I tell people that I'm becoming famous just by telling everybody what the saints say.

You don't have to say anything original or phenomenal and you just have to tell people this is what the saints say and everybody thinks, well, that's just wonderful. This is wonderful. All right. Tonight we want to talk about the levels of spiritual warfare and there's

different levels. The fact of the matter is, is that at, now this means a few things. In addition to

the fact that we're all conscripted, we're all there, people, you know, the priest will very often say to me, they say, Father, you know, I really admire your work.

I don't think I could ever do it.

I'm going to say something a little bit about how they have a level of spiritual warfare that they're completely unaware of.

A lot of them are unaware of.

And so I tell them, you're still doing the same thing I'm doing.

It's just that I'm doing it a little bit differently, obviously a little more intensely.

But this spiritual warfare then means that it's in engaging in it, that we become purified, that we become perfected.

One of the things that happens during the process of people when they're possessed, and they actually go through a series of exorcisms, that they

begin to realize is that the demons are actually the instruments of their sanctification.

We tend to think of demons as the things that are detracting against our sanctification.

That's only true when we give in to them.

But when we fight them and work against them,

they actually become the instruments of our purification

because we have to deny ourselves.

We have to work against them. We have to build virtue contrary to that.

The demons actually are constantly trying to get us to commit sins to become vicious, that is we have vices, so that we become weak.

And then that way it's easier to combat us in that process.

They want to set up an abusive relationship with us, etc.

But if we combat them, then what happens is we begin to develop virtue.

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