The Cause of the Canonisation of John Henry Cardinal Newman

The feast of the Presentation of the Lord Jesus in the Temple, also called Candlemas, falls on 2nd February. In the account of this episode in St. Luke’s Gospel (2:22-38), the ‘righteous and devout man’ Simeon says to the Blessed Virgin: ‘a sword will pierce your own soul too’. In the following meditation on the [...]

It is Mary’s prerogative to be the Morning Star, which heralds in the sun. She does not shine for herself, or from herself, but she is the reflection of her and our Redeemer, and she glorifies Him. When she appears in the darkness, we know that He is close at hand.
From a Meditation on the [...]

All we do in Church is done on a principle of reverence; it is done with the thought that we are in God’s presence.
From the sermon ‘Reverence in Worship’ (1836) Click here for the full text (leaves site)

This is Conscience; and, from the nature of the case, its very existence carries on our minds to a Being exterior to ourselves; for else whence did it come? … I say, without going on to the question what it says, and whether its particular dictates are always as clear and consistent as they might [...]

As far as, and wherever Love is wanting … Faith runs into excess or is perverted.
From the University sermon ‘Love the Safeguard of Faith against Superstition’ (1839) Click here for the full text (leaves site)

Love is the gentle, tranquil, satisfied acquiescence and adherence of the soul in the contemplation of God; not only a preference of God before all things, but a delight in Him because He is God, and because His commandments are good.
From the sermon ‘Faith and Love’ (1838) Click here for the full text (leaves site)

Nature and Grace, Reason and Revelation, come from the same Divine Author, whose works cannot contradict each other.
From The Idea of a University (1852) Click here for the table of contents (leaves site)

Great as St. Paul’s sin was in persecuting Christ’s followers, before his conversion, that sin was of a different kind; he was not transgressing, but obeying his conscience (however blinded it was); he was doing what he thought his duty, when he was arrested by the heavenly vision, which, when presented to him, he at [...]