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When me and memebers from my Parish’s youth group went to attend a young catholic group event thing at St Annes Cathedral, leeds [UK] run by the dicoseses youth team one of the things they did was on the holy spirit and they gathered us all together and well i went to the back as i didn’t really know what was gonna happen but as they started the prayer for the holy spirit to descend on us i watched as they said if you wanted to feel the spirit to raise your hand and a few raised there hands and a priest or monk went to them after a few minutes of constant aruging in my head if i should do it or not i raised my hand and a monk came over asked my name etc then started to basically what i assumed speak chibberish, during this i had my eyes closed like he asked, after a few seconds a white light appeared before my eyes and soon the monk was saying to let the holy spirit flow through you and to relax, well basically i panicked and started to well tense up unsure of what was happening after a what was about 4 mins of me fighting back the white light faded and i opened my eyes to find myself on the floor. what had happened was i had been basically on a very steep angle but still stood on my feet but just before i opened my eyes i had hit the floor most of the others jsut slowly fell but i actually fell i couldn’t think why but maybe it was because i panicked i’m not sure what do you guys think?
 
The CC approves of that sort of thing?

How long ago was this event?
 
You did the right thing in resisting! The activity you just described is demonic, in fact, it reminds me of the Bayside appariton. Please report what happened to you to your local bishop so he can take care of the situation.
 
By speaking gibberish, I assume you mean speaking in tongues? How exactly is that against Catholic teaching? As for the white light thing, I don’t know what to make of that. I think you would need to be more descriptive as I can’t really tell what you are saying from what you wrote.
 
Note that the Charismatic Movement is approved by the Church. Most dioceses have an office to oversee its activities - Don’t get involved with any group that is not under diocesan supervision. The leaders have had one or more good meetings with the Pope.
 
liquidpele said:
. those people are *crazy *though.
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You just made a value judgment about human behavior. Is this just your personal subjective taste talking? If you think that its an objective truth about human behavior, then how does one define crazy in an objectively meaningless and purposeless universe?
 
MindOverMatter said:
You just made a value judgment about human behavior. Is this just your personal subjective taste talking? If you think that its an objective truth about human behavior, then how does one define crazy in an objectively meaningless and purposeless universe?
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Okay fair enough. Watch the documentary on their camp called “Jesus Camp” and see if you agree or not. Maybe I’m just being overly critical of their indoctrination techniques.

part 1: dailymotion.com/video/x5lidx_jesus-camp-part-1_news

part 2: dailymotion.com/relevance/search/jesus+camp+part+2/video/x3x79n_jesus-camp-part-2_shortfilms
 
liquidpele said:
Okay fair enough. Watch the documentary on their camp called “Jesus Camp” and see if you agree or not. Maybe I’m just being overly critical of their indoctrination techniques.

part 1: dailymotion.com/video/x5lidx_jesus-camp-part-1_news

part 2: dailymotion.com/relevance/search/jesus+camp+part+2/video/x3x79n_jesus-camp-part-2_shortfilms
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It seems to me that any body can make it look like they got the holy spirit in them. Obviously, me being a Christian i cannot be entirely sure, since Jesus himself seems to say that there will be people who are not catholic that will be working miracles in his name. However i am not impressed by the phenomena of wiggling tongues if it is being presented as some kind of proof. Id be more impressed if it could be shown that somebody who had never learned Aramaic started talking in Aramaic. I’m more impressed by miracles such as the stigmata; i have a book about Padre Pio that would freak you out. In other words; the harder it is to fake under close scrutiny, the better.
 
MindOverMatter said:
It seems to me that any body can make it look like they got the holy spirit in them. Obviously, me being a Christian i cannot be entirely sure, since Jesus himself seems to say that there will be people who are not catholic that will be working miracles in his name. However i am not impressed by the phenomena of wiggling tongues if it is being presented as some kind of proof. Id be more impressed if it could be shown that somebody who had never learned Aramaic started talking in Aramaic. I’m more impressed by miracles such as the stigmata; i have a book about Padre Pio that would freak you out. In other words; the harder it is to fake under close scrutiny, the better.
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I would indeed be very interested if something actually supernatural was found… plus they could get cash 😉

randi.org/site/index.php/1m-challenge.html
 
James_S_Saint said:
The CC approves of that sort of thing?

How long ago was this event?
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Eucharisted said:
You did the right thing in resisting! The activity you just described is demonic, in fact, it reminds me of the Bayside appariton. Please report what happened to you to your local bishop so he can take care of the situation.
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This was earlier this year. and the bishop was actually there i wouldn’t call it demonic because it inspired many people who weren’t firm believers I personally use it as a basis to prove free will
 
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