According to Newman, Love … is the seed of holiness, and grows into all excellences, not indeed destroying their peculiarities, but making them what they are.
St. John Henry Newman taught that faith is an act of reason enlightened by grace, and invited people to pray for those who do not believe in Christ.
No bad news can ruin us more than the Good News can save us.
Faith is a gift from God – He gives it, sustains it, and perfects it.
St John Henry Newman describes our loved ones as “additional friends in Heaven” whose help we receive because the risen Christ brings them to wherever we are.
Christ is our Peace and wishes us to be peacemakers. Let us pray many rosaries asking Our Lady of Fatima to obtain peace for Ukraine.
Lent offers us an opportunity to grow in the desire to become more like Christ.
For Newman, prayer is conversation with God, but it is a divine conversation, which prepares us for heaven.
We can learn about the synodal path from the friendship of St. John Henry Newman and Bl. Dominic Barberi.
We must have an active faith that can see through – not over, or around or in spite of our difficulties – to our final home.
