Meditations for Eight Days by Cardinal John Henry Newman
These Catholic Meditations were written in a way to teach a younger person to meditate.
Example:
Tuesday
St. Joseph
1. PLACE yourself in the presence of God, kneeling with your hands clasped.
2. Read slowly and devoutly
Psalm 14
3. Bring all you have read before you at once, as if you saw our Lord.
4. Then say to Him whatever comes into your mind to say; for instance:—
Joseph was pure and innocent in a way unlike any other man who ever lived, our Lord excepted. His soul was as white as snow. He had nothing whatever within his heart to make him ashamed, and he would have found it most difficult to find matter for confession. O Joseph, make me so blameless and irreproachable that I should not care though friends saw into my heart as perfectly as Jesus and Mary saw into thine. O gain me the grace of holy simplicity and affectionateness, so that I may love thee, Mary, and, above all, Jesus, as thou didst love Jesus and Mary.
Joseph was as humble as he was sinless. He never thought of himself, but always of the Infant Saviour, whom he carried in his arms. O holy Joseph, make me like thee in purity, simplicity, innocence and devotion.
5. Conclusion.—Jesus, mercy! Mary, Joseph, pray for me.
John Henry Newman was a Roman Catholic priest and cardinal who converted to Roman Catholicism from Anglicanism in October 1845. In early life, he was a major figure in the Oxford Movement to bring the Church of England back to its Catholic roots.
Eventually his studies in history persuaded him to become a Roman Catholic. Both before and after becoming a Roman Catholic, he wrote a number of influential books.
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