Should I ask my priest for a blessing or something?

[Gnarwhal]

So yesterday my boss asked me to help one of our evening reporters cover the local impeachment protest and counter-protest (photogging). About a half hour before people started showing up, a homeless woman circled the plaza on a bike burning sage and trying to "bless" or "purify" (or whatever) the area before it got started. I felt disturbed by it but I couldn't get away cause I had to be there for work. Things got ugly last night so it certainly didn't work and in all likelihood invited demonic forces into the event.

A few hours later when I was done, I got back to my car and prayed a few decades of the rosary on the way home to reject that pagan ritual and whatever demonic forces might've been at work. After listening to Fr. Dave Nix's podcasts on New Age stuff and the demonic realities of it, I'm wondering if I shouldn't talk to my priest about what I may have been forced to come in contact with? Or is there just a prayer that I can say to further reject that paganism?

 

[Michie]

So yesterday my boss asked me to help one of our evening reporters cover the local impeachment protest and counter-protest (photogging). About a half hour before people started showing up, a homeless woman circled the plaza on a bike burning sage and trying to "bless" or "purify" (or whatever) the area before it got started. I felt disturbed by it but I couldn't get away cause I had to be there for work. Things got ugly last night so it certainly didn't work and in all likelihood invited demonic forces into the event.

A few hours later when I was done, I got back to my car and prayed a few decades of the rosary on the way home to reject that pagan ritual and whatever demonic forces might've been at work. After listening to Fr. Dave Nix's podcasts on New Age stuff and the demonic realities of it, I'm wondering if I shouldn't talk to my priest about what I may have been forced to come in contact with? Or is there just a prayer that I can say to further reject that paganism?

Well it could not hurt to get a blessing if you feel really uncomfortable about it. But we have greater power within us than is in the world. Some fruity lady waving about burning sage to “cleanse” the area is disturbing but I think the political climate has a strange spirit/vibe about it anymore. It’s cult like. So it could be a variety of things disturbing you. It could not hurt at all to talk to you priest though.

 

[Gnarwhal]

Well it could not hurt to get a blessing if you feel really uncomfortable about it. But we have greater power within us than is in the world. Some fruity lady waving about burning sage to “cleanse” the area is disturbing but I think the political climate has a strange spirit/vibe about it anymore. It’s cult like. So it could be a variety of things disturbing you. It could not hurt at all to talk to you priest though.

Great point, and I think I will.

 

[pdudgeon]

Great point, and I think I will.

I agree, a blessing from the priest, and an anointing with Holy Oil for protection would be a very good thing; especially since these days you never know in your job where you will be sent next, or what you will encounter.

 

[Chrystal-J]

I would have a priest bless me, myself.