St. John Henry Newman - Mysteries in Religion: On the Ascension

About this episode

A powerful Ascension sermon from St. John Henry Newman emphasizing wonder, humility, and faith.

"I will attempt to suggest to you on the present Festival some of the incentives to wonder and awe, humility, implicit faith, and adoration, supplied by the Ascension of Christ." A powerful Ascension sermon from St. John Henry Newman's Anglican period. Links Mysteries in Religion full text: https://newmanreader.org/works/parochial/volume2/sermon18.html SUBSCRIBE to Catholic Culture Audiobooks https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/catholic-culture-audiobooks/id1482214268 SIGN UP for Catholic Culture's newsletter http://www.catholicculture.org/newsletter DONATE at http://www.catholicculture.org/donate/audio Theme music: "2 Part Invention", composed by Mark Christopher Brandt, performed by Thomas Mirus. ©️2019 Heart of the Lion Publishing Co./BMI. All rights reserved.

Topics covered

• Ascension
• Christianity
• Sermon
• Faith
• Humility
• Adoration

Keywords

• Ascension
• St. John Henry Newman
• Christian faith
• sermon
• religion
• spirituality

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Catholic Culture

Books & works: Mysteries in Religion

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