
Christ, Manifested in Remembrance
From the disciples’ experience of Pentecost we can learn to “profit by what every day and hour teaches us, as it flies.”
From the disciples’ experience of Pentecost we can learn to “profit by what every day and hour teaches us, as it flies.”
The flame of love that Christians possess comes from the Holy Spirit who was sent into the world after the Ascension of our Lord.
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.
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 must have an active faith that can see through – not over, or around or in spite of our difficulties – to our final home.
Knowing the difference between forgiveness and pardon will give us even greater resolve to change and atone for past sins.