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Anniversary Issue 4.Pmd SPECIAL GOLDEN JUBILEE ISSUE PENTECOSTTodayWinter 2017 PENTECOSTPublication of the National Service Committee of the CatholicToday Charismatic Renewal “But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes upon you, and you will be my witnesses…” Acts of the Apostles 1:8 NAB © Rinnovamento nello Spirito, Italy Spirito, nello Rinnovamento © Pope Francis greets participants in the 37th National Convocation of the Renewal in the Holy Spirit, Olympic Stadium, Rome, Sunday June 1, 2014. Celebrating 50 years of the outpouring of the Holy Spirit since February 1967. Shutterstock TABLE OF CONTENTS Jubilees are times of grace. This issue commemorates 50 years of Charismatic Renewal in the Catholic Church. From DISCOVERING A DEEPER RELATIONSHIP WITH THE HOLY SPIRIT beginning to end it will take us on a journey of remembering, of celebrating, and of preparing for a fresh outpouring of the Holy Spirit in our day. SECTION ONE: JUBILEE 3 Renewal and the Time of Jubilee Fr. Dave Pivonka, TOR Bishop Sam Jacobs 5 The Jubilee as Restoration and the Wild Goose Dr. Mary Healy 6 Celebrate our Jubilee team are grateful to Walter Matthews the Lord for releasing SECTION T WO: HISTORY his life-giving Holy 10 Cursillo and the Beginnings of the Renewal Spirit to the Church. Steve Clark 11 The Kansas City Conference 1977 Kevin M. Ranaghan We continue to pray 12 Establishing an International Office IRUDQRWKHUƓIW\\HDUV Ralph Martin of Renewal. 13 Growth of International Catholic Charismatic Renewal Sr. Nancy Kellar, SC 14 A Short History of the Immigrant Catholic Charismatic Renewal Msgr. Joseph Malagreca www.TheWildGooseIsLoose.com SECTION T HREE: FRUITS OF THE RENEWAL 18–23 This section illustrates a variety of fruit borne of the Spirit. It is not definitive. It is a sample. It is what this fruit bowl can hold. SECTION FOUR: GOING FORWARD PENTECOSTToday For Your Information 25 What Have We Learned Volume 42 Number 1 The mission of Pentecost Today is to Fr Bob Hogan, BBD serve and be a voice for the National 27 Emerging Seeds Executive Director Service Committee’s mission “to foster Dave VanVickle the dynamic grace of baptism in the Walter Matthews 29 Beyond the Jubilee with Editorial Board Holy Spirit.” We do this by publishing Jimmy Archer articles that instruct and give practical Expectancy Tom Mangan wisdom, with a particular emphasis on Michelle Moran Tammie Stevens strengthening leaders and leader formation, in a visually appealing and Editor INSIDE BACK PAGE: inviting format. Sr. Mary Anne Schaenzer, SSND 31 National Service Committee Production Manager Jean Beers A limited amount of advertising space is Members past and present available. For information call Jean © 2017 National Service Committee Beers, (360) 730-1740. Advertisements Let us rejoice and give thanks for the of the Catholic Charismatic Renewal for events not sponsored by the National abundance of the grace of God’s Spirit of the United States, Inc. Not to be re- Service Committee do not imply endorse- produced without permission. ment by the NSC/Chariscenter USA. in our day. Sr. Mary Anne Schaenzer 2 PENTECOSTToday Winter 2017 JUBILEE Renewal and the Time of Jubilee by Bishop Sam Jacobs, Retired Bishop Emeritus of Houma-Thibodaux, Louisiana What a blessing from the Lord! In God, sharing in his divine life by grace, we are 1967 God fulfilled once more his promise called to be saints, living with God in glory. to pour out his Spirit upon the world in a Like in a marriage, the initial honey- fresh new way. From the time of Pentecost moon is a small glimpse of the full union that till today God has been renewing his is the goal. So, being baptized in the Holy people with a fresh outpouring of the gift Spirit is the initial honeymoon time on the of the Holy Spirit. journey of full union with God. Like in As at the time of Pentecost and the marriage, this entails a continual process of What does time of the event at The Ark and The dying to self and becoming more other- God expect in response Dove Retreat Center fifty years ago, what focused. So in growing in the life of the to this does God expect in response to this Spirit, there must be a continual self-empty- renewal of renewal of his grace? To reflect on the ing which focuses more on the will of God his grace? answer to this question we need again to than on my own desires. look at God’s purpose in the coming of As the fuller life of the Spirit develops in the Spirit. us, so the fruits of the Spirit will become The Spirit comes to us to sanctify, to more evident. The greatest fruit is love, which empower and to mission. We first received becomes the sole motivating factor in all we the Holy Spirit in Baptism. We became do. As a result, this saying of Jesus be- God’s adopted sons and daughters, sharing comes a living witness in our life: “They his divine life. But because we fall short will know that you are my disciples by the “You shall through sin, we need a fresh anointing of the love you have for one another.” What Spirit to grow in the life of God. We are brought about the downfall of the Roman love the Lord, called to be full of the Spirit, not satisfied Empire was not the sword or human your God, with just a relationship with God. power but the authentic love evidenced in This means that more and more we are the lives of the early Christians. Can that with your to uproot the sources of sin in our life and be the answer to the problems of our day? whole heart, immerse ourselves in the life of the virtues by God is calling for a spiritual revival the grace of God. Basically, this occurs the of holiness, lived in love, according to the whole soul, more we fall in love with God, moving from Spirit’s lead. whole mind just a casual relationship to a close friendship, The second role of the Spirit is to to an all-in intimacy with God, where empower us for holiness and mission. We and whole nothing else matters but God. This is what received the seven gifts for sanctification in strength.” Jesus means when he says: “Blessed are those Baptism and the charismatic gifts in Mt 22:37 who hunger and thirst for holiness.” This is Confirmation, Ordination and Marriage what the great Schema calls us to when it for mission. But gifts are useless if not says: “You shall love the Lord, your God, exercised. Their power is limited if not used. with your whole heart, whole soul, whole Their limitation is not in the gifts but in us mind and whole strength.” by leaving them relatively dormant for a long shutterstock Our identity must eventually match our time. This is probably a very blatant sign of our destiny. As adopted sons and daughters of ingratitude to God for what he has given us. 50th Anniversary Jubilee Issue 3 JUBILEE We have been renewed by the Holy desires in this time of the Renewal is a new Spirit so that we can freely choose to follow missionary energy, bringing the Good News the lead of the Holy Spirit in the exercising of God’s saving love to today’s ends of the of the gifts we have freely been given “when earth, where the marginalized, the poor, the hands were laid upon us.” This means spiritually barren, the unchurched and the growing in the awareness of, and the none-churched reside and are perishing. What God understanding of the purpose of each of In the words of Pope Francis: “There is desires in the gifts, culminating in the exercise of no greater freedom than that of letting this time of the gifts as led by the Spirit. oneself be carried by the Spirit, refusing to the Renewal We need to step out of the boat of calculate and to control everything, and allow is a new our comfort zone at the various divine Him to illuminate you, lead you, guide you, missionary appointments God gives us each day and push you where He wishes. He knows energy, bringing the and do what God asks us to do. Then well what the need is in every age and Good News watch what he will do. That is what moment.” of God’s Peter and John did when they saw the Pope St. John Paul II called for a “New saving love paralyzed beggar at the Temple gate. Evangelization.” Pope Francis echoes this in to today’s They had been empowered, they were his call for missionary disciples. What does ends of the going to the Temple to give thanks and he mean? “You must ‘go forth,’ boldly taking earth. God put in their path a man who the first step to draw near to those who do needed healing. Peter and John acted in not know or live the Gospel, by building the name of Jesus and the power of the bridges, supporting others, taking on the Holy Spirit. The man was healed and many ‘smell of the sheep’ and patiently seeking to more came to believe in Jesus as Lord and accompany them on their journey…for the Savior. message we announce should be the ‘heart of The early Church did not see these the Gospel,’ which is the joyful proclamation divine appointments with signs and wonders that Jesus loves them, gave his life to save as unusual and limited to a few people.
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