TY - JOUR AU - Moran, Michelle PY - 2010/12/31 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - THE CATHOLIC CHARISMATIC MOVEMENT JF - Asian Horizons JA - AH VL - 4 IS - 02 SE - Articles DO - UR - https://dvkjournals.in/index.php/ah/article/view/2641 SP - 247-249 AB - <p>The Catholic Charismatic Renewal (CCR) is not a single unified<br>worldwide movement like many other new movements in the<br>Church. It does not have a founder or a group of founders but it is<br>rather a sovereign work of the Holy Spirit. The grace of Charismatic<br>Renewal flowed out from Vatican II. In preparation for this<br>momentous Council, Pope John XXIII had prayed the prayer; ‘Renew<br>your wonders in this our day as by a new Pentecost…’ Two years<br>after the end of Vatican II we saw the rather spontaneous birth of<br>Catholic Pentecostalism or what we now know as Catholic<br>Charismatic Renewal. The origins are usually cited as a student<br>retreat in 1967 at Duquesne University in Pittsburg Pennsylvania,<br>USA. The students were reflecting upon Acts Chapters 1-4 and<br>praying the ‘Veni Creator Spiritus. In the course of the retreat they<br>experienced an extra-ordinary outpouring of the Holy Spirit. Indeed,<br>they went on to testify that they had never before experienced the<br>power of the Holy Spirit, the love of God and joy in their hearts as<br>they did that day. This experience which became known as the<br>‘baptism in the Holy Spirit’ was the beginning of Catholic<br>Charismatic Renewal. The fire began to rapidly spread initially in the<br>US but then to other continents. Today it is estimated that there are<br>120 million people who would testify to a life-changing experience of<br>the Holy Spirit through their contact with the Catholic Charismatic<br>Renewal.</p> ER -