Fifty Years of the Catholic Charismatic Movement: 1967-2017

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LOL! You and I disagree on a lot Little Lady but I don’t think you are a Protestant Poser.
 
Yes, and I scrolled by at first but seeing the conversation that was going on I thought it wouldn’t hurt to weigh in. 🙂

As I said, as it’s approved by the Church I won’t say anything ill about the Catholic Charismatic movement. I just personally have heard some ideas in this thread that seemed leaning towards problematic.
 
Rob2 said:
That is why I post material from The Catholic Charismatic Renewal and from the Magisterium which is not problematic .
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That does help a lot to save a thread like this so that we are always on topic.

Fifty years is a long time but we come a long way now thanks to those among us who received the grace of the Holy Spirit which roused our souls to the calling of the Catholic Church. Many of them were not with us anymore now but people like Ralph Martin, Patty Mansfield are still around though their body may have seen better time.

The Holy Spirit was poured among us, great things were done and lives were changed – healing and renewing. Many of them were not where they are now if not for the love of God. Nevertheless the generations of the sixties and seventies were in critical time of our history where new values were espoused which attacked the Church.

Perhaps we can remind ourselves that when the Holy Spirit touched us with power, we have become the people of praise – praising what God has done and continue to do so to put God in the highest place in our lives.
 
Reuben_J said:
Perhaps we can remind ourselves that when the Holy Spirit touched us with power, we have become the people of praise – praising what God has done and continue to do so to put God in the highest place in our lives.
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Thanks for your real life testimony of the Holy Spirit real power in changing lives.

I wish every single person who calls upon the name of our Lord Jesus could experience this. I’ve said it before but sometimes it takes time of constant seeking and crying out to God for His Spirit to fully fill you. God’s the boss and see’s the depths of our hearts.
 
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Reuben_J:
Perhaps we can remind ourselves that when the Holy Spirit touched us with power, we have become the people of praise – praising what God has done and continue to do so to put God in the highest place in our lives.
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Thanks for your real life testimony of the Holy Spirit real power in changing lives.

I wish every single person who calls upon the name of our Lord Jesus could experience this. I’ve said it before but sometimes it takes time of constant seeking and crying out to God for His Spirit to fully fill you. God’s the boss and see’s the depths of our hearts.
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In retrospect, how easy it was to be filled by the Holy Spirit and to be renewed in our faith. I can testify to that in my own life but more so as I seen and heard how there were hundreds or even thousands others who had the same testimonies.

All it takes on our part is to want it, to surrender ourselves and to allow the Holy Spirit to come into our lives. The rest, God will do for us.

When we think about it, they cannot be wrong that God cannot be wrong. Ultimately the truth of God’s action in us is being measured in how we are being changed ourselves. Like the apostles before the Pentecost, where they were meek, afraid and without power, but after the Holy Spirit descended on them, they became changed men – they were completely transformed but more so with power – healing, speaking, the demonstration of the word and personal courage and conviction of faith.

Not unexpectedly, most of them became martyrs. We can only come to the conclusion that those were the work of the Holy Spirit in them as promised by Jesus.

The current grace of the Holy Spirit in the Church as demonstrated in the Renewal this century is the apostolic experiences as being encountered by those who received them.

The Charismatic Renewal will come full cycle in the Church once they will not be identified by being elitist but that everyone will be able to have the grace of the power of the Holy Spirit in the Church.

The merging of the main bodies of the CCR in the Vatican, if it should materialize, would be perhaps validating the Renewal as having achieved its purpose.
 
I note that you tend to ask for written proof of everything. This is not a teaching, but a practice.

As to BITHS, speaking in tongues is given as the Spirit desires. That is both scriptural and per the catechism.

It is easily found in the catechism.
 
Reuben_J said:
In retrospect, how easy it was to be filled by the Holy Spirit and to be renewed in our faith. I can testify to that in my own life but more so as I seen and heard how there were hundreds or even thousands others who had the same testimonies
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In the beginning in 1994, I got filled without even asking, but by His grace.

But when I fell away from the church, stop reading the bible, stopped listening to worship music, and falling into certain sins, the Holy Spirit died in me. Its recovering from this point and getting refilled that was soo hard.

Best thing is to not fall away, but stay strong in spiritual practices.
 
Anybody ever hear this charismatic praise song??

Watch “Ron Kenoly - Ancient of Days (Live)” on YouTube

 
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I am wary of the Charismatic movement. Seems a lot like what pentacostals do.

Do the Catholic group speak in tongues? Can they be interpreted?
 
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am wary of the Charismatic movement. Seems a lot like what pentacostals do.

Do the Catholic group speak in tongues? Can they be interpreted?
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Its what the early church did in the book of Acts and in the life of the Saints for the past 2000+ years. Some speak in tongues, not everybody. Interpretations can happen.
 
If your reading this message, and would like God to fill you today with the Holy Spirit like you’ve never experienced before, it can be as simple as saying the words in this song with all your heart.

Ask and you shall receive the Holy Spirit’s power!

Watch “Breathe On Me (Lyrics) | Clint Brown” on YouTube

 
Escaping this thread as i have reservations about all of the talk in here
 
Lost4words said:
Escaping this thread as i have reservations about all of the talk in here
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My cradle-Catholic dad was the same way. When I told him I heard my friends parents talking in tongues from our parish, he said “thats of the devil!” lol

But, this charismatic renewal movement is Vatican stamped and approved by several Popes. 🙂
 
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Fine! Just know that the preacher of the Papal household (for both Benedict XVI and Francis) is Fr. Raniero Cantalamessa, a charismatic Franciscan priest.

If there was any - any - doctrinal problem, we would long ago have known of it.

It is probably not your manner of realizing or acting on your charisms.

At this time.
 
My observation is that those who have a problem with CCR are those who’ve had witnessed incidents that are not authentic, that are not of the Holy Spirit. This applies easily to any group or movement; I’ve seen it with Cursillo when someone tries to introduce something that was never supposed to be a practice. This could be applied to the Church as well, people who go overboard on Mary and turn of interested Protestants or even other Catholics. You could say there isn’t anything concrete that shows that it’s a part of Catholic Christianity, but a lot of non-Catholic Christians could say the same about Catholic practices. Truth be told, I could easily walk away from the Church if I though the actions or practices of fellow Catholics was a sign of the authenticity of the Church.
 
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And after all of that I somehow came home to quiet, gentle, peaceful liturgy of the Catholic Church. I am quite glad there are no Charismatic Churches where I live. I feel like I have PTSD and such services would cause me great distress.
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I can see why!
 
TheLittleLady said:
Careful, you will end up being called out as protestant poser 😉
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Protesatnts are welcome here, so long as they follow the forum rules.

There are many people here role playing, and that is not against the rules either. It probably lowers the quality of the forum, but then that effect may occur for a great number of reasons, such as persons who call themselves Catholic who reject the teachings of the Church.
 
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