How Do You Know Which Charism?

[Michele]

[quote name='vee8' date='28 May 2010 - 09:16 AM' timestamp='1275059794' post='2119696']
... Ive kind of taken the annoying neighbor approach. I forget where it is in the Bible but the story about the neighbor who has someone banging on the door in the middle of the night, he gets up to open the door out of the persistence of the caller and no other reason...[/quote]

that's an interesting bible story -

"Luke 11:5 And he said to them: Which of you shall have a friend, and shall go to him at midnight, and shall say to him: Friend, lend me three loaves, 6 Because a friend of mine is come off his journey to me, and I have not what to set before him. 7 And he from within should answer, and say: Trouble me not, the door is now shut, and my children are with me in bed; I cannot rise and give thee. 8 Yet if he shall continue knocking, I say to you, although he will not rise and give him, because he is his friend; yet, because of his importunity, he will rise, and give him as many as he needeth. 9 And I say to you, Ask, and it shall be given you: seek, and you shall find: knock, and it shall be opened to you. 10 For every one that asketh, receiveth; and he that seeketh, findeth; and to him that knocketh, it shall be opened." (DRBO)


i saw it on EWTN the other day:
"Friar John teaches his friends Renata, Timothy the mouse, and Leopold the frog about the value of praying with constancy. They also learn about the Parable of the Persistent Friend..." (that's the dvd's description of it - i'm not trying to sell it - i didn't buy it either - i just saw it on t.v.)