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Re: Pope sends personal message to Pentecostals
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Originally Posted by Sean
A friend of mine has been there twice over the last 3 years and stayed for weeks. He is pentecostal like us and a former Catholic. He said he attended a large mass directed by the Pope. The throngs of people(hundreds of thousands), along with the atmosphere of ancient Rome, created a strange euphoria of excitement.(kinda like being at the Super Bowl) Did you feel that?
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Yes. People around me were weeping and it was very heartfelt. Two years ago when we were in Rome we avoided a Papal appearance at St. Peter's by an hour or two so we could avoid the crowds. These days they have metal detectors and long lines for the faithful to get into the area in front of St. Peter's for Papal appearances.
However under normal circumstances the line was not long at all to get into St. Peter's. We also took the semi-secret "excacations tour" that you have to book many months in advance and they only take about a dozen people at a time. You go under the foundation of St. Peter's to see amazing archelogical things including what the RC church believes are the bones of Peter in a box directly under the dome of St. Peter's. All of this was discovered around the WWII timeframe when they were excavating to bury a Pope and discovered these passages. I had goosebumps.
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"We did not wear uniforms. The lady workers dressed in the current fashions of the day, ...silks...satins...jewels or whatever they happened to possess. They were very smartly turned out, so that they made an impressive appearance on the streets where a large part of our work was conducted in the early years.
"It was not until long after, when former Holiness preachers had become part of us, that strict plainness of dress began to be taught.
"Although Entire Sanctification was preached at the beginning of the Movement, it was from a Wesleyan viewpoint, and had in it very little of the later Holiness Movement characteristics. Nothing was ever said about apparel, for everyone was so taken up with the Lord that mode of dress seemingly never occurred to any of us."
Quote from Ethel Goss (widow of 1st UPC Gen Supt. Howard Goss) book "The Winds of God"
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