"Quotes of Cardinal Newman"

JOHN HENRY NEWMAN was born on February 21, 1801 in London. At Ealing School he underwent a spiritual conversion which set him on the road to perfection. After undergraduate study at Trinity College, Oxford, he was elected Fellow of Oriel College. Ordained in the Church of England, he became Vicar of St. Mary's Oxford, where his spiritual influence on his parishioners and the undergraduates was enormous. After 1833, he became leader of the spiritual renewal known as the Oxford Movement. His studies of the Fathers of the Church led him to the conclusion that the Roman Catholic Church was the "One Fold of Christ." After a long interior struggle he was received into the Catholic Church on October 9, 1845 by Blessed Dominic Barberi at Littlemore, where he had retired to live a semi-monastic life.

Ostracized by relatives and friends he was ordained a priest in Rome and returned to England to found, in Birmingham, the first Oratorian Congregation in England. This was followed by a second Oratorian House in London. In 1864, he published his Apologia pro Vita Sua, in which he vindicated his honesty in the Church of England and defended the Church of Rome. He worked tirelessly for the poor of his parish, and carried on an enormous correspondence, helping countless persons both Catholic and non-Catholic with their religious difficulties. He suffered much from the misunderstandings, suspicions and opposition of some ecclesiastical authorities.

In 1879 Pope Leo XIII made him a cardinal to the joy of all of England. At his death in 1890, it was said that he more than any other person had changed the attitude of non-Catholics to Catholics. From 15,000 to 20,000 persons lined the streets as his body was borne to Rednal, eight miles away, for peaceful burial. The Cork Examiner affirmed, "Cardinal Newman goes to his grave with the singular honour of being by all creeds and classes acknowledged as the just man made perfect." Pope John Paul declared him Venerable on January 22, 1991.

Prayer for the Beatification
of John Henry Cardinal Newman

God our Father, your servant John Henry Newman upheld the Faith by his teaching and example. May his loyalty to Christ and the Church, his love for the Immaculate Mother of God, and his compassion for the perplexed give guidance to the Christian people today. We beg you to grant the favours we ask through his intercession so that his holiness may be recognized by all and the Church may proclaim him a Saint. We ask this through Christ our Lord. Amen.

Venerable John Henry Newman, firm believer in God's personal providence over our life, intercede that we may find the shadow of God's mysterious, but loving hand in all the joyful and sorrowful events of our daily life.
Glory be to the Father. . .

Venerable John Henry Newman, lover of the poor and enemy of worldliness, pray that we may become poor in spirit, valuing the spiritual riches of heaven more than the passing possessions of our earthly life.
Glory be to the Father. . .

Venerable John Henry Newman, glory of the Anglican and Catholic Churches, intercede for the ecumenical union of all Christian Churches.
Glory be to the Father. . .

Venerable John Henry Newman, who always felt yourself in the presence of God, intercede that we may grow each day in prayerful union with our Heavenly Father. Glory be to the Father. . .

Venerable John Henry Newman, whose brilliance of intellect was combined with a striking humility, pray that we may refer all we are and all we accomplish, not to our own efforts, but to God's power and glory.
Glory be to the Father. . .