CATHOLIC CHARISMATIC RENEWAL EXPLAIN THE BAPTISM OF THE HOLY SPIRIT

In 1967, several college students gathered in a spiritual retreat in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. They prayed for God to allow them to experience the grace of both Baptism and Confirmation.

According to the student's accounts it was a transforming experience they called the Baptism of the holy spirit.

This is how Catholic Charismatic Renewal emerged, a movement that promotes personal renewal in the grace of the holy spirit.

Oreste Pesare
Director, International Catholic Charismatic Renewal Services (Rome)
When we receive the Baptism in the holy church, the sacrament, we receive all the holy spirit, we receive the gift of the holy spirit, but many times we don't use this grace. When you realize that you want to follow this experience, that you want to meet the holy spirit, you open this box and all the gifts that you already received in your sacraments come up and you can live a new life in the holy spirit and you can experience a new relationship with God.

The movement received pontifical recognition in 1993. Its newest director, Oreste Pesare, explains why the Vatican took so long to approve the movement.

Oreste Pesare
Director, International Catholic Charismatic Renewal Services (Rome)
Catholic Charismatic Renewal has historical roots in the Pentecostalism and so when in 1967, a first group of Catholics in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania made the first experience of the baptism of the Holy Spirit of course the Church was a little bit scared that some Protestantism could enter in the Catholic Church, so at the beginning it was a little bit difficult to enter, but the fruits of this new torrent of the Holy Spirit that were so big that step by step the church accepted more and more this new experience.

The charismatic movement helps individuals and groups that have different ways of expressing themselves and brings them together to worship God.

Oreste Pesare
Director, International Catholic Charismatic Renewal Services (Rome)
And in this way Charismatic Catholic would like to be a prophet for a new ecumenism, an ecumenism based on the love, loving each other, brothers and sisters, even though they are different.

Pesare says that although charismatics receive natural and supernatural gifts, their wish is to promote the idea that God is omnipotent.

Oreste Pesare
Director, International Catholic Charismatic Renewal Services (Rome)
I always say I don't consider a charismatic one who speaks in tongues, or makes prophecies or heals people. Of course we believe in these charisms and we believe in these gifts, and the Lord is bringing back these charisms in the Church today, but first of all I feel that the real charismatic is able to love the diversity in the others.

From Rome, Oreste Pesares keeps in touch with the leaders of the movement around the world.

A movement that started with a small praying group of college students and that today has more than 100 million members in 235 countries.

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@44BigBoii Of course you should praise mary as the mother of God. Imagine what Jesus thinks about your view of mary. Catholics revere Mary but we do not worship her. Worship is for Christ alone.

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@JeffersonDinedAlone This is our prayer - notice we ask Mary to pray for us. We are not praying to Mary. And its Biblical.

Hail Mary, full grace the Lord is with thee.

Blessed art thou amongst women (Luke 1:28)

And Blessed is the fruit

of thy womb Jesus. (Luke 1:42)

The church composed the second part of the “Hail Mary”:

Holy Mary, Mother of God pray for us sinners

Now and at the hour of our death. Amen

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@JeffersonDinedAlone The power of Mary’s intercession is seen at the Wedding Feast of Cana when Mary interceded with Jesus on behalf of a young couple. Because of Mary’s intercession, Jesus worked his first miracle even though “his hour had not yet come” (John 2:4).

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@JeffersonDinedAlone both alive and dead are a part of it. In the same way you might ask a friend to pray for you we ask the saints and Mary to do the same for us. WE are not usurping Christs position. We simply see things more in family terms than Protestants do. Mary is our heavenly mother and the Saints our heavenly brothers and sisters.

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@JeffersonDinedAlone I am assuming you are a protestant. As a Protestant I think you are not aware of catholic belief on this matter. She is not just any human being but the mother of God. Catholics pray for mary ti intercede on their behal with her Son.

Catholics also ask Saints to perform the same function. Catholics more often and primarily pray to Christ direct. Catholics see their Church as the body of Christ and all its member

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@44BigBoii How could God possibly be jealous in any way? Insecurity is not a trait of a supreme being.

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@22grena Of course Mary is ignored, as you stated the word (a better description would simply be not considered) as relates to Christ in His divinity. She is respected, and honored, but she has nothing, whatsoever, to do with prayer, etc.

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Deuteronomy 27:15 "Cursed is the man who carves an image or casts an idol--a thing detestable to the LORD, the work of the craftsman's hands--and sets it up in secret." Then all the people shall say, "Amen!"

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@22grena Deuteronomy 4:16 so that you do not become corrupt and make for yourselves an idol, an image of any shape, whether formed like a man or a woman,

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@22grena i dont have an attitude in all bad, the only one who is holy is Jesus, mary is a sinner from birth till death, we must be holy as Jesus was, mary is important to us because she was the one who gave birth to Jesus,, but she is not holy in anyway and we should not praise her or worship only jesus and God,,,,,