Cardinal Newman's Lenten-Related Sermons

Ash Wednesday 2009.

I continue the custom this year of blogging these on Ash Wednesday.

Septuagesima

• Many Called, Few Chosen
• Present Blessings
• The Work of the Christian

Sexagesima

• Endurance, the Christian's Portion
• Affliction, a School of Comfort
• Saintliness not Forfeited by the Penitent
• St. Paul's Gift of Sympathy

Quinquagesima

• The Thought of God, the Stay of the Soul
• Love, the One Thing Needful
• The Power of the Will
• Our Lord's Last Supper and His First

Lent Generally

• Tears of Christ at the Grave of Lazarus
• Fasting a Source of Trial
• Life the Season of Repentance
• Apostolic Abstinence a Pattern for Christians
• Christ's Privations a Meditation for Christians
• Christ, the Son of God Made Man
• The Duty of Self-denial
• The Yoke of Christ
• Moses the Type of Christ
• Dangers to the Penitent
• Evangelical Sanctity the Perfection of Natural Virtue

First Sunday of Lent

• Fasting a Source of Trial

Second Sunday of Lent

• Life the Season of Repentance

Fifth Sunday of Lent

• Christ's Privations a Meditation for Christians
• Christ, the Son of God Made Man

Sixth Sunday of Lent

• The Incarnate Son, a Sufferer and Sacrifice
• The Cross of Christ the Measure of the World

Holy Week

• Religious Emotion
• Bodily Suffering
• The Humiliation of the Eternal Son
• The Crucifixion
• The Infinitude of the Divine Attributes
• Mental Sufferings of Our Lord in His Passion

(Note, the text for a given Sunday does not necessarily correspond to the text of modern lectionaries.)

(P.S. See also Cardinal Newman's Easter-Related Sermons.)

Lane Core Jr. CIW P — Wed. 02/25/09 07:31:39 AM
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