The Golden Jubilee of the Catholic Charismatic Renewal
A New Pentecost for a new Evangelisation!
A proposed vision with broad focus areas to create a commonalty among the worldwide Charismatic family.
Join us! In 2017, we will celebrate the 50th anniversary of CCR in Rome.
With this in mind, ICCRS encourages each charismatic reality in every nation to journey in a special way towards the golden jubilee according to this vision and to prepare from now on for the celebration together in the Eternal City!
Among various challenges that the Renewal faces in the upcoming years, the need to increase is, in many ways, the one that we cannot delay:
- to increase in numbers
- to increase our influence in the world
- to increase our “charismatic” identity
- to increase our maturity
Click on the link below to download a pamphlet with information regarding this vision proposed by ICCRS to the CCR worldwide:
Download: Towards the Golden Jubilee Brochure
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Words from the Popes
Saint Paul VI, Pope
“Nothing is more necessary for such a world, more and more secularised, than the testimony of this ‘spiritual renewal’, which we see the Holy Spirit bring about today in the most diverse regions and environments. Its manifestations are varied: deep communion of souls, close contact with God in faithfulness to the commitments undertaken at Baptism, in prayer that is often community prayer, in which each one, expressing himself freely, helps, supports and nourishes the prayer of others, and, at the basis of everything, a personal conviction.
This conviction has its source not only in instruction received by faith but also in a certain experience of real life, namely, that without God, man can do nothing, that with him, on the contrary, everything becomes possible. […] How then could this ‘spiritual renewal’ not be ‘a chance’ for the church and for the world? And how, in this case, could one not take all the means to ensure that it remains so?”
“The Catholic charismatic movement is one of the many fruits of the Second Vatican Council, which, like a new Pentecost, led to an extraordinary flourishing in the Church’s life of groups and movements particularly sensitive to the action of the Spirit. How can we not give thanks for the precious spiritual fruits that the Renewal has produced in the life of the Church and in the lives of so many people? How many lay faithful — men, women, young people, adults and the elderly — have been able to experience in their own lives the amazing power of the Spirit and his gifts! How many people have rediscovered the faith, the joy of prayer, the power and beauty of the Word of God, translating all this into generous service in the Church’s mission! How many lives have been profoundly changed! For all this today, together with you, I wish to praise and thank the Holy Spirit.”
Saint John Paul II, Pope
Pope Benedict XVI
“As I have been able to affirm in other circumstances, the Ecclesial Movements and New Communities which blossomed after the Second Vatican Council constitute a unique gift of the Lord and a precious resource for the life of the Church. They should be accepted with trust and valued for the various contributions they place at the service of the common benefit in an ordered and fruitful way. Your current reflection on the centrality of Christ in preaching is very interesting as well as on the importance of ‘Charisms in the life of the particular Church’, referring to Pauline theology, the New Testament and the experience of the Charismatic Renewal.
What we learn in the New Testament on charism, which appeared as visible signs of the coming of the Holy Spirit, is not a historical event of the past, but a reality ever alive. It is the same divine Spirit, soul of the Church, that acts in every age and those mysterious and effective interventions of the Spirit are manifest in our time in a providential way.
The Movements and New Communities are like an outpouring of the Holy Spirit in the Church and in contemporary society. We can, therefore, rightly say that one of the positive elements and aspects of the Community of the Catholic Charismatic Renewal is precisely their emphasis on the charisms or gifts of the Holy Spirit and their merit lies in having recalled their topicality in the Church.”
