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JESU, MARIA—I am near to death, And Thou art calling me; I know it now. Not by the token of this faltering breath, This chill at heart, this dampness on my brow,— (Jesu, have mercy! Mary, pray for me!) ‘Tis this new feeling, never felt before, (Be with me, Lord, in my extremity!) That I am going, that I am no more. ‘Tis this strange innermost abandonment, (Lover of souls! great God! I look to Thee,) This emptying out of each constituent And natural force, by which I come to be.
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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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