John Henry Newman on Worship, Reverence, & Ritual: A Selection of Texts Cover:Paperback flights of fancy

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and moral aspects of canonization

with groans and tears to the Lord in heaven

John Henry Newman on Worship, Reverence, & Ritual: A Selection of Texts Cover:Paperback flights of fancyThe life and thought of John Henry Newman were permeated with the ceremonies and hallowed texts of Christian liturgies, which he celebrated for over six decades, starting as an Anglican deacon in 1824 and ending as a Cardinal of the Holy Roman Church. It comes as no surprise that allusions to liturgical worship are ubiquitous in his writings. The ordinances of the Church, her rich panoply of rites handed down through the centuries, are, for Newman,