{"id":5296,"date":"2022-11-15T01:00:16","date_gmt":"2022-11-15T00:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=5296"},"modified":"2022-11-11T22:22:37","modified_gmt":"2022-11-11T21:22:37","slug":"in-england-conversions-are-increasing-in-an-astonishing-progression","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=5296","title":{"rendered":"IN ENGLAND CONVERSIONS ARE INCREASING IN AN ASTONISHING PROGRESSION"},"content":{"rendered":"

“Here below to live is to change and to be perfect is to have changed often.” (St. John Henry Newman)<\/span><\/em><\/h3>\n

Eugene’s diary entry refers to a meeting in England between Oblate Father Fr\u00e9d\u00e8ric Perron and John Henry Newman (1801-1890), the English theologian, who entered the Catholic Church in 1845, was made a cardinal in 1878 and canonized in 2019.<\/h3>\n

Michael Hughes writes: “Eugene de Mazenod had the highest regard for Newman, whom he met on his first visit to Britain in 1850. A man of universal influence, Newman\u2019s life touched that of the Oblates at a number of points, most profoundly in the part he played in inspiring the \u2018Second Spring\u2019 of English Catholicism which was a chief factor motivating the Founder to open an English mission.”<\/h3>\n

In England conversions are increasing in an astonishing progression. In the month of December, fifty Anglican ministers abjured. Fr. Perron dined at Mr. Phillipps with Doctor Newman and five other converted ministers. He himself received several abjurations and prepared others of them.<\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n

Eugene de Mazenod\u2019s Diary, 22 January 1846, EO XXI<\/em><\/h3>\n

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Hughes continues: “Meanwhile in 1849, to Eugene\u2019s confessed astonishment, the Oblates had succeeded Newman\u2019s Oratorians and taken possession of Maryvale as their house of formation in England. Cooke relates how in 1851 Newman received into the Catholic Church in Leeds a group of Anglican clergy and laity that included two future Oblates: George Lloyd Crawley and John Atkinson.” (https:\/\/www.omiworld.org\/lemma\/newman-john-henry1801-1890-cardinal-deacon-st-george-velabro-venerable\/<\/a>)<\/h3>\n

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“Here below to live is to change and to be perfect is to have changed often.” (St. John Henry Newman) Eugene’s diary entry refers to a meeting in England between Oblate Father Fr\u00e9d\u00e8ric Perron and John Henry Newman (1801-1890), the … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5296"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5296\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}