Encyclicals about the Holy Spirit,
​the Charisms and the Laity

Ecclesial Documents including Papal and Curial documents

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​DIVINUM ILLUD MUNUS — On the Holy Spirit
Pope Leo XIII (Encyclical on Holy Spirit:1897)

LUMEN GENTIUM — Light of the nations
​Lumen Gentium Vatican II: Dogmatic Constitution on the Church (1964) - Paragraph 12 is sometimes considered the "magna carta"  for Charismatic Renewal in the Catholic Church.

APOSTOLICAM ACTUOSITATEM — Vatican II Decree on the Apostolate of the Laity (1965) - Paragraph 3 of this document is a reiteration of that in Lumen Gentium.

DOMINUM ET VIVIFICANTEM — Pope John Paul II - Encylical: On the Holy Spirit in the life of the Church and the World (1986)

CHRISTIFIDELES LAICI — Apostolic Constitution: On the Vocation and Mission of the Lay Faithful in the Church and in the World (Pope John Paul II). See especially Paragraph 24 on charisms (1988)

NOVO MILLENNIO INEUNTE — The great Apostolic Letter of John Paul II to mark the completion of the Graeat Jubilee 2000 and an invitation and challenge to the whole Church to "go out into the deep" (2001)

IUVENESCIT ECCLESIA — The Church Regenerates regarding the relationship between hierarchical and charismatic gifts in the life and the mission of the Church has been sent to bishops (2016)