“Do you remember Dracula and vampire novels? They are fictional beings that suck people’s blood while they sleep. Victims must be in a deep sleep to be attacked by these creatures of the underworld. A vampire first injects a soporific substance to keep the victim asleep and, meanwhile, sucks his blood,” the priest asks as he begins his meditation.
In the same way, Father Hayen continues, “in the spiritual life our vampires are our bad habits, especially vices. They enter our lives slowly, like a narcotic; When we are asleep, they begin to suck our plasma, little by little. We are losing energy, strength, motivation, will, courage, enthusiasm, attitude.”
The exorcist further specifies: “We can even live with good habits such as going to church, but only out of habit, without any inner life that motivates us. Consciousness falls into a deep sleep and nothing awakens it. We can even lose our sense of good and evil. We stop having pangs of conscience and thus we die spiritually.”