I am a charismatic christian and I am so grateful to have come across this video. Brilliant teaching father. In the end it all is about love. The greatest thing a human can have. Love for God and love for people. A genuine love. I know this is three years after the video, but I love the beard my brother
Bless you Fr. Boniface Hicks...Today December 5, 2023 is my anniversary. December 5, 1969 Jesus, sovereignly baptised me with his Holy Spirit. This was totally unexpected and transformational. Thank you for posting this Charismatic Prayer two years ago. Thank you for sharing the scripture about seeking the gift of tongues and the gift of prophecy to help us love God more and better deeper than our thoughts or feelings or words.
I can barely stand the beauty of his explanations at times. I have to replay these videos slowly, again and again. Too much beautiful information coming from an obviously already beautiful soul. A saint in the making, making saints out of us. Let us not disappoint God!
Powerful thanks father Hicks I'm so lost why can't I overcome whatever it is that holds me back I want to be doing more I'm confused I'm trying to hold on to my Catholic faith but it's getting difficult I know I love the Lord Jesus I think its best I shall start to be grateful show some Gratitude for what I do have I would love to be doing more thanks father keep up the good work you are a true man I'd say you walk & talk many a man would love to follow in your foot steps God's blessings & Grace Flourish your flock Amen ..
Catholic Charismatic movement isn't the same like back in the 1970's ...very sad. Their leaders were overly anxious to placate the RCC hierarchy. Instead of demanding BIBLE REVIVAL and a thorough reformation of the RCC, the Charismatic Renewal became sidelined. How could the Catholic Charismatic Renewal accept the strange statements that have been issued by the Vatican? Now even traditional RC priests are being silenced. Very sad. I cannot condone the LQBTXYZ agenda being supported by a number of RC priests and Cardinals nor accept the abominable Panchamma idol Incan worship that took place at the Vatican Amazon Synod October2019.
Fr Boniface, so well taught. Never heard it explained any better. Listening to you draws me back to my core and base. Always a renewal listening to you. Reminds me of those days living in the Juniorate with you and other brothers and having Charismatic prayer meetings in the Catocombs at St Vincent's. God bless you
Two requirements for these gifts and Charisma of The Holy Spirit: Love and Humility. A big devotion to the Holy Trinity and the Blessed Mother Mary is a must
Pray for Me & my patner Roshan ka, shield us his holy blood & spirit,let our love relationship grow with time. I want to put prayer request that my patner quits wrong friendships & alcohol bcz his faith is strong but on other side this way devil is ruining him... wanting deliverance Breakthrough from this addictions- Amen
Brings back great memories of Brother ‘Panky' [Pancratius Boudreau], the founder of the Catholic Charismatics renewal in Philly. Msgr. Walsh had many stories about him, one among them: “Brother Panky calls it (prayer tongues) Noisy Contemplation.”
I was in the Redemptorist seminary college back in the mid 1970's. Bro.Panky was a Redemptorist brother. During my first three years in their seminary college including my year in novitiate in Wisconsin...ST ALPHONSUS COLLEGE SUFFIELD CT... I couldn't go to a Charismatic prayer meeting.! I felt like 'an adopted child".....so in winter of 1977, I decided to get rides to an Assembly of God church in Springfield MA. I did this secretly! Prior to my entrance to Redemptorist seminary, I was actively involved in the Pentecostal movement...vocational director of the Redemptorist Fathers knew that very well...but when I arrived at their seminary, they must have deemed me "Protestant" "Pentecostal"....so in 1979, I embarked on outdoor evangelistic preaching.
@@michaelciccone2194 I was just ten years old. Before my birthday Mother, as a gift I begged for, bought me a beautiful daily missal. In there I found the Sequence of the Holy Spirit written by Saint Thomas. I fell in love with that prayer and said it every day. After sixty-three years it is still in my daily prayer. Pentecost came, just a few weeks after my birthday. We came home from Holy Mass Pentecost morning, my heart filled with an inexpressible desire to praise God. My younger Sister had already vacated the bedroom so I was "alone". I felt my soul yearning to sing, so I did. To my surprise I was singing in a totally different language. I knew it wasn't Spanish, because sometimes my Brothers would tune into a Spanish channel on the radio just for fun. I knew in my being that this was a language for Jesus and me alone. I don't know how I knew this, but it was a deep conviction. I didn't know about "charismatics". I don't know if I ever heard about "tongues" as the readings at that time were all in Latin. But the Holy Spirit decided to overwhelm me with His gift. I'm so glad He did! His joy is beyond description!
The Bible explains this in spades when we read about the Holy Spirit falling upon God's people in the Upper Room at Pentecost. I wish Catholics would simply read the Bible..
Great teaching Fr Boniface. A question a certain Priest on RUclips an exorcist is against the gift of tongues. I m amazed at that, especially an exorcist
Fr, Does Holy Spirit give anyone the gift to read others thoughts sentence by sentence? Is that possible in the highest form of anointment? Anyone who knows this with surity, kindly answer.
What’s odd is that I added links to the Catechism of the Catholic Church on the USCCB website and from the Vatican explaining the charism gifts but my posts are not being shown in this comments section.
Hello Fr. Boniface I got a question when you pray in tongues do you understand what you are singing out because some charismatic Catholic keep arguing with me that they dont need to understand
We really DONT know how to pray. So the Holy Spirit prays through us in groaning we don't understand. I experienced this the moments before my Dad died. I had always prayed I would be with him at his death. At that moment I was at a Charismatic Confrence! I suddenly began to pray in tongues, I didn't know "for what", but I knew The H.S. needed my prayer in union with His, so I gave it full compliance for a half hour. Over, I looked at the time. It was 7:20 AM. As I was walking through the hallway an hour or so later I heard an audible voice. "Your Father is dead." Then I knew for whom I had been praying. God removed all knowledge so that I could pray purely for his soul. I was, in actuality, with my Father at his last moment. I did not "get in the way" with a "selfish" prayer, it was a pure prayer of the Holy Spirit. A few hours later I was called over the intercom to pick up phone # whatever. My husband had called the convention center to get in contact with me. "Are you sitting down?" Wete his first words. I knew what he was calling for. "I know, Sweetheart. Dad died this morning." "How did you know I was going to tell you that?" "My Angel told me. Does anyone know what time it was?" "The nurse checked on him at 8:00 and found he had shortly passed." "It was 7:20. We are hundreds of people here. I will enlist their prayers for him." Other things like this have happened to me. Sometimes God needs us to partner with Him in prayer, but doesn't tell us for WHAT. We don't need to know. We just need to surrender to that prayer. Sometimes, in His Almighty goodness, He let's us know, after the fact, for what it was we prayed. He's just such an amazing God! So, no, we don't need to know what our tongues are praying. It's enough that GOD DOES! Unless...we are at a prayer meeting where God has a message for the group. THEN He will give someone the interpretation of the person's "message in tongues". This is a whole different case, and moreover a manifestation of the variety of His gifts.
Catholic Charismatic Renewal movement is biblical you can find it in the Book of Acts and Mama Mary is the leader of the Pentecost movement since Holy Spirit lives in Her and fun facts Mary didnt need Pentecost since upon Annunciation Mary had already received Holy Spirit and She became the spouse of the Holy Spirit but Mama Mary still decided to be with all the disciples during Pentecost out of Love and Humility for Jesus’ disciples and She received the Holy Spirit the second time. Catholic is completely biblical and according to the tradition of the disciples
What does running out of words when praying but continuing to make sounds that don't have any meaning have to with the gift of tounges that is the gift of speaking in any language? It might be a form of prayer but it seems utterly unconnected to the gift of tounges.
This sounds just like the Protestant church I used to go to. It's a bunch of non directional feel good statements that are pulled from a sentence or two here and there from the Bible. Not impressed. I'm not trying to be discouraging I'm just saying that what I heard is almost verbatim when I hear in a lot of Protestant churches that I used to go to.
Perhaps those were churches you once attended were not so bad. Do you have something against liturgy that makes the listener feel good? Would you prefer something dark and depressing?
Catholic Charismatic Renewal movement is biblical you can find it in the Book of Acts and Mama Mary is the leader of the Pentecost movement since Holy Spirit lives in Her and fun facts Mary didnt need Pentecost since upon Annunciation Mary had already received Holy Spirit and She became the spouse of the Holy Spirit but Mama Mary still decided to be with all the disciples during Pentecost and received the Holy Spirit the second time. Catholic is completely biblical and according to the tradition of the disciples
He is using the Bible as well as being vulnerable enough to pour from his soul and heart his own experience so all can see the words in the Bible are true and possible to achieve. God bless him for that vulnerability and clear grace.
I am a charismatic christian and I am so grateful to have come across this video. Brilliant teaching father. In the end it all is about love. The greatest thing a human can have. Love for God and love for people. A genuine love. I know this is three years after the video, but I love the beard my brother
Bless you Fr. Boniface Hicks...Today December 5, 2023 is my anniversary. December 5, 1969 Jesus, sovereignly baptised me with his Holy Spirit. This was totally unexpected and transformational. Thank you for posting this Charismatic Prayer two years ago. Thank you for sharing the scripture about seeking the gift of tongues and the gift of prophecy to help us love God more and better deeper than our thoughts or feelings or words.
Ty so much for this!
God Created us humans with both Reason and Emotion. Give both back to God and receive His gifts in abundance !
I can barely stand the beauty of his explanations at times. I have to replay these videos slowly, again and again. Too much beautiful information coming from an obviously already beautiful soul. A saint in the making, making saints out of us. Let us not disappoint God!
His eyes remind me of Fr. Jonathan Meyers, diocesan priest in Indiana. Shining, piercing, focused, loving. Very Alive with the Holy Spirit.
What a beautiful soul touching explanation. Thank you Father. God bless you! 🙏🏼
Thank you Father Hicks, God bless you 🙏🙏
Powerful thanks father Hicks I'm so lost why can't I overcome whatever it is that holds me back I want to be doing more I'm confused I'm trying to hold on to my Catholic faith but it's getting difficult I know I love the Lord Jesus I think its best I shall start to be grateful show some Gratitude for what I do have I would love to be doing more thanks father keep up the good work you are a true man I'd say you walk & talk many a man would love to follow in your foot steps God's blessings & Grace
Flourish your flock Amen ..
Excellent explanation! Thank you, Fr. Boniface
Wow...had not formerly realized how different Catholic Charismaticism is from Protestant Charismaticism!! Thank you!
Catholic Charismatic movement isn't the same like back in the 1970's ...very sad. Their leaders were overly anxious to placate the RCC hierarchy. Instead of demanding BIBLE REVIVAL and a thorough reformation of the RCC, the Charismatic Renewal became sidelined. How could the Catholic Charismatic Renewal accept the strange statements that have been issued by the Vatican? Now even traditional RC priests are being silenced. Very sad. I cannot condone the LQBTXYZ agenda being supported by a number of RC priests and Cardinals nor accept the abominable Panchamma idol Incan worship that took place at the Vatican Amazon Synod October2019.
Fr Boniface, so well taught. Never heard it explained any better. Listening to you draws me back to my core and base. Always a renewal listening to you. Reminds me of those days living in the Juniorate with you and other brothers and having Charismatic prayer meetings in the Catocombs at St Vincent's. God bless you
May we all be blessed
Two requirements for these gifts and Charisma of The Holy Spirit: Love and Humility. A big devotion to the Holy Trinity and the Blessed Mother Mary is a must
The Apostle of Truth,Pray for us
Beautiful spoken to my heart and spirit. ❤️
Fr Boniface Hicks has a good video on charismatic prayer and other forms of prayer and how they all compliment each other. Blessings to all
Soooo beautiful 🙏🏼🌹
Beautiful
Fr Boniface Hicks OSB and Fr Thomas Acklin OSB have written a wonderfully profound book called ‘Personal Prayer’.
If laughter was a language, it would be expressed as praying tongues.
Pray for Me & my patner Roshan ka, shield us his holy blood & spirit,let our love relationship grow with time. I want to put prayer request that my patner quits wrong friendships & alcohol bcz his faith is strong but on other side this way devil is ruining him... wanting deliverance Breakthrough from this addictions- Amen
very nice, well explained, thank you!!!
Brings back great memories of Brother ‘Panky' [Pancratius Boudreau], the founder of the Catholic Charismatics renewal in Philly. Msgr. Walsh had many stories about him, one among them: “Brother Panky calls it (prayer tongues) Noisy Contemplation.”
😂
I was in the Redemptorist seminary college back in the mid 1970's. Bro.Panky was a Redemptorist brother. During my first three years in their seminary college including my year in novitiate in Wisconsin...ST ALPHONSUS COLLEGE SUFFIELD CT... I couldn't go to a Charismatic prayer meeting.! I felt like 'an adopted child".....so in winter of 1977, I decided to get rides to an Assembly of God church in Springfield MA. I did this secretly! Prior to my entrance to Redemptorist seminary, I was actively involved in the Pentecostal movement...vocational director of the Redemptorist Fathers knew that very well...but when I arrived at their seminary, they must have deemed me "Protestant" "Pentecostal"....so in 1979, I embarked on outdoor evangelistic preaching.
Are you still Catholic?
@@michaelciccone2194 I was just ten years old. Before my birthday Mother, as a gift I begged for, bought me a beautiful daily missal. In there I found the Sequence of the Holy Spirit written by Saint Thomas. I fell in love with that prayer and said it every day. After sixty-three years it is still in my daily prayer.
Pentecost came, just a few weeks after my birthday. We came home from Holy Mass Pentecost morning, my heart filled with an inexpressible desire to praise God. My younger Sister had already vacated the bedroom so I was "alone". I felt my soul yearning to sing, so I did. To my surprise I was singing in a totally different language. I knew it wasn't Spanish, because sometimes my Brothers would tune into a Spanish channel on the radio just for fun. I knew in my being that this was a language for Jesus and me alone. I don't know how I knew this, but it was a deep conviction. I didn't know about "charismatics". I don't know if I ever heard about "tongues" as the readings at that time were all in Latin. But the Holy Spirit decided to overwhelm me with His gift. I'm so glad He did! His joy is beyond description!
Fr pray for my family
The Bible explains this in spades when we read about the Holy Spirit falling upon God's people in the Upper Room at Pentecost. I wish Catholics would simply read the Bible..
I'm interested in the icons behind you. They look Orthodox. Do Catholics also use such icons then?
Yes
Eastern catholic churches for example Byzantine churches can have an iconostasis
Well Catholic were first to use it but Orthodox decided to split from us due to some disagreement in theology
@@josephtran-day3437 the "catholics" split from the true church after they declared papal supremacy and adding the fillioque
Great teaching Fr Boniface.
A question a certain Priest on RUclips an exorcist is against the gift of tongues.
I m amazed at that, especially an exorcist
SHANDRAKILIANDRA SHANDRAKILIANDRA
Before we talk about praying, let's pray 🙏 Hilarious.
Fr, Does Holy Spirit give anyone the gift to read others thoughts sentence by sentence?
Is that possible in the highest form of anointment?
Anyone who knows this with surity, kindly answer.
What’s odd is that I added links to the Catechism of the Catholic Church on the USCCB website and from the Vatican explaining the charism gifts but my posts are not being shown in this comments section.
😶 ! ! !
Hello Fr. Boniface I got a question when you pray in tongues do you understand what you are singing out because some charismatic Catholic keep arguing with me that they dont need to understand
We really DONT know how to pray. So the Holy Spirit prays through us in groaning we don't understand.
I experienced this the moments before my Dad died. I had always prayed I would be with him at his death. At that moment I was at a Charismatic Confrence! I suddenly began to pray in tongues, I didn't know "for what", but I knew The H.S. needed my prayer in union with His, so I gave it full compliance for a half hour. Over, I looked at the time. It was 7:20 AM.
As I was walking through the hallway an hour or so later I heard an audible voice. "Your Father is dead." Then I knew for whom I had been praying. God removed all knowledge so that I could pray purely for his soul. I was, in actuality, with my Father at his last moment. I did not "get in the way" with a "selfish" prayer, it was a pure prayer of the Holy Spirit.
A few hours later I was called over the intercom to pick up phone # whatever. My husband had called the convention center to get in contact with me. "Are you sitting down?" Wete his first words. I knew what he was calling for.
"I know, Sweetheart. Dad died this morning."
"How did you know I was going to tell you that?"
"My Angel told me. Does anyone know what time it was?"
"The nurse checked on him at 8:00 and found he had shortly passed."
"It was 7:20. We are hundreds of people here. I will enlist their prayers for him."
Other things like this have happened to me. Sometimes God needs us to partner with Him in prayer, but doesn't tell us for WHAT. We don't need to know. We just need to surrender to that prayer. Sometimes, in His Almighty goodness, He let's us know, after the fact, for what it was we prayed. He's just such an amazing God!
So, no, we don't need to know what our tongues are praying. It's enough that GOD DOES!
Unless...we are at a prayer meeting where God has a message for the group. THEN He will give someone the interpretation of the person's "message in tongues". This is a whole different case, and moreover a manifestation of the variety of His gifts.
This is beautiful. I'm pretty sure there are no charismatics in this area
You can change that by learning and growing in your understanding of it.
Baptism in The Holy Spirit is a great book
Catholic Charismatic Renewal movement is biblical you can find it in the Book of Acts and Mama Mary is the leader of the Pentecost movement since Holy Spirit lives in Her and fun facts Mary didnt need Pentecost since upon Annunciation Mary had already received Holy Spirit and She became the spouse of the Holy Spirit but Mama Mary still decided to be with all the disciples during Pentecost out of Love and Humility for Jesus’ disciples and She received the Holy Spirit the second time. Catholic is completely biblical and according to the tradition of the disciples
is he a priest from an Eastern Catholic parish ?
No he is a Benedictine monk
Do you believe in Church Father's teachings if you believe, your church should not be named Pentecost
Pentecost Today USA is not a Church. Its focus is the Catholic Charismatic Renewal.
What does running out of words when praying but continuing to make sounds that don't have any meaning have to with the gift of tounges that is the gift of speaking in any language?
It might be a form of prayer but it seems utterly unconnected to the gift of tounges.
There are two types of tongues, the tongue of speaking a differing language is different.
@@magikarp2063 "I would like every one of you to speak in tongues" -Paul in 1st Corinthians.
Pray to Jesus not Msry
Nicely said. Still, not buying it.
You don't have to. Today 300 million charistmatic catholics.
This sounds just like the Protestant church I used to go to. It's a bunch of non directional feel good statements that are pulled from a sentence or two here and there from the Bible. Not impressed. I'm not trying to be discouraging I'm just saying that what I heard is almost verbatim when I hear in a lot of Protestant churches that I used to go to.
Hi. From my perspective, it doesn't resonate with me, I do not understand it, but then, I don't understand much .
Perhaps those were churches you once attended were not so bad. Do you have something against liturgy that makes the listener feel good? Would you prefer something dark and depressing?
Except he mentioned the virgin Mary in prayer
Catholic Charismatic Renewal movement is biblical you can find it in the Book of Acts and Mama Mary is the leader of the Pentecost movement since Holy Spirit lives in Her and fun facts Mary didnt need Pentecost since upon Annunciation Mary had already received Holy Spirit and She became the spouse of the Holy Spirit but Mama Mary still decided to be with all the disciples during Pentecost and received the Holy Spirit the second time. Catholic is completely biblical and according to the tradition of the disciples
How often in your Protestant Churches did you hear about contemplation and meditation ?
The charismatic movement basically belongs to the protestants, the believers.
Do you need a little bit more humility there, Maria?
The protestors ....?
I wish that this venerable priest would just open the Bible and speak simply on what the HOLY BIBLE states.
Yea it is all in Acts
Prot alert
Also in Corinth 12,13,14
He is using the Bible as well as being vulnerable enough to pour from his soul and heart his own experience so all can see the words in the Bible are true and possible to achieve. God bless him for that vulnerability and clear grace.
Um he was reading from the Bible.