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Screenshot https://digitalcollections.newmanstudies.org/ CNA Staff, Aug 29, 2020 / 04:00 am MT (CNA).- A team spread across three continents is using cutting-edge technology to shed new light on the figure of St. John Henry Newman. The project, overseen by the National Institute for Newman Studies (NINS) in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, is aiming to offer crystal-clear digital reproductions of more than a million pages of documents relating to the 19th-century English theologian. https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/technology-sheds-new-light-on-life-of-st-john-henry-newman-30078

Given their extraordinary depth of understanding, the exceptional quality of their orthodox theological works (eminens doctrina), the tremendous influence of their writings, and their proven sanctity (insignis vitae sanctitas) and intercession before God, is it not good and true that Saint John Henry Cardinal Newman and Saint John Paul II (Karol Karol Wojtyła) be acknowledged (Ecclesiae declaratio) as Doctors of the Church ? https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/polish-bishops-call-for-john-paul-ii-to-be-named-a-doctor-of-the-church-80686 In October of 2019, the Polish Catholic Bishops Conference formally petitioned Pope Francis to consider making Saint Pope John Paul II a Doctor of the Church in an official proclamation, in recognition of his contributions to theology, philosophy, and Catholic literature, as well as the formal documents (encyclicals, apostolic letters, bulls, motu proprio documents, homilies, and speeches) that he issued. https://www.ewtn.com/catholic...

The Reverend Father George Rutler at Crisis Magazine wrote: https://www.crisismagazine.com/2019/a-grammar-of-dissent An obligation attaches to the grammar that speaks heart to heart, however, and that duty consists in a simultaneous use of the brain. Sentiment detached from thought will lead down wayward paths. This “heart to heart” language—the cor ad cor of Saint Francis de Sales, which Bl. (now Saint) John Henry Cardinal Newman made his motto—is always clear. Newman described the process of attaining certitude in his “Grammar of Assent.” Few minds could match his, just as few could equal his wordcraft, and no one could be confused about what he thought or how he said it. That is not a mere coincidence. It’s thankworthy that Pope Francis will canonize Newman. Let it be a reminder to all that, no matter how nouns and adjectives and adverbs are employed, messy thinking is a Grammar of Dissent. Fr Rutler's essay invites us to investigate Newman's essay: http://ww...

On the eve of the canonization of Cardinal John Henry Newman https://anglicanorumcoetibussociety.blog/2019/10/12/on-the-eve-of-the-canonization-of-cardinal-john-henry-newman/ By Deborah Gyapong The day started with Divine Worship Mass at a chapel in the North American College with Bishop Steven Lopes. With him was a group of pilgrims and clergy from Our Lady of Walsingham, our cathedral parish in Houston. Nigel McBain, a seminarian from Australia, was the cantor and what a beautiful voice he has! It was great to meet all these folks. Msgr. Carl Reid had just arrived after a long flight from Australia. So, Nigel and Msgr. Carl and I went to the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith so they could get instructions and tickets, etc., for tomorrow’s canonization, then we went out to lunch. Read More: HERE John Henry Newman, a saint of the Anglican family by Christopher Mahon John Henry Newman, the world-renowned convert from Anglicanism and founder of...

Music to include: Opening Hymn: Come, ye thankful people, come (St. George) Introit: Cibavit eos (Mode II) Kyrie: Missa O Quam Gloriosum (Victoria) Gloria: Orbis Factor Credo: Merbecke Offertory: For The Beauty Of The Earth (Dix) Motet: Thou visitest the earth (Greene) Sanctus: Missa O Quam Gloriosum (Victoria) Motet: O Quam Gloriosum (Victoria) Communion Hymn: Fairest Lord Jesus (Crusader's Hymn)

http://www.newmanreader.org/works/rambler/consulting.html I see, then, in the Arian history a palmary example of a state of the Church, during which, in order to know the tradition of the Apostles, we must have recourse to the faithful; for I fairly own, that if I go to writers, since I must adjust the letter of Justin, Clement, and Hippolytus with the Nicene Doctors, I get confused; and what revives and re-instates me, as far as history goes, is the faith of the people . For I argue that, unless they had been catechised, as St. Hilary says, in the orthodox faith from the time of their baptism, they never could have had that horror, which they show, of the heterodox Arian doctrine. Their voice, then, is the voice of tradition; {214} and the instance comes to us with still greater emphasis, when we consider—1. that it occurs in the very beginning of the history of the " Ecclesia docens ," for there can scarcely be said to be any history of her teaching till the age ...

Priesthood Discourse 3. Men, not Angels, the Priests of the Gospel  (from the Newman Reader) [...] All good men are not Saints, my brethren—all converted souls do not become Saints. I will not promise, that, if you turn to God, you will reach that height of sanctity which the Saints have reached:—true; still, I am showing you that even the Saints are by nature no better than you; and so (much more) that the Priests, who have the charge of the faithful, whatever be their sanctity, are by nature no better than those whom they have to convert, whom they have to reform. It is God's special mercy towards you that we by nature are no other than you; it is His consideration and compassion for you that He has made us, who are your brethren, His legates and ministers of reconciliation. This is what the world cannot understand; not that it does not apprehend clearly enough that we are by nature of like passions with itself; but what it is so blind, so narrow-minded as no...

Brethren, in the days before our beloved Blessed John Henry Cardinal Newman is raised to the altar as Saint John, we might gather around a table of his writings and savour the clarity, depth and breadth of this master of the theological arts. And so a poem on (i.e., contra) liberalism. One could hope that the pious supporters of a certain synod might stray near Newman's writings and restore in themselves a preference for Catholicism. Laudetur Iesus Christus! 83. Liberalism {144} "Jehu destroyed Baal out of Israel. Howbeit from the sins of Jeroboam Jehu departed not from after them, to wit, the golden calves that were in Bethel, and that were in Dan." Ye cannot halve the Gospel of God's grace; Men of presumptuous heart! I know you well. Ye are of those who plan that we should dwell, Each in his tranquil home and holy place; Seeing the Word refines all natures rude, And tames the stirrings of the multitude. And ye have caught some echoes of...

Canonization of Newman to be Celebrated in Philadelphia 15 October 2019 Divine Worship Form of the Mass Darke: Communion Service in F https://musicanglicanorum.wordpress.com/2019/08/16/canonization-of-newman-to-be-celebrated-in-philadelphia-15-october/

Newman saw it: "this great apostasia". + + + http://www.newmanreader.org/works/addresses/file2.html 12 May 1879 Vi ringrazio, Monsignore, per la participazione che m'avete fatto dell'alto onore che il Santo Padre si degnato conferire sulla mia umile persona.... [I thank you, Monsignor, for informing me of the high honour the Holy Father has deigned to confer upon my humble person.] And, if I ask your permission to continue my address to you, not in your musical language, but in my own dear mother tongue, it is because in the latter I can better express my feelings on this most gracious announcement which you have brought to me than if I attempted what is above me. First of all then, I am led to speak of the wonder and profound gratitude which came upon me, and which is upon me still, at the condescension and love towards me of the Holy Father in singling me out for so immense an honour. It was a great surprise. Such an elevation had ne...

Catholic Herald Blessed John Henry Newman will be canonised on Sunday, October 13, the Vatican has announced. Additional Notices https://zenit.org/articles/just-announced-the-consistory-for-canonization-of-blessed-cardinal-newman-set-for-july-1/ http://press.vatican.va/content/salastampa/en/bollettino/pubblico/2019/07/01/190701c.html Ordinary Public Consistory for the Vote on Causes of Canonization, 01.07.2019 This morning, at 10.00, in the Clementine Hall of the Apostolic Palace, during the celebration of Terce, the Holy Father Francis held an Ordinary Public Consistory for the Canonization of the Blesseds: - John Henry Newman, cardinal of the Holy Roman Church, founder of the Oratory of Saint Philip Neri in England; - et al. During the Consistory, the Pope decreed that the Blesseds be inscribed in the Book of Saints on Sunday 13 October 2019.

Rembrandt van Rijn: Christ and St Mary Magdalene at the Tomb (1638) CHRIST IS RISEN! ALLELUIA! HE IS RISEN INDEED! ALLELUIA! ALLELUIA! Rembrandt (Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn) II, The Royal Collection, London http://rembrandt.louvre.fr/en/html/r12.html The day after the Crucifixion, Mary Magdalene found Christ’s tomb empty. Two angels spoke to her as she wept, and when she turned she saw a man she thought was a gardener. Rembrandt sticks closely to the passage in the Gospel of John, which poses the question of the risen Christ’s appearance, because Mary Magdalene recognizes neither his face nor his voice. The figure of Christ eludes understanding, and the rising sun symbolizes the dawn of a new era for mankind (Louvre). Witnesses of the Resurrection Blessed John Henry Newman Sermon XXII of Parochial and Plain Sermons https://www.catholiceducation.org/en/religion-and-philosophy/apologetics/witnesses-of-the-resurrection.html Why did not our Sa...

Fr. Ian Ker: In today’s secular world, where holding even basic Christian moral convictions is regarded as “extremist” and therefore by definition irrational, Newman is a powerful champion of the reasonableness of faith. Indeed, he is himself one of the great Christian apologists, who continued his defence of Christianity as a Catholic in his philosophical magnum opus, the Grammar of Assent . The canonisation is also significant in that it opens the way to the Church’s recognition of Newman the theologian as a “Doctor of the Church”. Often called “the Father of Vatican II”, he is surely the counterpart in the post-conciliar Church of St Robert Bellarmine, the Doctor par excellence of the Tridentine Church. https://catholicherald.co.uk/magazine/newman-should-be-the-next-doctor-of-the-church/ And this: https://aleteia.org/2019/02/21/cardinal-newman-could-be-declared-a-doctor-of-the-church-expert-says/ And, still more from a few years back, 2010 to be exact: h...

https://catholicherald.co.uk/news/2019/02/13/pope-signs-decree-recognising-second-newman-miracle/ Blessed John Henry Newman is headed for sainthood. Pope Francis on Tuesday authorised the Congregation for the Causes of Saints to issue a decree attributing a miracle to the intercession of the great 19th century convert. The move clears the final hurdle in the cause of Bl. John Henry Cardinal Newman’s Cause for canonisation. Is it too soon to ask... Saint John Henry Newman: pray for us.

https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/heart-speaks-to-heart-the-most-essential-reality-of-true-religion Dr. Peter Kwasniewski writes: When John Henry Newman chose for his Cardinal’s motto Cor ad cor loquitur ,“heart speaks to heart,” he was capturing in a phrase the most essential reality and medium of true religion: it is, before all else, a personal relationship in which everything is at stake. It is a total gift of oneself to the Lover of mankind. It is a question of friendship, not of doctrinal propositions, moral rules, liturgical customs, and so on. The one who loves accepts everything else – all of the propositions, rules, customs – without complaint, indeed with an infectious joy, because they are the expressions, tokens, and reminders of the one we love. We cannot dismiss or disdain these things without offending the beloved. The crisis of theology today, and, more broadly, the crisis in the Church, is due at root to the prevailing absence of the spirit o...

"Blessed John Henry Newman could be canonized as early as next year after a second miracle was approved, the Catholic Herald has learned." https://catholicherald.co.uk/news/2018/11/28/second-newman-miracle-confirmed/ While they're at it, perhaps they/the Holy Father will recognize him as a Doctor of the Church. https://www.ewtn.com/library/MARY/zcardnewmdoc.htm

The Catholic Herald has the following article: http://www.catholicherald.co.uk/commentandblogs/2018/07/27/what-is-it-actually-like-to-be-ordained-a-priest/ What is it actually like to be ordained a priest?  by Fr Michael Ward Fr Michael Ward shares his experience on being ordained as the Ordinariate's 100th priest (Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham) [...] We’re to be ordained within the Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham, whose patron is . . . Blessed John Henry Newman. Our Ordinary, Mgr Keith Newton, being a married man, isn’t technically a bishop, so he has arranged for Archbishop Bernard Longley of Birmingham to ordain us on his behalf. [...] A young oratorian hastens from a doorway, carrying what the archbishop has agreed to use. Like wildfire the news runs round: it’s Newman’s crozier! My heart lifts. Newman’s crozier. How often is a precious relic actually pressed into present-day use? But here is the very shepherd’s crook N...

Our desert with Christ begins. A series of Lenten sermons by Blessed John Henry Newman from the Newman Reader: http://www.newmanreader.org/works/parochial/volume7/sermon7.html Sermon 7. The Duty of Self-denial "Surely I have behaved and quieted myself, as a child that is weaned of his mother: my soul is even as a weaned child." Psalm cxxxi. 2. {86} SELF-DENIAL of some kind or other is involved, as is evident, in the very notion of renewal and holy obedience. To change our hearts is to learn to love things which we do not naturally love—to unlearn the love of this world; but this involves, of course, a thwarting of our natural wishes and tastes. To be righteous and obedient implies self-command; but to possess power we must have gained it; nor can we gain it without a vigorous struggle, a persevering warfare against ourselves. The very notion of being religious implies self-denial, because by nature we do not love religion. Self-denial, then, is a...