The Cause of the Canonisation of John Henry Cardinal Newman

Here’s our calendar for December. 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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Brothers! spare reasoning;—men have settled long / That ye are out of date, and they are wise / Use their own weapons; let your words be strong, / Your cry be loud, till each scared boaster flies; / Thus the Apostles tamed the pagan breast, / They argued not, but preach’d; and conscience did the [...]

Newman explains that Christian worship should prepare us on earth for meeting Christ our Judge. Only prayer, the sacraments, and profession of the whole mystery of faith can make us ready for that radically new life that awaits us in heaven

We too are looking out for Christ’s coming,—we are bid look out,—we are bid pray for it; and yet it is to be a time of judgment. It is to be the [...]

Ever since Christianity came into the world, it has been, in one sense, going out of it. It is so uncongenial to the human mind, it is so spiritual, and man is so earthly, it [...]

Our earthly life then gives promise of what it does not accomplish. It promises immortality, yet it is mortal; it contains life in death and eternity in time; and it attracts us by beginnings which [...]

Nothing can harm us, the Sons of God, while we remain in our Father’s house. Nothing can deprive us of our hope of heaven. But on the other hand how little we understand our privileges [...]

Men know what sin is, by experience. They do not know what holiness is; and they cannot obtain the knowledge of its secret pleasure, till they join themselves truly and heartily [...]