How to get slain in the Spirit

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Ugh… I would rather eat tree bark than sit through that spectacle. 😑
 
I’m open to the possibility of it being legitimate, in the right context; as it stands currently, I’d largely agree with you.

One of these days I think I’ll go to a Catholic charismatic service, and just see and feel what it’s like.
 
Yes. Report back and bring a helmet just in case you’re slain.
 
Ha. Hopefully, somebody would catch me, unlike the poor gal I saw. The part that sticks with me most, besides how creepy her eyes looked, was the very firm “thunk” the back of her head made when it hit the floor.
 
“I believe in the Holy Spirit, the Lord, the giver of life”… heh heh… “slaying” people. 😃
 
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Oh yeah- that’s how God rolls…throwing people violently to the ground…

I suspect something akin to mass hypnosis occurs at some of these services. I remember attending a Pentecostal service in Latin America. My wife was active in this particular church at the time. The whole crowd starts to sway, eyes closed, as the choir or pastor leads them in a drawn out mantra of the same verse of the same song… repeated again and again and again (and they accuse us of vein repetition! Ha!). At this one particular service, this visiting “prophetess” walked through the rooom as people are swaying and worshipping waving her hands and literally shouting “bam!!” As she waved her hand and shouted entire pews worth of people would instantly crumble… its like their knees cease to exist. They just collapse. It’s creepy and disturbing.

Shallow, cheap, superficial spirituality… it’s a lazy, self-indulgent way to pat yourself on the back and say “I am so holy and Spirit-filled.”
Saints who had ecstasies and other mystical experiences received these gifts after a long challenging journey of working out their salvation with “fear and trembling.”
 
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Read St. Faustina’s Diary: Divine Mercy In My Soul to read about mystical experiences. Now.

Even at the end of her life, after all of her mystical experiences (which all were consistent with Scripture and the Magisterium, and which she didn’t seek herself), she could reflect at length on the Eucharist; she wrote that “if the angels were capable of envy, they would envy us for two things: one is the receiving of Holy Communion, and the other is suffering.”

She certainly neither wanted nor found an alternative for Christ and His one, holy, catholic, and apostolic Church, and she never sought more or fewer Sacraments.

If you are prompted to do otherwise, you are on dangerous ground.

Romans 6:4 says we are “buried with Him through Baptism into death”, that is one type of slaying in the Spirit you can seek, and of course you can only do that once and, unless in extraordinary circumstances, will need a Priest.
 
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My mother went to a evangecial service and i had to carry her out . she said she felt “drunk”
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How interesting. When she 'sobered up" was she able to add anything to that description?

Was there anything spiritually enriching about the experience?
 
I have been at a couple of Masses where this happened. Frankly, it scared the willies out of me.
 
In 1 Corinthians 6:9-10, drunkards are listed among those who will not inherit the Kingdom; whatever or whoever was making her feel drunk, it was not God. Very scary.
 
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In 1 Corinthians 6:9-10, drunkards are listed among those who will not inherit the Kingdom; whatever or whoever was making her feel drunk, it was not God. Very scary.
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a distinction must be made between a state of drunkeness and “drunkards”. The latter refers to an addiction to alcohol, where many persons may become tipsy without being a drunkard.

Obviously the work of the HS can be easily misundersood as “drunkenness”.
 
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To your questions, these Q&As, one from Women of Grace and the other from EWTN may answer them.

Blog - Women of Grace - www.womenofgrace.com
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Some believe that physical manifestations such as “resting in the Spirit” are signs that the Church is returning to the apostolic age when the gifts of the Holy Spirit described in 1 Corinthians 12 were common in Christian faith communities. These gifts include speaking in tongues, discernment of spirits, prophecy, healing and the working of miracles – all of which are a regular part of any charismatic gathering.
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The working of miracles? What miracles are those? 😮
 
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grt said:
In 1 Corinthians 6:9-10, drunkards are listed among those who will not inherit the Kingdom; whatever or whoever was making her feel drunk, it was not God. Very scary.
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I would guess, since Jesus’ first miracle is turning water into wine, that the above first needs to be read in proper context and not just by itself.
 
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I would like to get slain in the Spirit but
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there are only two instance in the new testament where I find anything even remotely comparable to people being , “slain” in the spirit. And it is a far cry from what you see on TV today.
  1. Jesus is in the garden and Judas shows up with the folks who are going to arrest Him and Jesus asks who they’re looking for. BAM down they go at the voice of Jesus.
  2. John falls down as a dead man out of fear for his life in Revelation 1:17 when he sees Jesus.
    I don’t claim to be a bible scholar but that slain in the spirit scares me. Everyone Jesus touches gets up. The dead the lame the lunatic the deaf,blind and dumb.
 
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Marriages restored, families reunited after being estranged, vision restored, a family lost in the wilderness found. I know very few details of the first three because the privacy of the persons involved was respected. The latter was sort of the same; all hush hush except when I just googled it, even without names, it was the first, second and forth result on Google. 😄
 
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