Excommunication?
And, no, not “touchy”, just sick of the evil one lying to people about the gifts of the Holy Spirit. No good can come from rejecting Gods’ charisms, which is what millions of “catholics” (catholics put in quotations deliberatly because any true catholic would never reject God or they could not be called “catholic”), do everyday, not just through habitual sin or weakness but through sheer stubborness and/or ignorance.
The charisms of the Holy Spirit are gists given to bulid up the body, the Church, but if so many “catholics” are so willing to reject them, then the Body of Christ is lacking in this area of growth. I’m sure that is not what anyone who truly loves God intends, but it is what the Church has been experiencing since the 9th century untill 1967 when the Second Vatican council proclaimed a new Pentacost on the entire world. It’s sad that many “catholics” are driven by their lack of spiritual maturity to understand & come to the knowledge of the truth
**For the Christian vocation by its very nature is also a vocation to the apostolate. No part of the structure of a living body is merely passive but has a share in the functions as well as life of the body: so, too, in the body of Christ, which is the Church, “the whole body . . . in keeping with the proper activity of each part, derives its increase from its own internal development” (Eph. 4:16).
Indeed, the organic union in this body and the structure of the members are so compact that ]the member who fails to make his proper contribution to the development of the Church must be said to be useful neither to the Church nor to himself.
DECREE ON THE APOSTOLATE OF THE LAITY
APOSTOLICAM ACTUOSITATEM
SOLEMNLY PROMULGATED BY HIS HOLINESS,
POPE PAUL VI ON NOVEMBER 18, 1965
The 1988 Revised Edition of the Vatican II documents read as follows" Between the members of this body there exsists, further, such a unity and solidarity (cf. Eph. 4:16) that a member who does not work at the growth of the body to the extent of his possibilities must be considered useless both to the Church and to himself"
Useless to the Church. Useless to himself. Useless to herself.
How many “catholics” do I know that say “oh, that charismatic stuff isn’t for me”, when the Church Herself has said that all catholics need to work to the full extent of his/her possibilities to build up the entire body? Too many to count, and that’s just sad. Sad & disgusting.
Catholicism isn’t a "take what you want, leave what you don’t " church, nor is it a “comfort zone” church. But, thanks be to God, that He is patient, it’s only been almost 2000 years & His people are still not getting it. WAKE UP CHURCH!
JPII2, stop using google to find lies & open up your Bible & Second Vatican Council documents & learn the truth.**
That’s the fastest excommunication I’ve had yet (I’ve had many).
I NEVER SAID CHARISMATICS = WITCHES!!