John Henry Newman, Bl. Nunraw community Mass 8 October 2015

Blessed John Henry Newman beatified 19 September 19, 2010

Friday, 8 October 2015   

The Mission of My Life - John Henry Cardinal Newman

God has created me to do Him some definite service.He has committed some work to me
which He has not committed to another. 

 I have my mission. I may never know it in this life, but I shall be told it in the next. I am a link in a chain, a bond of connection between persons. He has not created me for naught. 

I shall do good;
I shall do His work.
I shall be an angel of peace,
a preacher of truth in my own place, while not intending it
if I do but keep His commandments.
Therefore, I will trust him, whatever I am,
I can never be thrown away.
If I am in sickness, my sickness may serve Him,
in perpelexity, my perplexity may serve Him.
If I am in sorrow, my sorrow may serve Him.
He does nothing in vain.
He knows what He is about.
He may take away my friends.
He may throw me among strangers.
He may make me feel desolate, make my spirits sink, hide my future from me.
Still, He knows what He is about.

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Blessed John Henry Newman was a priest, theologian, writer and preacher. His life spanned most of the 19th century. He was an Anglican for the first half of his life and became a Catholic in the second half. Born in London in 1801, Newman studied at Oxford's Trinity College, was a tutor at Oriel College and for 17 years vicar of the university church, St Mary the Virgin. He published eight volumes of Parochial and Plain Sermons as well as two novels. His poem, the Dream of Gerontius, was set to music by Sir Edward Elgar. After 1833, Newman was a prominent member of the Oxford Movement, which emphasized the Church's debt to the Church Fathers and challenged any tendency to consider truth as completely subjective. Historical research made Newman suspect that the Roman Catholic Church was in closest continuity with the Church that Jesus established. In 1845, he was received into full communion as a Catholic. Two years later he was ordained a Catholic priest in Rome and joined the Congregation of the Oratory, founded three centuries earlier by St Philip Neri. Returning to England, Newman founded Oratory houses in Birmingham and London and for seven years served as rector of the Catholic University of Ireland. Before Newman, Catholic theology tended to ignore history, preferring instead to draw deductions from first principles. After Newman, the lived experience of believers was recognized as a key part of theological reflection. Newman eventually wrote 40 books and 21,000 letters that survive. Most famous are his book-length Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine, On Consulting the Faithful in Matters of Doctrine, Apologia Pro Vita Sua (his spiritual autobiography up to 1864) and Essay on the Grammar of Assent. He accepted Vatican I's teaching on papal infallibility while noting its limits, which many people who favoured that definition were reluctant to do. When Newman was named a cardinal in 1879, he took as his motto 'Cor ad cor loquitur' (Heart speaks to heart). Newman died in 1890. He was buried in Rednal (near Birmingham) 11 years later. After his grave was exhumed in 2008, a new tomb was prepared at the Oratory church in Birmingham. Pope Benedict XVI beatified Newman on 19 September 19, 2010, at Crofton Park, near Birmingham. The Pope noted Newman's emphasis on the vital place of revealed religion in civilized society but also praised his pastoral zeal for the sick, the poor, the bereaved and those in prison.

Oscar Romera El Salvador hosting beatification of slain Archbishop Romero

          Oscar Romero

    Published on 16 May 2015

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Statement: Pax Christi celebrates Bishop Martyr Oscar Romero

Saturday, May 23, 2015 9:25 am.

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Pax Christi International rejoices with the beatification of Archbishop Oscar Arnulfo Romero and celebrates in solidarity with the people of El Salvador and the peoples of the world who recognize in Mgr Romero a witness of a peace which is the fruit of justice. Mgr Romero's legacy is the persistent search for truth, justice and reconciliation; his journey was marked by a unique coherence between his values and faith and his practice. While Mgr Romero was leading the Archdiocese of San Salvador, the political repression of the popular demands for justice and human rights reached brutal levels of violence. In facing that reality, he became a true prophet. His word and his pastoral practice - based in the Gospel - denounced the structural injustice at the roots of the repression and proclaimed the centrality of justice and the unconditional respect for human rights as the only way to leave behind the spiral of violence in which El Salvador was immersed. He tirelessly defended those whose rights were persistently violated and built bridges among those who looked for a just transformation of the conflict. But his voice was not heard by those who clung to their own power and interests, and they ordered his assassination while he was celebrating the Eucharist. The beginning of Pax Christi's commitment to peace in Latin America and the Caribbean is closely linked to Mgr Romero who asked the leadership of our movement early in 1980 to show special solidarity with the people of the region. After his assassination - and especially inspired by his evangelical coherence - Pax Christi International sent a mission to four countries of Central America as a sign of its solidarity with Christian communities and with civil society organizations working for justice and human rights in those countries. The mission also made an inquiry into the human rights situation and the position of the churches in Central America. Its findings were published in 1981 and 1982 in four reports dealing with the situation in El Salvador, Guatemala and Nicaragua and with the position of the Salvadoran refugees in Honduras. Prompted by the significance of Mgr Romero's life and witness, the United Nations General Assembly in 2010 proclaimed 24 March as the International Day for the Right to the Truth Concerning Gross Human Rights Violations and for the Dignity of Victims. In its decision, the Assembly honoured Mgr Romero's commitment in "denouncing violations of the human rights of the most vulnerable populations and defending the principles of protecting lives, promoting human dignity and opposition to all forms of violence." Pax Christi International considers Mgr Oscar Romero a prophet of justice and peace. He is an inspiration for our peace movement and we hope that his beatification will renew the courage of peace workers and human rights defenders - especially from younger generations - who endure threats, harassment, attacks, and death for their commitment in favor of those who are oppressed and whose voices are frequently ignored. Brussels, 23 May 2015    El Salvador hosting beatification of slain Archbishop Romero   By ANY CABRERA8 hours ago . View gallery . . . . SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (AP) — Huge crowds are expected at Saturday's ceremony to beatify Roman Catholic Archbishop Oscar Romero, who was cut down by an assassin's bullet 35 years ago and declared a martyr for his faith this year by Pope Francis. It is the first step toward possible canonization, although many of the 260,000-plus faithful anticipated to fill the capital's Savior of the World Plaza already credit him with miracles and refer to him as "Saint Romero of the Americas." In life, Romero was loved by the poor whom he made it his mission to defend and loathed by conservatives who considered him too close to left-leaning movements in the tumultuous years ahead of El Salvador's 1980-92 civil war. Romero was celebrating Mass in a cancer hospital chapel on March 24, 1980, when he was shot through the heart by a sniper who apparently fired from a car outside. The day before, Romero had delivered a strongly worded admonition to the U.S.-backed military to stop repressing civilians. The trigger man has never been identified, and nobody has ever been prosecuted for the killing. Alleged paramilitary death squad leader Roberto d'Aubuisson, who was named by a U.N. truth commission after the war's end as the mastermind of the assassination, died in 1992 having maintained his innocence to the end. Romero's beatification was held up for years by church politics until Pope Benedict XVI "unblocked" the case in late 2012, after it was determined he had not been an adherent of revolutionary liberation theology as many claimed. View gallery FILE - In this March 23, 1980, file photo, a nun plants a kiss on the forehead of slain Archbishop O … Saturday's ceremony constitutes official church approval of Romero's legacy, even if some conservatives in the Vatican and Salvadoran society still view his memory with distaste. The event was scheduled to begin with a procession from the cathedral in downtown San Salvador, where Romero's remains lie in a basement crypt, to the plaza 2.5 miles (4 kilometers) to the west. Cardinal Angelo Amato, the prefect of the Vatican's saint-making office, and the current archbishop of San Salvador, Luis Escobar Alas, planned to preside over a ceremony that would include a homily and a reading of the letter designating Romero as blessed. A huge stage was erected in recent days beneath the square's 60-foot-tall (18-meter-tall) monument depicting Christ atop a white pillar and blue globe. An urn there contains the shirt that Romero was wearing when he was shot. Officials closed off about 2 square miles (5 square kilometers) of streets nearby to accommodate the expected crush of pilgrims, many of them bused in from the countryside, and the hundreds of vendors selling commemorative T-shirts, key chains, bags, bracelets and coffee cups for $2 to $5 as well as copies of documentaries and movies inspired by Romero's life. Authorities set up 27 giant screens for the benefit of those far from the stage and deployed 3,700 police and soldiers to provide security. Hotels in the capital were at capacity, and officials predicted the event would generate $31 million in economic activity. Celebrations were also planned in Los Angeles, which is home to about 360,000 people of Salvadoran origin. Many of them arrived in the 1980s fleeing the Central American nation's civil war, in which at least 75,000 people died and 12,000 more disappeared.

Blessed John Henry Newman - in Nunraw's liturgical calendar

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Blessed John Henry Newman is one of the Christian thinkers of the last three centuries.
 Published on 3 Jun 2014





 This meditation is one of his most beautiful pieces I've ever read. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h9nHXMBnxSs
A Meditation by Blessed John Henry Newman

COMMENT:

In the diocese of Lancaster, on the bulletin of the local churches, his feast takes prominence over other memorials.

I am so very pleased that he has his place in Nunraw's liturgical calendar!

With my love in Our Lord,

William

Fw: 27th Thurs. Blessed John Henry Newman

On Thursday, 9 October 2014, 10:46, 

Nivard ....wrote:

www.dailyscripture.net, adapted Copyright © 2014 

Servants of the Word

27 Thu Oct 9: Lk 11:5-13

How much more will the heavenly Father give!

What can we expect from God, especially when we recognize that he does not owe us anything and that we do not deserve his grace and favour?

   The Lord is ever ready to give us not only what we need, but also much more than we can expect. He gives freely of his Holy Spirit that we may share in his life and joy.

   Let us approach our heavenly Father with confidence in his mercy and kindness?  

Father in heaven, you are merciful, gracious and kind. May I never doubt your love. May we never hesitate to ask you for the gifts, graces, that we need to live as your disciple, through Christ our Lord.

Blessed John Henry Newman

I first heard of Newman when I was a small boy in Donegal during the war. Our schoolmaster happened to be a fan of Newman’s.

From time to time, he would tell us little stories about Newman.

So I had a fair idea of the great man when I entered the novitiate in England after the war. I found that Newman and the Second Spring was all the buzz in most novitiates and seminaries in the English speaking world and beyond. Like St Augustine and St Bernard he declared that his aim was not merely to instruct but that it was to touch the hearts of his audience. Recent Popes were very fond of him.

His secret was his ‘Cor ad cor loquitur’, Heart speaks to heart.

Pope Benedict emphasized this theme on his visit to the UK, at Strawberry Hill with the Vigil, before the Bl. Sacrament and especially at the Beatification in Birmingham.

The Sacred Heart of Jesus is always speaking to our hearts.

We have only to open the door.

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Fw: Blessed JH Newman

On Thursday, 9 October 2014, 20:06, 

William ... wrote:

Dear Father Donald,

Last year when I was with you, you very kindly obtained Abbot Mark's agreement to the celebration of Blessed JH Newman's feast, and how much joy it gave me to celebrate it with you! In his transparent honesty in his search for the true faith, he gave us so much... his writings influenced my belief across the years, and when I introduced his writings to the RCIA they too were caught up in his faith's expression in absolute honesty.

In the diocese of Lancaster, on the bulletin of the local churches, his feast takes prominence over other memorials.

I am so very pleased that he has his place in Nunraw's liturgical calendar!

With my love in Our Lord,

William

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Hi, William,

Fr. Nivard had the Mass this morning.

It was special for the Mass only Blessed JH Newnman, not in our Ordo or Scottish Directory.

Has it been celebrated in Lancaster?

....... Donald

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Blessed Columba Marmion OSB Facebook 3rd October 2014

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"Oh, my dear child, I would wish to engrave on your heart in letters of gold this truth, that no matter how great our misery, we are infinitely rich in Jesus Christ, if we unite with Him, if we lean on Him, if we realize constantly by a firm living faith that all the value of our prayer, and of all that we do comes from His merits in us." -- Bl. Columba Marmion, 1896

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2000

HIGHLIGHTS

Beatified by Pope John Paul II

September 3, 2000 in Rome, Italy

along with:

Pope John XXIII, who died in 1963
Pope Pius IX, who died in 1878
Tommaso Reggio, Archbishop of Genoa, who died in 1901
William Chaminade, who died in 1850

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1909

HIGHLIGHTS

Elected the third Abbot of Maredsous Abbey

September 28, 1909 in Namur, Belgium

Received Abbatial blessing on the 3rd of October.
Placed at the head of a community of more than 100 monks, with a humanities college, a trade school and a farm to run.

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1899

HIGHLIGHTS

Helped to found Abbey of Mont César

1899 in Louvain, Belgium

Became the Abbey's first Prior. He was invested with heavy responsibilities: Director of Studies for the young monks; Professor of Theology; spiritual director of Carmelite nuns, all in addition to being Prior. He gave retreats in Belgium and the United Kingdom. He also became confessor to the future Cardinal Mercier.

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1891

HIGHLIGHTS

Solemnly professed Benedictine vows

February 10, 1891

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1886

HIGHLIGHTS

Received permission to enter novitiate at Maredsous Abbey

1886 in Namur, Belgium

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1882

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Appointed professor at the major seminary in Clonliffe

1882

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Appointed curate in Dundrum

1882

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1881

HIGHLIGHTS

Ordained a priest

June 16, 1881 in St. Agatha of the Goths, Rome, Italy

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