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The phenomenon of the extraordinary growth of the Charismatic Movement over the past 20 years took most } people in the Church by surprise but it should not have NUMBER: 2276 done so, Archbishop Goody told a near -capacity crowd in PRICE: 30 cents the Perth Concert Hall at the opening of the three-day Charismatic conference. The archbishop said: "Being wise in retrospect, the spirituality of the Charismatic Movement clearly fills a human need felt by many in this exceedingly secular and materialistic society in which we live.
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" Another, but aberrant, sign of the same need led to the dabbling in Eastern esoteric mysticism by large numbers during the same period. "By God's grace, there were some — initially in the United States of America — who felt this need and were ready and able to turn it towards Jesus Christ and, undoubtedly led by his Holy Spirit, established Catholic Charismatic Prayer groups in the 1960's. "These burgeoned enormously and today encompass many hundreds of thousands, even millions in almost every country of the world today.
I. An element of archaicism, of reversion to the "foetal" life of the Church in the first century: "We surely do not look for a return to the Upper Room (120 people) but to the second Pentecost, to a second spring of reneencouraged by "They are the Church, as my presence wal; not to a repetition of Pictured during a prayer and praise time at the Charismatic confer- shows here tonight, as a itthe Church's infancy when had to be supported in ence are (left to right) Mr Peter Dudley, conference chairman; Father valid and truly authentic the 'amniotic fluid' of miramovement of spiritual Tom Forrest C.SS.R. andMr Kevin Horaan, key conference speakers; cles, tongues and sensible Father Rodney Williams liaison priest for Charismatic Renewal; renewal. interventions of the Spirit Messrs Dan Acres and Geoff Lucey, Charismatic Renewal co"This favour and encour- but to a real renewal, to a ordinators. agement was not without new watering which will s ome initial misgiving bring new vigour and because of the obvious growth and health to a dangers of being misled by body which has grown into spirits which were not a huge world-wide society; a body which has grown Christ's. "A 'spirit' has to be dis- mature and even in some cerned, recognised for cases partly decayed." what it is — false, illusory, 2. The conscious expectaof the devil or truly of God. tion of deep and repeated religious experiences. Christ's baptism by John with the explicit intervention this is not always easy. "It may well be God's will of the Holy Spirit taken as the prototype of "Baptism in "As the spirit, for exam- that such sensible expeof Pope John Paul, of riences and phenomena be the Spirit" — the key Charismatic password — Archbi- ple, Mother Teresa or even of given for a time to those shop Goody said at the Perth Concert Hall, but it was Ronald Reagan is identi- who need initial support, fied, individualised by its encouragement and help certainly not the sacrament of baptism, he added. "John said so," he conti- ( exclusively) Catholic standards set for members proceeding from their but it could be quite unneb odies, so the Spirit of cessary and even dangerof a 'Community'. nued,"So, Baptism in the must. Spirit, when properly • "Maintain close links "Finally: There is a natu- Jesus is identified and rec- ous infantilism to expect understood is the renewal with the "local Church",— ral tension between institu- ognised by its connection, them necessarily to be part of the basic baptismal gift, with the "body" of Christ. tional office and informal its union with his body, the of the every day Christian and of those of confirma- • "Understand that true non-institutional cha- Church, of which he is the living of the devoted, corn"head. mitted, obedient and discition, for each one who by ecumenism takes our dif- risms. plined disciple of the Lord God's grace receives the so- ferences seriously and is "Each may consider called 'Experience of not just non-denomin- sometimes that one is "If Charismatic prayer Jesus Christ. Jesus'." ational which is indifferent usurping the rights and leads its devotees to per- "The turning point, the prerogatives of the other. sonal private prayer; if it coming of age of the Archbishop Goody said to both the history and the "The key to an ongoing leads them to the Eucharist, Catholic Charismatic c haracteristics of the Charismatic t hat the and tolerant solution to the perfect prayer of Jesus Movement was, in my Movement also has great churches. this problem is, I believe, in his body, to his Father, it opinion, the establishment ecumenical potential: "0 'Communities' have the realisation that institu- is a Spirit proceeding from of Life in the Spirit semitheir important place in tional office is itself a cha- Christ's body, the Church. nary, which are the distinc"It is the first truly grass- the whole movement but rism and precisely a It is identified, it is dis- tively Catholic contributroots spiritual pheno- they should not be too elit- charism of the Spirit (gift) cerned as the true Spirit of ion to the world-wide menon involving Christ- ist nor stifle the Spirit in to order, regulate and Christ." renewal movement. ians from virtually all smaller and less structured direct tensions which conChurches — giving an situations, especially in a stantly arise between indi- Archbishop Goody outSee picture, entree into groups and parish which may not in all viduals, groups and lined the dangers to be Page 3. communities which is oth- respects achieve the high communities." avoided: erwise difficult. t**************************************************
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