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On Blessed john Henry Newman's love for mary
"He Lived His Priestly Ministry in a
Spirit of Filial Devotion"
Angelus Address
H.H. Benedict XVI
September 19, 2010
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Brothers and Sisters in Jesus Christ,
I am pleased to send my greetings to the
people of Seville where, just yesterday,
Madre María de la Purísima de la Cruz was
beatified. May Blessed María be an
inspiration to young women to follow her
example of single-minded love of God and
neighbour.
When Blessed John Henry Newman came to live
in Birmingham, he gave the name "Maryvale"
to his first home here. The Oratory that he
founded is dedicated to the Immaculate
Conception of the Blessed Virgin. And the
Catholic University of Ireland he placed
under the patronage of Mary, Sedes
Sapientiae. In so many ways, he lived his
priestly ministry in a spirit of filial
devotion to the Mother of God. Meditating
upon her role in the unfolding of God's plan
for our salvation, he was moved to exclaim:
"Who can estimate the holiness and
perfection of her, who was chosen to be the
Mother of Christ? What must have been her
gifts, who was chosen to be the only near
earthly relative of the Son of God, the only
one whom He was bound by nature to revere
and look up to; the one appointed to train
and educate Him, to instruct Him day by day,
as He grew in wisdom and in stature?"
(Parochial and Plain Sermons, ii, 131-2). It
is on account of those abundant gifts of
grace that we honour her, and it is on
account of that intimacy with her divine Son
that we naturally seek her intercession for
our own needs and the needs of the whole
world. In the words of the Angelus, we turn
now to our Blessed Mother and commend to her
the intentions that we hold in our hearts.
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