Speaking in Tongues

[IronicCatholic]

Here’s a good Catholic website on the subject (very positive on the gifts of the spirit, fyi)

And, yes, I sometimes pray in tongues.

 

[taxzby]

thank you so much that was really helpful i have been resisting a very special gift please pray that i and others can learn to love and embrace it GB - miCk.

 

[jpk1313]

I speak in tongues. It is the spirit coming over you with intense feelings of love flowing through your heart and soul like a river carrying you into a place where only god exists. it is like being a puppet what I say I have no control over becuse to pray in tongues is to allow the spirit to pray through you. it is not me who speaks but the holy spirit of god who is speaking with my mouth. to speak in tongues is to speak with mind of christ it is words of love.

 

[taxzby]

be careful when you say no control over. i think whats controlling you * lets go and hence You have more control.*

 

[littleflower_24]

Hello, I have the gift from God of speaking in tongues and if anyone has ever been to a steubenville retreat, you know how they are charismatic about it. Since my Dad and older sister were involved with these retreats, I knew of the gift for a long time. On my first retreat I really wanted it and expected to get it, but I did not. The next retreat was the same, and the next, I finally let go of my own ideas concerning it. That God could do what he wanted, and if the gift is from God I shouldn’t be trying to force it. The retreat after the next (the last one I went on) I received the gift after the priest came around with the monstrance during adoration. I had received it about a month before at a more charismatic mass even though I wouldn’t label it as that, but after the mass we were giving thanks to God, and I was really happy and started to speak in tongues. So I was weary of it for a while, thinking that God may not have been the center of it, or maybe it was just me. But when I got it at the last retreat, I knew then that I actually did have it, God was at the center of it, and that I can not ‘will’ it on my own, since it comes from God.

 

[littleflower_24]

But to answer the thread’s questions, at the retreat I thought at first that I was going to sleep in the spirit. When I did not get that gift, I thought, “That’s weird, I thought that was what the Spirit was going to do”. And I can’t really describe it, but the air became really fresh, so I just started praising God anyway for the gifts others got, and I started to speak in tongues. When I pray in the spirit now, that doesn’t happen, but I can not just do it at will either. The spirit must be the center, and I can’t remember the verse #, but somewhere in the new testament it says to ask the spirit how to pray, for we do not know how to pray as we ought, this is why I pray in tongues, that I may pray in a way that is pleasing to God. Also, if I can’t understand why something happened the way it did, ect. I pray in the spirit because he knows why and can reach a person’s heart and everythting they are dealing with better than me. I know that I am speaking something different, but I don’t know what I am saying. I know one person with the gift of interpretation, but they are older than me and live somewhere else, so I haven’t been able to speak out yet. That will come in God’s time if he wants it to happen. I hope that answers your questions-oh and if I pray with it during the mass, it is only after communion in thanks to God, and I stop before we stand to pray-God makes sure that you don’t interrupt the mass if it is from him.