Posted on 05/02/2017 4:48:41 PM PDT by ebb tide
Pope Francis has invited thousands of Catholic charismatics and members of Pentecostal and Evangelical churches to Rome to celebrate Pentecost and mark the 50th anniversary of what became the Catholic Charismatic Renewal.
The pope will lead a prayer vigil June 3, the eve of Pentecost, at Rome's Circus Maximus, an open field that was the site of an ancient Roman stadium used for chariot races. Participants will join the pope the next morning for Pentecost Mass in St. Peter's Square.
In 2014, Pope Francis had invited charismatics and Pentecostals to Rome in 2017 to mark the 50th anniversary of the Catholic charismatic movement, which traces its origins to a retreat held in 1967 at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh. The anniversary event is being organized by the Vatican-based International Catholic Charismatic Renewal Services.
The jubilee celebrations will begin in Rome May 31 with prayer meetings, a youth festival, meetings for theologians and workshops.
"Pope Francis asked us to plan a jubilee that is as inclusive as possible," particularly by including other Christians who also emphasize the importance of baptism in the Holy Spirit, said Michelle Moran, president of International Catholic Charismatic Renewal Services.
According to Moran's office, the Catholic charismatic renewal is present in more than 200 countries and has reached an estimated 120 million Catholics.
Meeting with charismatics and Pentecostals in 2014, Pope Francis admitted he was not always comfortable with the way they prayed, but he knelt onstage as they prayed for him and over him by singing and speaking in tongues.
"In the early years of the charismatic renewal in Buenos Aires, I did not have much love for charismatics," the pope had explained. "I said of them: They seem like a samba school."
But little by little, he said, he came to see how much good the movement was doing for Catholics and for the church.
As a non-catholic charismatic I have to say that this Pope has no personal knowledge of the Holy Spirit....
Its even possible that this pope is the FALSE Prophet of biblical fame.
At least he’s not doing the celebration with atheist Marxists.
But, anything to enlarge the Catholic Church tent. If they subscribe to the RCC then all is good. You can be a rabidly pro death Senator, you can be a communist, you can practice voodoo, you can believe as a Lutheran, you can even be Muslim, but by all means you need to place yourself under the Catholic umbrella.
I think that the Catholic Church, minus the true believers, who have already been raptured, will definitely play a large part in the one world religion of the anti-Christ. Either it or the Muslims will rule this one world “church”, or both. Eventually the anti-Christ will destroy even that perverted “church”. He will demand all worship to himself and satan. Satan possesses the anti-Christ and temporarily reigns over the lost and evil people of the world. That will be until the return of Jesus Christ, who quickly vanquishes him and takes over as the true and rightful King of the whole earth.
At least he’s not doing the celebration with atheist Marxists.
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. . . well, there’s that . . .
What does a Spirit filled Christian have in common with Lenin’s Pope?
Do NOT be unequally yoked!!!!!!
Is he going to allow the non-Catholics to go to Communion ?
Why not? Who is he to judge?
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