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Sessions: 2 - 2017
The theme is Connected, based on Ephesians 4.
I want to look at this theme first in the whole epistle to the Ephesians, which is one of the most coherent letters in the Pauline writings.
We can only understand Chapter 4 correctly in the context of the whole letter and especially of the preceding chapters.
I love this letter to the Ephesians. People have told me that my ministry is a big picture ministry, presenting the whole plan of God in its overall coherence and unity.
Ephesians is very much a big picture letter, though it combines this huge vision with much practical teaching.
Sessions: 2 - 2016
What is Maranatha and the vision.
Sessions: 5 - 2016
Summer Camp for families and young people from Poland. There will be 4 tracs:
  • for adults
  • for teenagers 18-25
  • for teenagers 13-17
  • for children 6-12
  • for children 3-5 Father Peter is the main speaker.
Sessions: 2 - 2016
Give talk on Azusa, Rome, and Zion to ecumenical charismatic conference at Sosnowiec.
A recording of the 'Maranatha Teaching Day' with Fr Peter Hocken - Israel and the Unity of the Church.
W ciągu ostatnich dziesięcioleci obserwujemy wzmożone działanie Ducha Świętego na całej ziemi. W różnych częściach świata powstają nowe grupy ludzi, zafascynowanych osobą Jezusa.
Duch Święty rozpala serca wierzących swym potężnym ogniem, odnawia ich i odbudowuje.

Wiemy, że Kościół nie mógłby istnieć, ani tym bardziej realizować zadania, jakie mu powierzył zmartwychwstały Jezus – aby iść i nauczać wszystkie narody, gdyby nie był nieustannie poruszany przez Ducha.
Sessions: 3 - 2015
How to prepere for the seccond coming of the Christ.

The hope of the Holy Spirit, the Israle context and the unity of the church as a signgs of the time.
Programm of the Mission:
  • 13.12.2016: HOPE & JOY - JOY: Rejoice in the Lord – always (Phil. 4:4), HOPE: The meaning of Advent
  • 14.12.2015: MERCY - Year of Mercy (8.12.2015 to 20.11.2016)
  • 15.12.2015: EVANGELIZATION - New Evangelization
  • 15.12.2015: MARY - Totally faithful handmaid (servant) of the Lord

Program Rekolekcji adwentowych:
  • 13.12.2016: NADZIEJA I RADOŚĆ: Zawsze radujcie się w Panu (Flp 4:4), NADZIEJA: Znaczenie Adwentu
  • 14.12.2015: MIŁOSIERDZIE - Rok Miłosierdzia (8.12.2015-20.11.2016)
  • 15.12.2015: EWANGELIZACJA - Nowa Ewangelizacja
  • 16.12.2015: MARYJA - Całkowicie wierną służebnicą Pana
Sessions: 9 - 2015
Teaching given in "Szkoła Sług Ducha" in Kraków.
Main subject: Liturgy, Bible, Vatican II and Pope Francis.
Liturgy structures the Church
  • Trinitarian
  • Christocentric
  • Spirit-breathed
Is what the Lord is doing through Pope Francis different from the contributions of St John Paul II and Benedict XVI?
How does what Pope Francis is doing and represents relate to the Renewal of the Church called for by St John XXIII and Bl. Paul VI?
The first Pope to have had brotherly relationships with Pentecostal leaders
Sessions: 3 - 2015
Trois textes clefs:
  1. Réunir l’univers entier sous un seul chef, le Christ, ce qui est dans les cieux et ce qui est sur la terre. (Eph. 1:10)
  2. L’unité du seul Corps du Christ (Messie) s’achève à travers l’incorporation de Gentils en Israël, bâtie sur la fondation des apôtres et prophètes (Eph. 2:11–22)
  3. Votre vocation vous a appelés à une seule espérance (Eph. 4:4)
Sessions: 3 - 2015
A surprise of the Holy Spirit:
  • The core-grace or core-reality of the charismatic renewal
  • A sovereign grace of God, humanly unplanned, without human founders
  • Not a movement like the many ecclesial movements with human founders
Sessions: 5 - 2015
Two weekend's teaching on Maranatha Vision
Sessions: 5 - 2015
Charismatic Renewal:
  • was humanly unplanned
  • was poured out "on all flesh"
  • began in a great variety of ways
  • impacted almost all Christian churches
It has been a sovereign act of the Lord.
Sessions: 5 - 2015
Odnowa w Duchu Świętym:
  • po ludzku niezaplanowana
  • wylana "na wszelkie ciało"
  • rozpoczęła się na wiele różnych sposobów
  • wpłynęła prawie na wszystkie kościoły chrześcijańskie Było i jest to suwerenne działanie Boże.
Sessions: 4 - 2015
Duch Święty przygotował w naszych czasach kilka niespodzianek, których nikt się nie spodziewał:
  • Ruch zielonoświątkowy i charyzmatyczny
  • Transformacja Kościoła Katolickiego
  • Izrael
  • Franciszek
Sessions: 4 - 2015
The Holy Spirit prepared for us in our times few surprises that nobody expected:
  • Pentecostal and charismatic movement
  • Transformation of the Catholic Church
  • Israel
  • Francis
Sessions: 5 - 2015
Reconciliation, Unity & Salvation - all three are closely linked. It is impossible to have one without the others.

Sin produces division: in the sinner, in personal relationships, in families, groups, and societies, between nations, and peoples, between humans and the surrounding creation.
This title is one way of describing the journey of renewal in the Catholic Church in modern times.

From a Church largely unaware of a need for renewal (the self-referential church of Pope Francis) to a Church knowing it is constantly in need of deep renewal.
"Christ summons the church, as she goes her pilgrim way, to that continual reformation of which she always has need, insofar as she is a human institution here on earth." (Decree on Ecumenism, para. 6).
Required: "a permanent renewal of the Church in greater fidelity to her vocation; such renewal is the driving-force of the movement toward unity".
Sessions: 3 - 2015
Who are the Messianic Jews? What is the Messianic Jewish movement?
For most of the leaders in the movement, these two questions are tied together.
The Messianic Jews are those Jews who believe in Jesus of Nazareth as Messiah of Israel, as Lord and Saviour (or Yeshua as they would say) and gather themselves into congregations of Jewish believers in Yeshua so as to live a corporate life as Jewish disciples of their Messiah.
There are people who call any Jew who believes in Jesus a Messianic Jew. In my opinion, this is not a helpful way of speaking and can cause confusion.
Jewish and Christian faith is inherently a shared faith in covenantal relationships. To call any person of Jewish roots who believes in Jesus a Messianic Jew can also lead to vastly inflated and unrealistic figures of how many Messianic Jews there are.
The Holy Spirit reveals and exalts Jesus! It is only through the Holy Spirit that we can know Jesus.
The Holy Spirit reveals Jesus by giving light on the Word of God, especially:
  • through the words of Jesus
  • through the Gospels


Duch Święty objawia i wywyższa Jezusa! Tylko przez Ducha Świętego możemy poznać Jezusa.
Duch Święty objawia Jezusa, rzucając światło na Słowo Boże, szczególnie:
  • przez słowa Jezusa
  • przez Ewangelie


I have chosen this title "Jesus and the Jews: a necessary tragedy?" with a question mark because I want to promote reflection rather than give definitive answers.
I have chosen this topic for two reasons in particular. First, for the last fifty years since Nostra Aetate the priority for the Catholic Church has been establishing relations of trust and friendship with the Jewish community that has suffered so much in the past from our wrong attitudes.
Sessions: 4 - 2015
Since the election of Pope Francis, a new era in Catholic – Evangelical relations has opened up.
Francis is the first pope to have had close brotherly relationships with Evangelical and Pentecostal pastors before his election, and the first pope to be accustomed to praying spontaneously with them.
Sessions: 3 - 2014
Christian eschatology (belief in the second coming of the Lord in glory; the establishment of the Kingdom of God in its fullness; the judgment; new heavens and new earth) is NOT an Addendum or Appendix to Christian faith!
The Second Vatican Council rehabilitated the deeply traditional concept of the priesthood of all the baptized.
"The baptized, by regeneration and the anointing of the holy Spirit, are consecrated as a spiritual house and a holy priesthood, that through all their Christian activities they may offer spiritual sacrifices and proclaim the marvels of him who has called them out of darkness into his wonderful light (1 Pet 2:4-10).
Sessions: 9 - 2014
Teaching series from Summer Camp 2014 in Poland with Lenny LaGuardia from IHOPKC, Armia Dzieci and students from IHOPU.
Sessions: 2 - 2014
In this talk I look at the new situation created first by the call of St John Paul II and Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI for a New Evangelization and the radicalization of this call by Pope Francis in his vision for a pastoral and missionary conversion of the whole Church.
We can look at this in two parts:
  1. the Holy Spirit and Evangelization
  2. the Holy Spirit and ecumenism in the pastoral and missionary conversion of the Church.
Sessions: 2 - 2014
Two talks given at Austin House of Prayer:
  • Part 1: Israel
  • Part 2: Pope Francis and John 23

Israel doesn’t strike most of us as the heart of our faith. Catholics see this in Israel’s inclusion in the section of the Catechism on Non-Christian Religions (CCC 839).
We don’t generally see what Israel has to do with church renewal. But it’s clear from the scriptures that Israel is not an addendum.
We are faced with the challenge, then, of how to take hold of Israel without "only ever talking about Israel". The "Israel-only" folks miss the bigger picture.
Sessions: 3 - 2014
TJCII - The goals.
The right relationship between the Church and the Israel.
Sessions: 3 - 2014
The turn towards renewal in the Catholic Church began in 1878 with the election of Leo XIII.
Before this, the Catholic Church was in a strongly defensive mode, defending itself against Protestants, non-believers, hostile rulers, against everything seen as "modern" (Pius IX: Syllabus of Errors 1864; modernism in early 20th century).
The announcer is the herald, the kerux, proclaiming good news. Something truly amazing has happened. This event changes world history.
No other message is more important.
This event demands a response.
Teaching by Peter Hocken given during Evangelization Forum in Kraków.
Sessions: 7 - 2013
A 7-sessions teaching for priests from Lithuania.
Very broad pictures of what the Holy Spirit is today in the church and where God is leading us as a believers.
Sessions: 4 - 2013
With the election of Cardinal Bergoglio as bishop of Rome and his taking the name Francis, I am reminded of similarities with the election of Cardinal Roncalli in 1958.
In both cases, there has been a major change of style, with the new Pope having an informality, a closeness to the people, a sense of humour, an obvious humility, a dislike of pomp and court ceremonial.
Sessions: 2 - 2012
The theme for both my talks is charismatic ecumenism.
The first will be more theological and more historical, providing a foundation for the second, which will be more spiritual and more practical.
I will begin by underlining some major points from the first talk.
Talk to Group in Austin on What the Holy Spirit has been doing in the world in modern times.
What indicators are there as to the time in which we live?
Reflecting on the Pentecostal and charismatic movements, increased evangelism, the ecumenical movement, developments with Israel and the Jewish people, the mounting conflict between evil and the work of God:
  • Part 1: What the Spirit is doing in the world
  • Part 2: Christian Hope - preparation of a spotless bride (Eph 5). Holy Spirit gives longing for the age to come. Hope and longing go together. The Spirit teaches the Bride how to long and to groan. Romans 8: the creation groans, Christians groan, and the Holy Spirit groans. The hope purifies our faith and our hearts. Communism is a Messianism without a Messiah. But Christianity has often become a Messiah without a Messianism
  • Part 3: Liturgy - basic principles for understanding and participating in liturgical worship. Relationships liturgy and the Church that is foundationally communion in Christ. Word and Sacrament. Trinitarian structure. Relates past (God’s acts in Israel and in Jesus), present, and future (coming of Lord and his kingdom). Structuring time (day, week, year)
  • Part 4: Liturgy - practical questions. How to worship in ecumenical context. How to move forward as the Holy Spirit leads. How to express your life as a community. The role of art.
Do you sense a tension between the word "spiritual" and the word "Body"?
Do we think of the spiritual realm as something above and in tension with bodily realities?
The difference between the chapel or worship area and the bathroom?
Sessions: 2 - 2012
In the first session, I aim to set out the problematic: why this question is being asked today.
What are the points in dispute? What is at stake in this debate? What are the main points of reference?
In the second session, I will move towards a resolution by indicating some key principles so that we do not fall into dangerous errors or into an ideological stance.
Teaching series from conference in Warsaw with Daniel Lim from IHOPKC.
Sessions: 2 - 2011
Comme vous le savez, un document sur le Baptême dans l’Esprit Saint (l’effusion de l’Esprit) a été élaboré à la demande de l’ICCRS.
L’ICCRS avait convoqué une consultation internationale à Rome le mois de mars dernier, formée surtout de responsables dans le Renouveau, afin de discuter une esquisse du document avant la rédaction finale.
La rédaction s’est achevée au mois de septembre.
Sessions: 3 - 2011
Talk to Austin House of Prayer on Evangelical – Catholic Reconciliation. Explains first why this reconciliation is so important.
Then provides a series of principles to guide Evangelical – Catholic relations:
  • Part 1: Catholic Evangelical Reconciliation
  • Part 2: Liturgy and Eschatology
  • Part 3: The Holy Spirit groans within us
Sessions: 10 - 2010
To begin the process of seeing the bigger picture by a reflection on the Church and the world today by focusing on the events and trends since approximately 1900.
It is important to recognize the remarkable works of the Holy Spirit during this time, as well as noting the massive evils; the human and social context in which conflicting forces have been at work is also significant, with all the huge changes in society produced by technological progress, political changes and the impact of the mass media and new forms of communication.
One purpose is to get the young people thinking outside their normal circle or world, beyond their nation and beyond their personal memories.
It is also encourage them to think critically about the world in which they live and to bring some spiritual and moral principles into their assessment.
Sessions: 10 - 2010
To begin the process of seeing the bigger picture by a reflection on the Church and the world today by focusing on the events and trends since approximately 1900.
It is important to recognize the remarkable works of the Holy Spirit during this time, as well as noting the massive evils; the human and social context in which conflicting forces have been at work is also significant, with all the huge changes in society produced by technological progress, political changes and the impact of the mass media and new forms of communication.
One purpose is to get the young people thinking outside their normal circle or world, beyond their nation and beyond their personal memories.
It is also encourage them to think critically about the world in which they live and to bring some spiritual and moral principles into their assessment.
Sessions: 2 - 2010
There is an increasing awareness of the role of the Holy Spirit.
This was very clear in the address of Cardinal Rylko at the end of the conference.
There was an emphasis on being attentive to the Holy Spirit and on depending on the Holy Spirit in a way that I was not hearing a few years ago.
Sessions: 2 - 2010
The relationship between the Orthodox Church and the Messianic Jews has to be based on a right understanding of the relationship between the Greek and the Hebrew.
The Orthodox Church represents in a particular way the Greek heritage in the Christian world.
It is clear from the influence of the Greek Fathers, from the importance of the ancient liturgies of St Basil and of St John Chrysostom and from the place of Mount Athos in the Orthodox monastic tradition.
In contrast, the Hebrew patrimony is absolutely central for the Messianic Jews for whom a Jewish understanding of the Scriptures and Hebraic thought-patterns are presented as essential.
Sessions: 5 - 2010
Revival is an important word for Evangelical Christians.
It is not much used by Catholics. Although there were some reports of local revivals before the 1730s, the events of the 1730s represented a significant turning point in Protestant history.
An important preparation took place on Count Zinzendorf's estate in Saxony, where the Moravian exiles constructed their own village, named Herrnhut, on Zinzendorf's land.
Sessions: 3 - 2010
Three talk given at Austin House of Prayer:
  • Part 1: The goal of all the work of Jesus and the Spirit is the second coming of the Lord. Full revelation of Jesus, of salvation, of glorification. Role of Israel and the Nations. Ends with 5 characteristics of an ecumenism of the Spirit.
  • Part 2: Reflections on ecumenical movement, obstacles to unity and new openings.
  • Part 3: Understanding Jesus as Jewish and embodiment of Israel in relation to the Church. Re-interpretation of hope of Israel in the light of the death and resurrection of Jesus.
Talks given to the Antioch Network (an international network of Christian leaders led by George Miley (Phoenix, Arizona, and Gmunden, Germany).
  • Part 1: Preparing the Way of the Lord. Describes how Fr Peter arrived at the conviction that the outpouring of the Holy Spirit in the Pentecostal and charismatic movements is essentially to prepare for the coming of the Lord Jesus in glory.
  • Part 2: A presentation of Toward Jerusalem Council II: Vision, History, Progress and Lessons Learned (with German translation)
Sessions: 3 - 2008
In my three talks on Israel and the Church, I will speak first about the past, about Israel and the birth of the Church, about Israel and the Church in the New Testament.
In the second talk, I will speak about Israel and the Church today, in particular about the emergence again of the Church of the Circumcision, and in the third talk about Israel and the Church in the future, Israel and the Church in the End-Times and the challenge of Israel for the eschatology of the Church.
In the second talk, I will speak about the Futures.
I will approach the issue of Israel and the Jewish people by looking first at the developing teaching of the Magisterium.
In effect, this begins with Vatican Two, which in this area represented a real revolution.
This is why the teaching on the Jews, like that on ecumenism and on religious liberty, was rejected by the most rigid conservatives like Archbishop Lefebvre and his followers.
Sessions: 4 - 2006
I am struck by the timing of this conference on reconciliation, repentance and forgiveness.
It comes soon after your national celebration of the 50th anniversary of the heroic Hungarian revolution against Soviet occupation.
But this was also a time when present-day divisions in Hungary were manifested on the streets of Budapest and in the way the anniversary was celebrated.
As a charismatic Catholic, I want to express my thanks to the Lord for the work of the Holy Spirit in the Evangelical, Pentecostal and charismatic streams and denominations.
In this first talk, I want to try and identify more clearly what this work of the Holy Spirit is.
It will be clear, especially as I proceed to the second talk, that I do not think the work of the Holy Spirit is restricted to these milieux.
But it is important as a method to begin from the work of the Holy Spirit and not from the weaknesses.
A year ago I gave three talks here as part of celebrating the 40th anniversary of the last session of the Second Vatican Council.
For those lectures, I picked out three themes from the Council that are proving crucial for the renewal of the Church:
  1. he Word of God
  2. Charisms and the charismatic dimension of the Church
  3. Christian Unity
Vatican Two was called by bl. John XXIII as a Council of renewal.
In this series of lectures, which come as the Catholic Church is celebrating the fortieth anniversary of the completion of the Council, I pick out three themes from the Council that are proving crucial for the renewal of the Church:
  1. The Word of God
  2. Charisms and the charismatic dimension of the Church
  3. Christian Unity
Sessions: 3 - 2005
Sin produces division: in the sinner, in personal relationships, in families, groups, and societies, between nations, and peoples, between humans and the surrounding creation.
Two questions that can help us to approach Church history: What is Vatican II correcting and restoring?
What is Charismatic Renewal correcting and restoring?
Some say that CR is a corrective to the rationalism of the Enlightenment that weakened faith in the supernatural and the miraculous.
Sessions: 2 - 2005
Three times in Romans 11, the apostle Paul warns the Gentile Christians of Rome against arrogance (vv. 18, 20, 25).
The apostle tells them, "if some of the branches were broken off [from the cultivated olive tree] and you, a wild olive shoot, were grafted in their place to share the richness of the olive tree" (Rom. 11:17).
They are told: "do not boast over the branches" (Rom. 11:18), that is over the Jews who did not believe in Jesus.
Teaching from the Pentecostal school 2003-2005. Topics:
  • 2003
    • Present-Day Christian World: Overview
    • Present-Day Christian World: Evangelical-Revivalist: New Trends
    • The Evangelical & Holiness Movements
    • The Pentecostal Movement: Key Issues
  • 2004
    • The Charismatic Movement in Historic Churches
    • The Charismatic Movement in Independent Churches
    • Outside and Inside: Key Issues
    • The Messianic Jewish movement
  • 2005
    • The Renewal of the RC Church: Second Vatican Council and its Background
    • The Renewal of the RC Church: Catholic Charismatic Renewal & New Ecclesial Movements
    • The Renewal of the RC Church: John Paul II: Restoration or Renewal?
    • Revival and Renewal, Restoration and Resurrection
Sessions: 4 - 2004
Speaking globally, the Christian world today is made up of four main blocs:
  1. the Catholic Church
  2. the Orthodox Church
  3. liberal Protestantism
  4. the Evangelicals in a broad sense.
Why do I not list in third place the historic Protestant denominations and in fourth place the newer and more sectarian groups?
Teaching from the Pentecostal school 2003-2005. Topics:
  • 2003
    • Present-Day Christian World: Overview
    • Present-Day Christian World: Evangelical-Revivalist: New Trends
    • The Evangelical & Holiness Movements
    • The Pentecostal Movement: Key Issues
  • 2004
    • The Charismatic Movement in Historic Churches
    • The Charismatic Movement in Independent Churches
    • Outside and Inside: Key Issues
    • The Messianic Jewish movement
  • 2005
    • The Renewal of the RC Church: Second Vatican Council and its Background
    • The Renewal of the RC Church: Catholic Charismatic Renewal & New Ecclesial Movements
    • The Renewal of the RC Church: John Paul II: Restoration or Renewal?
    • Revival and Renewal, Restoration and Resurrection
In this first talk, I want to address the question "How should we respond?" when today we are confronted by the existence of the Messianic Jews.
There are two dimensions to this question: How should we respond as Christians?
And how should we respond as Catholic Christians?
For the rise of the Messianic Jewish movement in our day is a profound challenge to all Christians, and of course in a particular way to the Catholic Church.
Sessions: 5 - 2003
La nature même de l’Eglise dans le NT, c’est la reconciliation des Juifs et des Païens à travers le sang et la croix de Jésus.
C’est l’enseignement de l’épître aux Ephésiens 2:11 à 3:6:
"afin de créer en lui-même avec les deux un sel homme nouveau, en établissant la paix, et de les réconcilier, l’un et l’autre en un seul corps, avec Dieu par la croix, en détruisant par elle l’inimitié".
C’est juste que ces versets font notre point de depart pour une théologie, une connaissance chrétienne, et donc pour une pratique chrétienne de la reconciliation.
Ici nous touchons les racines les plus profondes.
Notre salut en tant que des gens des origines païennes ne vient pas simplement de la mort d’un Sauveur universel, un homme générique, mais de la mort d’un homme particulier venant d’un peuple particulier: Jésus, un juif de Nazareth, le Messie d’Israel.
Az 1. protestáns-katolikus karizmatikus egységkonferenciát a Katolikus Karizmatikus Megújulás (KKM) és a Bethlehem Kulturális Egyesület (BKE) kezdeményezésére Ménfőcsanakon tartottuk 1996-ban.
A konferencia védnökei: dr Marik József, a KKM nemzeti koordinátora, az Emmaus Katolikus Karizmatikus Közösség vezetője és Simonfalvi Lajos, a BKE elnöke, az EPK Logos Gyülekezet vezető lelkésze, a Budapesti Karizmatikus Pásztorkör alapító tagja.
Individual Messages
For my paper I will make particular reference to the following terms: Current of Grace, Classical Ecumenism, Charismatic Ecumenism, and the Creativity of the Holy Spirit.
The first and the last come from Pope Francis, who has challenged the Renewal with his reminder,
"Do not forget your background, the Charismatic Renewal was born ecumenical!"
I want to address this theme of the Renewal and Ecumenism through the lens of the younger generation.
There are several reasons for this choice:
  1. Young people are central to the theme the Holy Father has chosen the for the next Synod of Bishops in the autumn of 2018
  2. Young people are more mobile than their elders, they travel the world, they mix with others in a way we elders did not
  3. Young people have had an important place in my teaching ministry in recent years
Preaching during the ecumenical service in Katowice.
Jaki jest proroczy aspekt posługi Papieża Franciszka w Kościele.
This theme "the Heart of David" takes us quickly into the heart of the Scriptures.
I hope that what I share will help us all to enter more deeply into the heart of the Scriptures, which means into the heart of God.
Myślę, że wszyscy odczuwamy radość i podniecenie z powodu tej konferencji.
We mnie one narastały, odkąd zacząłem przygotowywać się do tego wykładu.
Temat "Serce Dawida" szybko wprowadza nas w samo serce Pisma Świętego.
Mam nadzieję, że to, czym się podzielę, pomoże nam wszystkim wejść głębiej w serce Pisma Świętego czyli w serce Boga.
Kilka powszechnie komentowanych wydarzeń zwróciło uwagę świata chrześcijańskiego na nowe inicjatywy papieża Franciszka wobec chrześcijan pentakostalnych i ewangelicznych:
  1. przesłanie na konferencję Kennetha Copelanda w styczniu 2014r.
  2. spotkanie z liderami w Rzymie w czerwcu 2014 r.
  3. pierwsza wizyta Papieża w kościele Zielonoświątkowym w lipcu 2014 r.
Te inicjatywy tworzą tło dla słów skierowanych przez papieża Franciszka do odnowy charyzmatycznej.
Wittenberg 2017 meeting in Wittenberg preparing for the 500th anniversary of the Protestant Reformation.
Giving a Catholic response to two German Lutheran pastors.
With Pope Francis we are living at a special moment in Christian history. For myself, I think it is almost impossible to exaggerate the importance of this kairos moment the Lord is giving through Francis.
One area where we see this potential for what is radically new is the area of ecumenical relations. This newness is very obvious in Catholic relations with Pentecostals and charismatic or charismaticized Evangelicals.
So this paper examines this newness, asking how the Holy Spirit is leading the Catholic Church forward in this pontificate, and what this means for future relations between the Catholic Church and the Pentecostal-charismatic world.
The last two to three months have seen widespread celebration of the 50th anniversary of Nostra Aetate, the declaration of the Second Vatican Council on non-Christian religions.
Probably a majority of these celebrations have been joint Jewish-Catholic events, celebrating para. 4 of Nostra Aetate on the Jewish people.
I’m very happy to talk about Pope Francis and ecumenism. There’s a lot that can be said on this subject. It’s interesting, because he hasn’t given much explicit teaching on this subject; there’s no one document of a number of pages from Francis on ecumenism, but he’s doing things all the time that are significant for unity, and there’s many gems and things that he’s saying that are very important for this work of reconciliation.
We are probably aware of some of these things he’s done that have grabbed headlines; for example, when he sent a message to the Kenneth Copeland conference of several hundred ministers/pastors in January last year, 2014.
That was a huge surprise to many people, because if the Pope was going to send a message to evangelical or Pentecostal pastors, which never happened before, you wouldn’t have expected it to be sent to a Kenneth Copeland conference.
I am very happy to accept this invitation to come and share about TJCII (Toward Jerusalem Council II) at this UMJC conference.
First, because there were strong UMJC connections in the birth of TJCII. Marty Waldman was president at that time, and one of his first supporters was Dan Juster.
But a second reason is my appreciation for the work of Mark Kinzer with which you will be familiar. One reason for this appreciation is my perception that Mark is in a key way the theologian of TJCII – a role so far not yet understood by all involved in the initiative!
It is Mark who has articulated most clearly a bipartite ecclesiology, the vision of the Church made up of Jews and non-Jews, retaining their distinctiveness, but made one through the blood of the cross.
But this bipartite ecclesiology is in effect the theological foundation of Toward Jerusalem Council II.
Nous nous trouvons rassemblés ici à Fichermont en tant que chrétiens afin de nous rappeler la bataille de Waterloo, à la fin des guerres napoléoniennes, qui dévastèrent des grandes régions de l’Europe.
En réfléchissant sur toute cette histoire et aussi sur la situation de l’Europe aujourd’hui, j’ai été frappé par l’impuissance des Eglises chrétiennes à empêcher ou à résoudre ces conflits destructeurs.
Sachant qu’il fallait que je présente ces réflexions, j’ai relu des œuvres de Christopher Dawson, catholique anglais, un grand historien de la religion et de la culture (1889 – 1970).
Kto jest powołany do dzielenia się Dobrą Nowiną z innymi?
Papież Franciszek daje nam wyraźną odpowiedź na to pytanie w swojej encyklice "Evangelii Gaudium": Każdy!


Who is called to share the Good News with others?
Pope Francis gives us a clear answer to this question in his encyclical "Evangelii Gaudium": Everyone!


Teaching given to the clerics in Metropolitan Major Seminary in Wroclaw.
Nauczanie wygłoszone do kleryków Metropolitalnego Wyższego Seminarium Duchownego we Wrocławiu.
Workshop "Ecumenism of the Holy Spirit" during the ENC gathering 2014.
Pope Francis has said very little about ecumenism in the first ten months as bishop of Rome.
Does this mean this will be a short talk?
Probably not, because while Francis has not made important pronouncements on ecumenism, many things about his ministry as pope have big ecumenical significance.
Talk given at Austin House of Prayer.
The blessing of the Baptism in the Holy Spirit.
Yesterday evening was six months since the election of Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio, sj as bishop of Rome, an event that is producing many surprises, of which the first was his choice of name, Francis.
I want to reflect on the significance of this election that occurred in the middle of a Year of Faith called by Benedict XVI for the 50th anniversary of the opening of the Second Vatican Council.
It is already clear that the new bishop of Rome will present many challenges to the Catholic Church, challenges whose ripples will no doubt also be felt in other Christian communions.
Neste histórico evento, ocorrido durante o 7º Congresso Internacional da Restauração (organizado pelo Ministério Ensinando de Sião - BRASIL), os líderes católicos Pe. Peter Hocken (indicado pelo vaticano para o diálogo judaico-católico) e Johannes Fichtenbauer (diácono chefe da arquidiocese de Viena - Áustria) reconhecem e admitem os erros da Igreja Católica em relação ao povo Judeu, principalmente durante as atrocidades da Inquisição.
Um comovente e emocionante pedido de perdão que surpreendeu os participantes do evento e os líderes judeus e cristãos presentes.
Um grande e importante passo rumo à restauração e reconciliação da Igreja cristã em relação a Israel. Assista e surpreenda-se!

In this first talk, I want to address the question "How should we respond?" when today we are confronted by the existence of the Messianic Jews.
There are two dimensions to this question: How should we respond as Christians?
And how should we respond as Catholic Christians?
Restoring the Unity and Reconciliation between the Church and Israel
History of the Charismatic movement in the Catholic Church and the relation with Messianic Church.
The graces the Lord has given to Mother of God Community continue to impact the Church and the worldwide charismatic renewal through the theological work of former long-time members Dr Mary Healy and Monsignor Peter Hocken.
ICCRS (International Catholic Charismatic Renewal Services) established a doctrinal commission to provide theological input and reflection to improve what is communicated about the Renewal.
The commission has 6-7 members.
This talk comes right out of issues that I have been grappling with in recent months largely through documents and talks I have had to work on, especially the ICCRS document on baptism in the Spirit, but also two papers evaluating the new charismatic churches from a Catholic standpoint.
It is the issue of the relationship between the new work of the Holy Spirit in the Renewal and the whole work of the Spirit throughout the centuries, the relationship between the new and original on the one hand and the Catholic tradition on the other hand.
This paper is then more theological than maybe many of the talks you have heard.
But I make no apology for this, because without vigorous theological reflection in faith, we will be condemned to rather superficial presentations of the Renewal.
Talk given at Austin House of Prayer.
What is the right yardstick of assessment?
An evaluation of CCR as compared to the overall Church situation in Europe?
A comparison with other new ecclesial movements?
A comparison with other churches or with the non-denom sector?
I want to suggest that we lift our gaze and assess the Renewal primarily in relation to the purposes of the Holy Spirit as revealed through the baptism in the Spirit and the distinctiveness of CR.
Talk given at Austin House of Prayer.
Teaching for the Community of God's Delight.
Ecoumenism and the unity of the church - all aspect and impotrance of this.
Thank you for your warm welcome. I was here in 2003 and 2005, and I remember those visits well, especially I think 2003, the prayer meeting which was very blessed.

I want to talk tonight about an aspect of the importance of the outpouring of the Holy Spirit in our day.
The importance of the whole charismatic movement, like many others, at the beginning of the Catholic Charismatic renewal, I knew this was something of huge importance.
I'm sure this sentiment was experienced also by people like Dennis McBride and Bill Beatty (Alleluia founders) and others back in those days in the early '70's, that this was of huge historical and spiritual significance.
Baptism in the Spirit (BHS) is the second theme to be addressed by the ICCRS Doctrinal Commission, following the earlier document Guidelines on Prayer for Healing.
Like the first, this is a pastoral document, primarily written as a pastoral aid for leaders in the Renewal.
It is not primarily a theological document, but it needs to have a sound theological basis understandable to pastoral leaders.
It therefore contains a section with theological reflection (Part III).

The methodology followed is similar to that in the first document, moving from a description of the contemporary reality being addressed through biblical, patristic and theological reflections to a closing pastoral commentary and guidelines.
Last October I heard a talk by Bishop Brian Farrell, the secretary of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity.
Bishop Farrell began his talk with a very interesting question: how was it possible that the Catholic bishops of the world formed on a theology of no dealings with other Christians should come to Rome in 1962 and then two years later give almost unanimous approval to the Decree on Ecumenism?
Almost three years ago, Dr Mary Healy and I were asked by Bishop Joe Grech from Australia to prepare a document on baptism in the Holy Spirit (BHS) directed to pastoral leaders in the Catholic charismatic renewal (CCR), which is now well advanced in preparation.
Work on this document required attention to many issues that I want to address in this talk.
The Renewal has brought a new awareness of spiritual battle into the life of the Catholic Church.
Whenever the Holy Spirit is awakened in people's lives, they become aware that there are other spirits at work, that are not so holy.
The Second Vatican Council brought a higher vision of the role of all the baptized (and so of all lay people) within the Church.
The dignity of every Christian is rooted in their baptism and in their own relationship within the Church (in a context of communion) to the Father, in Jesus Christ, through the Holy Spirit.
For many years a major tension has existed in the Catholic charismatic renewal (CCR) between, on the one hand, the need for the renewal to be authentically Catholic and to contribute in a significant way to the renewal of the Catholic Church, and, on the other hand, to do justice to the ecumenical character of the charismatic movement from its beginnings and to realize its major potential for Christian unity.
Both concerns have a fundamental legitimacy. From this angle, the tension is necessary.
In this article I suggest ways to maintain this tension so that neither tendency takes over from the other: either the unity concern becomes so dominant that the need for CCR as an identifiable expression of charismatic renewal is called into question, or the concern to be Catholic leads to an ignoring or playing down of its ecumenical character and potential.
Whereas the relationship between the Holy Spirit and the Word has been a central theme in Evangelical theology, especially since the rise of the charismatic movement, neither the Holy Spirit nor the Word of God were central themes in post-Reformation Catholic theology prior to the renewal currents of the 20th century.
However, this theological neglect should not be taken as an absence, because first and most importantly, the Holy Spirit and the Word were always more present in the official liturgies of the Catholic Church than they had been in the theology.
The Creed, generally the Nicene Creed, was recited every Sunday and major feast, and the annual feast of Pentecost was always a reminder of the role and the power of the Holy Spirit.
Then though the liturgy of the Western Church was in Latin through the centuries, the neglect of the Word, particularly through the period of the Counter-Reformation, when Catholics at best downplayed everything that the Protestants up-played, never led to its suppression or omission from the celebration of the Eucharist.

Published also in: Ecumenical Trends 39/11 (Dec. 2010), page 9 – 14
Christian unity is a theme that will always recur, whatever one’s attitude towards the official ecumenical movement.
I begin this paper by noting two major paradoxes concerning the Pentecostal and charismatic movements in relation to Christian unity.
The first flows from the character of revival movements. On the one hand, they induce a sense of believers being profoundly united by and in the Lord.
Those who have experienced the same transforming grace feel a deep spiritual affinity with one another.
This experienced unity "in the Spirit" has no doubt played a role in the emergence of the widespread Evangelical view of the invisible Church.

Published also in: Transformation 27/3 (July 2010), page 162 – 68
"The Renewal is nothing if it is not prophetic" (Raniero Cantalamessa).
The opposite of prophetic is domesticated.
I want to try and draw out some of the implications from the fact that Jesus is a Son of Israel.
In fact, the first words of the New Testament tell us about the human identity of Jesus: "The book of the genealogy of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham". (Matt. 1:1).
So our first reflection: why David and why Abraham. Why not Jacob?
I want to try and draw out some of the implications from the fact that Jesus is a Son of Israel.
In fact, the first words of the New Testament tell us about the human identity of Jesus: "The book of the genealogy of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham" (Matt. 1:1).
So our first reflection: why David and why Abraham. Why not Jacob?
I want to talk this morning about the >b>biblical covenants, in particular about the relationship between the old covenant and the new.
As you will know, for most of Christian history, it was believed that God has rejected the Jewish people, and so the old covenant had been abolished.
In this view, God made a new covenant with the Church that took the place of the covenant with Israel.
Deepest: Will and Prayer of Jesus that "they may be one" (John 17:11, 21)
Realization that Division is Sin.
Realization of Scandal of Division and Obstacle to Evangelization of the World (John 17:21, 23)
Causes:
  • Deepest: Will and Prayer of Jesus that “they may be one” (John 17:11,21)
  • Realization that Division is Sin
  • Realization of Scandal of Division and Obstacle to Evangelization of the World (John 17:21,23)

Phases:
  1. Protestant and Orthodox Beginnings (1910 – 1920)
  2. First Structuring and Catholic Pioneers (1921 – 1948)
  3. W.C.C. and Slow Catholic Progress (1948 – 1961)
  4. Vatican Two (1962 – 1965)
  5. W.C.C. partly off track? (1968 – 1998)
  6. Weaknesses in Official Ecumenism (1970s to 1990s)
  7. Recovery of spiritual ecumenism (1995 on)
As this meeting is sponsored by the Daniel group, who are committed to promote a Christian repentance in Hungary for past sins against the Jewish people, I will take it that the words "Christian repentance" in the title refer in particular to a repentance for the sins of Christian history.
It seems clear that it is the Christian treatment of the Jews and especially the horror of the Holocaust that has been nagging at the Christian conscience and pushing Christians towards a confession of the sins of the past.
I want to situate my challenge first in the framework of the wider ecumenical movement.
That is to ask how AIF relates to the ecumenical movement.
Does the history of AIF largely reflect the patterns of the wider ecumenical movement with its strengths and weaknesses or does it also challenge these patterns?
Here I have a kind of personal confession to make. As many of you know, I was a regular participant in the first meetings of AIF at Spode House.
In my sharing on Saturday, I mentioned how I moved from a phase of considerable involvement in "mainline ecumenism" to a phase of growing involvement in "Pentecostal-charismatic ecumenism".
All those who are gathered now in Jerusalem for this important gathering have come in a spirit of repentance, responding to the invitation to "Change the Future by Confronting the Past."
As the invitation states, "We are coming to Jerusalem as Christians gathered from the nations, to confess the arrogance and persecution that has so often characterised the relationship of the Church to the Jewish people, and to stand alongside the Jewish people as they remember the Holocaust."
In speaking about the Eucharist, I want to begin from Advent.
I love the season of Advent because I think it’s the only time of the year when you can talk about the second coming of the Lord in the Catholic Church without people thinking it’s a bit weird.
Whereas Scripture and Tradition is an instance of opposition, that of Word and Sacrament is perhaps more one of tension.
One obvious reason is that while it is possible to say Yes to Scripture and No to Tradition, it is much more difficult to say Yes to one and No to the other in regard to Word and Sacrament.
The issue of Scripture and Tradition has been one hotly contested topic between Evangelicals and Catholics.
It is important from the outset to see that there are many inter-related issues involved in this discussion.
It was the Second Vatican Council that brought the word "renewal" to the fore in Catholic terminology.
Vatican Two was called as a council of renewal.
Two different words were used to describe the purpose of the Council: the Italian word aggiornamento meaning updating, making relevant and the French word ressourcement meaning a going back to the sources.
As I read this book, I experienced a range of different thoughts and emotions: a gratitude for this interaction between church authority and the practitioners of healing ministry, an awareness of the spiritual and theological riches in our Catholic heritage, a sense of the extraordinary explosion of healing grace in the charismatic renewal.
In a word, I was aware of a remarkable interaction of the old and the new.
I am going to speak on the subject of repentance and reconciliation.
Repentance by Christians, by our churches for sins against the Jewish people and the reconciliation that it leads to between Jews and Gentiles, which itself has several levels of application.
At the beginning I want to make clear the difference between theological change and repentance. Both are needed!
The vision of Toward Jerusalem Council Two is very simple.
It is a vision for the coming together of the Jewish and Gentile elements in the one body of Messiah.
Earlier this year, TJCII published my booklet Toward Jerusalem Council II: The Vision and the Story.
The booklet has aroused some discussion, which is to be welcomed.
It became clear from this discussion that not enough attention was paid in the booklet to the concept of reconciliation, which is central to the original vision from which TJCII arose.
D’abord, il faut dire: cette présentation sera plus théologique que je n’avais pensé au commencement de ma préparation.
La raison: c’est que notre priere pour Israel est formée par le cadre théologique que nous avons recu, soit consciemment soit inconsciemment.
I want to begin by mentioning two major developments in the history of the Catholic Church in modern times.
  • The first is the remarkable change in our Catholic understanding, stemming from the decree Nostra Aetate of the Second Vatican Council.
  • The second is Pope John Paul II’s call for a confession of the sins of Catholics through the centuries, particularly sins against unity and sins of violence.
Both of these changes are epoch-making developments of a significance that it is hard to exaggerate. Both will take generations for the Church to penetrate fully their significance.
 
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