Caroline I noted you are involved with Alpha, are
you also involved with the Toronto Blessing and aware of the
following?
This is from an Australian publication.
judyt
TITLE: Toronto Blessing leads to
Rome
TEXT: An unbelievable exodus has been occuring from
Protestant Churches to the Roman Catholic Church. Seeing is believing -
here is
one
site where you can see ex-pastors from Protestant Churches as well as
sects making the shift.
These people believe that are returning or
converting to the ‘true faith’. The Catholic Church is boasting of the
many hundreds that are now ‘coming home’. Apostacy has taken a giant step.
Assemblies of God pastors who once ‘felt the presence of God’ at Toronto
are now
‘feeling the presence of Jesus’ in the
eucharist. They are reading into Scripture to support their new
beliefs just as they were before.
Rodney Howard
Browne brought Toronto to the Catholic Church in 1997.
According to a report on the November 1997, Charisma magazine, Rodney
Howard-Browne took his phenomenon to the Presentation Blessed Virgin Mary
Catholic Church in Philadelphia. More than 1,200 Catholics, many from far
distances, attended the meeting in August.
Charisma magazine noted that "Catholics laughed hysterically after
they were hit with what Howard-Browne refers to as 'the joy of the Holy
Ghost.'" Did the Holy Spirit convict them of error? No, Rodney H Browne
just gave them a laugh and increased converts to the Roman Catholic
Church. Alpha is also being hailed as bringing in more converts to the RCC
then in its recent history and there is a nice blend of charismania and
Mary worship in many parishes like
this
one: