Catholic charismatic "renewal"


A female preacher explains the relationship between the Church and Israel at a Mass in Beauraing, one of the two main Marian pilgrimages in Belgium. I think she is a nun, coming from the Communauté de la Source, whose title is deliberately ambivalent. When ones identity has been so completely lost, one can serve neither the Church nor the building of better Catholic-Jewish relations.
In her sermon, she tells us that she was a student at the Institute Ratisbonne in Jerusalem, but completely misunderstands the meaning of the lives of the Brothers Ratisbonne.

She does this at a meeting of Catholic charismatics in Belgium, that filled the post-conciliar gap in spirituality, even the King falling under their influence.

Whose heart is laid at the altar? If it is the Sacred Heart, the Holy Office warned generations ago against showing His Heart without a full image of Christ, in the same way that it is a distortion to exalt the Spirit over and above the other persons of the Most Holy and Undivided Trinity (or indeed the "spirit of Vatican II" whatever that may mean - it is the first Council in history to mean different things to different Catholics").
I prefer not to think what the hole in the heart of the second heart (whatever the second heart is meant to represent) is about.




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