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Charismatic Renewal

What Is the Renewal?

The worldwide Catholic Charismatic Renewal is an invitation to recognize that New Testament life in the Holy Spirit can be a norm for every faithful Roman Catholic today. The experience of the first followers of Jesus was that they were empowered by God through the Holy Spirit to live a new kind of life. A life where God’s power worked in them and through them to bring God’s love and grace to all who would receive it.

The Presence of the Holy Spirit in our lives calls us to…

  • Union with the Pope, the successor of St. Peter, and our bishops
  • Fidelity to the seven Sacraments
  • A deeper appreciation of God’s Word
  • Operate in the gifts of the Holy Spirit for the building up of the Church
  • Evangelize by proclaiming His Good News in both words and actions

Featured: Bilingual Charismatic Mass (09/16)

Healing Testimonies

Praise Report:  In 2019 I was diagnosed with lung cancer. The doctors removed 1/3 of my right lung with no further treatment. Several months later there was another spot located on what remained of the same lung. In June 2020, four women from our diocese prayed for me in the parking lot of Saint Peter Claver. When I went back for my cat scan, that 2nd spot was gone.  Praise God!

~submitted by Nita Clarke

External Charismatic/Related Links

Diocesan Charismatic Renewal Commission

The Diocesan Charismatic Renewal Commission consists of both Catholic laity and clergy, appointed by the bishop, to collaborate in the service, mission, ministry, formation and advancement of the Catholic Charismatic Renewal under “CHARIS,” the Vatican’s Dicastery for the worldwide Charismatic Renewal. Charismatic Masses or Events are scheduled and celebrated throughout the diocese in various and inviting parishes on a quarterly basis. 

Rev. Charles Howell – Priest Moderator

  chowell@cdlex.org

Shelley Parkerson – Chair

sparkerson@cdlex.org

Rev. Damian Anumba – MSSCC 

danumba@cdlex.org

Dcn. Mark Averett

  maverett@cdlex.org

Carol Jackson 

cajackson@cdlex.org

Mike Logan 

lifenog@outlook.com

Jordan Luciano 

jordelano2898@gmail.com

 Albert Negron

anegron@gateprecast.com

 Dcn. Spencer Parrott

sparrott@cdlex.org