WHAT IS IT ABOUT TRUTH?

Holy Eucharist Apostolate ^ | Deacon Bill Crane

[mlizzy]

Today many people have trouble with the truth i.e. both with a little "t" and a capital "T." When it is spelled with a lower case "t," it represents the dictionary definition:
1. Conformity to fact or actuality.
2. A statement proven to be or accepted as true.

Spelled with a capital "T," it represents Jesus as He answered the Apostle Thomas in John 14:6, "I am the way, the truth and the life."

Modern atheists seem to be enjoying the limelight (no pun intended) especially in England as they attack Pope Benedict XVI for the beatification of the famous convert John Henry Cardinal Newman [this is an older newsletter; Newman was beatified Sept. 19, 2010].

Newman not only had "an eager longing" that his Protestant friends would "be partakers of" his "happiness," he also shared with them the truth and many did join him in the Catholic faith as did Mrs. Catherine Froude in 1857. One such sharing of the truth is a letter he wrote to Mrs. Froude on June 16, 1848, which could be a benchmark for such correspondence. He wrote:

I was thinking of you this morning, when I said Mass. Oh that you were safe in the true Fold. I think you will be one day. You will then have a blessedness of seeing God face to face. You will have the blessedness of finding, when you enter a Church, a Treasure Unutterable, the Presence of the Eternal Word Incarnate, the Wisdom of the Father who, even when He had done His work, would not leave us, but rejoices still to humble Himself by abiding in places on earth, for our sakes, while He reigns not the less on the right hand of God. To know too that you are in the communion of Saints, to know that you have cast your lot among all those Blessed Servants of God who are the choice fruit of His Passion, that you have their intercessions on high, that you may address them, and above all the Glorious Mother of God, what thoughts can be greater than these? And to feel yourself surrounded by all holy arms and defences, with the Sacraments week by week, with the Priests' Benedictions, with crucifixes and rosaries which have been blessed with holy water, with places or with acts to which Indulgences have been attached, and the "whole armor of God" -- and to know that, when you die, you will not be forgotten, that you will be followed with masses and prayers; to know in short that the Atonement of Christ is not a thing at a distance, or like the sun standing ever against us and separated off from us, but that we are surrounded by an atmosphere and are in a medium, through which His warmth and light flow in upon us on every side, what can one ask, what can one desire, more than that?

[mlizzy]

I thought this a beautiful letter from John Henry Cardinal Newman. There is little more beneficial in life IMO than getting to know Christ's blesseds and saints. And, I suppose many of us would also want to keep in mind ...

There is only one tragedy in the end, not to have been a saint. --Leon Bloy

[Salvation]

Some other gems from Blessed John Henry Cardinal Newman -- along with the news stories/threads from the recent beatification.

WHAT IS IT ABOUT TRUTH?
[Blessed] John Henry Newman and Music
Newman’s Faith
Cardinal Newman: Doctor of the Church? [Catholic Caucus]
Happiness in the Church of Rome
Said, as it is among us. [Blessed John Henry Newman]

The `father' of the Catholic -- Blessed John Henry Newman
Three Lessons from Newman
Blessed Cardinal Newman and the Jews
Beatification of Cardinal Newman: Pope's homily [Full Text]
Beatification of John Henry Newman, Cofton Park, Birmingham Homily of the Holy Father
The Birmingham Oratory [founded by John Henry Cardinal Newman]
Cardinal Newman and Oscott College
Newman spoke this evening in Hyde Park
Catholic officials to investigate claims of second Newman miracle
Cardinal Newman: The Victorian Celebrity Intellectual Who Brought Benedict to Britain

Beyond the Beatification of Cardinal Newman
Newman and the Miraculous Medal
Liberal Jesuits Found Newman Institute in Uppsala, Sweden
Commemorative Stamps Celebrate Pope's UK Visit And Newman Beatification [Catholic Caucus]
Why John Henry Newman converted to Catholicism
[CATHOLIC/ANGLICAN CAUCUS] Sun newspaper falsely alleges Cardinal Newman was a homosexual
Sorry, Professor Milbank, Newman was no ecumenist [Cardinal John Henry Newman]
Newman calls us to leave behind stale arguments
Newman & Preaching in the Byzantine Tradition
Pope's beatification of Cardinal Newman 'to take place at disused Longbridge plant'

Fighting For The Real Cardinal Newman
Saint Philip Neri: A Humble Priest {Sermon Excerpt from Ven. John Henry Newman [Catholic Caucus]
Pope Benedict "sanitising Newman"?
Newman's Biographer on His Subject's Orthodoxy and Sexuality
Why Cardinal Newman is No Saint
Pope to visit Queen, beatify Cardinal Newman during England visit
(Cardinal) Newman on Rites and Ceremonies
Deacon Cured Through Intervention of Cardinal Newman Preaches at Westminster Cathedral
John Henry Newman on "What Is a Gentleman?"
With His Daring Scheme for Anglicans, Benedict XVI Fulfills the Hopes of Cardinal Newman

Deacon discusses miracle healings in beatification cause of John Henry Newman [Catholic Caucus]
Pope Benedict Clears Way For Cardinal John Newman To Become First English Saint In 40 Years
Pope Benedict clears way for Cardinal John Newman to become first English saint in 40 years
Newman Beatification Expected
Biographer challenges Newman revisionists
Cardinal John Newman poised for beatification after ruling
Mystery of cardinal's missing bones Cardinal John Henry Newman Faithfully Celibate
No body (found) in exhumed (Cardinal John Henry) Newman's grave
Cardinal Newman Exhumation Fails to Produce Body
Mainstream Media Slammed for Libelling John Henry Newman as Homosexual

Catholic Officials Seek Permission to Exhume Cardinal Newman's Body
John Henry Cardinal Newman to be beatified
Happy Birthday Cardinal Newman, part 2
Happy Birthday Cardinal Newman, part 1
Newman on Conversion
Cardinal Newman 'to become saint very soon'
Cardinal Newman: sainted after US 'miracle'
Searching For Authority (A Methodist minister, Christopher Dixon finds himself surprised by Truth!) - from Cardinal Newman's writings
The Belief of Catholics concerning the Blessed Virgin: the Second Eve [Newman Reader]
Beatification soon for Cardinal Newman?

[ExtremeUnction]

Can you take me off this list? I find this subject tedious and not worthy of my time spent deleting it.

[ExtremeUnction]

Can you take me off this list? I find this subject tedious and not worthy of my time spent deleting it.

[mlizzy]

Were you pinged by someone?

[Salvation]

**Can you take me off this list? I find this subject tedious and not worthy of my time spent deleting it.**

You don’t want to learn how to be a saint? You don’t want to learn more about prayer?

[mlizzy]

These links are great, Salvation. I wonder what it’s like to be organized.:)

[mlizzy]

Love the following from Newman below. How long do you think the world would have survived if He [Jesus] had left us? Padre Pio answers, "It would be easier for the earth to carry on without the sun than without the Holy Mass."

You will have the blessedness of finding, when you enter a Church, a Treasure Unutterable, the Presence of the Eternal Word Incarnate, the Wisdom of the Father who, even when He had done His work, would not leave us, but rejoices still to humble Himself by abiding in places on earth, for our sakes, while He reigns not the less on the right hand of God. [emphasis: mine]

[Salvation]

You should see my house — the pilot system, you know what I mean of course! LOL!

[Melian]

The avoidance of harsh Truth is what is wrong with Christians and Americans today. There IS only one Truth and we have to have the courage to face it.