Newman Newsletter 2017

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Dear Newman Friends,

We send you our heartfelt greetings and best wishes.

In this year of 2017, the Church commemorates the 100th anni­versary of the apparitions of Our Lady in Fatima where the Mother of God exhibited the love of her Immaculate Heart and invited the faithful to pray for peace and for the eternal salvation of souls.

Moses the Type of Christ

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deserto“The Lord thy God will raise up unto thee
a Prophet from the midst of thee, of thy brethren, like unto me;
unto Him ye shall harken.”
Deut. 18:15.
The history of Moses is valuable to Christians, not only as giving us a pattern of fidelity towards God, of great firmness, and great meekness, but also as affording us a type or figure of our Saviour Christ.

Encouragement for the Season of Lent

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newmans-desk_640_x_480 Let us pray Him to bless what we venture for Him, that we may not only labour, but may receive our wages, and gather fruit unto life eternal. This world is a very little thing to give up for the next.

Apostolic Abstinence a Pattern for Christians

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(Lent)

“Drink no longer water,
but use a little wine for thy stomach’s sake,
and thine often infirmities.”

1 Tim. 5:23.

 

This is a remarkable verse, because it accidentally tells us so much. It is addressed to Timothy, St. Paul’s companion, the first Bishop of Ephesus. Of Timothy we know very little, except that he did minister to St. Paul, and hence we might have inferred that he was a man of very saintly character;