Here are a few excerpts from an article about the Catholic charismatic renewal celebrating 40 years.
One can't live on memories though - the renewal must be ongoing...
So: "Come, Holy Spirit, also today, and fill the Church with new life - your life"!!!
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‘Baptism of the Spirit’ marks Charismatic Renewal
ST.PAUL, Minn. (The Catholic Spirit) - Karin Treiber was there at the beginning.
On a weekend retreat with a Duquesne University Catholic group near Pittsburgh in February 1967, she was among a group of students who say they experienced the presence of the Holy Spirit in an unprecedented way. A new way. An apostolic way.
Treiber describes it as understanding that the Holy Spirit was present to them in the same way the Spirit was present to Jesus’ disciples at Pentecost.
The “Duquesne Weekend” was the spark that ignited the charismatic movement’s wildfire, which spread across the United States and around the world. Known as the Catholic Charismatic Renewal, the movement is celebrating its 40th anniversary.
After the weekend, Treiber remembers that all she could say about it was that she “was touched by God” - and her heart was changed.
Treiber speaks of the experience as if recollecting a dream - the “waterfall of light” that interiorly washed over her in prayer. Feeling a presence in the chapel. Seeing an invisible hand ripple over another praying student and immediately understanding it to be God. Experiencing profound joy and peace.
Not all the students experienced the Spirit like Treiber says she did. But those that did were drawn together through their increased desire for prayer, Scripture, the Eucharist and talking about God.
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The Catholic Charismatic Renewal is not without its critics. Some charge it with being overly emotional. Some object to the expressive form of prayer. The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, however, has affirmed the movement’s strengths and offered guidance to help the movement keep closely connected to the broader church.
Those who criticize it wouldn’t if they understood it, Father Nolan said. It sprang from answered prayers, he said - prayers of Blessed Pope John XXIII and others during the Second Vatican Council. They prayed for a new Pentecost, and this is it, he said.
“They knew that we desperately needed the Holy Spirit to thrive,” he said. “The church is constantly in need of renewal - a fresh outpouring of the Holy Spirit to call us back to the teachings of the Gospel.
Read the whole article here:
http://www.catholic.org/diocese/diocese_story.php?id=23194Etiketter: karismatisk, katolsk |
