One of my favorite depictions of the Blessed Virgin shows her protecting a soul in the form of a child from the Devil whom she is beating with a club. I also have one of St Margaret beating Satan with hammer.
I have a collection of some of these images HERE. For example…
We need upgrades from time to time. I spotted this on Fakebook (which I almost never look at… today it was worth it.)
Mary with a spiritual AR-15 shooting rosary beads. Okay!
You can do that everyday.
Pray the Rosary.
However, pray it attentively.
A priest friend of mine who is an exorcist said that one time the demon taunted the people there for how they was saying a Rosary, in a rather distracted and hurried way. When forced to explain more, the demon responded that their distracted Hail Mary’s were like, “laying wilted dried flowers at her feet”. When asked what an attentive Rosary filled with love was like, the demon said, “What is a fragrant bouquet for her is our downfall.”
Flower power.
Now that’s a “combat rosary”.
“Hail Mary, full of grace. Shoot the Devil in the face.”
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Among Sicilians, the image of the Blessed Virgin Mary Holding a club to beat the devil from taking misbehaving children.
Sicilian Mother’s do a pretty good job of it by using wooden spoon on her children.
Imagine a child having that drawing in public school.
She’d be handcuffed and thrown in the brig.
Not because Our Blessed Mother has a high capacity magazine, but because Satan is the target.
Never, ever, let what a demon says influence your spirituality in any way whichsoever. It’s such an easy rule; why is it neglected so much in the circles that don’t disbelieve infernos altogether?
Even if he should be forced to tell the truth, and who can know for sure, he still can twist it in a manner as to serve his own agenda. He’s smart, right?
In the story here, one imaginable objective would be to make the better the enemy of the good, and make people quit their distracted rosaries. Even if some should pray attentive ones instead, still (cases of downright improprieties perhaps set aside) an distracted rosary is better than an unprayed one, right?
infernos=in demons
Ave Maria, gratia plena, iace diabolum in faciem…
#16 on the List of Things Not to Do In Life.
Make a Jewish mother upset.
Ave Maria, gratia plena,
Iace diaboli in faciem dena!
Hail Mary, full of grace,
Shoot decades at the devil’s face!
The above was courtesy of velut.co.uk, a Latin rhyming dictionary!
1. I tend to agree with Imrahil about never listening to demons. Whatever they say is intended to mislead.
2. The Rosary is not a meditation. It is not a medieval version of the Ignatian Exercises.