Exorcist: Do This to Be a Saint
Volume XXIX, Number 2
January 30, 2025
O faithful readers! I'm especially stoked because I'm about to lay out a simple blueprint for you to become a saint which I gleaned from the extraordinary exorcist, Father Chad Ripperger.
Of course we'll end by praying the best prayer ever from Saint Patrick with tens of thousands worldwide.
My Mangled Meathook
Last message I told you how my left bicep tendon tore completely off the bone, making it painful even to type. I'm ambidextrous, so I've lost or degraded most of the things I do lefty.
Your prayers were immediately answered. My surgeon was taken aback when the MRI revealed, all these months later, that it was still possible to screw the tendon back in. At any age, the lack of atrophy or retraction back up into the arm was a medical miracle.
Thank you! Surgery with full anesthesia is Friday, February 7th, so pray for Dr. Metz and her team.
It will take six months to be as good as new, including endless braces and plenty o' pain, but she told me I'll be able to type soon after surgery!
Turns out, I also have tennis elbow—although I never play tennis! More like crowbar elbow.
Passion PlayersI've been "playing" hurt since boyhood. Pain tells me what's wrong. And it's one of those underrated Way Cool Catholic Things that even the tiniest suffering united with Christ Crucified—mental, spiritual, physical—fosters friendship with him and secures grace for me, you, souls, and nations.
LA Fires and Purple Scapulars
Did you see the reports of houses with Purple Scapulars that were left unscathed during the Los Angeles fires while houses burned down around them? Orders here skyrocketed, of course, although I am crestfallen about the government corruption, unnecessarily lost lives, and all the harm done to so many families. Purple Scaps really are heavenly insurance from Our Lady and Jesus.
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Over the past several months, we've released one podcast "doozy" after another, from Jose Pulido on evangelization, Keith Nestor on how to really pray the Rosary, to John Michael Talbot on his astounding personal Warning.
Our latest, with Jeff Shiefelbein, is an emotional, anointed blockbuster. It unexpectedly went right off the rails. Jeff goes off script to delve deeply into Xavier and Anthony's friendship. Then his description of what played out after his little daughter accidentally whacked her littler brother in the head with a golf club goes beyond the beyond of words into the purely divine...
Three Steps to Sanctity
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Because I gave Immaculate Mary carte blanche through total consecration in 1984, and ignited by us pinning the Mantle of Mary over America in 2020, Our Lady placed this old diabetic with a bad wing—and by extension, you—on an unexpected spiritual journey which I have gradually come to understand was designed to help millions of sincere Catholics become saints—and ultimately, make America the most Catholic nation on earth.
I like to think of her plan in terms of progressive steps. These steps are simple yet initially difficult because they require the cultivation of new spiritual habits, which is a kind of death—also known as mortification.
No sane person enjoys mortification, but everyone enjoys the new good habit which "rises" from the dead.
On other hand, not being a saint is a miserable way to live because it is marked by chronic spiritual pain.
Some of you have already taken some or all of these three steps. Let's begin.
STEP ONE
Reject the 'No Sanctity for Me' heresy.
This tricky heresy comes in various forms. We give up trying to be a saint—before applying any normal human effort—because we falsely believe it is not necessary and on some level do not want to make the effort.
I gave up on becoming a saint as soon as I was seriously introduced to its necessity as a concept when I was seventeen years old.
I have finished jigsaw puzzles with more effort than I ever put into trying to become a saint. I have been extremely motivated and disciplined about making sure that foods that I know will harm my health are well-stocked in my cabinets. I have paid more attention during hours of televised sporting events than I ever paid attention during minutes of prayer.
I also kept putting off living a holy life until "someday," which never turned into "today" for decades. Decades. Can you relate?
And I am not trying to run myself or you down. Imagine someday beginning tomorrow morning because anyone can be a Saint Francis of Assisi or Mother Teresa in their own way.
I imagine you—yes, you—with the divine light of the Holy Spirit flowing out of your eyes, impacting everyone in your life.
Do you believe this is possible?
Nod yes. Say yes. Reject the heresy.
I had embraced this No Sanctity for Me heresy fully, rationalizing that it was "enough" to believe what the Church teaches, act upon my God-given desire to help everyone go to Heaven, and undertake otherwise wonderful Catholic things such as praying the Rosary, frequent Confession, and daily Mass.
After all, despite my sin and mediocrity and flaws, had not millions of people converted and grown in their faith by Jesus working through the Mary Foundation and my talents? Did I not walk 4,500 miles on foot with the True Cross?
Even worse, the Father provided me with an extraordinarily unlikely yet sound Catholic intellectual and spiritual formation going to back to childhood (despite going to "Catholic" schools and a certain college in South Bend, Indiana—ha ha!).
Nope—holding orthodox beliefs did not make me holy, as much as I relish doing so, even though it is usually a starting point for holiness.
So reject the No Sanctity for Me heresy as the pathetic satanic excuse it is, shake the dust off your feet, and move on to Step Two, which makes everything so much easier.
STEP TWO
Free yourself from unnecessary demonic influence with the daily Three Angelus Cure and the Auxilium Christianorum exorcism prayers.
Given the utterly diabolical era we live in, most of us have been unknowingly hamstrung by demonic slavery to serious and venal sin, typically for years or decades. Confession. No progress. Confession. No progress. Repeat.
Great news! We can dispatch with almost all diabolically-caused temptation with two simple daily devotions. I explain the amazing Three Angelus Cure that Father Chad Ripperger personally taught me here. His Auxilium Christianorum exorcism prayers for the laity are in the Daily Prayers to Save America.
It's been less than three years since I began doing both every day. Everything Father Chad promised came true for me. It came true for my friends. It came true for countless people who have since discovered them through the Mary Foundation.
(It might surprise you that it does not bother me when people reject my invitations to try these devotions because I understand. As mentioned above, I have been exactly that kind of person my whole life.)
Merely restating the eternally infallible teachings of Christ and His Church, Father Ripperger assures us that we can live life free from serious sin and most venial sin. So be ruthless and confident in allowing God to take away undue demonic influence.
The Three Angelus Cure and Auxilium Christianorum prayers don't really require much effort, especially if you already set aside time for prayer each day.
Promise yourself this gift of freedom. Be generous with yourself through these devotions. Be your true self, like a child. You deserve to be delivered from evil, which you have asked for with every Our Father since childhood. Ask, and you shall receive...
...divine mystical life, all day, which is what saints crave and enjoy.
I know you can do it. Always remember I am doing it right next to you. Then we can proceed together to Step Three on the halcyon road to sanctity.
These devotions do not get rid of all temptation or nullify the darkened minds and disordered desires we inherited through Original Sin.
For a dramatic and extremely insightful testimony, my son Xavier explains what happened to him and his brother Cletus after starting the Three Angelus Cure, as well as the immediate lifting of a lifelong "dark cloud."STEP THREE
Pray the De Sales way and God will do the rest.
During the release of our new book, How to Pray, I shared how Father Ripperger teaches that most otherwise good-hearted Catholics open a "gate" through which the evil one enters their lives, homes, and families by neglecting meditative prayer as the non-negotiable first thing they do every morning.
There are two essential elements. First, one must commit deeply to beginning every day with prayer. Second, it must be meditative prayer.
(Please take a moment to note your internal emotional reaction to Father's recommendation. Was it positive or negative? Weak or strong? Now pray: Dear Jesus, I trust in you, guide me. Amen.)
When asked how to learn meditative prayer, Father Ripperger always recommends Saint Francis de Sales as the best teacher.
So we published it. How to Pray is only 37 pages. It takes just a few weeks to become comfortable with this brilliant saint's simple methods.
Saint Francis describes meditative prayer as "focusing on the life and passion of Our Lord. By meditating on Him often your whole soul will soon be filled with Him, you will learn His attitudes, and you will model His ways."
In short, meditative prayer allows Jesus Christ himself to become your teacher in the school of holiness, so you can be Christ in the world.
Father Ripperger often notes that most people refuse to attempt to build the habit of meditative prayer because it requires mortification to concentrate and avoid distraction, especially early on.
I put it this way: the evil one will tolerate just about any other Catholic devotion as long as it is not beginning your day "the de Sales" way with meditative prayer focused on Christ Himself.
Of course, this does not mean that you have to stop doing any of your other devotions: the Rosary, adoration, daily Mass, the Daily Prayers to Save America, chaplets, and so on. In fact, you will find that you will pray all these with greater fervor as you develop the focus required for meditative prayer.
The brilliance of Saint Francis de Sales, and the reason why this anointed work, excerpted from the most popular self-help book in Catholic history (after the Bible), Introduction to the Devout Life, is the four practices he will teach you to extend your mystical state into the entirety of your day.
The "resolutions" de Sales teaches you to make as the crowning purpose of meditative prayer, are the most life-changing. Making 365 specific daily resolutions a year, guided by Jesus himself, is the how God makes you a saint.
God really does do the rest.
• Commit to being a saint today.
• Secure your freedom from demonic influence.
• Begin each day with meditative prayer to learn from Jesus and carry out His resolutions to form you into a saint.
This all assumes that you otherwise live a normal Catholic sacramental life—attend Mass on Sundays and Holy Days of Obligation while keeping the fasting and tithing laws of the Church.
Finally, I am excited to extend the 100% guarantee because it is from Christ. He is divine. Everything Jesus does is perfect. It is He who makes you a saint. "For man, this is impossible, but with God all things are possible." (Matthew 19:26).
Ask every morning, and you will receive. In fact, join me tomorrow morning, if you're not there already!
If you ever were moved to share one of my Messages, this is it, my friends.
Quotes from De Sales and Bosco
"Have patience with all things—but first, with yourself. Never confuse your mistakes with your worth as a human being. You are a perfectly valuable, creative, and worthwhile person simply because you exist—and no amount of triumphs or tribulations can ever change that."
- Saint Francis de Sales
"Only God knows the good that can come about by reading one good Catholic book."
- Saint John Bosco
Please call to mind the situations in your life which require divine intervention and miracles. Along with the Mother of God, let us begin, tens of thousands of us together, in the Name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit...
Christ before me.
Christ behind me.
Christ in me.
Christ beneath me.
Christ above me.
Christ on my right.
Christ on my left.
Christ in breadth.
Christ in length.
Christ in height.
Christ in the heart of every man who thinks of me.
Christ in the mouth of every man who speaks of me.
Christ in every eye that sees me.
Christ in every ear that hears me.
Amen.
You guys are the best. Thanks for praying for my arm.
Latin phrase of the day: Dolorem Ipsum.
"Pain itself."
Stay frosty.
With Saint Michael,
"Saint" Bud Macfarlane
Patron of Mediocrity
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