Recordings of Cardinal Newman's Poems: Recent Episodes
Cardinal John Henry Newman
A poem about heaven composed by John Henry Newman a year after the death of his sister Mary (1828).
Religion is more than just an abstraction, - it is a lived reality. There must be outward manifestations of our Christianity, John Henry Newman explains.
This is John Henry Newman's translation of Te lucis ante terminum, the hymn for compline in the Liturgy of the Hours.
John Henry Newman describes how the soul finds consolation from God in the face of sadness (desolation).