Looking within ourselves for confidence in the state of our faith is a sure way to lose it.

A Christian’s “saving knowledge” is manifest in the witness of his life.

Cardinal Newman considers that Christ showed himself to a few witnesses after his resurrection as the best means to propagate the Gospel.

Now more than ever we are learning to love others, beginning with those closest to us.

Newman urges us to pray for others. In the face of Covid-19 we can unite ourselves to Christ in the Mass praying for the world, especially those suffering most.

In the face of the Covid 19 pandemia we must help the sick and take precautions not to fall ill and spread the illness. St. John Henry Newman reminds also of the need to pray to God.

Newman illustrates how God, who created an orderly universe, can choose how and when to alter His ordered creation, for our sake, literally “untuning the music of the spheres.