Deliver us from the Evil one

In these pages Bernardo Olivera helps us to discern and recognize how the devil can act in our life and what kind of influence he can have. What is the relationship between Satan and the spiritual combat implied in our own journey to union with God? This book brings together the advice of the principal spiritual masters who have treated the subject with the realism that comes from their own experience of the devil's worst temptations, such as the laziness, bitterness and indifference that comes from the vice of acedia. The call is not to fight Satan directly, but to persevere in the humility and patience of Christ.

Auteur
Bernardo Olivera was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in 1943. When he was 19 he left university studies and entered the Trappist Monastery near Azul, in the province of Buenos Aires, where he made profession and was ordained a priest nine years later. He was first made Novice Director and Prior, while simultaneously founding a contemplative movement for laypersons, called "Soledad Mariana", with the Virgin Mary as its model. In 1984, he was elected as the monastery's first abbot and less than seven years later was chosen as the first non-European Abbot General of the Trappist Order, which he was until 2018. After returning to Azul he was reelected as the community's abbot until his resignation at the age of 75.

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PROLOGUE
INTRODUCTION
Part I. BIBLICAL FOUNDATIONS
Chapter 1. Satan against Jesus
Chapter 2. Jesus against Satan
The Historical Jesus
Confrontations in the Gospels
Conclusions
Chapter 3. The Church against Satan
Acts of the Apostles
Paul and John
Conclusions to Part I
Part II. SPIRITUAL TRADITION
Chapter 4. The Desert Fathers
Saint Anthony the Great
Lethargy (acedia) and How to Treat it
Chapter 5. Saint Ignatius of Loyola
Directions for Desolation, Consolation and Temptation
Chapter 6. Saint John Henry Newman
Conclusions to Part II
Part III. THEOLOGY AND CHURCH TEACHING
Chapter 7. The Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries
The Fourth Lateran Council
Saint Thomas Aquinas
Chapter 8. The Contemporary Context
Vatican Council II and the Theological Crisis
Saints Paul VI and John Paul II
The Catechism of the Catholic Church and the New Ritual
Part IV. GENERAL PASTORAL ACTION
Chapter 9. History and its Lessons
Historical Overview
Current events
Diabolical Activity
Chapter 10. The Sexual Revolution
Gender Theory
Chapter 11. Other Attacks and Counterattacks
Obsession and Harassment
Infestation and Witchcraft
Chapter 12. Possession and our Defenses
Possession and Exorcism
Other Defenses against the Enemy
Chapter 13. General Conclusions
APPENDIX
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY