Illuminating Grace - Fr. John Utecht

Fr. John Utecht, associate pastor at Our Lady of Grace Catholic Church in Edina, Minnesota reflects on Newman's Catholic era (1849) sermon "Illuminating Grace".  He highlights Newman in that it is only through the ongoing action of the Holy Spirit that we find the fullness of the truth. We need illuminating Grace to fully understand things. Reason has immense power to calculate but is limited to the human mind looking at the material world. The love of the dying Jesus on the Cross looks "unreasonable". Yet, Newman and Fr. John remind us that it is the greatest act of love ever made. Grace comes into us to enliven our faith where our reason fails. Newman illustrates that reason without faith is but an opinion. Since it is truly never decided the end of reason is doubt where the end of faith is love.To approach Newman's majestic thought it is highly recommended to download the formatted sermon at www.newmanontap.com. Comments and suggestions are appreciated on the same site.