"Consider what it is you mean by praying, and you will see that, at that very time that you are asking for the coming of His kingdom, you are anticipating that coming, and accomplishing the thing you fear."

This Advent sermon appears among a collection of sermons originally written and preached by St. John Henry Newman before his conversion to Catholicism. In it, Newman addresses the question: How are we to pray for Our Lord's coming, even as His Coming necessarily involves the end of our time for conversion?

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Shrinking from Christ's Coming Full text: http://www.newmanreader.org/works/parochial/volume5/sermon4.html

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