
Faith and Love, Maundy Thursday
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.
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.
St. John Henry reflects on the uniqueness of the soul of each human created by God, and on doctrine of judgment after death.
Newman warns against the danger of self-righteousness, and its converse: shunning religious practices that might lead to self-conceit.
A Guide to John Henry Newman will interest educated readers and professors alike, and serve as a text for college seminars for the purpose of studying Newman.
Review by Catherine Maybanks
(Catholic Herald, April 1, 2023)
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"A Guide to John Henry Newman" - a scholarly, accessible and interesting volume of essays
"God has created me to do Him some definite service. He has committed some work to me..."
Disunity, heresy, and schism are departures from, not privileges of, the Holy Spirit’s benignant flood over the whole world.
St. John Henry Newman explains how to live the paradox of Christian celebration - feasting with fear.
Science and Revelation agree in supposing that nature is governed by uniform and settled laws.
It is hard to think of Fr. José without also remembering his penetrating look, gentle smile, and love for the Church.
Mary models the perfect disciple who, simply, never stops following her Lord.
People in the world, even the well meaning, see the world and believe that this world they see and live in is all there is.
Newman describes the vocation of following Jesus as, being like him, leaven for the dough.