
A Word in Season
St. John Henry Newman advises us to pray and discern the season to remain silent and the season to speak.
St. John Henry Newman advises us to pray and discern the season to remain silent and the season to speak.
The joy of Easter will make us bold witnesses to the miracle of God’s forgiveness, but love will spur us to learn more about the truth and to exhaust every means of becoming an effective evangelist.
When we have a duty to witness to Christ by speaking our opinion or correcting others, how can we do so prudently and humbly?
All Christians are called to witness to Christ. How do we witness wiithout making a show of our deeds and prayers? How can we be faithful and humble?
Why do some fall in the face of doubt while others persist? In Part 2 of this series we learn of the confidence that comes from inward belief.
We can know the truth, but how do we come to know it? Why do some find the truth and others don’t?
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)
What is a Classical Liberal Arts Education? Why is it so important for the development of a person?
Fr. Juan R. Vélez answers these and more questions you might have about University Education in the 21st century. This book is aimed for parents, prospective University students, and educators. It will help you discern why adding Liberal Arts electives to your education will help it form it better, and help the student learn to reason, and not just learn.
He also explains how many Universities have changed the true meaning of Liberal Arts, and the subjects, and gives advise on how to choose College Campus, Subjects, and Teachers.
A wonderful book that every parent should also read way before your children are College bound. A Liberal Arts education can start earlier in life, even from home.
Newman stresses that “The idea of a Christian, as set forth in Scripture, is something very definite.”
Aim at ‘seeing the King in His beauty’. All things that we see are but shadows to us and delusions, unless we enter into what they really mean.
“Beloved, do not be surprised at the fiery ordeal which comes upon you to prove you, as though something strange were happening to you.”
The Psalms, the "voice of the Church," invite us to enter into the sufferings of Christ and His people, and cling to God above all.
Applying Newman's theory, it seems clear that the notion that women's ordination to to the priesthood, would not maintain the type of the early Church.
In 1990, the International Theological Commission, issued a document titled "The Interpretation of Dogma" in which Newman's seven notes are endorsed.
The path forward for us personally and for the Church at large, requires returning to the core truths that Christ Himself has revealed to us.
We are made to be gifts to God and gifts to each other, body and soul; to go against God’s law, which is for our good, is to refuse the gift.
What does John Henry Newman mean by the words: "to live is to change, and to be perfect is to have changed often?"