Newman Mass 2025: Feast Day of St. John Henry Newman

O my Lord Jesus, low as I am in Your all-holy sight, I am strong in You, strong through Your Immaculate Mother, through Your saints and thus I can do much for the Church, for the world, for all I love. Lead, Kindly Light, amid the encircling gloom, Lead me Thou on!
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Dear friends,
We are celebrating the Feast of St. John Henry Newman! Mass will be presided by our chaplain, Fr. Rob Allore, SJ. We will pray for St. John Henry Newman's intercession and for those who have gone before us in the Newman community.
Mass will be followed with a Friendsgiving reception at Plato's Cave. There will be refreshments and games! Please join us, get to know folks in both the St. Mark's community and the Newman community, and have a bit of a festive Friendsgiving!
St. John Henry Newman
Born in London in 1801, he was for over twenty years an Anglican clergyman and Fellow of Oriel College, Oxford. His studies of the early Church led him progressively towards Catholicism, and in 1845 he embraced “the one true fold of the Redeemer”. In 1847 he was ordained priest and went on to found the Oratory of St Philip Neri in England. He was a prolific and influential writer on a variety of subjects. In 1879 he was created Cardinal by Pope Leo XIII. Praised for his humility, unstinting care of souls and contributions to the intellectual life of the Church, he died in Birmingham on 11 August 1890.

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