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)...
Read moreSince writing the earlier post this morning, there is news of a possible miraculous cure attributed to the intercession of Blessed John Henry Newman the the Archdiocese of Chicago has forwarded to the Congregation for the Causes of the Saints...
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In the Gospels we see how Jesus had compassion for the sick and cured them. The cures reveal his compassion as well as his divinity. In our times God continues to work miracles through the intercession of his saints. On June 6, 2000, Jack...
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Saint John Neumann and Blessed John Henry Newman Every year one or more friends kindly congratulate me on January 5th when the Church celebrates the liturgical memorial of St. John Neumann. They mistake his name, pronounced Newman here in the...
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Tonight we celebrate the Nativity of our Lord. “The Word was made flesh and dwelt among us.” The Incarnation is the great mystery that reveals God’s wonderful love for mankind. In this sermon from the Parochial and Plain Sermons...
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