I dag, 9. oktober, minnes Kirken den hellige John Henry Newman, saligkåret i 1910 og helligkåret 1. november 2025. Les en grundig biografi om ham på katolsk.no. I dag leste vi i matutin-bønnen følgende tekst av ham , tatt fra Apologia Pro Vita Sua, Chapter V: Position of My Mind since 1845, London 1878. Den åpner slik:
From the time that I became a Catholic, of course I have no further history of my religious opinions to narrate. In saying this, I do not mean to say that my mind has been idle, or that I have given up thinking on theological subjects; but that I have had no variations to record, and have had no anxiety of heart whatever. I have been in perfect peace and contentment; I never have had one doubt. I was not conscious to myself, on my conversion, of any change, intellectual or moral, wrought in my mind. I was not conscious of firmer faith in the fundamental truths of revelation or of more self-command; I had not more fervor; but it was like coming into port after a rough sea; and my happiness on that score remains to this day without interruption.
Nor had I any trouble about receiving those additional articles, which are not found in the Anglican Creed. Some of them I believed already, but not any one of them was a trial to me. I made a profession of them upon my reception with the greatest ease, and I have the same ease in believing them now. … …