The Cause of the Canonisation of John Henry Cardinal Newman

Here’s our calendar for August. Why not download it to have as the wallpaper on your desktop? Each month there is a different picture, a calendar with the days and dates, and a quotation from Newman’s writings. Brighten up your desktop, and remember the Cause at the same time!
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In this 1838 sermon ‘The State of Salvation’, drawing on the Letter to the Ephesians, Newman emphasises the distinctiveness of the Christian life: in it, the baptised are brought into a completely new relationship with God, and granted ‘every spiritual blessing’ [Eph. 1: 3]:
“Put on the new nature, created after the likeness of God in [...]

The martyrs, the confessors of the Church, bishops, evangelists, doctors, preachers, monks, hermits, ascetical teachers,—have they not, one and all, as their histories show, lived on the very name of Jesus, as food, as medicine, as fragrance, as light, as life from the dead?
From the sermon ‘Waiting for Christ’ (1856) Click here for the full [...]

Let us … thank God that He has not put us into an evil world, or subjected us to a cruel master, but has given us a continual record of His own perfections in all that lies around us.
From the sermon ‘Present Blessings’ (1839) Click here for the full text (leaves site)

It is the widow and the fatherless, the infirm, the helpless, the devoted, bound together in prayer, who are the strength of the Church.
From the sermon ‘The Good Part of Mary’ (1834) Click here for the full text (leaves site)

To understand that we have souls, is to feel our separation from things visible, our independence of them, our distinct existence in ourselves, our individuality, our power of acting for ourselves this way or that way, our accountableness for what we do. These are the great truths which lie wrapped up indeed even in a [...]

The human mind … may be regarded from two principal points of view, as intellectual and as moral. … The perfection of the intellect is called ability and talent; the perfection of our moral nature is virtue. And it is our great misfortune here, and our trial, that, as things are found in the world, [...]

Men cannot believe their own time is an especially wicked time; for, with Scripture unstudied and hearts untrained in holiness, they have no standard to compare it with. They take warning from no troubles or perplexities, which rather carry them away to search out the earthly causes of them, and the possible remedies. They consider [...]