GLOSSOLALIA, CHARISM OF THE EARLY CHURCH
GLOSSOLALIA, CHARISM OF THE EARLY CHURCH

Summary/Abstract: As a linguistic phenomenon, glossolalia is found among several religious beliefs on earth, in different forms of manifestation. The Church calls it charism, but of the Holy Spirit received by the Holy Apostles and disciples, when they were gathered in prayer on the Jewish feast of Pentecost. The fulfilment of the Lord’s promise that he would send them a Comforter after His Ascension to heaven comes at that particular moment in the form of fire-like flames, filling them with the Holy Spirit, thus they were able to confess the Risen Christ, in front of the crowds of nations gathered in Jerusalem, so that everyone heard in their own language what the Apostles were saying. The Christian Pentecost represents the birth of the visible Church of Christ.

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