{"id":25816,"date":"2010-09-19T07:00:43","date_gmt":"2010-09-19T11:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2010\/09\/the-rite-of-beatification-of-j\/"},"modified":"2013-10-18T10:57:01","modified_gmt":"2013-10-18T14:57:01","slug":"the-rite-of-beatification-of-j","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2010\/09\/the-rite-of-beatification-of-j\/","title":{"rendered":"Rite of Beatification of John Henry Newman"},"content":{"rendered":"

Many Catholics and Christians of good will are genuinely interested in the formula the Church uses to beatify someone, thus identifying a person a “blessed.” Notice who does\/says what in the formula. The following is the rite (with a brief biography) used today by Pope Benedict XVI:<\/p>\n

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The Archbishop of Birmingham, the Most Reverend\u00a0Bernard Longley requests that the Venerable John Henry Cardinal Newman be\u00a0beatified<\/i><\/div>\n
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The Vice-Postulator of the Cause for the Canonisation of Cardinal\u00a0Newman reads a biography of the Venerable John Henry Cardinal Newman.<\/i><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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\"Bl<\/a>John\u00a0Henry Newman was born in London in 1801. He was for over twenty years an Anglican\u00a0clergyman and Fellow of Oriel College, Oxford. As a preacher, theologian and\u00a0leader of the Oxford Movement, he was a prominent figure in the Church of\u00a0England. His studies of the early Church drew him progressively towards full\u00a0communion with the Catholic Church. With his companions he withdrew to a life\u00a0of study and prayer at Littlemore outside Oxford where in 1845 Blessed Dominic\u00a0Barberi, a Passionist priest, received him into the Catholic Church.<\/p>\n

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In1847, he\u00a0was himself ordained priest in Rome and, encouraged by Blessed Pope Pius IX, went\u00a0on to found the Oratory of St Philip Neri in England. He was a prolific and
\ninfluential writer on a variety of subjects, including the development of Christian
\ndoctrine, faith and reason, the true nature of conscience, and university\u00a0education. In 1879 he was created Cardinal by Pope Leo XIII. Praised for his humility,\u00a0his life of prayer, his unstinting care of souls and contributions to the intellectual\u00a0life of the Church, he died in the Birmingham Oratory which he had founded on\u00a011 August 1890.<\/div>\n
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Declaration of Beatification<\/b><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Pope Benedict XVI:<\/div>\n
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Acceding to the request of\u00a0our Brother Bernard Longley, Archbishop of Birmingham, with the Congregation\u00a0for the Causes of Saints, by our apostolic authority we declare that the\u00a0venerable Servant of God John Henry, Cardinal, Newman, priest of the\u00a0Congregation of the Oratory, shall henceforth be invoked as Blessed and that\u00a0his feast shall be celebrated every year of the ninth of October, in the places\u00a0and according to the norms established by Church law.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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In the name oft he\u00a0Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.<\/p>\n
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Acclamation at the\u00a0Beatification<\/b><\/p>\n
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Praise to the Holiest in the height, and in the depth be praised:\u00a0in all his words most wonderful, most sure in all his ways.<\/i>\u00a0(Cardinal John\u00a0Henry Newman)<\/div>\n
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The Archbishop of Birmingham thanks the Holy Father:<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

\"Bernard<\/a><\/p>\n

Most Holy\u00a0Father, I, the Ordinary of Birmingham, give heartfelt thanks to your Holiness\u00a0for having today proclaimed Blessed Henry Newman.<\/div>\n
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+<\/strong>The Archbishop and the\u00a0Postulator of the cause of Blessed John Henry Newman receive the kiss of peace\u00a0from the Holy Father. Procession of reliquary including members of the Newman\u00a0family and the Oratorians, to greet the Holy Father.
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Many Catholics and Christians of good will are genuinely interested in the formula the Church uses to beatify someone, thus identifying a person a “blessed.” Notice who does\/says what in the formula. The following is the rite (with a brief biography) used today by Pope Benedict XVI: The Archbishop of Birmingham, the Most Reverend\u00a0Bernard Longley … Continue reading Rite of Beatification of John Henry Newman<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[2343,2523,32085,32102],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25816"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25816"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25816\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28892,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25816\/revisions\/28892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}