tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37512247.post2435271487122280333..comments2023-12-24T11:20:38.708+00:00Comments on The Muniment Room: Reflections on the Charismatic RenewalTtonyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15185875893212146794noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37512247.post-61544322311392924432007-10-12T23:22:00.000+01:002007-10-12T23:22:00.000+01:00I enjoyed reading your confessions on your early l...I enjoyed reading your confessions on your early life Tony. To some extent I had a similar experience with the Charismatics and I too learned to speak in tongues. (I still can!). The sad part for me is that so many of those who were at the forefront of the movement here, have left the Church and formed their own 'assemblies'. We even set up a Parish prayer group and Bob (yes, that was his name) took to counselling Jackie (and that was her name). We warned him that he was stepping over the line. Well, they both did. Bob is now dead. His wife divorced him and he died outside the Church. Jackie, I have not seen in years but she is outside too. Margaret Court, the tennis player, left the Church and now runs her own show here.<BR/>I think that the real trouble there is that they lose the Mass. They find the kick of a prayer-meeting more exciting than the Mass. The 'praying over' people more empowering than the reception of Jesus in Holy Communion. It is a subtle weaning away from what is our spiritual life into an emotional state which deadens the spirit as opposed to giving Life in the Spirit. They did get me to pray more, but my prayer now is not in tongues but The Legion of Mary prayers followed by the Divine Office.<BR/>As an aside, my father always had great difficulty praying the Rosary because he found it almost impossible to meditate on the mysteries. I seem to have inherited this trait from him, but I persevere anyway because Our Lady has told us to pray it daily. So, I try, but my mind wanders all over the place.<BR/>How about you?<BR/><BR/>JARayJARayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18138004129894177863noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37512247.post-60967069313648932007-10-12T23:01:00.000+01:002007-10-12T23:01:00.000+01:00Heheheheh...I once went to a charismatic service. ...Heheheheh...<BR/><BR/>I once went to a charismatic service. I decided it wasn't for me when, at the laying on of hands, the celebrant gave my forehead a gentle (but insistent) shove with his thumbs, as I wasn't collapsing, "slain by the spirit"!<BR/><BR/>I was acutely aware that the "catcher" assigned to me was a very frail, elderly gentleman, and I was a not insubstantial figure... he wouldn't have survived the collision!!Mulier Fortishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01186202810919174492noreply@blogger.com