Minor Exorcisms and Deliverance Prayers (For Priests)

St. Alphonsus Liguori and other saints have always held that each priest is required to do exorcisms and deliverance depending on his state in life. This does not necessarily mean that he will do solemn exorcisms as directed by his bishop but it does mean that, as the saint says, in every parish and diocese there are people who are under attack from the fallen angels who need the assistance of the priest to whom their care and protection has been entrusted. In His wisdom, Christ, in conferring Holy Orders to the Apostles who then passed them on in an uninterrupted line until this very day, put in the different Orders certain powers necessary to provide for the faithful as well as to protect them and free them from the adversary. One of those Orders was the Order of Exorcist, which in the early Church, was practiced by those ordained to that Order, whether they were a priest or not. Historically, the Church much later restricted the use of the power to priests alone. That restriction do