Blessed John Henry Newman
October 9, 2012 3 Comments
Today is the Feast Day of the Blessed John Henry Newman (21 February 1801 – 11 August 1890), a man who spent the first half of his life as an Anglican and the second half as a Roman Catholic. Wikipedia has more on him here.
And a quote (or two… or more…) from him may be appropriate:
- It is often said that second thoughts are best. So they are in matters of judgment but not in matters of conscience.
- Calculation never made a hero.
- Let us act on what we have, since we have not what we wish.
- If we are intended for great ends, we are called to great hazards.
- If we insist on being as sure as is conceivable… we must be content to creep along the ground, and never soar.
About Fr Stephen Smuts
Newman will always be a great intellectual model for both High Church Anglicanism and Roman Catholicsm. Let us read him, as both an Anglican and Catholic. That surely was his life!
Fr Hunwicke is blogging again: http://liturgicalnotes.blogspot.de/2012/10/blessed-john-henry-newman.html
Thought it might be interesting…
(and thanks for your work, Fr Smuts!)
For this, let Heaven and Earth rejoice!