John Henry Newman, Preist and Theologian, 1801-189

                                             

While I felt secure, I said,“You, 

Lord, are as strong as 

the mountains."              Psalm 30:7-8 

Then you hid your face, 

               and I was filled with fear. 

         
          John Henry Newman, along with John Keble and Edward Pusey, whom we also celebrate, were the founders of The Oxford Movement which began in 1833. Often seen as “high church,” it did advocate more liturgical practice "over the growing Protestant tendencies at work in the church of its day," but its goal was to restore the church to the heritage of the early Church Fathers.  In time it moved Newman right on over to the Roman Catholic Church….