This poem can help us on the Sunday that the Church honors Christ as Universal King showing us what type of king Jesus truly is: all-just and all-merciful.
We need times of private prayer to know what God wants for us and to exercise faith in his care for us.
Today we remember a Modern Day Father of the Church: Blessed John Henry Newman.
The faithful laity are called to exercise a prophetic defense against evil actions in the Church.
When Catholics seek the truth, and boldly defend it, trust in the Catholic Church and its bishops and priests will be restored. But the truth must be told clearly, in faithfulness to Christ.
Newman reminds us that we don’t want to make empty promises to God. Thus we must look at our hearts and actions every day.
God is a Triune God, Father and Son and Holy Spirit, and we come to know Him through Jesus Christ. Blessed Newman helps to go to the Father through the Son in the Spirit.
God the Holy Spirit is the source and life of the Catholic Church. He sustains it with its graces and gifts. And He gives supernatural life to men.
In this sermon preached at the University Church in Dublin John Henry Newman presents us with St. Paul’s humanity and charity as an example to follow.
It is fitting that church buildings are magnificent and beautiful because they are symbols of Jesus Christ who is the same yesterday and today and for ever.