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Newman on Lent: Meditations and Sermons
St. John Henry Newman, regarded as the most important English theologian of the nineteenth century, poignantly reflects on the thoughts that tormented Jesus as a result of His friends’ betrayals and the anguish of His Heart in willingly suffering all for love of us. These penetrating meditations will enable you to enter more deeply into our Savior’s Passion through multiple vantage points.
This work features three of Cardinal Newman’s most esteemed Meditations on Hope in God, Redeemer; Sermons on Lent; and Meditations on the Stations of the Cross. In these pages, he invites you to ponder the eternal value of suffering, God’s infinite love for each individual soul, the real reasons for fasting, and why you should repent now.
Through Newman’s magnificently insightful lens, you will discover the actual cause of Jesus’ death and, as you reflect on the magnitude of His sufferings for our sins, be stirred to more ardently seek holiness.
As Newman’s insights challenge you to examine your life more honestly and behold our Savior with deeper compassion, you
Identify more readily with the various players in the Passion
Learn the secret to receiving God’s healing mercy, in this life and the nextJourney with Our Lady in her loneliness and sufferingsUnite your trials, pain, and weakness to Christ, and thereby attain peaceExperience Jesus’ compassion as you endure temptation and even sinGrow in virtue and acceptance of suffering to help you attain HeavenAs Newman shares his innermost thoughts on the sufferings of Our Lord, you will be transported into the scenes and experience His Passion as never before, vividly witnessing His bodily and interior sufferings, and contemplating His Face and His Heart.
This work features three of Cardinal Newman’s most esteemed Meditations on Hope in God, Redeemer; Sermons on Lent; and Meditations on the Stations of the Cross. In these pages, he invites you to ponder the eternal value of suffering, God’s infinite love for each individual soul, the real reasons for fasting, and why you should repent now.
Through Newman’s magnificently insightful lens, you will discover the actual cause of Jesus’ death and, as you reflect on the magnitude of His sufferings for our sins, be stirred to more ardently seek holiness.
As Newman’s insights challenge you to examine your life more honestly and behold our Savior with deeper compassion, you
Identify more readily with the various players in the Passion
Learn the secret to receiving God’s healing mercy, in this life and the nextJourney with Our Lady in her loneliness and sufferingsUnite your trials, pain, and weakness to Christ, and thereby attain peaceExperience Jesus’ compassion as you endure temptation and even sinGrow in virtue and acceptance of suffering to help you attain HeavenAs Newman shares his innermost thoughts on the sufferings of Our Lord, you will be transported into the scenes and experience His Passion as never before, vividly witnessing His bodily and interior sufferings, and contemplating His Face and His Heart.
160 pages, Paperback
Published January 21, 2025
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March 31, 2025
I am reading one medication each day for Lent. These excerpts from Newman sermons hit home for me. Are excellent reflections for Lent.
April 9, 2025
St. John Henry Newman’s meditations and sermons on lent have been a very fruitful read for this season. I wish I could have listened to one of his homilies in person! His words are so convicting, and truly force one to examen their conscience and “repent and believe in the Gospel.” He is also an ardent advocate for reverence, and the construction of his words are a beautiful example of how to speak of our Lord in a holy way.
St. JHN provides profound reflections on various topics such as suffering, fasting, the Trinity, the incarnation, penance, prayer, and more. He does an excellent job illustrating how Jesus’s incarnation is a means by which our works and efforts are sanctified. “He has blessed fasting as a means of grace, in that He has fasted; and fasting is only acceptable when it is done for His sake.”
I highly recommend reading any of St. JHN’s sermons if you are looking for resources for discursive meditation! I use this website to obtain copies of his work: https://www.newmanreader.org/guides/s...
St. John Henry Newman, pray for us!
St. JHN provides profound reflections on various topics such as suffering, fasting, the Trinity, the incarnation, penance, prayer, and more. He does an excellent job illustrating how Jesus’s incarnation is a means by which our works and efforts are sanctified. “He has blessed fasting as a means of grace, in that He has fasted; and fasting is only acceptable when it is done for His sake.”
I highly recommend reading any of St. JHN’s sermons if you are looking for resources for discursive meditation! I use this website to obtain copies of his work: https://www.newmanreader.org/guides/s...
St. John Henry Newman, pray for us!
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