Son of God: The Daily Gospel C-2

Son of God: The Daily Gospel B-1

The Sunday Gospel passages of the Lectionary follow a three-year cycle (A, B, C), in the third year (C) of which the Gospel of Saint Mark is generally read. This semi-continuous reading of Mark during the Sundays of Ordinary Time (Year C) is interrupted by the reading of passages from the other Gospels (such as John) during the special liturgical seasons of Advent, Christmastide, Lent and Easter. Occasionally the Gospel of John is read also during the Sundays of Ordinary...

This continuous reading is often interrupted by the Gospels of solemnities and feast days, and of course during the special liturgical seasons. For instance, the Gospel of St John is read throughout Easter, and is used during the special liturgical seasons of Advent, Christmastide and Lent where appropriate. The first reading and psalm of weekdays are arranged in a two-year cycle (1 and 2). In this book, the first readings and psalms for Year 1 are cited in the Scriptur...

The Sunday Gospel passages of the Lectionary follow a three-year cycle (A, B, C), in the second year (B) of which the Gospel of St Mark is read. This semi-continuous reading of Mark during the Sundays of Ordinary Time is interrupted by the reading of passages from the other Gospels (such as John) during the special liturgical seasons of Advent, Christmastide, Lent and Easter. The weekday Gospel passages are so arranged that portions of all four Gospels are read each yea...

The first reading and psalm of weekdays are arranged in a two-year cycle (I and II). In this book, the first readings and psalms for Year 2 are cited in the Scripture references listed before the Gospel passage. The thoughts on the Gospels in this book are for Sundays Year B and the weekdays and feast days throughout the year.

The Sunday Gospel passages of the Lectionary follow a three-year cycle (A, B, C), in the first year (A) of which the Gospel of Saint Matthew is generally read. This semi-continuous reading of Matthew during the Sundays of Ordinary Time (Year A) is interrupted by the reading of passages from the other Gospels (such as John) during the special liturgical seasons of Advent, Christmastide, Lent and Easter. Occasionally the Gospel of John is read also during the Sundays of Or...

The Sunday Gospel passages of the Lectionary follow a three-year cycle (A, B, C), in the first year (A) of which the Gospel of St Matthew is read. This semi-continuous reading of Matthew during the Sundays of Ordinary Time is interrupted by the reading of passages from the other Gospels (such as John) during the special liturgical seasons of Advent, Christmastide, Lent and Easter. The weekday Gospel passages are so arranged that portions of all four Gospels are read eac...

Nine of these sermons are from his later Evangelical years and were preached in St Clement’s Church Oxford, where the young Newman served as curate from July 1824 to March 1826. Although he was at St Clement’s for less than two years, he had a great impact on the parish, becoming widely respected as “a proper minister”. He visited every home (including, to his surprise, that of Fr Newsham, the Jesuit Catholic priest who had the small St Ignatius Catholic chapel there). H...

These sermons give both indirect and direct indications of his early views on the religious conscience, and they are among those Newman texts discussed in different chapters of the Part I ebook. With the exception of the last MS sermon, the copies of Newman’s sermons that now follow have been published in: Volume V of John Henry Newman Sermons 1824-1843. Sermons preached at St Clement’s Oxford, 1824-1826 and two charity sermons, 1827. Edited from previously unpublished ...

Overview During the two Enlightenment centuries prior to Newman, two themes were commonly emphasized – the sovereign value of the free individual, and “Reason” as the primary means of the individual’s moral and religious flourishing. Scientific demonstration was Reason’s benchmark. These themes were present within English philosophy, which especially dealt with knowledge and certainty. It was laid down that thinking in accord with the demands of “Reason” was the source ...

“When he listens to his conscience, the prudent man can hear God speaking”. (Catechism of the Catholic Church, III, I, ch.1, a.6, no.1777) “In like manner we have to ascertain the starting points for arriving at religious truth… To gain religious starting points, we must in a parallel way, interrogate our hearts, and (since it is a personal, individual matter,) our own hearts, interrogate our own consciences, interrogate, I will say, the God who dwells there. I think...