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"Effeminacy is a plague, and it must be eradicated." Families are being destroyed and souls are being cast into hell because of soft and effeminate men. In Terror of Demons, Kennedy Hall provides the cure: traditional Catholic masculinity. Drawing on centuries of Catholic wisdom from Scripture and the saints, Hall provides the tools for the reader to conquer effeminacy and be a man of God. This book is not for the weak-hearted but will strike every man with the sharpness of iron-he who has ears to hear will receive strength herein. The world is in desperate need of such men. Let the men of God arise. St. Joseph, Terror of Demons, pray for us!

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Publié par	St. Benedict Press LLC
Date de parution	18 janvier 2022
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9781505122565
Langue	English

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T ERROR OF D EMONS
T ERROR
__ OF ________________
D EMONS
R ECLAIMING T RADITIONAL C ATHOLIC M ASCULINITY
KENNEDY HALL
TAN Books Gastonia, North Carolina
Terror of Demons: Reclaiming Traditional Catholic Masculinity © 2021 Kennedy Hall
All rights reserved. With the exception of short excerpts used in critical review, no part of this work may be reproduced, transmitted, or stored in any form whatsoever, without the prior written permission of the publisher. Creation, exploitation and distribution of any unauthorized editions of this work, in any format in existence now or in the future—including but not limited to text, audio, and video—is prohibited without the prior written permission of the publisher.
Scripture quotations are from the Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition.
Cover design by Caroline Green
Cover images: The Nativity (detail of St. Joseph), 1639 (oil on copper), Stella, Jacques (1596-1657), © Bowes Museum / Bridgeman Images. Allegory of the Suppression of the German Revolution (detail of demon), 1848-49, German School, (19th century), © Deutsches Historisches Museum / © DHM / Bridgeman Images. Clouds opening up to Heaven, digital illustration by Amanda Carden/Shutterstock.
Library of Congress Control Number: 2021946768
ISBN: 978-1-5051-2254-1 Kindle ISBN: 978-1-5051-2255-8 ePUB ISBN: 978-1-5051-2256-5
Published in the United States by TAN Books PO Box 269 Gastonia, NC 28053 www.TANBooks.com
Printed in the United States of America
CONTENTS
Protestation
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction
  1 The Devil Is Real and He Wants Your Soul
  2 Effeminate Men
  3 Tame the Horse
  4 Do Not Remove Your Sandals, You Stand on Unholy Ground
  5 The Devil’s Playground
  6 Media Matters
  7 Building a Domestic Church
  8 Camel Knees
  9 Lead on, Braveheart; I Will Follow
10 Hear Me and Understand Well, My Little Son
Conclusion: Our Only Hope
Epilogue: Litany of St. Joseph, Terror of Demons
PROTESTATION
I N all that I shall say in this book, I submit to what is taught by our mother, the Holy Roman Church; if there is anything in it contrary to this, it will be without my knowledge. Therefore, for the love of Our Lord, I beg the learned men who read this book to look at it very carefully and make known to me any faults of this nature, and any other kinds of errors, which may be in it. If there is anything good in it, let this be to the glory and honor of God in the service of his most sacred Mother, our Patroness and Lady. 1
K ENNEDY H ALL
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1 Adapted from the protestation given by St. Teresa of Avila in The Way of Perfection .
PREFACE
“Undertake this journey eagerly for the remission of your sins, with the assurance of the reward of imperishable glory in the kingdom of heaven.”
—Blessed Pope Urban II
I wrote this book because Catholic men need a book like this. I also wrote this book as a spiritual exercise for myself. Every day, I seek to be a better and manlier Catholic, so I thought I should put this in print. The content of this book is challenging, and I continue to be challenged by it. There is a host of useful books to read on every aspect of the spiritual and moral life, but, to my mind, it is hard to find a resource that is a one-stop shop for men who want to develop heroic virtue. I have a book in my bedside table drawer called The DIY Bible . The book explains how to fix most issues that come up in the realm of home improvement and maintenance. There is the odd job that requires a specialist who is highly trained, but in reading through that book, I realized I could fix most things if I put in the work. In a similar manner, this book will act as a guide for most things that pertain to Catholic masculinity.
If taken seriously, this book will help you grow in virtue and seek true Catholic masculinity. For some, this will mean a radical change in lifestyle; for others, it will mean using this book as something to reignite a fire to go from good to excellent. You will be equipped to identify the demands of true manliness and utilize strategies to fight. You will equip yourself to work alongside St. Michael and watch him cast into hell Satan and all evil spirits who wander around the earth seeking the ruin of souls .
Before you begin reading, it is necessary to understand something: the devil will not like you reading this book, and he will come after you . Even in the writing process, I encountered constant resistance. This book will help you go from the highway to hell to the narrow path. If you are already on the narrow path, it will help you supercharge your steps on the stairway to heaven. The devil hates virtue, he hates losing souls to God, and he wants to keep you in a state of mortal sin or spiritual complacency. Once he realizes that you are kicking things into high gear, he will throw many tantrums, and so will his legions. Prepare yourself and please say a Hail Mary for the author.
Because of this impending attack, you need to make three fundamental commitments as a baseline: Make the Rosary a daily habit. Maybe you already pray the Rosary daily; this is good. If you don’t, you have to start. It takes about fifteen to twenty minutes to pray a five-decade Rosary. Split it up into chunks if you have to, or simply skip watching another rerun of a sitcom or stop wasting your time watching the news. Our Lady has appeared multiple times over the past few centuries, and she has always insisted on praying the Rosary. If you aren’t going to commit to the Rosary, then you aren’t serious about salvation. Get all the evil images out of your life. 1 This means all of the evil images. Of course, it is easy to identify the explicitly evil, pornographic material, but all sexually suggestive material must go. If you are addicted to evil images, you may literally have to destroy your phone and throw away your computer. Isn’t that a little bit extreme? Am I really supposed to throw out an expensive piece of technology just because I can use it to watch evil images? Yes! First, this remedy will be temporary until you get a handle on things, and secondly, you may need to make a choice: throw away the tech or throw away your soul. We will go into more detail later in the book on how to make your home safe from evil images, but for now, if you have an issue, take drastic and surgical steps. If you watch evil images on your phone or computer today and then slip in the shower and break your neck and die before confessing, you will be damned. This should be frightening. Time to be scared straight. Make a good examination of conscience and go to confession as soon as possible. You need to be sure that you have confessed all your known mortal sins in order to live in a state of grace. If you aren’t living in a state of grace, then your intellect is darkened and you will be more susceptible to demonic influence as you read this book. If you are in a state of mortal sin, you are weak, and when you are weak, you are soft; when you are soft, you cease to be a man. Do not be soft. Get to confession and make sure you are cleaned up.
Online Resources
Throughout the book, the reader will notice that at times he will be instructed to visit a website. To access these resources, go to meaningofcatholic.com/terrorofdemons . Here you will find a host of helpful resources that help to implement the contents of the book into daily life.
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1 Throughout this book, the phrase “evil images” will be used solely to describe the evil of pornography; though evil images can also include impure thoughts, memories, and phantasms (picture-thoughts of the imagination).
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
T O my wife. I owe you more than I can say. Without you, I would not be the man I am. Because of you and the children whom you have given me, fighting against the culture is a daily joy. Every man needs a woman to fight for; I could not ask for one better. If I were to write down all my thoughts, “the world itself, I think, would not be able to contain the books that should be written” (Jn. 21:25). One lifetime is not enough.
To Nonno, Giuseppe Viani. God rest your soul. If I become half the man you were, I will be twice the man I am now. We all stand on the shoulders of giants, and I stand on the strongest. Thank you for giving me a heritage in faith worth fighting for.
Finally, to glorious St. Joseph. Like in Scripture, there is scant mention of your name in this book, but your perfected virtue and masculinity is woven into every page. St. Joseph, Terror of Demons, pray for us!
K ENNEDY H ALL St. Joseph the Worker Anno Domini MMXX
INTRODUCTION
Y EARS ago, I sat in a pew at St. Peter’s Cathedral Basilica in my hometown of London, Ontario. I looked over at three men whom I respected very much as they knelt in prayer before Mass. It was an 8:30 a.m. Mass, a Sunday, and also the morning of a very important football game for us at Catholic Central High School (CCH). We had a tradition at CCH wherein we attended Mass the morning of every game throughout the season. We never played on Sundays, but it was the Ontario Western Bowl semi-final, and the game scheduled for the previous day had been snowed-out. It was the first week of December, and this is what happens in the southwestern Ontario snowbelt. We were playing on artificial turf, so a snowplow was used to clear off the field in order for us to play the game. For any Americans reading this, you should imagine the most stereotypical scene of Canadian football, as we played football in sub-zero weather with sidelines marked by walls of snow. It was an incredible game. We won, and the following week, we went on to win a Western Bowl championship at a much warmer indoor venue in Toronto.
What does this story about high school football have to do with Catholic masculinity? Well, I am more concerned with the three men I saw kneeling at Mass than I am with the game. You see, these were our three coaches—our head coa