Newman’s miracle: lecture a great success
Deacon Jack Sullivan signs copies of the booklet describing his miraculous cure through the intercession of John Henry Newman
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Last night at the Oratory, Brompton Road, London, Deacon Jack Sullivan gave the CTS Lecture 2009, speaking on his miraculous cure from a debilitating and agonising spinal condition through the intercession of Cardinal John Henry Newman, the renowned 19th-century English theologian and convert.
Jack Sullivan spoke movingly and from the heart to a crowd of over 500 people as he described the terrible condition from which he suffered, how he came to know of Cardinal Newman, and how his prayers to Newman for a miracle eventually obtained his complete and medically inexplicable cure. This miracle has now been recognised by the Vatican and allows Newman to be beatified in 2010, an historic occasion for the Church in England and indeed throughout the world.
Jack Sullivan’s cure is the subject of a CTS booklet, Cardinal Newman: the Story of a Miracle , priced £1.95 and available from the CTS website.
Jack Sullivan’s visit to Britain has also included: a press conference on Monday, which led to a number of newspaper reports on Tuesday ; his preaching at Westminster Cathedral on Monday evening; and still to come are visits to the Oratory in Birmingham and other places associated with him, and his colleges in Oxford and the Oxford Oratory. Full details of Jack Sullivan’s itinerary can be found at http://peterjennings.co.uk/ .
Jack Sullivan is greatly enjoying this opportunity to see so many places associated with Newman, and to share with so many his testimony to the importance of Newman for the current age, and the reality of God’s existence and his love for us. He is delighted also that the CTS booklet is allowing many more to read this testimony too.
>>> Read a more detailed report on the CTS Lecture at the Newman Cause website
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