Holy Spirit

FAQs about Praying in Tongues

12 things you need to know about praying in tongues

1. What is gift of tongues?

Gift of tongues is gift in form of utterance (might be linguistic or not), which comes from the guidance of the Holy Spirit.

According to its purpose, gift of tongues is classified to:

Last Saturday, I came to Emmaus Prayer meeting and the topic in the prayer meeting was about Pentecost, which gives me a lot of insight of Pentecost. In the teaching session, Brother Oka shared that Pentecost is actually related to:

1. Harvest and Thanks giving 

2. Ten commandments

3. Breath of Life (Ezekiel 37:1-14)

4. Unity 

However in this note, I would like to share more on the Pentecost and Ten Comandments (from the book "Charismatic Spirituality" and affirmed by the teaching session)

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Last Thursday, Fr Cantalamessa, well known for his position as Papal Preacher, visited Singapore on his way back to Rome from Philippines. Oka, Maya, Christine, Abigail, Keenan, Lisa, Philip, and I attended the talk held by SACCRE.

These are the points that I managed to write down during the talk:

In the last session of "Why am I a Catholic?" on last Saturday, Oka just brings up the session about The Charismatic Renewal in the Catholic church, which I always love to see when all the Catholic people feel the changes in their life when they are experiencing the Holy Spirit when they are praying or singing, even when they are talk about God to other people, I feel their passion and desire about God, to encounter God's love always in their love.

Albert Vanhoye was born July 23, 1923 at Hazebrouck, France. Answered his call towards the Society of Jesus on the 1941, he was then ordained to become a Priest of Society of Jesus (Jesuit) on the 25 July 1954.  As additional information to you that Jesuits currently are the largest male religious order in the Catholic Church with 18,815 members.

To help the young people build their lives upon the rock which is Jesus, the Word of God, and to live in the power of the Holy Spirit.

This is the fourth mission statement of the Emmaus. Let us first begin with the second part of the statement, to live in the power of the Holy Spirit.

Why is it important to live in the power of the Holy Spirit?

It’s a great day!

Finally, all the "torture" of assignments is finito! Thanks to God for holding me through =) and so I can make this reflection just now.