St.John Newman was born on 21 February 1801 in the City of London. Newman studied at Oxford's Trinity College and later served as the vicar of St. Mary the Virgin, the university church, for 17 years. He published several works, including eight volumes of Parochial and Plain Sermons and two novels, and his poem "Dream of Gerontius" was set to music by Sir Edward Elgar. Newman was an active member of the Oxford Movement, which emphasized the Church's debt to the Church Fathers and challenged any tendency to consider truth as completely subjective. He conducted extensive historical research, leading him to convert to Catholicism in 1845. Two years later, he was ordained as a Catholic priest in Rome and joined the Congregation of the Oratory, founded three centuries earlier by St. Philip Neri. After returning to England, Newman founded Oratory houses in Birmingham and London and served as rector of the Catholic University of Ireland for seven years. On 11 August 1890, he died of pneumonia at the Birmingham Oratory. His life's work continues to inspire those who seek to pursue their beliefs with dedication and purpose.
Prayer by 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.
Jonathan Fabian Ginunggil,
Most High Servant,
Jesus, Mary, Joseph Ministry of Love
(Blessed and Saints and the Nine Choirs of Angels)
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