Speaking in tongues...is it holy?

Last I understood it, when the Apostles were "speaking in tongues" on Pentecost, it was they who spoke their (native) language, but yet: "every man heard them speak in his own language" and wondered: "how hear we every man in our own tongue, wherein we were born?"

So, what they spoke was all comprehensible. And, that was the phenomenon converted 3,000 that day!

Today, we have people who "speak in tongues" doing something that seems it be the inverse. They speak in a way that is completely incomprehensible to the hearer. What's going on here?

Have you ever witnessed this so called (modern day version of) "speaking in tongues"? Well, I have and I can tell you it is VERY, very disturbing!

The modern age has taken this over and the "Pentecostals" have the idea of "speaking in tongues." Rather, what they do is more formally known as: "Glossolalia".

Glossolalia (or speaking in tongues) is known as: the use of speech-like syllables that lack any readily comprehended meaning. Now, let's think about this for a minute as this is all very confusing.

We have people taking practices, which confuse language or speak in a way that is indiscernible and attributing it as "religious", as if it is some relation to the Apostles. Yet, the apostles spoke in a (Godly) way that made them totally understood. What these people do seems to have more in common with Babel (and the curse laid there) - it's like some kind of verbal wigi board.

It happen to me that a good friend of mine became, as he he says: "possessed by the holy spirit." I was happy for him and he was surely possessed; but I use lower case intentionally as I later became concerned that the "spirit" he became possessed by was not "Holy".

Anyway, the night he told me (someone he knows to be a convinced Catholic) about his "conversion", he started speaking to me in Hebrew. What? As an Italian and someone I know for a fact does not speak Hebrew, it was SO, SOOO strange to hear him speak in Hebrew. Then, he told me "I don't know how it stared and what it is all about, it just comes over me."

Needless to say, it freaked me out! Looking at him, I told him: "stop, stop" and I quickly left his presence. (note: this guy did the same thing to another mutual friend, who also told him "stop, stop" - because he too was freaked out!)

It is true that when people heard the apostles "speaking in tongues" originally, they questioned if the men were "drunk with wine". But, what my friend had and did was different. I later found out what he had was something known as: "Xenolalia" - that is defined in Wikipedia "when a person is able to speak or write a language he or she could not have acquired by natural means."

Where the devil is known to mimic and pervert God's miracles, it seems that Glossolalia is a perversion (the inverse) of the original Pentecost miracle (as too may be Xenolalia). When they received the Holy Ghost, the Apostles had a gift and kept if for their lifetime. That is, they gained an ability to speak their (native) language but yet be understood by others, as if speaking their mother tongue. This miracle helped spread of the faith! But, that gift died out with them as it was no longer needed. The faith had spread quickly. Later, we had courageous missionaries to go to far off lands and spread the faith.

Yet now, we have people (Pentecostals and Charismatic Christianity) engaging in what some believe to be a "religious practice" which is: speaking a language unknown to the speaker and often indiscernible to the hear - Glossolalia. It and Xenolalia seems to be a perversion of the original miracle of Pentecost. Perhaps it is such that the 7 Gifts of the Holy Ghost (including Knowledge) are needed to know what is right and Wise....

But, for the help it may be, I'll give one more anecdotal story, as told to me by a priest friend of ours.

The priest was called to go visit some people "speaking in tongues" and, where they were speaking Aramaic (which he didn't), he brought another priest friend with him (who did). Once in the room with these seemingly nice people, they started to speak (in tongues). And, the 2nd priest went white. The 2nd priest said the the 1st: "we've got to get out of here!"

The they got outside the 2nd prist told the 1st what was going on. The 1st priest went back and asked the people: "do you even know what you're saying when you do this?" To which they answered "no". Well, as the 2nd priest friend relayed, "well, you're blaspheming Christ and God in ways unheard of and of which you should be ashamed when you do this practice".

So, with that said, I wonder, how is that Pope "Francis invited some 300 Pentecostal and evangelical leaders to Rome to join an estimated 30,000 Catholic charismatics in celebrating Pentecost and marking the 50th anniversary of the Catholic charismatic renewal." (By way, did he invite the evangelicals to convert them, or to be converted by them...?) https://www.ncronline.org/news/vatican/one-spirit-catholics-pentecostals-celebrate-pentecost-pope#

It may all seem innocent enough or so nice in as an "outreach." But, WHAT HAS HAPPENED TO THE CATHOLIC CHURCH? https://motherfunnel.wixsite.com/novuscoca