The Spiritual Mind, Part 2 by Fr. Juan Vélez The Christian should act out of the good habit of loving God, rather than out of fear of sinning, even though the latter may at first play a part in his decisions. People often ask whether some...
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The Spiritual Mind, Part 1 by Fr. Juan Vélez Blessed Newman teaches that a Christian must examine the motives for his thoughts and actions, and must learn to master his heart, doing things for the right motive which is to obey God’s will...
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A Teenager, Mother Teresa and Cardinal Newman I saw the saint (Mother Teresa) on three occasions. No, not Mother Teresa of Avila, but another giant like her. The encounters if one could call them such were very short and also very powerful. The...
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Click here for additional Three Minutes with Newman recordings Secret Faults (Part 3) Most people rationalize their defects and sins and become used to them. John Henry Newman drew from his personal habit of self-examination to write about its...
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Click here for additional Three Minutes with Newman recordings Secret Faults (Part 2) No one will readily deny the importance of self-knowledge and accountability but why do so few examine themselves every day? In the sermon Secret Faults Newman...
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Click here for additional Three Minutes with Newman recordings Secret Faults, Part 1 It is no mere generality that our age is characterized by superficiality and constant noise, and that people do not know themselves. John Henry Newman began a...
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Christ Speaks to the Youth of the World Gathered in Krakow with a million and a half youth from all over the world Pope Francis told them that they were like the disciples at Pentecost. The disciples were fearful and as a result were paralyzed...
Read moreThe Saints adore each Person of the Blessed Trinity. And Cardinal Newman is no exception. In his Meditations and Devotions we read the prayer he addresses to the Holy Spirit: I ADORE Thee, O my Lord, the Third Person of the All-Blessed Trinity...
Read moreOn Pentecost the Church was born in Jerusalem. The Holy Spirit promised by Jesus descended on the apostles and disciples. Cardinal Newman reminds us that the Holy Spirit gives life to everything, and He turns “sinners into saints”...
Read moreBy Professor Barbara Wyman The term “sermon” has a different connotation today than it did throughout the Romantic and Victorian era. Today when we think “sermon”, what we’re really imagining is a homily, a term...
Read moreIn this sermon Newman criticizes the religion of the Pharisee or the religion of the day as being “often very beautiful on the surface, but worthless in God’s sight; good, as far as it goes, but worthless and hopeless, because it does...
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In the Fall 2015 issue of the Newman Studies Journal there is a review which I wrote on The ‘Making of Men’. The Idea and reality of Newman’s university in Oxford and Dublin, by Paul Shrimpton, Leominster (United Kingdom)...
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