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St. John Henry Newman’s Vision of Everyday Holiness
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St. John Henry Newman’s Vision of Everyday Holiness

If our charge as Christians is to be holy in all that we do, what does this way of life look like in today’s world? This question is not easily answered simply by looking to past examples. 

Ryan Marr
Ryan Marr
August 15, 2023
11 min
It is Better for Sun and Moon to Drop from Heaven
It is Better for Sun and Moon to Drop from Heaven

It's one of Newman's most notorious lines, and a claim I for one wish were untrue: "The Catholic Church holds it better for the sun and moon to drop from heaven, for the earth to fail, and for all the many millions on it to die of starvation in extremest agony, as far as temporal affliction goes, than that one soul, I will not say, should be lost, but should commit one single venial sin, should tell one wilful untruth, or should steal one poor farthing without excuse."

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