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SNEED: Chicago priest blessed hotel floor after Las Vegas massacre | Chicago Sun-Times
“I felt surrounded by the mystery of evil,” said Kiley, who’d been asked to conduct a special church ritual on the 32nd floor of the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino in Las Vegas — a perch used to slaughter 59 people and wound more than 500 others.
A Chicago-based priest who works for the UNITEHERE union of hotel workers, Kiley told Sneed he had been asked to conduct the blessing last week on behalf of the traumatized union members.
“The FBI had already returned the floor to the hotel, but I remember wondering whether the spirit of evil was still there” said Kiley.
So Kiley, a native Chicagoan who works closely with Cardinal Blase Cupich, took a glass of water and a palm branch from a tree in the lobby of the Mandalay Bay hotel, and went to the 32nd floor to conduct a spiritual cleansing.
“As we opened the temporary door installed to seal the crime scene, I have to say it felt like I was pushed back — as if to keep me from entering.
“In my mind, I found myself saying to myself: ‘Oh no, you have to go.’ I instinctively began to pray in silence: ‘St. Michael, the Archangel, defend us in battle. Protect us against the wickedness and snares of the devil.’
“Then, I noticed the absolutely most stunning hotel room view you could imagine. I found there was no way to hold any of this together rationally. I kept saying this is just evil, raw evil.
“So I blessed the water according to the Roman ritual and then began to bless my companion and me, and then each and every corner of the suite.
“I blessed each bullet and room going back down the hall. I used the prayer for the blessing of a house and extended the prayer with an invocation to the Holy Spirit to descend in this place with light, joy, peace, hope and life."
SNEED: Chicago priest blessed hotel floor after Las Vegas massacre | Chicago Sun-Times
“I felt surrounded by the mystery of evil,” said Kiley, who’d been asked to conduct a special church ritual on the 32nd floor of the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino in Las Vegas — a perch used to slaughter 59 people and wound more than 500 others.
A Chicago-based priest who works for the UNITEHERE union of hotel workers, Kiley told Sneed he had been asked to conduct the blessing last week on behalf of the traumatized union members.
“The FBI had already returned the floor to the hotel, but I remember wondering whether the spirit of evil was still there” said Kiley.
So Kiley, a native Chicagoan who works closely with Cardinal Blase Cupich, took a glass of water and a palm branch from a tree in the lobby of the Mandalay Bay hotel, and went to the 32nd floor to conduct a spiritual cleansing.
“As we opened the temporary door installed to seal the crime scene, I have to say it felt like I was pushed back — as if to keep me from entering.
“In my mind, I found myself saying to myself: ‘Oh no, you have to go.’ I instinctively began to pray in silence: ‘St. Michael, the Archangel, defend us in battle. Protect us against the wickedness and snares of the devil.’
“Then, I noticed the absolutely most stunning hotel room view you could imagine. I found there was no way to hold any of this together rationally. I kept saying this is just evil, raw evil.
“So I blessed the water according to the Roman ritual and then began to bless my companion and me, and then each and every corner of the suite.
“I blessed each bullet and room going back down the hall. I used the prayer for the blessing of a house and extended the prayer with an invocation to the Holy Spirit to descend in this place with light, joy, peace, hope and life."
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