Father Dan Reehil

But God doesn't despair there.

He has a plan, it's a rescue mission.

You'd be familiar with rescue missions.

This was the greatest rescue mission of all time, when Jesus is gonna come into the world and he's gonna take down the devil on a different kind of tree, on a cross.

So where the first sin entered the world from a tree,

Now redemption comes to her tree.

Where Eve fell, the Blessed Mother brings forth a new plant by saying yes to God and allowing the second person tree to become incarnate in her womb.

And so you can see the parallels of like these first parents and now this new, the new Adam and the new Eve is Mary and Jesus.

Well, you actually know you've been forgiven.

That's the difference.

And we are set free through baptism from being under the domain of Satan.

He's like a lawyer, he's a legalist, and he knows where his boundaries extend and where they stop.

The minute we're baptized, this is what I tell parents all the time, please don't wait for Aunt Sally to fly in in three months for the baptism, just baptize the kid right away.

Because that restores that person back to God and out from under Satan's foot, literally stepping on the person's neck.

And they have them by chains.

And legally, they own the person until that kid's baptized or they're adult.

Once you're baptized, we're completely set free, as you mentioned, until we sin again.

And then if we commit another mortal sin, we go right back under the domain of Satan and we're trapped until we get...

which we know if you go to a priest and the priest absolves you, that has taken place and you're now set free again.

And any demons that are attached to you are broken off you and you can feel the heaviness lift.