[granville1]

Actually, it is not a Bible – although it frequently references the Bible. It’s from the Roman Ritual which is found in the large red volume used in the films. Sorry but I don’t know where you could get a physical copy of it other than Googling Catholic bookstores and catalogues. Maybe if you just Googled “Roman Ritual” you could find an online text? It goes on for several pages. I think it may only exist as part of a larger body of prayers in the “red book”…

[Ryan]

*bump*

I own a copy of The Roman Ritual, if you’d like photos of the Exorcism section.

[granville1]

I have a few pix from the Ritual, but maybe Fr Lamont would enjoy it if you post some pix…

I never could figure out in The Beginning the stuff about “the Roman rituals”. Seems they were talking about two different things,

1) the red-covered book used in exorcism and featured in all of the Exorcist films. If that is the case, they mis-named it, because its correct name is the Roman Ritual, singular, not “the Roman rituals”, plural;

or

2) Merrin’s work with “the Roman rituals” in general, as if he were somehow involved with some kind of pre-Vatican II reform of Catholic rituals. If that is the case, they’re still off-base because Merrin is not a theologian-liturgical clerk, but rather an archeologist. There is no reason to think of him as revising or being at all involved with “the Roman rituals”.

[Father Lamont]

Is there any way to get a copy of the passage “The Rite for Exorcism” from the bible used by the priests. It would make an interesting read.

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