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| | Pentecost: All About Pentecost (Whitsunday)! |
 | | The Holy Spirit's operations both individually and collectively (in the Church) are often misunderstood, especially in recent Protestant theology, where "having the Holy Spirit" is synonymous with an adrenaline rush. | | | Just because spiritual gifts have been mistreated by certain denominations does not mean we should abandon them, or that the Church has ever ceased having these charisms. | | | I would bet that in America the secular holiday Mother's day is more celebrated within churches than is the feast actually celebrating the birthday of the Church! |
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http://www.churchyear.net/pentecost.html
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| | Commentary on the Notification on Vassula Ryden |
| | that Vassula's main charism is to show the purity of the integral revelation of God". | | | And there is so much more: the revelation of deep secrets hidden in God now taking place and the marvelous gifts and charisms present in Vassula who is a "sign" or "sample" of just how God will grace and lead all those who are open and present themselves. | | | A long line of Church Prelates and Bishops throughout the world have written personal letters to her inviting her to speak in their dioceses. |
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http://www.tlig.org/hughes.html
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| | Sunstone Magazine - Mormon issues, history, and art |
| | The general acceptability of the charism in the life of the early church was one of the reasons why Montanism spread so easily. | | | The greater the charism, the greater the holiness. | | | A.D. 407] the prophetic charisms were no longer a part of the living experience of the Church. |
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http://www.sunstoneonline.com/magazine/searchable/Issue92.asp
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| | Catholic News Agency |
| | Then there is the maturing of faith and knowledge of the Son of God, as a condition and essence of unity in the body of Christ. | | | In the second reading, the letter to the Ephesians, we see basically three aspects: first, the ministries and charisms in the Church, as gifts of the Lord risen and ascended into heaven. | | | The more we are touched by the mercy of the Lord, the more we draw closer in solidarity with his suffering - and become willing to bear in our flesh "what is lacking in the afflictions of Christ" (Col 1, 24). |
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http://www.catholicnewsagency.com/document.php?n=60
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| | BIGpedia - Opus Dei - Encyclopedia and Dictionary Online |
| | It is said that they have "one vocation", mainly a way of saying that Opus Dei is one organization, as contrasted with traditional Catholic Religious Familes, which are confederations of differnet organizations with similar charisms and/or founders. | | | Opus Dei additionally has many "cooperators," who assist its activities through prayer, donations, or other means. | | | Members are differentiated based on their personal circumstances and availability to work directly for the prelature. |
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http://www.bigpedia.com/encyclopedia/Opus_Dei
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| | In Continued Dialogue with the Czestochowa Commission by Dr. Mark Miravalle; |
| | In fact, if one holds to the position that until we receive positive approval from non-Catholic churches and ecclesial bodies for a papal infallible definition, who by their own expressed conviction reject the very office of papacy, then we have, practically speaking, eliminated the exercise of the charism of papal infallibility from the Church. | | | he re-affirms the charism of papal infallibility, not as an obstacle to ecumenism, but precisely as a service to Christian unity because of its witness to unity’s foundation, which is truth: | | | By definition, Orthodox Christianity, Anglicanism and Lutheranism do not accept the office and charisms of the papacy, and therefore could never logically encourage a solemn declaration issued from a papal office which they formally and |
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http://www.christendom-awake.org/pages/marian/5thdogma/Czestoch.htm
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| | YOUR GLOBAL HERMITAGE WEBSITE |
| | For as Christianity is built upon Christ, Franciscanism upon St Francis, Brigittinism upon St Birgitta, all religion and religious movements within the whole mirror each other and God as in a kaleidoscope, refracting God as in a prism, changing light into rainbows. | | | Thus we combine work, study, prayer, using our bodies, minds, souls, for God and neighbour. | | | One section of this Website shall be on contemplative, and also active, Founders and their Charisms. |
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http://www.umilta.net/cloister.html
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| | Catholic Spiritual Direction |
| | -- in the charisms and ministries by which the Church is built up; |
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http://www.catholicspiritualdirection.org
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