Spiritual Warfare & Marriage 2/3 | How Demons Attack Courtship, Vows, and Family ~ Fr. Ripperger

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In this Catholic talk on spiritual warfare in marriage, we explore how demons attack courtship, vows, fidelity, authority, and the raising of children—and what grace looks like inside the sacrament. Using the classic three parts of a sacrifice—offertory, slaying of the victim, and consummation—we see how Christ’s Passion is the pattern for holy marriage and how spouses can render good for evil, overcome selfishness, and guard the goods and properties of marriage (children, unity, fidelity, indissolubility). Key topics: • Proper courtship and proposals (the “offertory”) • Exchanging vows as “dying to self” (the “slaying of the victim”) • Consummation and total self-gift • How demons push selfishness, division, and triangulation with children • Authority in the home: the husband’s headship and the mother’s real authority over children • Arguing in front of kids—why it wounds and how to avoid it • Mixed marriages and spiritual unity • Modesty, pornography, and emotional fidelity • Divorce, annulments, and the permanence of marriage • Drawing on sacramental graces every day • The role of the State and modern cultural errors 🙏 Support & Resources • Pray daily for your spouse; draw on your marriage graces • Go to Confession and Mass regularly • Read: Ephesians 5, 1 Corinthians 13, and St. Thomas Aquinas on marriage • Consider a family rule of life (prayer, discipline, peace) Timestamps 00:00 Opening prayer & invocation 00:31 How demons attack marriage: overview 00:43 Marriage as sacrifice: offertory, slaying, consummation 01:24 Christ’s pattern of sacrifice applied to marriage 01:55 Offertory in marriage: proposal & “yes” 02:06 Demonic attacks on courtship (timing, chastity, pressure) 03:00 Parents’ role & prayers against demonic influence 04:10 Vows as “dying to self”: bodily rights & service 05:11 Serving vs. expecting—combating selfishness 08:27 Returning good for evil: the Cross vs. the diabolic 15:09 Division tactics: isolation, man-cave avoidance, stonewalling 15:21 Goods of marriage: children as primary end (natural order) 16:28 Primary end of sacrament: mutual salvation of spouses 17:00 Demons pit kids against spouses (triangulation) 19:15 Undermining authority: mom vs. dad contradictions 20:49 Order of loves: spouse first, then children (properly understood) 21:06 Mutual help; distinct strengths of men and women 24:49 Feminine perfections & cultural denigration 26:00 Never argue harshly in front of children 30:10 Peace = tranquility of order in the home 31:10 Properties of marriage: unity (intellectual, emotional, physical, spiritual) 33:26 Affection & modesty rightly ordered 34:47 Spiritual leadership; dangers of mixed marriage 36:24 Sacramental unity & attacks (divorce, serial polygamy) 38:09 Annulments & widespread ignorance about marriage 41:05 Fidelity: exclusivity of mind, heart, and body; pornography harms 43:29 Immodesty & training emotional fidelity 45:02 Over-attachment to extended family vs. spousal fidelity 45:39 Permanence & prenups; property and prudence 49:18 Wounding through divorce; need for healing 50:40 Sacramental graces available daily 53:45 Vices dragging spouses down; growing holy through your spouse 53:51 State overreach & redefining marriage 54:11 Closing blessing For more sermons & lectures please visit http://sensustraditionis.org/ & remember to do the PenanceWare Fr asks for Fr Ripperger's order of exorcists http://dolorans.org/ (C) 2018 Sensus Fidelium #Catholic #Marriage #SpiritualWarfare #Family #CatholicTeaching #Courtship #Vows #Fidelity #Headship #Modesty #Pornography #Sacrament #Indissolubility #Unity #CatholicFamily #DomesticChurch #StThomasAquinas #Ephesians5 #Grace #Holiness 🔴🔴🔴🔴🔴🔴🔴🔴🔴🔴🔴🔴🔴🔴🔴🔴🔴🔴🔴 Support Catholic Businesses here - https://sensusfidelium.com/catholic-businesses/ Sensus Fidelium Press - https://sensusfideliumpress.com/ Sensus Fidelium Apps - https://sensusfidelium.tv/ Support Sensus Fidelium - https://sensusfidelium.com/donate-support/ 🔴🔴🔴🔴🔴🔴🔴🔴🔴🔴🔴🔴🔴🔴🔴🔴🔴🔴🔴

Topics

• Marriage
• Children & Family
• Singleness & Dating
• Spiritual Warfare