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Logical2
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Saint Paul scripture says 1 cor 14. Desire 2 prophecy, edification, exhorting, comfort, by the holy spirit,
Do you know believers that do this?
Do you know believers that do this?
1 cor 14. Desire to prophecy. Do you know Catholics who are prophetic
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po18guy
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Every Catholic who evangelizes or bears public witness to the faith engages in prophecy. Prophecy can be about the future, but is primarily about building the Church. It is harder, and perhaps less pleasing to the ego than speaking in tongues or some of the other gifts, but accomplishes more in the long run.
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Luz_Maria
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Somehow the person did not know about having the Gift, but others recognized it. Our Lord works in ways that are mysterious to us!
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Mary_Estelle
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I think most Catholics are a little prophetic to some degree unless they are blank sheets of paper flying in the wind. However, I think this is true for a lot of non-Catholics, also. You or many, may call it intuition or being intuitive. It would also depend on your understanding or meaning of prophecy. A priest once told me it was the "speaking of truth or spreading of the truth in the Biblical sense. I think you will get several opinions of what prophecy is. Peace
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mdgspencer
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The word prophecy can be used in a broad sense or in a second sense in keeping with Scripture, speaking words actually from God. And so the stories of the Old Testament prophets are filled with phrases like “thus spoke the Lord,” when they prophesied. I would not say that any use of a word is wrong, different uses of a word just involving different definitions.
I have known people who gave prophecies in the Biblical sense, speaking words from God, in the charismatic movement. However, saints have also had this gift from God too, of whom I have heard many stories. Off hand, for one example, Padre Pio knew and indicated when he was going to die.
I realize that ordinary Christians have also been known to speak words from God, through this may be no common thing. To give another example dredged up from my memory, I recall an event in the life of St. Peter Canisius. When he was young and not even a priest, a simple laywoman and who he didn’t know told him he would be greatly important to the faith in the future, and so he was later.
I have known people who gave prophecies in the Biblical sense, speaking words from God, in the charismatic movement. However, saints have also had this gift from God too, of whom I have heard many stories. Off hand, for one example, Padre Pio knew and indicated when he was going to die.
I realize that ordinary Christians have also been known to speak words from God, through this may be no common thing. To give another example dredged up from my memory, I recall an event in the life of St. Peter Canisius. When he was young and not even a priest, a simple laywoman and who he didn’t know told him he would be greatly important to the faith in the future, and so he was later.
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