satan wants to hurt them. He can
tempt them to do things that are wrong. But unless
you're old enough to understand, children aren't held accountable for
like sin. You know, instead, they're just affected by the
evil that's around them, causing them fear and a distorted
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view of life that later is going to affect the
way that they make decisions as an adult. You want
to take a child that comes to you from God
like a blank slate and fill them, program them with
goodness and truth and beauty and holiness, and that will
be the foundation from which they form a secure, strong
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attachment with God, and that will be the springboard of
how they relate to the world the rest of their lives,
how they relate to their husband or wife and their children,
how they relate to making political decisions, how they relate
to new things that come out that they're not sure
is just like evil is it good? You know, there's
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a lot of discernment in life, but you're giving them
a clear board where Satan can't confuse them if you
just expose them to that which is good and true
and holy and beautiful. Right, it's very important, and it's
very important, And I don't mean to scare you, because
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everywhere you go in October there is evil, and there
is glorification of death and their skeletons and there's you know,
a skeleton in itself can remind us of death in
a holy way if you're using it that way. But
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you don't want to ever guide a child through fear,
and you certainly don't want to be little or mock
suffering and death, because it's something real that will hit
their lives someday and it's not funny. It's actually serious,
and you don't want to expose them to the tiniest
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bit of the occult that's so prevalent. Just because they
see somebody dress up like a witch doesn't mean someday
they're going to do witchcraft. Okay, But you don't want
to normalize evil. You want children, when they encounter it
later in life, to be scandalized by it. So that
they like to be like whoa I can't believe because
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then they will run from it.
Speaker 1 (33:48):
Right, And.
Speaker 2 (33:51):
Children aren't born like capable of making adult decisions with
all of these things. And so as a parent or
a caregiver, you have a responsibility to protect them. Right.
We weren't made for this world. We were made for heaven.
And I don't think that they would celebrate Halloween the
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way that the world does, with evil and demons and
blood and gore and mockery in heaven. And we want
to begin to live our heaven while on earth. So
I encourage you to surround your children, not only this
time of year, but all year long with things that
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they can look at, that they can hear, that they
can experience that are only full of truth, goodness, beauty, love, holiness. Right,
watch the programs that they watch on TV? Do you
want your children to act the way that those characters are?
If not, don't let them watch it. What music are
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you listening to in the car? What are the lyrics
that the kids might pick up?
Speaker 4 (35:03):
Right?
Speaker 2 (35:05):
God wants us to be on our toes so that
we can protect our children. What does he say in scripture?
Woe to you if one of you causes these little
ones to send to experience evil. Woe to you if
you expose a small child to demons. Better for you
to have a stone wrapped around your neck and thrown
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into the sea than to cause a little one to stumble.
Woe to you if you scandalize a child by exposing
them to what is evil. And so I think in
today's world there's so much evil that sometimes people excuse
away lesser evil because it's not as bad as the
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greater evil. But our goal is our lady, right, I
don't even have I should have brought a good statue here.
All I have is this icon, although it's kind of
it's not even a beautiful But look at a beautiful
image of our lady and that purity and that childlike
innocence that comes from her, that humility. Evil can't be
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around our lady. And keep that as your measure of
what you have in your home, what your children are
exposed to, and ask her to be their mother and
to help them be protected by her. Right. The world
isn't perfect, and even the best parents cannot always protect
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their children from evil. But you can teach your children
to battle like spiritual warfare, but without fear, simply by
giving them the tools of prayer of you know, when
something scary or evil is around, just burst into song
(36:53):
like that Tom Dahali nabis right Ali Lujah. You know
he's got the whole world in his hands, this little
light of mind. Teach them to sing. It's beautiful defense
against evil. Teach them to use holy water. The last
time I was at work, the kids were fighting so
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much about my holy water. We ended up with a
holy water fight in the house before Mass on Sunday
and everyone was soaked. But at least we had holy water.
Speaker 3 (37:25):
Right, and.
Speaker 2 (37:27):
Teach them that they can fight away evil that if
they're afraid to pray, and if they're old enough to
pray the Rosary. Sometimes children will wake me up at
night and say, you know, miss Mary, can you just
pray a decad of the Rosary? That's when I feel
at peace again? Or can you pray that angel prayer
that you pray right the Angel of God. Teach children
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to pray, to seal them in God, to pray when
they get up in the morning, to pray at night
before they go to bed, and to pray before meals.
Teach them that their first instinct when they are frustrated
with someone is to pray for them instead of hit
them or to scream, you know, teach them the power
of prayer. Praying for our enemies helps us to forgive them.
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Praying for healing helps us to have hope that someone
we love will be better. Prayer brings peace, and you
want to give children an atmosphere of peace, and so
teach them that. Teach them that because the devil doesn't
give up easily, and he is not going to leave
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your children alone. So I wanted to talk a little
bit about God's love in creation, the effect of a
mother's love in utero. A child begins to experience the
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power of spiritual protection from their parents from the time
they're conceived in their mother's will. Parents have the most
powerful authority over their children. So if a parent prays
over their child, it is more power than any other prayer.
If you bless your children every night before they go
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to bed, with the sign of the Cross on their forehead,
it does more good for them than anybody else praying
for them. Well, imagine a child in you to row
you are with them always. If you are looking at
things good and holy, you are praying, you are singing
to the Lord. You are going to Mass, You're receiving communion.
Jesus as he enters you touches a child. Imagine developing
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in an atmosphere of holy peace and love. Right, it's
so beautiful. The next level of authority in the spiritual
realm is grandparents grandparents. You have a powerful spiritual authority
over your children. So may or your grandchildren. So maybe
you feel bad because your son left the church. Pray
with your grandchildren though, Bless them, don't curse them. You know,
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sometimes people get frustrated with their kids and they say
bad things. Don't do that. That throws a spirit of
negativity at them. Bless them, It throws the Holy spirit
at them. Right, pray for them. It does way more
than you know. And aunts and uncles, you have an authority.
Brothers and sisters, you have an authority. Maybe not like
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a parent or a grandparent. I as a nanny, I
claim spiritual authority over the children, especially when I'm working.
So maybe right now i'm at home alone, I don't
have as much authority. But if I go to work
and the parents are gone, the parents have handed me
their authority over their children. While they're gone, right, I
get to make decisions. I take care of them. So
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I bring along my Spiritual Warfare book, and when they
go to bed, I pray deliverance prayers for them. I
pray prayers of blessing on them. You can do a
phenomenal work for the children that you love just by
claiming the authority that you have. And you know when
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you feel like maybe something's off in a house. As
a nanny, sometimes at night I'm like, ah, there's evil
going on here. These people might not understand it, but
there is. I had an exorcist suggests this once, and
it's true. Turn on your phone onto some monks that
are chanting Gregorian chant. It's very powerful against evil. And
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if they're praying the Rosary and Gregorian chant, it's incredible.
It doesn't even have to be super audible. You can
turn it way down low. Demons will know it's on,
but if the children hear it, it's a calming effect
on them. I always have the mass going whenever I
know there's an online mass on my phone while I'm working,
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just to get the graces and so that Satan knows
somehow where I am working with these children. We're connected
to the holy sacrifice of the Mass. Right at night,
when I go to bed, I turn on the TV.
I don't own a TV, but the places I work,
the image of adoration live somewhere, so that the house
where I am is connected to those who are praying
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in front of the blessed sacrament all night. Often I
go to Nipakalonov in Poland. Right how city of Mary
that Maximilian Colby founded, But there's many. If you go
to YouTube and google live Adoration, have those images in
your house right, Keep it on your TV, even when
the kids are playing. It invites the spirit of God.
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It says our home wants to be a sanctuary of
heaven and not a sanctuary of hell. Like some people,
especially this time of year, they make their home look
like hell. And that's not good for anyone adult or children.
But you, knowing better, even if the children aren't yours,
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can help by you know these different little ways. These
little ways. Teachers and educators, you have a power, powerful
authority over your kids too, Maybe not like a parent,
but pray for your kids and expose them to good.
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You don't have to tell them the evil of what's
around them, just instead distract them and redirect them towards
what is good and true and holy and beautiful right
and like as a foster parent, I just want to
note that that these foster children that we get have
so much negativity bound to them. If they've been abused
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or neglected, there's an evil that they've been exposed to
in that A lot of times a trauma. A lot
of them have just been spiritually neglected, right, They've never
been around something good and true and holy. So I
have all sorts of those beautiful, different, bored books that
I read to the children, showing them holy images, take
holy water and bless them, Pray deliverance prayers. Consecrate the
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children in your care to the Sacred Heart and the
Immaculate Heart. Pray for them because in the time that
they're in your care, you have a great authority over them.
You have a parental authority, and you know where you're
not supposed to. You can take them to church, but
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you're not supposed to get them baptized in your church
or something like that unless you adopt them. You are
allowed to pray for them and to pray the blessing
of God over them, and that can do a lot.
It can do a lot besides raising a child in
an atmosphere of love and good and truth and holiness.
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Sacraments are a protection for children. And I've seen in
orphanages where babies are brought that have been cursed, who
are crying and pain when they are baptized, the difference.
There was a little girl I was. I was friends
with their family who had been terribly sexually abused, and
she was a mess. She was four and when she
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was adopted, she was baptized and she went back to
school and her teacher said, what happened to you over
the weekend. You're completely different. She could see a natural
difference in the healing they received in that sacrament. Right,
make sure that your children are formed in the sacraments,
that they understand that communion is not just getting that bread,
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you know, but that they know that's the heart of Jesus,
that they have to go to confession and have a
clean heart to receive him, that they need to love
him and to respect him. Keep the sacraments close. Take
your children to daily Mass if you can, or adoration,
Pray the Rosary. Pray the Rosary in your family. It
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is such powerful spiritual warfare. And when you teach your
children in the rosary, when they grow up and they
leave the church and they're struggling and they don't know
what to do, they'll pick up a rosary and pray.
It gives them the instruments to get back home if
something happens. It doesn't mean there's many people I know
who will raise solid Catholic and leave the church. It
doesn't mean that they'll never leave, but they are aware
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of those tools that can help them get back home right.
And there's several people I know who have fallen from
the church, but who keep a rosary by their bedside
and pray it when they're afraid or struggling. And our
lady is their mother, will get them back home. We'll
get them back to the church. We'll get them to heaven.
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Sometimes you might say, you know, there's so much evil
in the world, kind of like it's none of my business.
But we look back to Genesis where you know God
questioned Cain and Abel, and what was the response given,
Am I my brother's keeper? We are our brother's keeper.
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I don't feel only morally responsible for the children that
are in my home. The little kids I see riding
their bike. When I see them going past the house
that has particular evil on the front porch, I pray
for their protection. Right when I meet children in a store,
maybe if you work in a homeless shelter or something,
(47:27):
I think about the children who are in these prayer
groups that we formed in Pakistan and the Cameraroon, in
Ethiopia and Nigeria, all over the world. I am my
brother's keeper. I will be asked, did you give these
children goodness, truth and holiness? My nanny kids. Maybe they're
not mine. Maybe I can't make every decision for them
(47:48):
like their parents. But when I share things with them,
am I sharing what is good and true and holy
and beautiful? Right? So we kind of are our family's keeper.
For those there's a lot of things you can do
to protect your children from evil, and I've said that,
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But for those who have been exposed, right, and like
I get that, and foster children, it's very powerful to
pray to the blood of Christ. It's the blood of Christ,
Saint Paul says, that brings us peace. It's the blood
of Christ that heals, It's the blood of Christ that
recreates us. It's a new creation that we have through
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the Blood of Christ. So pray the litany of the
Blood of Christ. In my book Mornings with Mary, there's
a beautiful prayer to consecrate infants and children to the
Blood of Christ. Do that right, give them to our lady,
call upon guardian angels, call upon their patron saints. And
if maybe they have a name that's not a saint name,
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assign a saint that you've decided that and somehow relates
to them, and you're gonna pray for them, Teach them
the Bible, read them scripture, recite scriptures, seeing scripture, speak
scripture to them. And I'm a fan of getting these
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little children's books that have like a scripture quote and
then like a rhyme or something so that children hear that.
Because if we were created by the word of God,
the second person of the Trinity, right, and the Father said,
let there be Henry, let there be Elizabeth. Right, he
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created us with his word, and when we fell and said,
he recreated us by his word, who took flesh in
Jesus Christ, and who died to pour his blood upon
us to save us, to feed us with his eucharistic heart.
So you scripture, Holy images and holy books, crafts, like
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I said, to paint things to you know, if little
kids really like legos, there's some like church sets, you know,
that they could do. And the kids I take care
of just naturally love to build churches out of magnetiles
because there's a lot of You can make a lot
of steeples with the triangle ones. But it doesn't mean
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they can. You know, you only allow children to do
things that are directly having to do with God. God
is also in the natural, but bring him to mind everywhere.
They can play outside and think about basketball, but you
can always teach him a lesson about life and perseverance,
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right and like Saint Paul was an athlete, you can.
You can bring him into their everyday lives, and that
is a protection for them. It's a real protection for them.
Blessed are the peer of heart. They shall see God.
(51:02):
And that's really my greatest excuse for the strictness I
have about not allowing children to be exposed to evil,
especially this time of year. Jesus said, Blessed are the
peer of heart. They will see God. Don't you want
your children to see God? You have to keep their
hearts pure to preserve their innocence, and so I pray
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that this is just a little bit of an example
of ways that you can help your children in spiritual warfare.
That you can even before they have maybe a battle,
you can give them a foundation of holiness, and that
you can teach them to love God so much that
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his presence is like a protection around them all the
days of their life. Glory be to the Father and
to the Son and to the Holy Spirit. As as
it was in the beginning, is now and ever shall
be world without and Eva Alilujah.
Speaker 1 (52:11):
Hello, God's beloved. I'm Annabel Moseley, author, professor of theology
and host of then Sings My Soul and Destination Sainthood
on WCAT Radio. I invite you to listen in and
find inspiration along this sacred journey. We're traveling together to
make our lives a masterpiece and with God's grace, become saints.
(52:35):
Join me Annabel Moseley for then Sings My Soul and
Destination Sainthood on WCAT Radio. God bless you. Remember you
are never alone. God is always with you.
Speaker 2 (52:53):
Thank you for listening to a production of WCAT Radio.
Speaker 3 (52:58):
Please join us in our mission of evangelization and don't forget.
Speaker 1 (53:02):
Love lifts up where knowledge takes flight.
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