HEALING OF THE FAMILY TREE? BETWEEN KARMA And shamanic rites. SOME THEOLOGICAL AND PASTORal LINES TO MAKE DISCERNMENT

Praying for the healing of the past sins of ancestors in function of the liberation of their descendants is not only useless but is also unchristian as it is contrary to Revelation and the teaching of Jesus. Having said that, let's ask ourselves a question now: why we should insistently ask the Lord to free us from the sins of our ancestors, from their bad choices, from their vitiated acts in the use of free will if by doing so we actually affirm a moralistic relationship sick with cause-effect so apparently obvious, so merciless as to convey a destructive determinism that Jesus rejects?

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It is a sad and true fact that when man no longer believes in anything, he always ends up believing everything, when he ceases to believe in God he ends up believing in the gods and reading the tarot. There are also obscure characters who distort the elements of Catholicism, including the Blessed Virgin Mary, which ends up being false and disfigured in the worst way, in part to create attraction, In part to set up real profitable markets.

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For several years now we assist, Within some movements related to the Catholic Church, especially to those closest to the extremist area of charismatic, to a spiritual practice known by the name of Healing prayer of the genealogical tree O Intergenerational healing prayer. What exactly is this prayer? Is useful? But most of all, it is Catholic and in line with Revelation to pray in this way?

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With this article I wish to give only a few lines of theological and pastoral interpretation to help the faithful to operate a just and healthy discernment, given that confusion can often prevail over people who find themselves having to face situations of illness and suffering that prevent them from maintaining the right clarity of faith in the time of trial. And when we are hit by that pain that often makes us fragile and vulnerable, around the corner there are always those looking to make a personal profit, which can range from raising money to the perverse joy of exercising the power of control over consciences.

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I am well aware of the delicacy and complexity of the subject which would need other tools and spaces to be treated in a completely exhaustive way. Much time should be spent unraveling the delicate theological and psychological issues underlying the need for healing and care., together with personal and community responsibility in the face of the mystery of evil and sin that tire the daily journey of man and society. The most appropriate thing to do would be to write a book on the subject in order to be truly certain to deal with every little aspect and question that the theme of family tree healing highlights. Waiting for someone to complete such a job that currently does not exist - so much has been written about this type of healing prayer but always in a very partial way, biased and fragmentary - it is good to immediately relate this prayer to the Magisterium of the Church, especially in reference to the person of Christ as the winner of sin and suffering in all its forms. Jesus is "the one who frees from all evil" [Sap 16,8], and continues to be the mighty Savior who gives salvation and health to his people, always ready to intervene for the good of those who turn to him as the Good Samaritan.

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First of all it is necessary to place this prayer within a clear definition that can circumscribe its borders. In summary, we can say that the Healing prayer of the genealogical tree it is that prayer that asks God to eliminate the causes and consequences of those evils that have affected a particular person in the past whose consequences still persist in the present, falling on his descendants. Here's an example: if my great grandfather has committed a sin, an evil or was the bearer of a certain tendency or flaw that marked its existence in an incisive way, this sin (male, trend, tara) It can still manifest itself in the future life of the grandchildren even after several generations by carrying the inevitable consequences of suffering. Therefore objective evils such as violence, alcoholism, The practice of occultism, the tendency to suicide or abortion, Some psychological diseases, Some moral corruptions, They can recur in the life of a person who pays to the present and undergoes in a completely innocent way what has been experienced by one of his ancestors in the past.

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I wanted to take as an example the case of a distant grandfather in relation to a great -grandpose, But the same could be said to be more immediate between a father and a son or between a mother and a son, therefore between generations also very close to each other. In the field of oncological clinical sciences it is known and scientifically ascertained that certain forms of tumors can be hereditary, For this reason, specialists advise children and grandchildren to carry out periodic checks. In the field of psychiatric clinical sciences it is equally known that certain diseases or mental disorders are hereditary, For example schizophrenia.

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Let's try to clarify everything with another example: The Code of Canon Law the 1917 to the canons 983-991 indicated a whole series of impediments to receive the sacred priestly order. The previous canonical laws following the Council of Trento established that the children of the butchers could not receive sacred orders. A rule that, if not explained, Today it could even arouse hilarity, Yet he had his own logic. In some historical eras that of the butchers was a particularly bloody profession and almost always the slaughter of animals took place in a very violent way. All this ended up affecting not only on psychology and the behavioral aspect of those who exercised this profession, but also in the members of his family, of his children and his grandchildren born and raised in that kind of family context, social and working.

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In many particular cases The poor person who suffers these evils is nothing more than a ring of a long chain of individuals burdened by continuous disorders and repeated physical-spiritual ailments that will continue until the ties are interrupted with those roots that represent the objective cause of these disorders. Healing takes place through a series of specific and meticulous prayers that review all the physical and spiritual evils existing in the world.

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For the exemplification of readers I report below some excerpts of one Healing prayer of the genealogical tree composed of a character Sui generis and that it is possible to find on the Web. More or less similar texts you can also find them elsewhere or read them in several books that deal with the topic:

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"Jesus, You revealed that from the sin committed by man at the origin of the world, all evil has come and that even the sin of each one has a negative influence on others, Especially the sin of parents on children and descendants. Through the generation the same physical and mental characters are transmitted, The good fruits of the virtues and the sad consequences of the vices, Health and diseases, good and evil. For the good that parents and ancestors have transmitted us, We thank them and thank you, because with your grace they acted well. For the evil they transmitted to us, We forgive them and entrust them to your mercy, asking for your forgiveness for them and suffraving. Jesus, Now we pray for our past and present generations, both paternal and maternal branch. Please heal our family tree, of which we are a fruit. For their good and our good, truncates any negative influence they have transmitted to us. Your precious blood goes down to purify, restore, to free, because today our generation is healthy and holy, united and happy so that it can only convey positive things, be channel only of health and holiness. Jesus, You heal our family tree ".

"Jesus, healics from all the diseases that have come to us through past generations. Healics from physical diseases: heart, blood, of the circulatory system; mouth, nose, ears, throat, bronchi, lungs; of the esophagus, stomach, liver, of the gallbladder, del pancreas, intestine; of the kidneys, of the urinary tract; brain, of the spinal cord and the nervous system; of the bones and the spine; skin; of our five senses; healics from tumors and every strange disease; from frigidity and sterility, from impotence and from venereal diseases. Healics from all cases of mental diseases that have been in our family history: forms of paranoia, schizophrenia, psychosis, depressive and self -destructive behaviors. Healics from all psychic diseases: anxieties, seal, depressions, insecurities, fears, complex, sadness, Suicide thoughts, tedium of life, imbalances, panic attacks. Interrupt the transmission of all these diseases. Remove these hereditary tare. Make that in our generation there are always physical health, mental integrity, emotional balance, healthy relationships, goodness, love; To transmit these gifts to subsequent generations. Jesus, healics from all hereditary diseases "

"Jesus, free us from all the evils caused in us by the ancestors who participated in occultism, to spiritism, witchcraft, to magic, to satanic seven, freemasonry. Truncates the power of the evil one that, their fault, still weighs on our generations. Breaks the chain of curses, evil (invoices, ties, signatures, Riti Voodoo), Satanic works that weigh on our family. Free us from satanic pacts, consecrations to Satan and mental ties with the followers of Satan. Keep us far from spiritual meetings and every activity with which Satan can continue to have domain on us. Take any area that has been delivered to Satan by our ancestors under your power. The bad spirit forever moves, repair every damage, save us from all his new pitfalls. Only from you can we all have life, freedom, the pace. Jesus, Free us from all the evils caused by the evil one "

"Jesus, Free us from all the bad habits present in our family tree: from the game, from the squander, from drinking, from drugs, from the snoring, from theft. Put an end to our every bad habit. Free us from all the capital defects: from acidic, from avarice, from the throat, with anger, from envy, from lust, from pride. Free us from the bad legacy that have left us our ancestors dedicated to these vices. Free us from all the idols who have loved our previous generations: money, power, my pleasure, home, the land, the jewels, i titles. Cut the constraints that bind us to these cases of idolatry. Free us from all corruption and violence, by the anger and the malignancy of our ancestors who have been exploiters, blackmail, criminals. I break in us all the ties to these behaviors. Free us from all the evil made by our ancestors driven by hatred: I hate to others, towards themselves, towards God, racial hatred, Religious fanaticism ».

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As is evident from the text of the above prayer, these invocations are very long and detailed in listing all the evils and areas from which you want to be healed. The flaw of this prayer is not so much that of asking for healing from evil or the evil one - something that Jesus teaches us to do as an explicit request in the Our father - but in the theology underlying this form of prayer which is what the ancient Jews knew with the name of theology of retribution O salary theory. We can also find this theological thought within some Eastern religious philosophies as a reference to the Law of Karma or the belief in Reincarnation.

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Let's proceed in order: The most immediate origin of this Healing prayer of the genealogical tree we owe it to the work and doctrine of the British psychiatrist Kenneth McAll (1910-2001). He was a fervent and passionate Protestant missionary, who was able to initiate this therapeutic practice, enough to transform it into a real spiritual school. For those wishing to deepen the life and work of this charismatic doctor, I recommend reading his two most famous books: Up to the roots. Family tree healing, Editions again, Guide to healing the genealogical tree, Sign editions. Among the pages of these texts, the reader will find the entire manifesto and scaffolding of all this psycho-theological-therapy theory.

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When we deal with the theme of physical and spiritual suffering we must be especially careful not to exasperate or deceive the people involved. In the face of human suffering, especially that suffering of an innocent kind, we cannot afford the luxury of making mistakes or being easy-going by playing with people's lives or their frailties, above all, avoiding nurturing and instilling false hopes. Nor can we think of packaging low-cost and high-emotional impact solutions that aim to please the sufferer by giving him a sense of immediate relief but which in fact do not solve the problem and can even lead to bitter disappointments..

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Divine Revelation attests to us that the problem of suffering is inextricably linked to the mystery of iniquity that Christ destroyed with his passion, death and resurrection and which he himself paid freely through his most august person. From that first sin of disobedience, described in Genesis 3, the rebellion against God has generated a tragic consequence within the created world which has the face of death, of suffering, of disorder and the loss of communion. From righteous Abel to innocent Isaac, from wise Job to Christ the Lord, man has always debated and questioned why there is suffering and evil in the world. But above all he has always questioned why he suffers unjustly. but yet, To be honest a real answer is proper is not there, Or rather, there is not that answer that we would like to hear and that is able to explain everything.

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There is no winning card of an "ancestral sin" which becomes the ace of the pil to justify any distortion of existence, so it is possible to de-manage and delegate everything outside the man, while instead it would be necessary to start from inside the man from his heart. When we refer to original sin we operate a substantial difference with ancestral sin. The first admits a personal responsibility as a result of a bad freedom used, The second is the result of a blind determinism for which you can only take note of the adverse situation and to be suffered. To discern these issues, the divine revelation that gives not an answer but orientates to a meaning to explain to explain suffering. There is the impairment of a God who embodies and who assumes the condition and fragility of man on himself, destroying all evil in the sacrifice of the cross. Christ's victory is not only the victory over evil, but on every evil. First of all, the victory on the origin and the ultimate cause of evil in its essence that is Satan is, as solemnly states in the baptismal liturgy: «Give up in Satan, Origin and cause of all sin?», i.e. of all evil.

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By Christians, in front of the suffering especially if unjust, We know how to do much more than he commanded the philosopher Socrates to his disciples. We do not offer a rooster to the god of Esculapio medicine, We Christians in the face of suffering know how to offer the venerable body and blood of the Lord Jesus Christ who continually offers himself and immense himself for every man of all time. The Christian response to evil and suffering is therefore not of a philosophical but theological nature, It is an answer that exceeds man, It is elevated to mystery and it is understood only starting from the faith in the one who won the suffering.

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In order to understand this speech On the mystery of evil and suffering I want to focus mainly on what Jesus has left us in this regard. I want to start first of all from the healing of the blind blind man who we find described in the Gospel of John [9,1–41] To then end with the song of the evangelist Luca [13,1–5]. John's Gospel tells that the disciples of Jesus seeing a blind man born on the road asked this question to the Lord:

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"" Rabaiji, who sinned, he or his parents, he was born blind?”. Jesus answered: “Neither he sinned nor his parents, But it is because the works of God are manifested in him "".

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The disciples they do nothing but re -propose a theological thought, who was in tune with the remuneration theory of the time. To put it with brevity of word, The remuneration theory stated that there is no suffering without guilt, that if something happened to you bad in life it is because you looked for it and if you were not the direct manager, it was someone else who is close to you, as next or ancestors.

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Although already the book by Job had put this remuneration theory in crisis with his annexed theology sponsored by the three inappropriate friends, In the Jewish religious thought of the time of Jesus this conception still remains strong as we will see in the case of the social disorders described by the song of the evangelist Luca [Lc 13,1–5]. What is enough for us to know, With reference to our speech on Healing prayer of the genealogical tree theorized by the DR. Kenneth McAll, It is that it is not possible to say that the sins of the fathers affect the present life of the children, According to what the prophet Ezekiel already affirmed on behalf of God:

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«I was addressed this word of the Lord: "Because you go by repeating this proverb on the village of Israel: The fathers eaten the unripe grapes and the teeth of the children have attached themselves?”» [This 18, 2].

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Then pray for the healing of the past faults of the ancestors according to the liberation of their descendants is not only useless but it is also not Christian in that is against the revelation and teaching of Jesus. Having said that, let's ask ourselves a question now: why we should insistently ask the Lord to free us from the sins of our ancestors, from their bad choices, from their vitiated acts in the use of free will if by doing so we actually affirm a moralistic relationship sick with cause-effect so apparently obvious, so merciless as to convey a destructive determinism that Jesus rejects? Christ says no to this theological conception, By stating forcefully that the blindness of that man has as the sole purpose is the glory of God, that is, the epiphany of the kingdom of the son and the announcement of the Gospel in the world. The proximity of God is touched here who in Jesus joins man to free and heal him. The first beneficiary of this glory will be the blind man who will recover the sight, Then his parents who will be relieved of a frustrating social and moral responsibility and finally the doctors of the law that will have a good opportunity to be able to approach that presence of that God who preach so much but who are still struggling to recognize in the midst of them.

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It is symptomatic to note in the fourth Gospel The game of opposites that often occurs precisely starting from the epiphanic signs that Jesus performs: He who is blind is the only one to recognize and see the Savior, while those who say they see remain blind and trapped in rigid determinisms. In this regard, the Mother Church through a document of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith He reiterates the thought of his Savior making even more clarity through the magisterium of the Holy Pontiff John Paul II:

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"However, the disease also affects the righteous and man wonders why. In Giobbe's book this question raises many of its pages. «If it is true that suffering makes sense as punishment, when it is linked to guilt, it's not true, instead, that any suffering is a consequence of guilt and has a punishment character. The figure of the right Job is a special proof in the Old Testament. (…) And if the Lord agrees to try Job with suffering, It does so to show justice. Suffering has a test character " [See. John Paul II, Apostolic Letter Saving pain, n. 11].

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In the face of the suffering of any nature And origin we ask God to be freed, Healing takes place by the work of Jesus Christ and the book of Syracide urges us to insist with renovation with a branch attitude: "Son, Don't disheartened in the disease, but pray to the Lord and he will heal you " [Sir 38,9]. Fundamental elements of a good healing prayer are the submission to the will of God the Father, the abandonment confident to the Son Jesus Christ and the use of the theological virtue of hope that, illuminated by the Holy Spirit, It allows us to see the work of God through the ordinary means of healing such as medical staff, the terapie is in Farmac, health interventions and a healthy community. All other extraordinary healing means belong to God only that chooses their own times and ways to act at the right moment.

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To live the disease with faith and obtaining the aforementioned healing we have to pork inside an action of grace that is always undeserved but that can never be separated from the conversion of the heart. This speech leads us to examine the song of the evangelist Luca [13,1–5] who takes inspiration from a fact of black news that happened at the time of Jesus. This time evil has a social and corporate character and the theology of salary leads us to expand the relationship between the individual and society. The man is able to enter into relationships with other people, So the consequences of certain collective actions are the cause of suffering and evil for the entire community. Says the evangelist Luca:

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«In that same time some showed up to report the fact of those Galilei, whose pilate blood had brought together with that of their sacrifices. Taking the floor, Jesus said to them,: Believing that those Galilei were more sinners than all the Galilei, for having suffered this fate? No, I tell you, but unless you repent, you will all perish equally. Or those eighteen people, on which the Torre di Sìloe collapsed and killed them, You believe that they were worse offenders than all the inhabitants of Jerusalem? No, I tell you, but unless you repent, all perish in the same way ».

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Also this time Jesus unloads the theology of remuneration, does not accept the mechanistic link between suffering and guilt. With other words he seems to say:

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«You are convinced that those Galilei were more sinners than all the Galilei because they did that end? Well you are wrong, they were sinners as much as and like you. The point is that they had not yet converted, that is, they had not understood that man's happiness passes through the total entrusting of his life to God. You who are still in time!».

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It is not by chance, To this discourse on conversion, The subsequent parable of the unsuccessful Fico is flanked. We must be honest, Very often in our relationship with God and with the others we are more likely to make fried air than not conversion. If we look at each other with authenticity we are often trees with only leaves but no fruits. Here is the reason for our non -healing. Conversion is a precious suggestion to be able to open a pastoral road to healing and renovation. Converting to the Lord means starting from a life that is rooted in him and that abandons evil through small daily choices. Also J.R.R.Tolkien ne Lo Hobbit This evangelical concept in the dialogue between Gandalf and Galadriel reiterates in other words:

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“I found out they are the little things […] The daily actions of the ordinary people who keep darkness at bay. Simple acts of kindness and love ".

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Conversion means resorting to humility to the grace of the sacraments to be able to keep himself in continuous communion with God, Knowing that without it is impossible to stay up. Conversion means maintaining a constant dialogue with the Lord and asking for mercy towards those who have injured us as we see Abraham who asked God for the healing of the emppi starting from the Vicaries of the Righteous:

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"You will really exterminate the right with the Empio? […] As for them, I will forgive all that place " [GN 18, 1-33].

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For this reason it is good to clarify who are not the others who are responsible for my unrealized happiness, of my physical and spiritual infirmity, much less my ancestors. Not even the devil becomes the first manager of my failures. All these things allow us only to de -responsibility by downloading on others what belongs to us and that we do not want to do. For this reason it would be more appropriate to ask the Lord not so much the healing of our genealogical tree but the healing of our heart and the liberation from all those rigidity that prevent us once from converting us to him.

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In conclusion I only want to mention the presence of those social and family conditionings that can be an opportunity to commit evil or to facilitate a certain moral corruption of customs in society. These conditioning are defined by the social doctrine of the Church as "structures of sin". Within these structures all those social situations or institutions that are contrary to the divine law are falling but which always remain the expression and the effect of personal sins. Therefore the structures of sin if not steaming and restored can become the cause of corruption and perdition for man but they are always the result of a human freedom that runs from conversion to God, of a heart that does not listen and that does not obey, of a responsibility that agrees to go against God regardless of the consequences. In all this there is no determinism, It is always possible to reversal and a salvation and we must not bother the responsibility of the ancestors to find an acceptable alibi that can relieve us from the embarrassment of saying: It was my fault.

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I prefer to fly completely On those self-electrisis paladins of an unspecified "authentic Catholic tradition", who, while launching himself in invective bombastives against the 16th century Lutheran heresy, in playing in fact in a certain way, Including certain impropers "healing rites", At best, they show that they are completely unconscious radical Pentecostals of being it. And in this regard, I remember that radical Pentecostalism is the heresy of an heresy of an heresy, that is, a third generation heresy. Or, without bothering that very serious thing that is heresy, Almost always the prerogative of very cultured and refined minds, more simply the acting of certain dark characters follows in all respects of the low alloy supporters.

 

Laconi, 15 June 2022

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