{"id":15102,"date":"2014-06-30T01:01:33","date_gmt":"2014-06-30T06:01:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.cancaonova.com\/catholicismanew\/?p=15102"},"modified":"2014-07-01T09:58:58","modified_gmt":"2014-07-01T14:58:58","slug":"what-is-the-gift-of-tongues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.cancaonova.com\/catholicismanew\/2014\/06\/30\/what-is-the-gift-of-tongues\/","title":{"rendered":"What Is the Gift of Tongues?"},"content":{"rendered":"
At Pentecost, the disciples, with Mary, filled with the Holy Spirit began to pray, to praise and sing in the new language of the Spirit, the first gift to be expressed.<\/span>Some have interpreted the event and said: “They praise God, are singing the glories of the Lord, and we’re understanding with the heart.”<\/span>\u00a0Others were there as curious, joking, mocking, saying that the disciples were drunk.<\/span>\u00a0Peter explained: “We’re not drunk, but rather are fulfilling the prophecy of Joel.”<\/span><\/div>\n

\n<\/span>When we are baptized in the Holy Spirit, the first thing to happen \u00a0is that we are filled with prayer, because the Holy Spirit is the bond between the Father and the Son, and prayer is communication between Them;<\/span>\u00a0the Son who speaks to the Father and the Father speaking to the Son.<\/span>\u00a0The beauty of intimacy that happens within the Trinity is made \u200b\u200bby the Holy Spirit.<\/span>\u00a0And this is prayer.<\/span>\u00a0In addition, he is the link between God and us.<\/span>\u00a0The prayer and the prayer that goes back.<\/span>When we are introduced to the Spirit of the Lord, we left full of prayer, because the Paraclete is a prayer of fire, foolproof\u00a0We give the fuel, which is our air, moving<\/b><\/span><\/span>\u00a0our vocal cords, move the mouth, tongue, generating sounds.<\/b><\/span>\u00a0And what happens?<\/b><\/span>\u00a0The Holy Spirit prays, sings and speaks in us.<\/b><\/span>You can not imagine the value of this prayer!<\/span>\u00a0It is not just we who are praying, but the Spirit of God praying for us!<\/span><\/p>\n
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“We approach God through prayer in tongues ,” said Msgr. Jonas<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

What happens in the gift of tongues?<\/span>\u00a0This happens outside our intellectual willing of the specific sounds.<\/span>\u00a0We move the vocal cords, let out the air, we move the\u00a0tongue, mouth, and produce sound;<\/span>but the content comes from the Holy Spirit.<\/span><\/p>\n

St. Paul explains this in Romans 8:26:\u00a0“Likewise the Spirit also helps us in our weakness, because we do\u00a0not know how to pray as we ought, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us with inexpressible groanings.”<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

This explanation is quite simple: unutterable groans, or moans that can not be understood, unless God gives the interpretation.<\/span>\u00a0When you pray for your son or daughter, do you know exactly what they need?<\/span>\u00a0No. That’s why the Holy Spirit comes to our aid, we do not know what to ask or know how to pray as we ought.<\/span>\u00a0God\u00a0Himself intercedes for us and for us with inexpressible groanings.<\/span><\/p>\n

Hence the wonders happen, because it is the Holy Spirit praying in us, by us.<\/span>\u00a0St. Paul continues:\u00a0“And he who searches hearts knows what is the mind of the Spirit indeed is according to God that the Spirit intercedes for the saints (Rom. 8.27)<\/i>Therefore, the Paraclete knows our needs and\u00a0presents..<\/i>\u00a0the Father, who only attend if what we ask is for our good and according to the desires of the Spirit. This, in turn, does not ask for the wrong things or asks for nothing, like us., we can even ask something wrong or the wrong way, but the Holy Spirit does.<\/span><\/p>\n

When we pray in the Spirit, He first asks according to need;<\/b><\/span>\u00a0thereafter;<\/b><\/span>according to what God knows, that considers as the best.<\/b><\/span>\u00a0So praying in tongues is infallible;<\/b><\/span>\u00a0hence its value.<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

In praying in tongues, the Lord humbles us and tells us: “Put yourself aside, because now I will act not bother me anymore.”.<\/span>\u00a0And the Lord comes into play through the Spirit.<\/span>\u00a0When we pray in tongues, we do not have the enjoyment of our senses, our sense nor our intelligence.<\/span><\/p>\n

It is through prayer in tongues we approach God.<\/span>\u00a0Only then the transformation begins to take place in our hearts, in our lives, in the lives of those we love.<\/span>\u00a0It is the gifts of the Spirit and its fruits in which the world begins to be renewed.<\/span><\/p>\n

God wants this freely for everyone!<\/span><\/p>\n

Article excerpted from the book “Aspirai aos Dons\u00a0Espirituais” [Aspire for<\/i>\u00a0the Spiritual Gifts,] Monsignor Jonas Abib<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

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