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Podcast about the life and words of Saint Cardinal John Henry Newman.
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Though the invitation is open to all, not everyone responds to it in faith. Those who accept the call, embrace Christ, and live according to His teachings; they are the chosen ones.
John Henry Newman calls the Holy Mass the Gospel Feast and takes us through numerous biblical passages that prefigure this great Sacrament.
Newman wrote, “I have been accustomed to consider the action of the creator on and in the created universe, as parallel in a certain sense to that of the soul upon the body.”
Newman wrote, “I have been accustomed to consider the action of the creator on and in the created universe, as parallel in a certain sense to that of the soul upon the body.”
For a Christian, death is no longer defeat nor something to fear, rather it is the sign of Christ’s victory.
For a Christian, death is no longer defeat nor something to fear, rather it is the sign of Christ’s victory.
Today, on Good Friday, we remember our Lord’s crucifixion, not as though it was a wrinkle in His otherwise peaceful earthly life, but rather as the focus and the pattern of His life.
In Fasting a Source of Trial, Newman reminds that we must not forget its main purpose: to unite ourselves with Christ.
St. John Henry Newman’s sermon “The Mental Sufferings of Our Lord in his Passion” is a moving description of the spiritual sufferings of Christ during his passion. This meditation can help us to enter into Our Lord’s feelings in the face of sin and evil.
We need to remember our mortality, so that we may be ready to meet Our Lord each and every day. Lent and lenten mortifications have a role in this preparation. We must die to self daily, so that we may be brought to the glory of His resurrection.
For forty days we are in ‘spiritual circuit training’, with the goal of joining St Peter on his morning run to Christ’s tomb.
But our Lord is clear: He said “to all” that “if any” man, and in doing so both offers Himself to every man and leaves no room for half-hearted disciples.
In this ingenious poem, “Candlemas,” Saint John Henry Newman weaves together the entire liturgical year using the theme of light as the thread
Newman approached his teaching from an obviously Christian anthropology. He saw every young person from the start as a being in the image of God.
Do we treat time, which is always slipping through our hands, as the precious resource it is?
Dominic abundantly shared with John Henry the gifts inspired by the Saints he admired, who
are recorded in his spiritual journal.
The first lines refer to Joseph being a Symbol, or typos, of Christ, the “Eternal Son.”
Let us join with all Christians in this Advent season, acknowledging the presence of Christ in the soul and wherever believers gather to pray.
Newman stresses that “The idea of a Christian, as set forth in Scripture, is something very definite.”
Aim at ‘seeing the King in His beauty’. All things that we see are but shadows to us and delusions, unless we enter into what they really mean.
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