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Newman’s Sanctity: The Recent ‘Life’

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 August 2024

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Those of us who have heard Elgar's ‘Overture to the Dream of Gerontius’ will not have forgotten its awesome atmosphere of religious mystery. God is calling a Christ-dedicated soul home to complete union with himself; but first there must be a pilgrimage of purification, since only holiness can abide even the veiled presence of the All-Holy.

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Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © 1964 Provincial Council of the English Province of the Order of Preachers

References

1 Reviewed in this journal March 1963.

2 Conflict and Light (London 1952) p. 157 footnote 1.

3 S.T.Ia.2ae.68. 1 and 2.

4 cf. Conflict and Light p. 162.

5 Ascent of Mount Carmel I. XI, § 2.

6 Stanza XXVIII Spiritual Canticle (B).

7 Wiseman Review: Spring 1963.