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January February 2017 Flame The Flame January/February 2017 Publication of Catholic Renewal Ministries Cleveland, Ohio God Manifests His Mercy Through Miracles by Dr. Mary Healy For most of my life I have been accustomed to praying mercy to those who are in need of it, especially to the over people at prayer meetings and in other settings. spiritual orphans who surround us in today’s society. Occasionally I would see a slight improvement such as a person with a headache or stomachache feeling The gifts are not for our sake but for those whom God better. But in the past four or five years the Lord has wants to touch through us. When Damian Stayne, a been leading me on a journey to understand more Catholic healing evangelist from England, gave a about his healing power and how much he desires to weekend conference at my parish, I was struck by the do signs, wonders and miracles through ordinary challenge he gave to our prayer ministry team. “Do you people. want to be used by God for healing?” he asked. “Yes!” everyone shouted enthusiastically. “Then are you In the fall of 2013 I had a sabbatical semester—a time willing to be seriously inconvenienced for the rest of for focused research in a particular area—and decided your life?” There was some nervous laughter before to study healing, not only by reading about it in books everyone said “Yes!” again. but by seeing it in action. During that time I went, along with a team, on a two-week mission in Brazil. There we I’ve found his words to be true. I believe all Christians saw miracles day after day—people with tumors, can see healings if we learn to pray with expectant crippling arthritis, blindness, deafness and many other faith. But if people think you have a gift for healing, conditions miraculously healed by the Lord. That they may call or email you at inconvenient times. At a mission was life changing, and since then I’ve been conference or prayer meeting you may find a long line seeking to put into practice what Jesus told his of people waiting for prayer, and as you get toward the disciples to do: “heal the sick... and say to them, ‘The end you find it has only grown longer. You may be the kingdom of God has come near to you’” (Lk 10:9; also last person to leave at night. But it is all worth it when see Mk 16:17-18). you see the amazement and joy in a person healed by the Lord. I’ve become convinced that God wants a far greater manifestation of his healing power in the Catholic Like natural gifts, the supernatural gifts grow with Church— not as something novel and marginal, but as a practice. As we take risks in faith the Lord shows his restoration of something that is at the heart of our faithfulness. One of the first times that I practiced using tradition. The supernatural gifts of the Spirit are part of words of knowledge at a prayer meeting, I received in our inheritance as baptized believers. They are the prayer only a slight impression of some specific normal equipment that Christ has bestowed on his healings. I wasn’t sure if it was the Lord or only my bride the Church for carrying out her evangelistic thoughts, but I decided to step out in faith. After our mission. The use of these gifts tangibly manifests God’s Continued on Page 7 Dear Readers of The Flame, 2017 begins a year of Jubilee for the Catholic charismatic renewal. This is not an official “Holy Year” declared by the Vatican. We just completed one of those Jubilee Years, the Year of Mercy, on the Feast of Christ the King, November 20, 2016. This Jubilee Year for the Catholic charismatic renewal remembers the amazing events that took place on a weekend retreat in February of 1967. College students from Duquesne University gathered for a retreat where they experienced the Person, power and gifts of the Holy Spirit in a unique and unexpected manner. In times that predated the internet and cell phone, this movement of the Holy Spirit spread like wildfire to college campuses at Notre Dame and the University of Michigan. It quickly became a worldwide movement in the pressure on him to surrender his preaching credentials. They Catholic Church that has transformed tens of millions of lives. were restored in 1980). Rev. David du Plessis experienced a conversion of heart that would lead him to become an Though this movement appeared suddenly and unexpectedly, ecumenical ambassador of the Holy Spirit. In his own words: people prayed, longed for and sought out this kind of encounter with the Holy Spirit. I think of three people who I could remember days when I had wished I could have set were special ambassadors of the Holy Spirit and the my eyes upon such men to denounce their theology and charismatic renewal that would follow. pray the judgment of God upon them for what I considered their heresies and false doctrines…After a few introductory The first is Blessed Elena Guerra (1835-1914). This Italian nun words I suddenly felt a warm glow come over me. I knew wrote 12 confidential letters to Pope Leo XIII asking him to this was the Holy Spirit taking over, but what was He doing encourage greater devotion to the Holy Spirit among to me? Instead of the old harsh spirit of criticism and Catholics. The Pope responded by writing an encyclical on the condemnation in my heart, I now felt such love and com- Holy Spirit (Dividum Illus Munus in 1897). He also wrote a passion for these ecclesiastical leaders that I would rather private letter to bishops around the world prescribing that a have died for them than pass sentence upon them. (From Novena to the Holy Spirit be prayed before the beginning of his autobiography, The Spirit Bade Me Go, found on the the 20th Century. Wikipedia article on David du Plessis) Blessed Elena Guerra said: Many things have happened in the charismatic renewal and in our world in the last 50 years. However, the best of those things Pentecost is not over. In fact it is continually going on in have been cultivated through the prayers of people like Blessed every time and in every place, because the Holy Spirit Elena Guerra and St. John XXIII and the love of people like Rev. desired to give himself to all men and all who want him David du Plessis. As we approach this Jubilee Year of the can always receive him, so we do not have to envy the Catholic charismatic renewal, let us seek to cultivate a greater apostles and the first believers; we only have to dispose sensitivity to the movements of the Holy Spirit in our day. To ourselves like them to receive him well, and He will come quote Don Miller, a longtime local leader in the charismatic to us as he did to them. renewal in the Diocese of Cleveland, “Prayer and love are the most powerful things in the world.” Prompted by the Holy Spirit The second person who summoned the Church to pray for the let us pray and love to birth an ever deeper experience of the coming of the Holy Spirit is St. John XXIII. Though he Person and gifts of the Holy Spirit. announced his intention to convene an ecumenical council on January 25, 1959, it was not formally summoned until he Sincerely in Christ, published an apostolic constitution called Humanae Salutis on Christmas Day 1961. At the close of that document we have his now famous prayer: Fr. Bob Franco Renew Your wonders in our time, as though for a new PS: At the urging of the General Service Committee of our Pentecost, and grant that the holy Church, preserving diocese, I am making an appeal for our readers to prayerfully unanimous and continuous prayer, together with Mary, consider joining our Partners in the Renewal. Partners commit the mother of Jesus, and also under the guidance of St. to support Catholic Renewal Ministries with prayer and Peter, may increase the reign of the Divine Savior, the financial support. They receive a monthly letter from me that reign of truth and justice, the reign of love and peace. describe what’s happening on the local scene regarding the Amen. renewal. To become a Partner in the Renewal, please fill out the form on page 5 in this issue of the Flame. The third person is Rev. David du Plessis. He was a South African Assembly of God minister who was instrumental in PPS: Hope to see you at the monthly charismatic Mass in promoting the baptism of the Holy Spirit among all Christian January. It will be at my parish, St. Peter’s in North Ridgeville. Churches. His openness to ecumenical relations eventually led Also, mark your calendar for Dr. Mary Healy on January 20. him to be invited as an observer to Vatican II. (His acceptance Details are in this issue of the Flame. of the invitation led the Assembly of God leaders to put C ATHOLIC RENEWAL MINISTR IES PR ESENTS Jesus - The Face of God’s Mercy: An Evening of Teaching and Healing Prayer with Dr. Mary Healy Dr. Healy will speak on Details: healing and its relationship to Friday, January 20th evangelization. She is a professor The evening will begin with praise and of Scripture at Sacred Heart Major worship at 7:00 p.m.
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