Forgive us O Lord so that in right relationship to Jesus—we as members of His mystical body, may claim His authority over all spirits not in worship to Your Holy Trinity. Send us the holy Paraclete to purify our hearts so we may truly forgive all who have wronged us, and let the Holy Spirit illumine our minds and wills—so we may proclaim Your Son who told us: “Go into the whole world and preach the gospel to all creation … and these signs shall attend those who believe … in My name they shall cast out devils … they shall lay hands upon the sick and they shall be healed.” (Mark 16: 15–18)
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“I will go to the altar of God—the God of my joy and my youth.”
“Put on the whole armor of God that you may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil … take up the whole armor of God that you may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all to stand. Stand therefore having girded your waist with truth, having put on the breastplate of righteousness, and shod your feet with the preparation of the gospel of peace. Above all taking the shield of faith with which you will be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked one; and accept salvation as a helmet, and the word of God as the sword which the spirit gives you. Do all this asking for God’s help.” (Paul to Ephesians)
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In the name of Jesus Christ, by the power of His precious blood shed on the cross at Calvary, we as members of his mystical body and fully imbued with the Holy Spirit, bind all spirits not in worship to the Trinity not to interfere with, impede or evade our holy work. We adjure you in Jesus’ name not to hurt or molest any living creatures of God nor bother in any way ourselves, our loved ones, our families, our friends, our neighbors or acquaintances, even our pets or homes and personal property now and in the future.
We beg God send his angels to block all psychic powers sent against us. And we plead the blood of Jesus over every living creature in our lives, in this building on this land and in this place or neighborhood. And in Jesus’ name we take authority over all spirits of any kind not in worship to the Trinity from the North—South—East—West, in the air and below the ground, in fire, water and nature. By the power of the precious blood we bind these forces in Jesus’ name.
Heavenly Father, mark not our sins but the faith of Your church and send Your warrior angels to rebuke all forces of evil that are presently among us; let them clear a path before us and link arms around this building and property to prevent all communication between the enemy here and elsewhere.
We ask this in Jesus’ name not for our own ego, reputation or to impress any being—rather knowing our sinfulness we offer this work for the glory of Thy name. Amen.
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“Not by might, nor by power but by My spirit say the Lord of Hosts. You will succeed because of My spirit though you are few and weak.” (Zechariah 4:6)
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This is a modified version of the Pope Leo XIII exorcism prayer, which the Holy Pontiff gave express permission to all Catholics to say in their own name to repulse the attacks of evil. Such permission, once given by the Vicar of Christ, may not be revoked by anyone at any time. This version has been modified by addition only; no deletions were made from the original form, which received the imprimatur from Manuel, Bishop of Barcelona, December 19, 1931, and again from Francis Cardinal Spellman, Archbishop of New York, February 24, 1961.
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In the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Ghost. Amen.
Prayer to Saint Michael the Archangel
Glorious prince of the Heavenly Host, St. Michael the Archangel, defend us in the conflicts which we have to sustain “against principalities and powers, against the rulers of the world of this darkness, against the spirits of wickedness in high places.” (Ephes. 6:12) Come to the rescue of men, whom God has created to His image and likeness, and whom He has redeemed at a great price from the tyranny of the devil.
It is Thou whom Holy Church venerates as her guardian and protector, Thou whom the Lord has charged to conduct redeemed souls into Heaven. Pray, therefore, the God of Peace to subdue Satan beneath our feet, that he may no longer retain men captive nor do injury to the Church.
Present our prayers to the Most High, that without delay they may draw His mercy down upon us. Seize “the dragon, the old serpent, which is the devil and Satan,” bind him and cast him into the bottomless pit “… that he may no more seduce the nations.” (Apoc. 20:2–3)
Exorcism
In the Name of Jesus Christ, our Lord and Savior, by the power of His Precious Blood, and strengthened through the intercession of the Immaculate Virgin Mary, Mother of God, of St. Joseph, patron of the universal Church, of St. Michael, St. Rafael, St. Gabriel, and all the Heavenly Host, of the Holy Apostles Peter and Paul and all the Saints; we, in union with the mystical body of Christ, baptized and sealed with the gifts of the Holy Spirit, and given authority over all evil spirits by our Lord Jesus Himself, now confidently undertake to repulse the attacks and deceits of the devil.
Let God arise, and let His enemies be scattered; and let them that hate Him flee before His face. “As smoke vanisheth, so let them vanish away; as wax melteth before the fire, so let the wicked perish at the presence of God.” (Psalm 68:2)
V. Behold the cross of the Lord! Flee bands of enemies.
E. The lion of the tribe of Juda, the offspring of David, hath conquered!
V. May Thy mercy descend upon us.
R. As great as our hope in Thee.
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We drive you from us whoever you may be, unclean spirits, satanic powers, infernal invaders, wicked legions, assemblies and sects, all malfeasant workings or creations and all spirits not in worship to the Trinity. In the Name and by the virtue of our Lord Jesus Christ (†), may you be snatched away and driven from the Church of God and from the souls redeemed by the Precious Blood of the Divine Lamb (†).
Cease by your audacity, cunning serpent, to delude the human race, to persecute the Church, to torment God’s elect, and to sift them as wheat (†). This is the command made to you by the Most High God (†) with whom in your haughty insolence you still pretend to be equal (†), the God “who will have all men to be saved, and come to the knowledge of the truth.” (1 Tim. 2:4)
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Binding
In the Name of Jesus Christ Crucified, we plead His Precious Blood against all inhuman and human spirits not in worship to the Holy Trinity and all evil—attacking and desecrating (this child of God), (these children of God), (this creature of God), and infesting (this home) (this place) (this land) (this thing).
Furthermore in Jesus’ Name, we bind you evil spirits by His Precious Blood that you may not transfer into any living or dead person or creature nor take refuge within or in any inanimate object; that you will remain silent; that you will not harm any person, creature, place or thing while you remain, depart or at any future time in any way, nor will you cause any such harm now or at any future time.
V. The Blood of Christ binds Thee!
R. O Father in Heaven—in Jesus’ name so be it!
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In the Name of the Father—depart!
In the Name of the Son—depart!
In the Name of the Holy Ghost—depart!
In the Name of the Holy Trinity—depart!
In the Name of Mary, the Immaculate Conception—depart!
In the Name of St. Joseph, Protector of Jesus and Mary—depart!
In the Name of St. Michael—depart!
In the Name of St. Gabriel—depart!
In the Name of St. Rafael—depart!
In the Name of all Choirs of Angels—depart!
In the Name of all guardian angels—depart!
In the Name of the Angel of Gethsemane—depart!
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In the Name of Abraham—depart!
In the Name of Moses—depart!
In the Name of Elijah—depart!
In the Name of the prophets—depart!
In the Name of Joachim and Ann—depart!
In the Name of Elizabeth and Zachary—depart!
In the Name of the Holy Innocents—depart!
In the Name of John the Baptist—depart!
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In the Name of the Holy Apostles: Peter, John, James, Andrew, Phillip, Thomas, Bartholomew, Matthew, James, Simon, Jude, Matthias and Paul—depart!
In the Name of Mary Magdalen—depart!
In the Name of the Holy Disciples—depart!
In the Name of Sts. Stephen, James, Cecelia, Pancras, Felicity, Perpetua, Polycarp, the Nagasaki and all martyrs—depart!
In the Name of Sts. Martin, Patrick, Benedict, Maur, Placidus, Gregory the Great, Scholastica, Augustine—depart!
In the Name of Sts. Basil, Bede, Bernard, Meinrad, Cyril, Methodius, Elizabeth, Catherine, Margaret—depart!
In the Name of Sts. Francis of Assisi, Clare of Assisi, Anthony of Padua, Dominic Guzman, Thomas Aquinas—depart!
In the Name of Sts. Thomas Becket, Catherine of Siena, John of the Cross, Theresa of Avila, Rose of Lima, Thomas More, John Fisher, Martin of Porres—depart!
In the Name of Sts. Ignatius Loyola, Francis Xavier, Isaac Jogues and John Debrebeuf—depart!
In the Name of Sts. John Vianney, Bernadette Soubirous, Therese Lisieux, Peter Julian Eymard, and Pius X—depart!
In the Name of Blessed: Don Diego, Kateri Tekawitha, Andre Bessette, Miguel Pro, and Mother Teresa—depart!
In the Name of Pierre Toussaint, Leo XIII, Paul of Moll, Solanus Casey, Padre Pio, and all Marian visionaries—depart!
In the Name of Sts. Joan of Arc, Maximillian Kolbe, Sister Benedicta (Edith Stein), and all victims of war, holocaust, racism, pestilence, slavery, persecution, and injustice—depart!
In the Name of all exorcists in Heaven—depart!
In the Name of all the Saints in Heaven and on earth—depart!
V. May God rebuke thee Satan!
R. In the Name of Dominus depart!
V. The Lord be with you.
R. And also with you.
Let Us Pray
“God by Your Name save me, and by Your might defend my cause … for haughty men have risen up against me, and fierce men seek my life…” (Psalm 53) “Yet they … that dwellest beneath the shelter of the Most High … fear neither the terrors of night nor the arrow that flies by day; neither the plague that prowls in the darkness nor the attack of the devil at noonday.” (Psalm 90)
Shield us O Lord with Your loving light from all evil sent against us by our brothers and sisters who do the work of the evil one by intent or through ignorance. Grant us the grace to refuse all their evil and the grace to forgive them. Hear our prayer, strengthen our faith, so like St. Peter who defeated Simon Magus and whose intercession we now implore, we too may triumph over all evil knowledge in Your Name.
Let their evil plans be clouded by confusion and their actions come to naught. Send Your holy angels to block all their psychic powers and let your angels touch us and remove any evil that has attached itself to us or penetrated us. Let this evil turn upon itself; and let evil seek out evil on the spirit plane, harming no one on the earthly plane. For You O God do not desire the death of sinners, rather that they would repent and come to knowledge of the truth.
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V. In Jesus’ Name we refuse and rebuke this evil sent against us, and for Jesus’ sake we forgive those who sent it.
R. O Father in Heaven in Jesus’ Name so be it.
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We plead the Blood of Christ against you evil spirits (†). We root you out with the Light of Christ (†). We command you depart in the name of the Sacred Heart of Jesus (†), and the Immaculate Heart of Mary (†). God your Creator knows your name, your number—His mark is upon you. God beckons you depart (†). God your Creator knows how and when you entered here; depart lest He rebuke you (†). Christ’s love compels you to depart. Leave now harmlessly, silently, swiftly in Jesus’ Name.
In the Name of Jesus, by the power of His Precious Blood, we permanently negate and loosen any bindings or any form of magic, sorcery, curses, wishes, incantations, boluses, spells, pentagrams, pacts, dedications or maleficium holding any inhuman or human spirits not in worship to the Holy Trinity to: (this person or persons), (this animal or creature), or (this home, apartment, place, land, waters or thing). We bind you spirits by the Blood of Jesus never again to obey those who sent you!
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O Father in Heaven in Jesus’ Name so be it!
God the Father commands you (†), God the Son commands you (†), God the Holy Spirit commands you (†), Christ Himself commands you, the eternal word of God made flesh; He who to save our race outdone through your malice, “humbled Himself, becoming obedient unto death.” (Phil. 2:8) He who has built his Church on the firm rock and declared that the gates of hell shall not prevail against her, because He dwells with her: “All days even to the consummation of the world.” (Matt. 28:20) The hidden virtue of the Cross requires it of you as does the power of the mysteries of the Christian faith (†). The glorious Mother of God, the Virgin Mary commands you (†). She who by her humility and from the first moment of her Immaculate Conception crushed your proud head. St. Joseph, Foster Father of Jesus commands you (†), he who is known as the terror of demons. Loyal St. Michael and the entire Heavenly Host command you (†). The faith of the Apostles Peter, John, Paul and the other Apostles command you (†). The blood of the martyrs and the pious intercession of all saints command you (†).
Thus cursed dragon, and you wicked legions, we adjure you by the Living God (†), by the True God (†), by the Holy God, by the God Who “so loved the world, as to give his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him, may not perish, but may have life everlasting.” (Jn. 3:16)
We take authority over this place and land in Jesus’ Name; we sign all four corners with the sign of the Cross, just as the Apostles, St. Martin of Tours, St. Benedict, St. Maur and St. Patrick did to consecrate pagan temples to the worship of the One True God and whose intercession we now implore (†). We seal all spirit entry points, wells or portals with the Blood of Jesus Christ, the Paschal Lamb, and deny entry to all and any spirits not in worship to the Trinity until the end of time (†).
O Father in Heaven in Jesus’ Name so be it!
Let Us Pray
“In the beginning was the Word and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things were made through Him, and without Him nothing was made that was made. In Him was life, and the life was the light of man. And the light shines on in the darkness and the darkness did not overcome it.” (John 1: 1–5)
V. May the Lord be with thee.
R. And with thy spirit.
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In the Name of Jesus Christ by the power of His Precious Blood shed on the Cross at Calvary for all creation, and with the intercession of the Blessed Mother, St. Joseph, St. Michael and the entire Heavenly Host with Sts. Peter, John, Paul, Jude, Thomas and the other Apostles, St. Martin and Gregory of Tours, St. Benedict, St. Maur, St. Patrick, St. Norbert, Sts. Francis and Clare of Assisi, St. Anthony of Padua, St. Thomas Aquinas, Holy Curé D’Ars, St. Therese Lisieux, St. Bernadette, Blessed Brother Andre, Padre Pio and all the holy martyrs and Saints:
We (†) adjure, block, break, bring together, cast off/out, cut, cut out, detach, eliminate all fear, impediments, constraints, barriers or self-punishment, expel, forgive, heal, loosen, make normal, make visible and known all evil/evildoers, negate, neutralize, peel, push away, purify, rebuke, refuse, remove, repel, rescind, restore, reverse, sever, unbind, unblock, unknot, untie, unwind, uncover—in Jesus’ Name (†) now and forever—any, all forms of maleficium that affect or effect free will, emotions, thoughts, decisions, actions, health or desires. All/any: astral attachments, familiar or familial spirits, all inhuman or human spirits not in worship to the Holy Trinity; and in particular any and all: apports, astral creations, chantings, contact objects, curses, death rituals or spells, demonic pacts or dedications, ev
il bindings, evil eye sendings, illnesses of body-mind or spirit, incubus attacks, magic in all forms: (ceremonial, contagious, sympathetic, religious, ritual, root, herbal, satanic, sexual, erotic, word, imitative, spells, incantations, music, thought, wishes, writings, movements, vibrations, evocative, invocatory) plus all parasitic attachments either external or internal, written pentagrams, psychic attacks or molestations, spells, sorcery, succubus attacks, tulpas, wishes, witchboards, witchcraft, all thoughts, words, deeds, plans contrary to faith, hope and charity—either evoked or invoked in secret invisibility (†).
We exorcise any and all of these abominations in Jesus’ Name; and by the power of His Precious Blood, we encapsulate them in His light; and return them through whence they came to Satan, father of lies and enemy of mankind. Let this evil harmlessly disperse on the spirit plane, injuring no one on this earthly plane. We bind all spirits not in worship to the Trinity never again to obey those who sent this evil, in Jesus’ Name. And by the power of the Blood of Christ Crucified, we bind and surround the senders with the Lumen Christi that all their evil efforts will immediately come to naught and cause no harm now and in the future; and may the evil they create harmlessly remain in their presence until they repent and come to the knowledge of the truth. In Jesus’ Name so be it!
God the Father commands it. (†)
God the Son commands it. (†)
God the Holy Ghost commands it. (†)
The Blessed Virgin Mary commands it. (†)
St. Joseph commands it. (†)
St. Michael, St. Rafael, St Gabriel command it. (†)
The Angel of Gethsemane and all guardian angels command it. (†)
All the choirs of the Heavenly Host command it. (†)
St. Peter and the other Apostles command it. (†)
The holy martyrs and all the Saints command it. (†)
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May the fiery love of the Holy Spirit burn away any remaining remnants of this evil. Amen.
Let Us Pray for Those Who Sent This Evil
“May the light of Christ Risen in Glory scatter the darkness of their heart and mind and contain their evil. Light of Christ deliver them from evil.” (†)
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