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VII
Iter Apostolicum Summi Pontificis in Regnum Unitum: Londinii, in Vigilia
precationum ob beatificationem Cardinalis Ioannis Henrici Newman, in Hyde
Park habita.*
My Brothers and Sisters in Christ,
This is an evening of joy, of immense spiritual joy, for all of us. We are
gathered here in prayerful vigil to prepare for tomorrow's Mass, during which
a great son of this nation, Cardinal John Henry Newman, will be declared
Blessed. How many people, in England and throughout the world, have
longed for this moment! It is also a great joy for me, personally, to share
this experience with you. As you know, Newman has long been an important
influence in my own life and thought, as he has been for so many people
beyond these isles. The drama of Newman's life invites us to examine our
lives, to see them against the vast horizon of God's plan, and to grow in
communion with the Church of every time and place: the Church of the
apostles, the Church of the martyrs, the Church of the saints, the Church
which Newman loved and to whose mission he devoted his entire life.
I thank Archbishop Peter Smith for his kind words of welcome in your
name, and I am especially pleased to see the many young people who are
present for this vigil. This evening, in the context of our common prayer, I
would like to reflect with you about a few aspects of Newman's life which I
consider very relevant to our lives as believers and to the life of the Church
today.
Let me begin by recalling that Newman, by his own account, traced the
course of his whole life back to a powerful experience of conversion which he
had as a young man. It was an immediate experience of the truth of God's
word, of the objective reality of Christian revelation as handed down in the
Church. This experience, at once religious and intellectual, would inspire his
vocation to be a minister of the Gospel, his discernment of the source of
authoritative teaching in the Church of God, and his zeal for the renewal
of ecclesial life in fidelity to the apostolic tradition. At the end of his life,
Newman would describe his life's work as a struggle against the growing
tendency to view religion as a purely private and subjective matter, a ques-
* Die 18 Septembris 2010.