2023/24 season
The next meeting of the Newman is on the 19th of October in Newman House.
The study topic for this season will be Newman’s Apology Pro Vita Sua, Penguin Classic publication. The introduction is by Ian Ker, world leading authority on Newman (deceased).
At the September meeting, the general background of the book was discussed. At the October (19th) meeting, we will look at the correspondence between Charles Kingsley and Newman which led Newman to produce the Apologia.
2022/23 season
Study book, Sept/Dec 2022 The Tamworth Reading Room by John Henry Newman
Meeting Study subject
15th September Introduction (chapter 1)
20th October Secular Knowledge and Moral Improvement (chapters 2 and 3)
17th November Secular Knowledge and Social Unity (chapters 4 and 5)
15th December Secular Knowledge and Personal Religion (chapters 6 and 7)
2021/22 season
Study book, Sept/Dec 2021 Realizations, Newman’s Own Selection of his Sermons, edited by Fr Vincent Ferrer Blehl
Meeting Study subject
16th September Sermons 11, “Subjection of the Reason and Feelings to the Revealed Word”
18th November Sermon 12, “Equanimity”
16th December Sermons 13 “Peace in Believing”
2022
Study Book, Jan/May 2022 Newman: The Heart of Holiness by Fr Roderick Strange.
Meeting Study subject
20th January Chapters I, 2 “Newman’s Journey”, “All that is, Seen and Unseen”
17th February Chapters 3, 4 “Watching for Christ”, “Life in Christ”
16th March Chapters 5, 6 “Christ in the Eucharist”, “At Prayer”
21st April Chapters 7, 8 “In Darkness”, Pastoral Ministry”
19th May Chapters 9, 10 “A Talent for Educating”, “An Apologia for our Times”
2019/20
January 2020 meeting
Our next meeting will take place on Wednesday 15th January at 6.30 pm in Newman House.
Important notice
For reasons outside our control, the meeting scheduled for the 18th Dec. has been deferred to the New Year.
Talk by Angelo Bottone
To mark the canonization of John Henry Newman, Dr Angelo Bottone, member of the Newman Society of Ireland and philosophy lecturer, will give a talk on “Newman as Saint” in the Central Catholic Library (74 Merrion Sq, Dublin 2) on Thursday 17th October at 1 pm.
Lecture by Ian Ker
In anticipation of John Henry Newman’s (founder of UCD) canonisation in Rome on 13th Oct 2019, UCD Chaplaincy is organising a public lecture by the leading internationally recognised Newman Scholar, Professor Ian Ker (Oxford University). This will take place in the George Moore Auditorium (O’Brien Science Wing) at 7 pm on Wednesday 9th October 2019. There will also be a panel of experts (Prof Daire Keogh, Deputy President DCU; Prof Kathleen Lynch, Prof Emerita UCD; and Joanna Siewierska, UCD SU President, to respond to Prof Ian’s paper and to stimulate audience participation. Panel discussion and audience participation will be compèred by Mick Peelo of RTE. Teresa
Iglesias, Professor Emerita UCD and Founding Director of the UCD International Centre for Newman Studies, will welcome and introduce Prof Ker.
The title of Ian Ker’s paper will be of general interest to educationalists, students and Newman scholars and devotees:
‘Useful or Useless? John Henry Newman’s Vision of Liberal Education Today’.
All are welcome. Light refreshments will be served.
Register for your free ticket here: https://bit.ly/2n1T3UU
2019-20 Season
During the forthcoming season the format of the monthly meetings will incorporate presentations of twenty minutes duration, by members who have agreed to speak about specific aspects of the life and teachings of Blessed John Henry Newman which are of particular interest to them.
The normal format of the meetings is as follows:
- Welcome followed by recitation of Newman’s reflection about trust in Divine Providence, and personal vocation
- Personal choice as agreed by a member at the preceeding meeting.
- Minutes and points arising.
- A poem by Newman chosen and presented by a member, as agreed at the preceeding meeting.
- Intercessions.
- Study Subject as agreed; or Presentation by a member regarding an aspect of the life and output of Blessed John Henry Newman, followed by a responding discussion.
- Newman in the Media; and elsewhere e.g. encountered in literary sources.
- Any other business.
- Plan for next meeting.
- Concluding prayer and blessing.
With regard to item 6 of the Agenda the subjects for the Season 2019-2020 are as follows:
2019
18th September Review of Cardinal Newman for Today – Liam Nolan
Introduction to Realizations – John Coughlan
16th October Sermon 1 “The Strictness of the Law of Christ”
20th November Sermon 2 “Obedience without Love, As Instanced in the Character of Balaam”
2020
15th January
19th February Sermon 3 “Love, the One Thing Needful”
18th March Sermons 4, 5 “The Ventures of Faith” & “The Weapons of Saints”
15th April Sermon 6 “Unreal Words”
20th May Sermon 7 “Remembrance of Past Mercies”
All the Sermons are from Fr. Vincent Blehl (edit.) Realizations: Newman’s Own Selection of His Sermons.
2018-19 Season
With regard to item 6 of the Agenda the subjects for the Season 2018-2019 are as follows:
19 September: Presentation by Dr Matthew Potter on Newman and Monsell.
17 October: Cardinal Newman for today; chapter 5: “The Flowering of Newman’s Theology of Tradition in the Second Vatican Council”.
14 November: Presentation by David Murnaghan on Newman and Luther.
19 December: Cardinal Newman for today; chapter 6: “In the Lists with the Doctrinal Liberals: the strategy and the struggle”.
2019
16 January: Presentation by Dr. Patrick Maume on Newman’s Letter to the Duke of Norfolk.
20 February: Cardinal Newman for today; chapter 7: “Fidelity to Conscience, the Way to Truth”.
20 March: To be confirmed.
17 April: To be confirmed.
15 May: To be confirmed.
2016-17 Season
The subjects for the Season 2016-2017 were as follows:
2016
21 September: “Love of Relations and Friends” (p.p.s . Volume II, no. 5).
19 October: “Newman and the Early Fathers of the Church”: a presentation by Noel Fitzpatrick.
16 November: “The Dream of Gerontius”: Part one.
21 December: “The Dream of Gerontius”: Part two ( lines 170-513).
2017
18 January: “The Dream of Gerontius” : Part two continued (line 514 i.e. “I see no more those false spirits” to the end i.e. line 900).
15 February: ‘Newman and Sacred Scriptures’ : a presentation by Teresa Iglesias.
15 March: “The Gospel of Joy“: a presentation by John Cogavin.
19 April: “Newman and Islam”: a presentation by Angelo Bottone.
17 May: ‘The month of May’ ( from ‘Meditations and devotions’).
The meetings take place on the third Wednesday of each month, beginning at 6.30 pm in Newman House, concluding by 8 pm.
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Thursday 2nd March at 1 P.M.
Cardinal Newman and the Novelist: The Study of Geraldine Penrose Fitzgerald, an Anglo-Irish Victorian Convert
Dr. Patrick Maume
Central Catholic Library
74 Merrion Square, Dublin 2
https://catholiclibrary.ie/
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2015-16 Season
During the 2015-16 season the Apologia pro Vita Sua was read, which we last studied during 2006-07. It was apportioned as follows:
2015
16 September: Chapter One (To 1833)
21 October: Chapter Two ( 1833 – 1839)
18 November: Chapter Three (1839 – 1841)
16 December: Chapter Four, Part One (1841 – 1845)
2016
20 January: Chapter Four, Part Two (1841 – 1845)
17 February: Chapter Five (Since 1845)
16 March: Appendix ‘Lying and Equivocation’
20 April: Appendix ‘Sermon on Widsom and Innocence’
18 May: Appendix ‘Liberalism’
The meetings take place on the third Wednesday of each month, beginning at 6.30 pm in Newman House, concluding by 8 pm.
2014-15 Season
During the past Season we have studied four more of Newman’s own selection of his Parochial and Plain Sermons. With regard to the discussion subjects the following is the plan for the forthcoming season:
17th September “The Greatness and Littleness of Human Life” (P.P.S. vol. 4 n. 14: October 23rd, 1836). Agenda
15th October “Waiting for Christ” (P.P.S. vol. 6 n. 17: December 6th, 1836).
From November through February 2015 the subject matter is to be The Tamworth Reading Room: letters published in the Times by Newman in 1841 under the pseudonym Catholicus.
19th November Letter 1 “Secular Knowledge in contrast with Religion”.
17th December Letter 2 “Secular Knowledge not the principle of Moral Improvement” and Letter 3 “Secular Knowledge not a direct means of Moral Improvement”.
21st January Letter 4 “Secular Knowledge not antecedent of Moral Improvement” and Letter 5 “Secular Knowledge not a principle of Social Unity”.
18th February Letter 6 “Secular Knowledge not a Principle of Action” and Letter 7 “Secular Knowledge without Personal Religion tends to Unbelief”.
From March through May 2015 we complete the study of the thirteen Parochial and Plain Sermons selected by Newman on behalf of a Wexford born priest Robert Whitty (1817-95)
18th March “Subjection of the Reason and Feelings to the Revealed World” (P.P.S. vol. 6 n. 18: December 13th, 1836).
15th April “Equanimity” (P.P.S. vol. 5 n. 5: December 22nd, 1839).
20th May “Peace in Believing” (P.P.S. vol. 6 n. 25: May 26th, 1839).
On Sunday 12th October 2014 a Mass with special reference to Blessed John Henry Newman, whose feast is 9th October, is scheduled to take place at 11.00 am in University Church St Stephen’s Green. A similar celebration is to take place on Sunday 22nd February 2015, the day after Newman’s birthday. On both occasions the Mass is to be followed by a meal at Buswells hotel.
