{"id":6955,"date":"2024-10-08T17:53:00","date_gmt":"2024-10-08T21:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fatherboniface.org\/wordpresshome\/?p=6955"},"modified":"2024-10-08T18:02:21","modified_gmt":"2024-10-08T22:02:21","slug":"st-john-henry-newman-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fatherboniface.org\/wordpresshome\/spiritual-practices\/st-john-henry-newman-5\/","title":{"rendered":"St John Henry Newman"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fatherboniface.org\/wordpresshome\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/oct9a.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"428\" height=\"429\" data-attachment-id=\"6956\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.fatherboniface.org\/wordpresshome\/spiritual-practices\/st-john-henry-newman-5\/attachment\/oct9a\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fatherboniface.org\/wordpresshome\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/oct9a.jpg?fit=428%2C429&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"428,429\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;surfer&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1728230225&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"oct9a\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fatherboniface.org\/wordpresshome\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/oct9a.jpg?fit=428%2C429&amp;ssl=1\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fatherboniface.org\/wordpresshome\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/oct9a.jpg?resize=428%2C429&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6956\" style=\"width:519px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fatherboniface.org\/wordpresshome\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/oct9a.jpg?w=428&amp;ssl=1 428w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fatherboniface.org\/wordpresshome\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/oct9a.jpg?resize=300%2C300&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fatherboniface.org\/wordpresshome\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/oct9a.jpg?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 428px) 100vw, 428px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>I shall do good, I shall do God\u2019s work; I shall be an angel of peace, a preacher of truth in my own place, while not intending it, if I do but keep His commandments and serve Him in my calling.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Dear Lord\u2026shine through me, and be so in me that every soul I come in contact with may feel Your presence in my soul\u2026Let me thus praise You in the way You love best, by shining on those around me.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>God knows what is my greatest happiness, but I do not. Thus God leads us by strange ways; we know He wills our happiness, but we neither know what our happiness is, nor the way.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>I will trust Him. Whatever, wherever I am, I can never be thrown away. If I am in sickness, my sickness may serve Him; in perplexity, my perplexity may serve Him; if I am in sorrow, my sorrow may serve Him. My sickness, or perplexity, or sorrow may be necessary causes of some great end, which is quite beyond us. He does nothing in vain.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">St John Henry Newman<\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I shall do good, I shall do God\u2019s work; I shall be an angel of peace, a preacher of truth in my own place, while not intending it, if I do but keep His commandments and serve Him in my calling. Dear Lord\u2026shine through me, and be so in me that every soul I come [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[44,15,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6955","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-saints-and-blesseds","category-spiritual-practices","category-spiritual-reflections"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7bfMR-1Ob","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5953,"url":"https:\/\/www.fatherboniface.org\/wordpresshome\/spiritual-practices\/heaven-my-true-home\/","url_meta":{"origin":6955,"position":0},"title":"Heaven my True Home","author":"monks4christ","date":"February 12, 2024","format":false,"excerpt":"I shall do everything for Heaven, my true home. 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