Still Running Off at the Keyboard

THE BASKET PARTY REINCARNATED

Tupperware, jewelry, make-up, baskets, candles...if it can be sold in a souvenir shop, it can be sold at a home party, where the sales lady has a captive audience. Most of the women in America have been trapped at least once. How do you say no to a friend?

Well, there's a new party in town. Now you can catch a tarot party, as long as you leave the First Commandment at home.

Both a clairvoyant medium and tarot reader will come to your house to perform a private demonstration for the attendees and will be able to deliver personal messages from departed loved ones. Information is given by loved ones to verify who they are and relevant messages are given from them to attendees.

I was talking with a friend the other day who happened to mention that she had discovered something new about her sister. Her sister had attended a reader party where the reader read hands, not palms [??? - ct], and the reader was accurate. In fact she knew far too much for it to be coincidental or clever guessing. And now apparently her sister is considering making some major changes in her life.

"But," I said to her, "Isn't your sister Catholic?"

"Yes." She responded. "Legion of Mary and Holy Rosary Society. She is very much Catholic."

"But that's against the First Commandment" I commented.

"Yeah. I know," she responded. "Like I said I'm still learning something new about her even after all these years."

The midwest is not exactly filled with small town life and farm country anymore.

Fr. Gabriel Amorth, the chief exorcist of Rome, has some things to say that apply to tarot parties. Under a sub-heading titled "The Gifts of Satan" he writes:

Satan has the authority to give certain powers to his faithful. Since the devil is truly a liar, at times those who receive these powers either are not or do not want to be aware of their origin; they are all to happy to receive these free gifts. It may happen that one person is given the gift of clairvoyance. Others, simply by sitting in front of a blank piece of paper with a pen in their hands, are able to write page after page of spontaneous messages. Yet others feel that they can bilocate and that part of them can enter buildings even far away. It is very common for many to hear "a voice" that at times suggests prayers and at other times anything but prayers. ...

Let us not forget that the Bible gives us examples of extraordinary deeds performed by God and by the devil. Some of the wonders that Moses performed at God's command before Pharaoh were mimiked by the court's magicians. That is why wonders of this kind, taken by themselves, do not point to their source.

Often those who are struck by evil disturbances are gifted with particular "sensitivities". For instance, they are able immediately to sense negativity in others, they can foresee future events, or at times they have a strong tendency to "lay hands" on psychologically fragile people. Other times they feel that they can influence others' lives, wishing them ill with a meanness, almost a dominance, that comes from within. I have witnessed that there is only one way to be healed of these disturbances; that is to fight and conquer these tendencies. (AN EXORCIST TELLS HIS STORY, pp. 39-41)

I think it's time to start rehearsing before the pinch arrives..."Oh, it sounds like fun, but I'm busy on Friday (and Saturday, and Sunday, and Monday, and Tuesday, and...)"

And if I get really brave, maybe: "A tarot party? Oh really? Well, no, I'm afraid I'll have to decline. It's against my faith."