Excellent post!
St. Paul never actually defines speaking in tongues. But he does write about speaking in the “tongue of angels.” Now, when an angel speaking to a person, they are understood by the person they are speaking to; THIS is the “tongue of angels” the person who is listening understands the angel in their own language.
This is DEMONSTRATED in chapter 2 of the Acts of the Apostles when those who are gathered understand what St. Peter is saying to them. This is the gift of tongues, it is when the Holy Spirit reverses the barriers put up at the the Tower of Babel, this was necessary to spread the Gospel. The notion that we need to “speak in tongues” to pray to God is simply absurd and totally unsubstantiated in Scripture.
Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
what a fascinating set of ASSUMPTIONS.
. . . yet again . . . evidently from gross inexperience.
I suspect the dear Brothers at the
Pecos, NM retreat center would differ with those assumptions.