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Catholic witness for a spiritually serious life.
Breakthrough! Waking up to the real you pairs Sunday readings with extended Catholic reflection on sin, suffering, forgiveness, and protection. Alejandra Vivanco reads Scripture and religious texts closely, then folds them into frank testimony about family wounds, forgiveness, and fidelity to God.
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Breakthrough! Waking up to the real you is a solo Catholic devotional show with an apologetic edge. Alejandra Vivanco speaks in a measured, serious register, often beginning with Scripture and staying close to its moral weight. The Sunday episodes have a liturgical spine. Acts, Isaiah, Luke, John, Revelation, Peter, and Paul are read as living testimony rather than historical background. Easter becomes a meditation on resurrection and forgiveness. Good Friday stretches into the Passion, denial, trial, crucifixion, burial, and fulfilled prophecy. Holy Thursday turns toward anointing, priesthood, witness, and Christ as Alpha and Omega. The book episodes take a different route. They move through The Exorcist Files with close attention to demons, wounds, exorcism rites, prayer, discernment, and the reality of evil. These passages are not treated as spectacle. They become a warning about spiritual allegiance, the danger of sin, and the need for mercy that actually changes behavior. The show is stern about compromise. It returns often to the line between serving God and serving what opposes God. Yet it is not only admonition. Alejandra also brings in family memory, loneliness, abusive motherhood, departed relatives, and the consolation of Mother Mary, saints, and angels. That personal material gives the theology a lived pressure. Forgiveness becomes more than a virtue named from afar; it is presented as a form of Christian resistance and healing. The show's strongest moments sit where doctrine and autobiography meet. It is for listeners who can follow long devotional passages and who want religious audio that names sin, suffering, demons, grace, and protection without embarrassment. It is grave, intimate, and direct.
Made for: For listeners drawn to Catholic devotion, Sunday Scripture, apologetics, and morally direct reflection on evil, forgiveness, and spiritual protection. It especially suits people who prefer a solo, sermon-like format over casual religious chat.
What sets it apart: The show stands apart by joining liturgical readings, exorcism-focused book commentary, and personal testimony in the same sustained monologue. Its theology is not abstract; it is filtered through wounds, family history, prayer, and a strong sense of spiritual battle.
Join me every Monday to listen to a new book that has caught my eye; I hope you find your path back to God as I share books about Christ and Catholicism. On Sunday, the series Sunday's Word is about the Word of God. Take a few moments to listen to His Word and Wisdom. Let Him feed your soul as we navigate this world together.
Based on 4 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Alejandra Vivanco pairs Catholic book readings with personal testimony to make spiritual discernment concrete, demanding and closely tied to everyday faith.
Alejandra Vivanco builds episodes around sustained book readings, pausing to interpret the material through Catholic teaching and her own return to faith.
Alejandra Vivanco treats spiritual warfare like a smoke alarm: if it chirps, you investigate.
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A grave Christian reflection on divine purpose and spiritual danger becomes most compelling when doctrine meets family history.
The Devil's Plan follows Alejandra Vivanco through a severe Christian premise: God has a plan for humanity, and the devil has one too. Moving from Father Carlos's The Exorcist Files into Genesis 1 and Genesis 2, Vivanco frames human beings as the crown jewel of creation, marked…
A serious Catholic reflection on spiritual warfare, testimony, and the danger of spiritual pride.
This episode frames Father Carlos Martin's The Exorcist Files through Alejandra Vivanco's introduction and the foreword by Cardinal Raymond Burke, which treats evil, Satan, and fallen angels as real.
A direct Catholic warning about spiritual distraction, Marian devotion, and the discipline of discernment.
Breakthrough! closes out Demons, Deliverance, and Discernment with an episode that treats the spiritual life as a real struggle rather than an abstraction.
A severe Christian warning about spiritual compromise, church corruption, and the cost of silence.
Alejandra Vivanco's "A Contract with a Demon" continues chapter three of Slaying Dragons 2, The Rise of the Occult, following a movement from weakened faith to the spiritual danger she believes comes when evil is welcomed rather than resisted.
A solemn Christian reflection on repentance, spiritual warfare, and turning toward the suffering Christ.
This episode offers a stern Christian meditation on sin, repentance, and suffering. Alejandra Vivanco reads from On the Demonic, then moves to Hebrews on Christ's blood and forgiveness, before drawing on Dostoevsky's warning about a world that denies sin.
Two Bible translators unpack Scripture's hardest passages, from Revelation's 666 to the Witch of Endor.
Live sermons with Easter-shaped urgency.
Host Alejandra Vivanco explores the essence of Satanism through a Christian lens, drawing from the book 'On the Demonic' and scripture.
This episode concludes a book series on demons and spiritual warfare, warning Catholics against fascination with paranormal entertainment that distracts from faith in God.
This episode critiques man-made religions like Wicca while asserting that Christianity is the one true faith established by Jesus Christ, emphasizing trust in God over personal feelings.
The host discusses the book of Leviticus, focusing on its rules for holiness and a specific passage about punishment for sacrificing children to Molech.
This episode discusses the dangers of the occult, focusing on moral subjectivism and how it leads practitioners like witches, Wiccans, and Satanists to reject moral codes and embrace self-centeredness, contrasting with biblical teachings.
Host Alejandra Vivanco continues reading Chapter 3 of 'Slaying Dragons 2: The Rise of the Occult,' arguing that all occult practices constitute a contract with demons.
The host reviews Father Ripperger’s Dominion as a difficult Catholic text on “the nature of diabolic warfare,” angelology, and spiritual order.
The 1938 Aurora Borealis appeared across Europe, and listeners were told it matched the Fatima warning of an unknown light.
This episode discusses the third Sunday of Easter, focusing on Peter's speech from Acts about Jesus' resurrection and its connection to Old Testament prophecy from David.
This episode explores how demons exploit personal wounds from sin and trauma to thrive in the spiritual realm, based on insights from exorcism literature.
This episode reflects on the second Sunday of Easter through readings from the Book of Acts and Saint Peter's letter, focusing on early Christian community life and enduring faith amid trials.
This episode explores the reality of the devil and demonic activity, drawing from Father Carlos Martin's experiences with exorcism and detailing how demons operate through deliberate attacks like temptation.
This episode presents Bible readings for Easter Sunday from Acts and Corinthians, focusing on Jesus' resurrection and its significance for forgiveness and faith.
Alejandra Vivanco reads from The Exorcist Files by Father Carlos, contrasting God’s plan to bless humanity with the devil’s plan to bring misery.
Alejandra Vivanco opens a new book series centered on Father Carlos Martin's The Exorcist Files.
Alejandra Vivanco closes the final episode of Demons, Deliverance, and Discernment with a sober warning about the reality of the spiritual world.
This episode explores how the decline of faith in modern times leads people to turn to occult practices like witchcraft and Satanism, ultimately entering into contracts with demons.