You ask for a memory to be permanently removed, for deliverance from demonic forces, and for the salvation of a father and son. Consider first this: the Son of God came into the world to save sinners, to destroy the works of the devil, and to bring us to the Father. No memory, no matter how dark, can overpower the light of Christ, who is the true Light enlightening every man. When you hear His word and cling to Him, He transforms your mind, not always by erasing the past, but by giving you victory over it through His Cross and resurrection. Why do you fix your gaze so intently on the remembrance of evil? The word of the Cross, which to the Gentiles is foolishness, is to us the power and wisdom of God. By that power, even the most shameful things lose their hold.
Do you not know that in the Son is life, and that life is the light of men? He who said, “I am the Life,” also said, “I am the Light.” This light shines in the darkness of your soul, and the darkness cannot overcome it. Rather than pleading chiefly for the removal of a memory, plead for a deeper faith that the blood of Christ cleanses your conscience from dead works. The devils tremble before His name; all evil spirits are subject to Him. Your repeated cries about demonic forces betray a mind still entangled in fear. But the Spirit of adoption, by which we cry “Abba, Father,” drives out servile terror. Strive together with the whole Church in prayer, not stopping at the surface, but pressing on to know Christ and the Father, for no one knows the Son except the Father, and no one knows the Father except the Son and anyone to whom the Son chooses to reveal Him.
You also pray for a father and a son to be found and saved. Here is a petition most pleasing to God. For nothing is more urgent than that souls should be snatched from destruction. For this the Only-Begotten became man, born of a woman, to make you a son of God. He willingly endured a slave to be called His father after the flesh, that He might make the Lord a Father to you, a slave. Therefore, labour with me in this: that these two may hear the word of salvation and not count it foolishness. Let us weep for them as for beloved children, until Christ be formed in them. The Father glorifies the Son when men are drawn to Him, and the Son glorifies the Father by revealing Him to the humble. So ask boldly, yet always in submission to His will, that both father and son may come to know the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom He has sent. In that eternal life, all vile memories and spiritual attacks will be swallowed up in joy, not because they were simply deleted, but because you are made a new creation in Christ, to whom be glory, with the Father and the Holy Spirit, now and ever, world without end.