The Cause of the Canonisation of John Henry Cardinal Newman

In this passage from his sermon for the first Sunday of Lent 1838, Newman asserts that Christian prayer has as its true aim deliverance from evil, but for this outcome we need to pray not just occasionally, but constantly:
This is another point which calls for distinct notice in the history of our Saviour’s fasting and [...]

We must love not only those who love us, but [also] those who hate us or injure us, that we may imitate Him, who not only was loving to His Mother, but even suffered Judas, the traitor, to kiss Him, and prayed for His murderers on the cross.
From Meditations and Devotions (1893) Click here for [...]

Father Paul Chavasse, Actor for the Cause for Canonisation of Cardinal Newman, and Provost of the Birmingham Oratory, will appear on the EWTN television network this Sunday, 1st March, offering a reflection for the first week of Lent. The broadcast will be repeated during the week.
In the London and Dublin time zone, the broadcast will [...]

The chief mystery of our holy faith is the humiliation of the Son of God to temptation and suffering.
From the sermon ‘The Humiliation of the Eternal Son’ (1835) Click here for the full text (leaves site)

Fasting is clearly a Christian duty, as our Saviour implies in His Sermon on the Mount. Now what is fasting but a refraining from what is lawful; not merely from what is sinful, but what is innocent?—from that bread which we might lawfully take and eat with thanksgiving, but which at certain times we do [...]

From the earliest times down to this day, these weeks before Easter have been set apart every year, for the particular remembrance and confession of our sins. From the first age downward, not a year has passed but Christians have been exhorted to reflect how far they have let go their birthright, as a preparation for their claiming the blessing. At Christmas we are born again with Christ…

Prayer and fasting have been called the wings of the soul, and they who neither fast nor pray, cannot follow Christ.
From the sermon ‘Rising with Christ’ (1836/7) Click here for the full text (leaves site)

To mark the anniversary of Cardinal Newman’s birth on 21st February 1801, the Vatican newspaper L’Osservatore Romano published two articles on aspects of Newman’s life and thought.
The first, by Father Hermann Geissler, an official at the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, and a member of the Spiritual Family of the Work, highlighted the [...]