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Hi everyone. I have created this thread so that us Charismatic Catholics can fellowship with each other. Also, those who are not Charismatic Catholics who have questions can ask questions in here. I am a Charismatic Catholic from Indiana. Please come on in and introduce yourself!
 
Hello Holly,

I am glad to see this kind of thread. I am not charismatic catholic but I was attending a charismatic catholic church and found that the parishioners there were so devote, they blow doors off all my previous conceptions of the Charismatic movement. I will probably not post much here but I am very interested to see the topics here.👍
 
Hi Holly,

I attend the Charismatic Catholic Masses in Louisville, KY! Looking forward to these posts!

Thanks,

Deidre
 
Hi everyone. I have created this thread so that us Charismatic Catholics can fellowship with each other. Also, those who are not Charismatic Catholics who have questions can ask questions in here. I am a Charismatic Catholic from Indiana. Please come on in and introduce yourself!
Good tosee this thread God bless .

I have been Charismatic for years but in a turn I think (in my case) for the better I have had to learn to become more contemplative and I am now able to relate I think more fully to the use of and works of the Holy Spirit.
I have also found that I have been able to build up a relationship with the Holy Spirit and love Him the same way as I love Jesus.
I am 58 and have never been able to love the Holy Spirit until some friend came around and told me that the Holy Spirit loves me??? That was quite questioning because I have never even in the charismatic renewal knowin the Holy Spirit this deeply.
Thanks again
God bless
littleone.
 
That’s awesome littleone! And thanks to Deidre and St. Lucy for posting as well. I went to a charismatic Catholic prayer meeting this evening that I have been to before. Unfortunately, the prayer group is going to be ending next Monday. We are hoping to keep it going somehow or to at least pray until the Lord shows us His will for the group.
 
This sounds like a great group. My husband and I attended a Charismatic retreat last fall. It was refreshing and encouraging.🙂
 
I have always wandered, what is the difference between a catholics who label themselves ‘charismatic’ and catholics who do not? I try to be open to Holy Spirit, but so should be everyone, not only some group with a ‘charismatic’ label…
 
I have always wandered, what is the difference between a catholics who label themselves ‘charismatic’ and catholics who do not? I try to be open to Holy Spirit, but so should be everyone, not only some group with a ‘charismatic’ label…
You’re right, everyone should be open to the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit guides and leads us in different ways and certainly doesn’t limit His guidings to Charismatics. However, some peope feel really uncomfortable around people who pray in tongues or rest in the Spirit. Others, reject that people can even still experience these gifts of the Spirit.

So I guess, while many Catholics are open to the guidance of the Holy Spirit (which is great!), they aren’t really open to some of the gifts which may be out of the norm. And some are really opposed to these gifts and sometimes seem to ‘attack’ those who are open to them.

People who are open to praying in tongues and resting in the Spirit are referred to as Charismatics. Most Charismatics will tell you that the true gift of the Spirit is the deep yearning to experience God in our daily lives, the desire to learn as much as we can about Him and to praise Him. Some of us didn’t really experience these greater gifts until we experienced the lesser gifts of tongues or resting in the Spirit.

Many traditionalist are able to experience these greater gifts without having ever experienced the *lesser *gifts which is great. I guess the Holy Spirit knows each heart and knows who needs what.

I don’t think He really meant for the gifts of tongues and resting in the Spirit to be gifts that divide the Church. But where people are involved, I guess any differences can be cause for division.

Hope that helps! I’m sure others will weigh in also!
 
I have experienced resting in Spirit myself, and observed ‘holy laughter’ but I am confused… it is nowhere in the Bible, and as far as I know there is no official Church statement/document about it…
 
I have experienced resting in Spirit myself, and observed ‘holy laughter’ but I am confused… it is nowhere in the Bible, and as far as I know there is no official Church statement/document about it…
What is “holy laughter”?

Thanks!
 
I have experienced resting in Spirit myself, and observed ‘holy laughter’ but I am confused… it is nowhere in the Bible, and as far as I know there is no official Church statement/document about it…
I guess that the first point is that Jesus tells us that the bible holds enough information to gain us salvation, in saying that I am saying that there are a number of other points, for instance spiritual laughter singing in the spirit and others that don’t have to be writen because the Holy Spirit will juide us as to which one is for us and at what time and place, remembering that all this is for the glory of God not self…

From there on there are the understanding of the fruits of the Spirit that should be learned, e.g., Galations 5:22 and James 3: 18-.23. and then to put them into perspective with the way God wishes us to understand and use them we need to read 1 Corinthians 12 and also 1 Corinthians 13. remember that Jesus told us that He must go that the helper would come and give us understanding(the Holy Spirit). OK so it is with the guidance of the Holy Spirit that we gain the first gift that will help us, the gift of “discernment” if we should ask or be given.

I for one never wanted the gift of toungs, why? because some people used to say you know they are christians because they speak in toungs, well that might be so in a little way but even satan can come dressed like the lamb. But after using other gifts I was pushed by the Holy Spirit into reading a book that was right in front of me as I drove my log loader. The book was about an American author who didn’t believe in toungs let alone God. It was the right book for me to become loosened up enough to accept the gift.My wife and I who are very active in the parish use toungs in discernment, healing, own prayer, edification, glorification, deliverance and other times when the spirit leads in some other direction.

well I hope that that might help in some way.
Godbless
littleone.
 
I have experienced resting in Spirit myself, and observed ‘holy laughter’ but I am confused… it is nowhere in the Bible, and as far as I know there is no official Church statement/document about it…
Good question!🙂

I’ve also experienced ‘resting in the Spirit’ and it never occurred to me that it wasn’t talked about in Scripture! Possibly it comes from Sacred Tradition? Not sure!

Of course, I guess the important thing is not so much the ‘resting’ but how we respond when we get back up!

I’ve never witnessed or heard of holy laughter. But I’ve heard Pentecostals talk about being drunk with the Spirit. Wonder if that’s maybe the same thing? I’ve never seen that either, I just heard about it!
 
I know that Charismatic Catholics are our brothers and sisters in faith. Recently I have had much more closeness with the Holy Spirit myself so I can definitley relate to the charismatic zeal for a great relationship with the Spirit ( although I also feel very loyal and strong with the side of the trinity that Jesus embodies ). However - I have always wondered. In ACTS it tells of the apostles being able to speak a variety of foreign ‘tongues’ - hence the ‘speaking in tongues of all types’ reference. But, and if im ignorant here please forgive me, Isnt speaking long-standing foreign languages (gallilean, hebrew, aramaic, etc) very different from uttering a sort of ceaseless ‘giberish’ (for lack of a better term). I understand the premise that the Spirit could understand us whatever we speak because it knows our hearts but how does glossolalia even qualify as one of the gifts of the Spirit. Healing, Discernment … I am completley on board with so to speak, but im having a hard time understanding the glossolalia aspect of the charismatic movement.
 
But, and if im ignorant here please forgive me, Isnt speaking long-standing foreign languages (gallilean, hebrew, aramaic, etc) very different from uttering a sort of ceaseless ‘giberish’ (for lack of a better term).
Yes, there are two types of tongues. The one spoken of in Acts is the ability to speak a foreign language even though you may have never spoken that language before. The ‘giberish’ that you refer to is actually a prayer language and is discussed in 1 Corinthians 14:2

2For anyone who speaks in a tongue does not speak to men but to God. Indeed, no one understands him; he utters mysteries with his spirit.

Paul refers to it as one of the least of the gifts of the Spirit - but it is a gift all the same!
 
I am not sure that any manifestations of The Holy Spirit can fully express what He does in our hearts. Tongues, resting in the Spirit or other experiences should not divide the Body of Christ.
St. Paul explains this very topic to the Church in Corinth.
The New American Bible
1Corinthians chapter 12; 4-27

4 There are different kinds of spiritual gifts but the same Spirit;
5 there are different forms of service but the same Lord;
6 there are different workings but the same God who produces all of them in everyone.
7 To each individual the manifestation of the Spirit is given for some benefit.
8 To one is given through the Spirit the expression of wisdom; to another the expression of knowledge according to the same Spirit;
9 to another faith by the same Spirit; to another gifts of healing by the one Spirit;
10 to another mighty deeds; to another prophecy; to another discernment of spirits; to another varieties of tongues; to another interpretation of tongues.
11 But one and the same Spirit produces all of these, distributing them individually to each person as he wishes.
12 As a body is one though it has many parts, and all the parts of the body, though many, are one body, so also Christ.
13 For in one Spirit we were all baptized into one body, whether Jews or Greeks, slaves or free persons, and we were all given to drink of one Spirit.
14 Now the body is not a single part, but many.
15 If a foot should say, “Because I am not a hand I do not belong to the body,” it does not for this reason belong any less to the body.
16 Or if an ear should say, “Because I am not an eye I do not belong to the body,” it does not for this reason belong any less to the body.
17 If the whole body were an eye, where would the hearing be? If the whole body were hearing, where would the sense of smell be?
18 But as it is, God placed the parts, each one of them, in the body as he intended.
19 If they were all one part, where would the body be?
20 But as it is, there are many parts, yet one body.
21 The eye cannot say to the hand, “I do not need you,” nor again the head to the feet, “I do not need you.”
22 Indeed, the parts of the body that seem to be weaker are all the more necessary,
23 and those parts of the body that we consider less honorable we surround with greater honor, and our less presentable parts are treated with greater propriety,
24 whereas our more presentable parts do not need this. But God has so constructed the body as to give greater honor to a part that is without it,
25 so that there may be no division in the body, but that the parts may have the same concern for one another.
26 If (one) part suffers, all the parts suffer with it; if one part is honored, all the parts share its joy.
27 Now you are Christ’s body, and individually parts of it.

I really like how St. Paul encourages us to see each part of Christ’s body as special and it seems to me whether a person speaks in tongues or not is not a sign of the Father’s favor. I don’t think the Holy Spirit is as interested in the things we experience as in our response to Him. Do we exalt the Father? Are we Glorifying Christ? Do we let the Holy Spirit use us to do works of charity?
 
I really like how St. Paul encourages us to see each part of Christ’s body as special and it seems to me whether a person speaks in tongues or not is not a sign of the Father’s favor. I don’t think the Holy Spirit is as interested in the things we experience as in our response to Him. Do we exalt the Father? Are we Glorifying Christ? Do we let the Holy Spirit use us to do works of charity?
I agree. I look at the gifts of tongues and resting in the Spirit as ‘gift wrap’. If you just stand back and admire the package, you miss out on the real gift. Which in this case, would be a deepening of your relationship with God in whichever way the Spirit leads you.
 
Good question!🙂

I’ve also experienced ‘resting in the Spirit’ and it never occurred to me that it wasn’t talked about in Scripture! Possibly it comes from Sacred Tradition? Not sure!

Of course, I guess the important thing is not so much the ‘resting’ but how we respond when we get back up!

I’ve never witnessed or heard of holy laughter. But I’ve heard Pentecostals talk about being drunk with the Spirit. Wonder if that’s maybe the same thing? I’ve never seen that either, I just heard about it!
It’s not explicitly discussed in scriptures, but there are a number of instances where Jesus expells demons/ heals disease and the delivered/ healed “falls over as if they were dead.” I’m too lazy to look up a reference at the moment, but it’s in there. Trust me.

Recall also at Penticost, many people thought the apostles were drunk, hense “drunk in the spirit.”

By the by, I’m a charismatic Catholic from PA! To God be the Glory.

God Bless
 
It’s not explicitly discussed in scriptures, but there are a number of instances where Jesus expells demons/ heals disease and the delivered/ healed “falls over as if they were dead.” I’m too lazy to look up a reference at the moment, but it’s in there. Trust me.

Recall also at Penticost, many people thought the apostles were drunk, hense “drunk in the spirit.”

By the by, I’m a charismatic Catholic from PA! To God be the Glory.

God Bless
I totally forgot that the apostles were accused of being drunk! Thanks for sharing.🙂
 
My mum is Charismatic and i sometimes go with her to her parish to experience and embrace it. It is awesome to see the whole congregation praising and loving Jesus as they do, it is nothing like that in my traditional parish.

You can feel Jesus as you walk into this particular Church.

You walk out feeling refreshed, full of love and just wonderful. I love it!
 
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