"A cab driver in the city of Sendai picked up a sad-faced man who asked to be taken to an address that no longer existed. Halfway through the journey, he looked into his mirror to see that the rear seat was empty. He drove on anyway, stopped in front of the levelled foundations of a destroyed house, and politely opened the door to allow the invisible passenger out at his former home.
Over the course of last summer, Reverend Kaneda exorcised 25 spirits from Rumiko Takahashi. They came and went at the rate of several a week. All of them, after the wartime sailor, were ghosts of the tsunami. For Kaneda, the days followed a relentless routine. The telephone call from Rumiko would come in the early evening; at nine o’clock her fiancé would pull up in front of the temple and carry her out of the car. As many as three spirits would appear in a single session. Kaneda talked to each personality in turn, sometimes over several hours: he established their circumstances, calmed their fears and politely but firmly enjoined them to follow him towards the light. Kaneda’s wife would sit with Rumiko; sometimes other priests were present to join in with the prayers. In the early hours of the morning, Rumiko would be driven home. ‘Each time she would feel better, and go back to Sendai, and go to work,’ Kaneda told me. ‘But then after a few days, she’d be overwhelmed again.’ Out among the living, surrounded by the city, she would become conscious of the dead, a thousand importunate spirits pressing in on her and trying to get inside." - Ghosts of the Tsunami by Richard Lloyd Parry. London Review of Books. Vol. 36 No. 3 · 6 February 2014
pages 13-17.
Circle of Protection Prayer Against Demonic Entity:
In the Name of Jesus, I take authority and I bind all powers and forces in the air, in
the ground, in the water, in the underground, in nature and in fire. You are the Lord over the
entire universe and I give you the Glory for your creation. In your name I bind all demonic
forces that have come against us and our families and I seal all of us in the protection of
Your Precious Blood that was shed for us on the cross. Mary, our Mother, we seek your
protection and intercession with the Sacred Heart of Jesus for us and our families, and
surround us with your mantle of love to discourage the enemy. St. Michael and our
Guardian Angels come defend us and our families in battle against all the evil ones that
roam the earth. In the Name of Jesus, I bind and command all the powers and forces of
evil to depart right now away from us, our homes and our lands. And we thank you Lord
Jesus for You are a faithful and compassionate God. Amen
