John Henry Newman – Helper on the Way to Faith

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Faith opens up for us the mystery of Jesus Christ, the Word made flesh, the Saviour who wishes to call all men to Himself. The introduction to belief and the accompaniment of man on his journey of faith was something close to John Henry Newman’s heart throughout his multifaceted pastoral activities. The following quotations from his writings, above all from his sermons, may illustrate this.

Love, the One Thing Needful

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Charity, in its twofold reality as love of God and neighbour, is the summing up of the moral life of the believer. It has in God its source and its goal” (n. 50). The following excerpts are selected reflections from Newman’s sermons on the theme of love.

Newsletter 2008 – Newman and Rome

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Dr. Brigitte Maria Hoegemann FSO Long before the Anglo-Catholic Oxford don actually saw the city, its name must have resonated with John Henry Newman, evoking not just images of the ancient city, kingdom, republic and empire, its history of three thousand years, its rise and the fall, but also its huge claim to power and its unique culture of antiquity both pagan and Christian. …

Newman and the Question of the Church

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Sr. Kathleen Marie Dietz

Newman writes in his Apologia Pro Vita Sua that his reception into the Church was “like coming into port after a rough sea”. In this paper we would like to reflect a bit on that scene and would like to add to it one more image, namely that of a beacon light which helped Newman find that port.

“He is not past, He is present now.” – John Henry Newman on the Eucharist

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Sr. Brigitte Maria Hoegemann FSO

In his first term at Oxford, on Sunday, 30th November 1817, John Henry Newman walked for the first time to “the communion table” in Trinity Chapel, his college. He had not mentioned preparations for confirmation and first communion in the long weekly letters home and did not refer to the event in the one that he wrote a week later (13th, 21st, 28th Nov., and 8th Dec., see LD I 44-48). The entry in his diary simply reads: “made first communion” (LD I 48).