More on Fr. Raniero Cantalamessa's Sober Intoxication of the Spirit...

Adapted and high lighted from pages 101 - 102.

"Diviners from the east: How modern our ancient Isaiah is!

"Yes, unfortunately, our world is overflowing with sorcerers and diviners.

"Most of the time it is a case of charlantanism and nothing else.

"Thieves trade on the the naiveté and credulity of people, and often on their desperation as well when they are faced with overwhelming health or financial problems.

"The godless intention of practicing this art and of resorting to occult arts is enough to make people fall into the snares of the evil one.

"We have only two ways to be healed or to improve: through nature or through grace.

"Nature includes science, medicine, technology and all the resources that man has received from God to govern the earth and his on life in obedience to Him.

"Grace includes faith and prayer, through which healing and miracles are sometimes obtained -- always however, from God, because that power belongs to God (Psalm 62:11).

"When a third way appears -- whether it is recourse to occult powers through occult means, secretly concealed from God without any need for His approval, or the direct abuse of His name or of some of His signs (like the pictures of certain saints [check Super S's stock for proof of this!]) -- then the master and pioneer of this third way enters immediately on the scene.

"He is the one who said one day that all power on earth was his and that he could give it to whomever he pleased if he were adored (see Luke 4:6).

"Devastation in such cases is inevitable.

"The fly is caught in the web of the great spider and will not easily come out alive..."

Amen, Padre Reverendo....!!