PRESS RELEASE
16 MARCH 2010, 12 noon
BEATIFICATION OF CARDINAL NEWMAN
BY POPE BENEDICT XVI CONFIRMED
The Fathers and many friends of the English Oratories are delighted by the official announcement that our Holy Father Pope Benedict XVI will beatify our founder, the Venerable John Henry Newman, in the Archdiocese of Birmingham during his visit to Britain in September. Newman made his home in the Archdiocese for all his adult life, first in Oxford, where he lived as an Anglican and was received into the Catholic Church, and later in Birmingham itself where he founded and worked in the Birmingham Oratory for over forty years.
The Holy Father's life-long devotion to Newman has made a profound contribution to understanding the depth and significance of our founder's legacy. His decision to beatify Newman in person confers a unique blessing upon the English Oratories and all who have drawn inspiration from Newman's life and work.
We joyfully look forward to welcoming the Holy Father, as well as the many pilgrims and visitors who will come to the Beatification ceremony and visit Newman's shrine at the Birmingham Oratory.
We also look forward to the challenging work of preparing for the Beatification in conjunction with Church and civil authorities. We pray that the Beatification will fittingly reflect both Newman's significance for the Universal Church and the honour paid to our Archdiocese and our country by the Holy Father's presence among us.
Very Rev. Richard Duffield
Provost of the Birmingham Oratory
and Actor of the Cause of John Henry Newman
1 comments:
Fr Phillips,
What a great pre-St Pat's present,
for this Anglo-Irish American,that
the date has been set,for the beatification of Venerable John
Cardinal Newman!
Cdl Newman w/be a Doctor of the
Church,someday. He was a eminent
theologian,pious priest and for
a greater role for the Laity,in
the Church.
Here is a prayer,attributed to
the Ven Cardinal,
Te Lucis Ante terminum
Now that the day light dies away,
By all Thy grace and love,
Thee,Maker of the world,we pray,
To watch our bed above.
Let dreams depart and phantoms fly,
The offspring of the night,
Keep us,like shrines,beneath Thine eye,
Pure in our foe's despite.
This grace on Thy redeem'd confer,
Father,Co-equal Son,
And Holy Ghost,the Comforter,
Eternal Three in One.
Venerable Cardinal Newman,Pray for us.
St Elizabeth Seton,Pray for Us.
Ven Ignatius Spencer,Pray for Us.
Best,Kevin Kelly,St Louis
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