How to Use Fr. Ripperger’s Deliverance Prayers for the Laity

Deliverance prayers.  They engage in the battle.  They command the demons.  They can be quite scary.  In this post I’m going to explain why and how we need to engage in the fight.  


A year ago I would have been scared too.  Yet, I’ve listened to enough Fr Ripperger to know that demons are real and they very truly do mess with us.  Yes, God has to allow this, but 1. He respects our decisions when we open the door to the occult, and 2. He allows them to tempt us in order to rely on Him more and to strengthen our souls for our final battle at the hour of death.  To ignore these truths is to become weak where we most need to be strong.  


I had downloaded Deliverance Prayers for the Laity a couple years ago but never knew how to use it, like many of you.  So I didn’t.  Then I saw that Kristin at @lovekristinenicole on IG did a series on how she uses the book.  Her testimony was really powerful.


That lead me to Fr Ripperger’s own interview on the Resistance Podcast, where he explains the why and how to use the book.  

The biggest concern when praying deliverance prayers is authority.  If you have proper authority (see below), then there should not be retaliation, at least not much, and again, engaging in the battle is necessary to build that muscle. We will be tempted.  We will be harassed.  To deny this is foolish.  

 

“The battle is unavoidable.  If the enemy can make you fat and lazy by constantly handing you the chips and the remote, he will happily do that for the entirety of your life … [T]he saints have often reflected a grave battle they faced with temptation at the end of their lives.  The saints win these battles because they have been warriors all their lives.  They are strong because they engage. There is no way to avoid the battle. Either we fight and become stronger, or we avoid and become weaker.  Personally, I would rather fight, even if I know I might get beat up, than sit there and allow my spiritual muscles to atrophy so that I can’t fight when it is most important.  Heaven and hell are at stake in all of this.” (Dan Burke, Spiritual Warfare and the Discernment of Spirits, 88, emphasis added)

*Note: before you engage in this battle, get your soul cleaned up – do a really good examination of conscience and go to Confession, being truly sorrowful for your sins because each one struck Jesus as cruelly as his tormentors during His Passion

 

So how do I use this book personally?

First off – engaging in the battle means responding, not looking for a fight. If I suddenly get a headache, or I’m battling anxiety out of nowhere, that’s when I engage.  If I need to renounce demons of fear, sadness, sloth, etc., then I engage.  But it’s not advised to simply pray through the book.  Spiritual warfare is meant to be precise.

 

Part One: Deliverance Prayers

-Binding Prayers

These prayers are said with authority, in the name of Jesus, commanding the demons. You are a baptized Catholic, a child of God.  Make sure you have proper authority and then take care of what needs to be taken care of.

 

  1. Latin Binding Prayer (pg 19)  This is my go-to prayer to get the demons to stop harassing me or one of my family members.  Saying it in Latin is more powerful but either works and Fr Ripperger makes a point to say that you can butcher up the Latin all you want, the demons know what you’re doing and so does God.
  2. Longer Form of Binding Prayer (pg 21)  This is a scattershot.  You can do this to get started.  I find it very cleansing because even though much of it doesn’t apply to me, it reminds me of things I may have left out.  It’s almost like a good examination of conscience.
  3. In the back of the book (starting on page 101) you’ll find a list of “Sins, Vices, or Spirits”.  If you are dealing with, say, lust, instead of merely commanding lust to leave you, you can pray all of the “Sexual Spirits” found on page 106 and it’ll get rid of any lingering spirits.  Don’t worry if what you say doesn’t apply specifically to you.  It’s another scattershot to clean up your soul.  This appendix is also very good to help you figure out what spirits may be messing with you.  It gives a much larger vocabulary, based on Fr Ripperger’s experience as an exorcist, than you or I tend to have. 
    1. Categories: Lying Spirits, Unclean Spirits, Theft, Mental Illness, Physical Ailments, Abandonment of Religious Practices, Those against the Spiritual Life, Superstitious Practices, Spirits Against Matrimonial Sacramental Unity, Children, Sexual Spirits, Fear, Others, Womb, Self, Spirits That Say…, Others Continued, Anger, Pride
    2. I highlighted matrimony and children because it’s likely there is spiritual warfare in at least on of these areas.  Every married person and parent should look through this list. 
  4. Purification Prayer (pg 19)  For those who need purifying.
  5. Prayer to Remove Generational Spirits (pg. 25) We all have something that seems to haunt each side of our families: alcoholism, mental illness, divorce, pride, etc. 
  6. Prayer for Troubled Souls (pg 30) I know many of us feel troubled these days, by what we see.  If you are experiencing fear or another negative emotion, you can pray this.  N. means you place your own self “me” or the name of who you’re praying for.
  7. Consecration of One’s Exterior Goods to the Blessed Virgin Mary (pg. 44) “This prayer is particularly useful for breaking various forms of oppression.”

 

-Prayers for Protection

  1. Breastplate of St. Patrick (modified) (pg 15)
  2. Prayer for Protection Against Curses, Harm, and Accidents (pg. 24)
  3. Prayer Against Every Evil (pg 29)
  4. Prayer Against Temptation (pg. 33)
  5. Commission of the Care of Soul and Body (pg. 35) I pray this almost daily for my family – I name all four of us.  It’s a nice one to say at night to encourage a restful sleep and good dreams.
  6. Prayer Against Retaliation (pg. 37) You can pray this before doing any binding so that you don’t get any retaliation. 

 

Part Two: Prayers of Devotion

In particular, prayers regarding the Sacred Blood of Jesus are incredibly powerful. 

Lots of prayers you will already know, in both English and Latin, which is a plus! ]

 

Part Three: Prayers for Healing

I haven’t personally used these, but I have used Unbound (first half of the book) to work through forgiveness, and I’ve heard really good things about Be Healed as well.  The Unbound author wrote a Catholic specific book that I have but haven’t read.  I appreciated how Unbound laid out steps for healing.  

 

Part Four: Auxilium Christianorum

I haven’t dove into these prayers quite yet.  I stayed away from the Auxilium because he advises you consult a spiritual director and I don’t have one here in Germany.  You’d have to read through the section yourself to see if it’s something you can take on. 

 

Appendix I: List of Sins, etc. (referenced above) (pg 101)

 

Appendix II: Examination of Conscience (pg 112)

This one is nice and thorough, based on 10 Commandments plus Precepts of the Church so I suggest giving this a good look over.

 

Appendix III: Prayers to Break the Freemasonic Curse (pg. 122)

This is for those involved directly or are a descendant of someone who was involved.  Read it over first and it’s suggested you pray it in the presence of a practicing Catholic.  I’d suggest ideally in the True Presence of Our Lord as well.

 

Authority

When you pray binding prayers, as long as you have proper authority, you will experience little to no retaliation.  The worst I’ve gotten is a headache and I renounced it and it left fairly quickly.  

  1. Self – you can always pray for yourself
  2. Spouse (if in a sacramental marriage).  “Wives may command the demons to leave their husband’s bodies and husbands, their wives’ bodies.  For the husband it is a two-fold authority: the one as head of the household and the other by virtue of the rights over his wife’s body.” [referring to marital contract].
  3. Children (natural and adopted, not foster)
  4. Parents, by virtue of the Fourth Commandment
  5. Siblings, by virtue of the Fourth Commandment

If you don’t have authority, you can always modify the prayer to petition Christ or Our Lady to drive the demon out.  Yet, Fr. Ripperger advises that you focus on your own spiritual life before you start to help others outside your immediate family.  

 

Closing Thoughts

I pray that this blog post, and corresponding video, have helped you feel more comfortable and prepared for the battle.  Warfare is never easy.  It’s never clean or soft or kind.  But, as I said in the beginning, there’s only two choices – to engage or not – and we know that the battle is specifically here for our sanctification. 

 

“I can do all things in Him Who strengthens me.” Phil 4:13. 

 

So go fight!  Go do battle (as needed).  Let’s take control of our lives so that we can serve God as fully as possible.  

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