"Now for the first time she is raised to that pre-eminent throne of suffering." Murillo's Virgen Dolorosa – CC Wiki Commons. Some line breaks added below, with some headings taken from the original Table of Contents. FromThe Thirty YearsOur Lord’s Infancy & Hidden LifeFr Henry James Coleridge1885 Burns and Oates, London, 1915154-63 The change of …
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"Before the Blessed Mary could be Mother of God... she was set apart, sanctified, filled with grace, and made meet for the presence of the Eternal." Image: La Inmaculada Concepción, Francisco Rizzi, (Source: Wikimedia commons) Editors' Introduction The gospel of the third Sunday in Lent ends with the following verses: "And it came to pass, …
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"There was war between the woman and the Serpent. This is most emphatically fulfilled if she had nothing to do with sin" In honour of Our Lady on the great Feast of the Immaculate Conception, we present the "Memorandum on the Immaculate Conception" written by Cardinal Newman for his friend Robert Wilberforce, who was looking for something to help him deal with objections made against the doctrine of the Immaculate Conception by some Protestant friends.
"He brought from Rome what he found in Rome" The WM Review is pleased to publish a fascinating letter written by Bishop William Bernard Ullathorne, in defence of John Henry Newman’s writings on the Blessed Virgin Mary in his 1866 work Letter to Pusey. Ullathorne was the Bishop of Birmingham, the diocese in which Newman lived and ministered.