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Focus Staff Training June 2011 The Role of the Holy Spirit in Evangelization

Focus Staff Training June 2011 The Role of the Holy Spirit in Evangelization. Talk #2: The Grace of a New Pentecost. Identifying Signs of the Times Interpret What the Spirit is Saying to the Church.

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Focus Staff Training June 2011 The Role of the Holy Spirit in Evangelization

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  1. Focus Staff Training June 2011The Role of the Holy Spirit in Evangelization

  2. Talk #2: The Grace of a New Pentecost

  3. Identifying Signs of the TimesInterpret What the Spirit is Saying to the Church

  4. “More than once we have asked ourselves what the greatest needs of the Church are…what is the primary and ultimate need of our beloved and holy Church? We must say it with holy fear because, as you know, this concerns the mystery of the Church, her life: this need is the Spirit…the Church needs her eternal Pentecost; she needs fire in her heart, words on her lips, a glance that is prophetic.” Pope Paul VI General Audience 11/29/72

  5. “Be open to Christ, welcome the Spirit, so that a new Pentecost can take place in every community! A new humanity, a joyful one, will arise from your midst; you will again experience the saving power of the Lord and ‘what was spoken to you by the Lord’ will be fulfilled.” John Paul II LR 10/21/92 Address to Bishops in Latin America

  6. Pope Benedict XVI

  7. I have come to proclaim anew, as Peter proclaimed on the day of Pentecost, that Jesus Christ is Lord, to repeat the Apostle’s urgent call to conversion and forgiveness of sins…

  8. …and to implore from the Lord a new outpouring of the Holy Spirit upon the Church in this country.Benedict XVI Washington D.C.

  9. “Let us implore from God the grace of a new Pentecost for the church in America. May tongues of fire, combining burning love of God and neighbor with zeal for the spread of Christ’s Kingdom, descend on all present!”Pope Benedict XVI Homily, St. Patrick’s Cathedral 4/19/08

  10. “Christ’s entire mission is summed up in this: to baptize us in the Holy Spirit, to free us from the slavery of death and ‘to open heaven to us’, that is, access to the true and full life that will be a ‘plunging ever anew into the vastness of being, in which we are simply overwhelmed with joy’ (Spe Salvi, n. 12).”(Benedict XVI, Angelus Address, January 13, 2008.)

  11. “Jesus Christ, having entered the sanctuary of heaven once and for all, intercedes constantly for us as the mediator who assures us of the permanent outpouring of the Holy Spirit.” CCC 667

  12. “After me comes he who is mightier than I, the thong of whose sandals I am not worthy to stoop down and untie. I have baptized you with water; but he will baptize you with the Holy Spirit.” Mark 1:8

  13. Luke 24:45Christ should suffer and on the third day rise from the dead…Repentance and forgiveness of sin should be preached in his name to all nations, beginning in Jerusalem…

  14. You are witnesses to these thingsBehold, I send the promise of my Father upon youBut stay in the city until your are clothed with power from on high

  15. “And while staying with them he charged them not to depart from Jerusalem, but to wait for the promise of the Father, which, he said, ‘you heard from me, for John baptized with water, but before many days you shall be baptized with the Holy Spirit.” Acts 1:5

  16. “But you shall receive power when the Holy Spirit comes upon you and you shall be my witnesses.” Acts 1:8

  17. “But when the Counselor comes, whom I shall send to you from the Father, even the Spirit of truth, who proceeds from the Father, he will bear witness to me; and you also are my witnesses…” John 15:26

  18. Pentecost Acts 2

  19. Rush of a mighty windTongues of fireThey were filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in tonguesWe hear them telling in our own tongues the mighty works of God!

  20. Fulfillment of the Promise:“…this is what was spoken by the prophet Joel… ‘And in the last days it shall be, God declares, that I will pour out my Spirit on all flesh…’”

  21. The Message:“…this Jesus, delivered up according to the definite plan and foreknowledge of God, you crucified and killed by the hands of lawless men. But God raised him up, having loosed the pangs of death, for it was not possible for him to be held by it.” Act 2:23-24

  22. “This Jesus God raised up, and of that we are all witnesses. Being therefore exalted at the right hand of God, and having received from the Father the promise of the Holy Spirit, he has poured out this which you see and hear.” Acts 2:32-33

  23. “Let the whole house of Israel know that God has made him both Lord and Christ this Jesus whom you have crucified…” Acts 2:36

  24. “Brethren, what shall we do?”“Peter said to them, ‘Repent, and be baptized everyone of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins; and you shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit…” Acts 2:38

  25. “He who believes in me, as the scripture has said, ‘Out of his heart shall flow rivers of living water.’ Now this he said about the Spirit, which those who believed in him were to receive; for as yet the Spirit had not been given, because Jesus was not yet glorified.” John 7:38-39

  26. “The special mission of the Spirit is to reveal not himself, but Jesus, the unique Son of God. Within each Christian heart, the Spirit is faithful to this mission…”Cardinal Leo Josef Suenens Memoirs p. 63

  27. Zoli Kerygma

  28. The Pentecost Event and Peter’s Interpretation: Acts 2Baptized in the Holy Spirit, tongue-speaking Galilean Jews proclaiming under the Spirit’s anointing to all Israel that God raised Jesus of Nazareth from the dead and has made him “Lord and Messiah.” Pentecost is the name of the feast day on which the “event” of the disciples being baptized in the Spirit happened. Pentecost was the occasion; baptism in the Spirit is the term used by Jesus and the apostles for the substance of what happened.

  29. “Today I would like to extend this invitation to everyone: Let us rediscover, dear brothers and sisters, the beauty of being baptized in the Holy Spirit; let us be aware again of our baptism and of our confirmation, sources of grace that are always present.”Benedict XVI (2008 Pentecost)

  30. The Extension of Baptism in the Spirit: Samaria: Acts 8:14-19Luke now develops the theme that the apostles expect each new convert to come into the same experience of being baptized in the Spirit as the disciples themselves each did on the feast of Pentecost. When word reached the apostles that “Samaria had accepted the word of God” they sent Peter and John who “prayed for them, that they might receive the Holy Spirit, for it had not yet fallen upon any of them; they had only been baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus. Then they laid hands on them and they received the Holy Spirit.” Luke points out that when Simon “saw that the Spirit was conferred by the laying on of the apostles’ hands” he sought to pay for the secret of being able to do this. In the “Samaritan Pentecost” as with the initial “Pentecost” there are visible signs of the Spirit’s coming, charismatic manifestations, unspecified in this instance, which cause bystanders to marvel.

  31. The Extension of Baptism in the Spirit: Cornelius and his HouseholdThey “have received the Holy Spirit as we have…”What happened to the disciples on the day of Pentecost, being baptized in the Spirit, happens now to Cornelius and his household. Peter’s assurance of the appropriateness of baptizing these Gentiles rests on perceiving, through visible indicators – speaking in tongues and glorifying God – that they have been baptized in the Spirit just as the apostles have been, and this, of course, is an indication that Jesus is present again, baptizing in the Spirit. (Acts 10:44-48)

  32. Peter’s Defense for Baptizing Gentiles: Remembering Jesus’ Words: Acts 11:15-18“As I began to speak, the Holy Spirit fell on them just as on us at the beginning.” Peter, understandably, is criticized for baptizing Gentiles. In his defense he describes the manifest “falling” of the Holy Spirit on the Gentiles, an experience which he could not deny; and then remembers the theological explanation: “I remembered the word of the Lord, how he had said, ‘John baptized with water but you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit.’

  33. The Extension of Baptism in the Spirit: Ephesus: Acts 19:1-7Paul encounters a group of “disciples” in Ephesus but must have noticed that something was missing in their experience of God. He asks them if they had received the Holy Spirit when they became believers and discovers that they have never even heard about the Holy Spirit but have simply been baptized with the Baptism for repentance of John the Baptist. Paul explains that John was simply preparing the way for Jesus and baptizes them in the name of Jesus. “When Paul laid his hands on them, the Holy Spirit came upon them, and they spoke in tongues and prophesied.”

  34. Repeated Fillings with the Spirit: Acts 4:23-33As opposition rises against the believers (which includes harsh threats, beatings and actual imprisonments), they confidently ask God for the boldness and supernatural power necessary to carry out their mission in the face of such opposition. “’And now Lord, take note of their threats, and enable your servants to speak your word with all boldness, as you stretch forth your hand to heal, and signs and wonders are done through the name of your holy servant Jesus.’ As they prayed, the place where they were gathered shook, and they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and continued to speak the word of God with boldness.”

  35. What is the Baptism in the Spirit?

  36. “Baptism in the Holy Spirit” is a concrete experience of the “Grace of Pentecost,” in which the working of the Holy Spirit becomes an experienced reality in the life of the individual and of the faith community…It is, in short, the experiential rediscovery, in faith, that Jesus is Lord by the power of the Spirit to the glory of the Father …”Archbishop Cordes“Call to Holiness: Reflections on the Charismatic Renewal” p. 11-14

  37. “A religious experience which initiates a decisively new sense of the powerful presence and working of God in one’s life, which working usually involves one or more charismatic gifts.”Fr. Francis Sullivan “Baptism in the Spirit” 1974

  38. “…the grace of actualizing gifts already received, a release of the Spirit, a manifestation of baptism, a coming of life of the gift of the Spirit received at confirmation, profound receptivity and docility to the Holy Spirit.” Cardinal Leo Josef Suenens p. 91

  39. Personal Testimony

  40. “…those who have once been enlightened, who have tasted the heavenly gift, and have become partakers of the Holy Spirit, and have tasted the goodness of the word of God and the powers of the age to come.” Hebrews 6:4-5

  41. “If you confess with your lips that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.” Romans 10:9

  42. “…and no one can say, ‘Jesus is Lord’ except by the Holy Spirit…” 1 Corinthians 12:3

  43. St. Paul’s Prayer Ephesians

  44. “…the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give you a spirit of wisdom and of revelation in the knowledge of him…

  45. “…having the eyes of your hearts enlightened, that you may know what is the hope to which he has called you…”

  46. “…what are the riches of his glorious inheritance in the saints, and the immeasurable scope of power in us who believe…”

  47. “…according to his great might which he accomplished in Christ when he raised him from the dead and made him sit at his right hand in heavenly places…”

  48. “…far above all rule and authority and power and dominion, and above every name that is named, not only in this age but also in that which is to come…”

  49. “…and he has put all things under his feet and has made him the head over all things for the church, which is his body, the fullness of him who fills all in all.” Ephesians 1:17-23

  50. Talk #1: New Outpourings of the Holy Spirit

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