Friday, January 25, 2013

GET TO KNOW - Catholic Charismatic Renewal

What is the Catholic Charismatic Renewal?

--->It is the widespread  experience of the Holy Spirit's presence within Catholics and the manifestation of extraordinary charisms such as prophecy, speaking in tongues and healing, outside of those of evident great sanctity, which has characterized the Charismatic Renewal. 

What is its origin?



---->The Catholic Charismatic Renewal as it exists today is the outgrowth from a retreat held from 17 to 19 February 1967 by several faculty members and students from Duquesne University, a Catholic university in Pittsburgh operated by the Congregation of the Holy Spirit. Many of the students - though not all - claimed to have experienced a movement of God’s Spirit called being baptized in the Holy Spirit. The professors had previously been baptized in the Spirit a week or two before. Believers felt that God’s action was also prepared for in a very human way by the students’ prayerful preparation in reading the Acts of the Apostles and a book entitled The Cross and the Switchblade. What happened quickly spread to graduate students and professors at the University of Notre Dame and others serving in campus ministry. The movement was given a major endorsement by Léo Joseph Cardinal Suenens (1904–1996), a leading cardinal in the Catholic Church and one of four moderators of the Second Vatican Council.


Does the Catholic Church acknowledge the Charismatic Renewal?



Pope Paul VI;
---->The Charismatic Renewal as a movement within the Catholic Church has been acknowledged by two Popes, Paul VI and John Paul II. Speaking to the International Conference on the Catholic Charismatic Renewal on May 19, 1975, Pope Paul VI encouraged the attendees in their renewal efforts and especially to remain anchored in the Church.

Pope John Paul II;
For his part, has been more explicit.  Speaking to a group of international leaders of the Renewal on December 11, 1979, he said,
"I am convinced that this movement is a very important component of the entire renewal of the Church".




Pope Benedict XVI;
For his part, Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, who is the current pope (Pope Benedict XVI)  Prefect for the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, has added his voice to the Pope's in acknowledging the good occurring in the Charismatic Renewal and providing some cautions. In a forward to a book by Cardinal Suenens, at that time the Pope's delegate to the Charismatic Renewal, the Prefect comments on the Post-Conciliar period stating,
"At the heart of a world imbued with a rationalistic skepticism, a new experience of the Holy Spirit suddenly burst forth. And, since then, that experience has assumed a breadth of a worldwide Renewal movement. What the New Testament tells us about the charisms - which were seen as visible signs of the coming of the Spirit - is not just ancient history, over and done with, for it is once again becoming extremely topical".


The Second Vatican Council affirmed the legitimacy of charisms, both ordinary and extraordinary. A charism is simply "a grace freely given by God to build up the Church," as opposed to the graces given to sanctify the individual. St. Paul gives a list of charisms in 1 Cor. 12. They include ordinary charisms like teaching and administration and extraordinary ones like healing, miracles, and tongues. These things by themselves don't make the person holier, rather they enable him or her to serve others. Finally, the authenticity of charisms must be discerned, since charisms are not necessarily from the spirit of God (1 John 4). The Council taught,
Whether these charisms be very remarkable or more simple and widely diffused, they are to be received with thanksgiving and consolation since they are fitting and useful for the needs of the Church. Extraordinary gifts are not to be rashly desired nor is it from them that the fruits of apostolic labors are to be presumptuously expected. Those who have charge over the Church should judge the genuineness and proper use of these gifts, through their office, not indeed to extinguish the Spirit but to test all things and hold fast to what is good (cf. 1 Thes. 5:12, 19- 21). [Lumen Gentium 12]



What is the  Catholic Charismatic Renewal state today?


---->As of 2003, the Catholic Charismatic Renewal exists in over 230 countries in the world, with over 119 million members.Participants in the Renewal also cooperate with non-Catholic Christians and other Catholics in providing a common witness for evangelization, as encouraged by the Catholic Church. 



So don't afraid and join today to the 

nearest Catholic Charismatic Renewal 

in your society, if you are a student at the 

St JOSEPH UNIVERSITY IN 

TANZANIA 

and you would like to join us please come and meet us after classes on 

Tuesdays at ROOM 74 PENGO BLOCK or call +255 714 235 011








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Sunday, January 20, 2013

Ahsante (In Swahili)

Ahsante / Thanks / Obrigado / Merci / Gracias / Dankie /Grazie / Arigato / Mahalo




Ahsante                                                                                                                      
When you always think of what to thank GOD for, you would probably go for very great things he (thy) has given or has done to you.

We forget about little things we are granted everyday by him through his mercy.

Gift of Life, Free OXYGEN, Good healthy, Peace, Abilities, ability to talk, to walk, to laugh, to mourn, to think, to act, to move, to dance, to cry, to plan and arrange, and just so many things.



He has given us FREEDOM, Love, Stability, Joy, Good relations and whatever you think comes from nature, nature itself is a free Gift from GOD.


We don't stop there then until we examine our concise and ask ourselves of how many times we thank GOD.




When you thank, You ask again.                                                                                    





AHSANTE -Is a swahili word which expresses gratitude and appreciations.
(Thank You -in English)

Catholic Charismatic Renewal - St. Joseph University in Tanzania as a family, thanks ALMIGHTY, OMNIPOTENT, MERCIFUL, GLORIOUS, GOD.... KING OF kings, LORD OF lords. 



For thy blessings upon us, day to day, in our personal lives and in our group (family) life.



WE thank for the gifts of:

    1. Keyboard - YAMAHA PSRS 710
    2. Drums Kit - Peavey Series II
    3. Bass Guitar - Luck Star
    4. Mini Speaker - Fidek
    5. 8-channel Mixing console
    

    And other accessories.








These have been a great blessing to us we are Very Grateful to GOD. We are very happy for this and we invite our fellows to join us in our celebrations. We thank GOD for the little, he shall grant us bigger ones. 

Thank you!

Worship and Praises be unto him alone forever and for always, Amen.




                                                                                                                                                           







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Saturday, January 12, 2013

Is Only 10%



Bless your living GOD with your offerings

GOD has NEVER been so much needy from our pockets, yet he still provides for us
(everything free; oxygen, healthy, peace, good climate, prosperity).




 All he has asked us for him
            is only 10%







Have you ever asked yourself about the question of 10% ?

Perhaps NOT; Or not so SERIOUS; may be not in this WAY.

Mathematics

Have a look! This is simple mathematics to understand:

          10% = 10/100     means; out of 100 oranges you give 10 oranges
                                               out of 10 oranges you give 1 orange

          20% = 20/100     means; out of 100 oranges you give 20 oranges
                                               out of 10 oranges you give 2 oranges

          50% = 50/100     means; out of 100 oranges you give 50 oranges
                                               out of 10 oranges you give 5 oranges


when you give out 10 oranges out of 100, you will still have 90 oranges in your basket
 when you give out 1 orange out of 10, you will still have 9 oranges in your basket



100 - 10 = 90

This means you still have much in your basket than what you have given out; 9 times.
You can give the remaining 9 oranges to other 9 people.




Reality

GOD requests only 10 out of 100 for his gospel activities and services.

Would you give it GOD if he would have asked 90% ? The Opposite. I hope this would be the toughest task of all in life.

Hebrews 7:1-10
   

1 For this Melchizedek, king of Salem [and] priest of the Most High God, met Abraham as he returned from the slaughter of the kings and blessed him,

  And Abraham gave to him a tenth 
<10%> portion of all [the spoil]. He is primarily, as his name when translated indicates, king of righteousness, and then he is also king of Salem, which means king of peace.





So this does mean, whenever you get 10,000/= you need to offer 1,000/= to GOD.
                            whenever you get 100,000/= you need to offer 10,000/= to GOD.
                           whenever you get 1,000,000/= you need to offer 100,000/= to GOD.
                          whenever you get 10,000,000/= you need to offer 1,00,000/= to GOD.



It is hard to give out your money as you earn more, and you easily forget what you have remained with in your pocket. God has always promised blessings to all those who will offer 10% of what they have as a sacrifice to him.




Of-coarse this 10% is the minimum you could offer to someone you depend ON (that's GOD).

If I ask you now, or anyone happens to ask you; To whom are you depending on for your life? You probably could not hesitate to mention God in you first responses.

Then, just to say thank you, act of appreciation, acknowledgement to what he has done for you in a day or a year.



End..


 
Appreciate your living GOD today by giving your FULL (10%) sacrifices to the church, that's what the church teaches us. That's for GOD only.

If you would like to be more grateful you could add the figure but NEVER go below that.

REVIEW; what you give to ALMIGHTY GOD















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