http://www.holyname.co.uk/news Latest News and updates from the Holy Name Church, Manchester Sun, 04 Jul 2010 13:31:27 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en This is one of the oldest images of St Philip, painted in the year of his canonisation, 1622. His reputation for sanctity had spread all over the Catholic world, and the Congregation of the Oratory had begun to grow. Here we have a lifesize fresco in the Church of San Carlo Borromeo at Forio, on the Island ... http://www.holyname.co.uk/news/2010/07/image-of-st-philip-from-1622/ In preparation for the beatification of John Henry Newman by the Holy Father on 19th September, the Congregation for Divine Worship has issued the texts for the Divine Office of the feast. The reading is taken from the 'Apologia pro Vita Sua', which poignantly records his life up to the ... http://www.holyname.co.uk/news/2010/06/texts-and-prayers-for-the-feast-of-john-henry-newman/ St Luigi Scrosoppi of the Oratory John Paul II canonised St Luigi Scrosoppi on 10th June 2001, and named him patron saint of those suffering with AIDS. It was at the intercession of St Luigi that an Zambian man, now Fr Peter Changu Shitima, was miraculously cured of AIDS in 1996. He was ... http://www.holyname.co.uk/news/2010/06/st-luigi-scrosoppi-patron-of-aids-sufferers/ Feast of St Vitus at Forio Tuesday 15th June The Silver and Gold Statue of the Saint (with his faithful Border Terrier at his side)   The procession of the relic and image around the parish (in 5 parts) http://www.ischiareporter.it/?p=3845 Buona Festa! http://www.holyname.co.uk/news/2010/06/festa-di-san-vito-a-forio/ St Philip Neri and St Ignatius Loyola  At the west of the Holy Name, facing each other across the breadth of the church, are the statues of St Philip Neri and St Ignatius Loyola. These images that answer each other in the architectural space show not only great saints of the Counter Reformation, ... http://www.holyname.co.uk/news/2010/06/friendship-of-saints/ Saint Philip Neri and the Priesthood Fr Frederick Miller   Since his canonization in 1622, Saint Philip Neri has been considered a model of priestly life and holiness among the clergy of Italy. One might say that Saint ... http://www.holyname.co.uk/news/2010/05/st-philip-and-the-priesthood/ Bl. Sebastian Valfrè (1629-1710) Priest of the Turin Oratory   Saturday 30th January Third Centenary of his Entrance into Heaven   In the year that we look forward to the beatification of John Henry Newman, we celebrate the third centenary of the first of St Philip's sons to be raised to the altars, Bl. Sebastian Valfrè ... http://www.holyname.co.uk/news/2010/01/blessed-sebastian-valfre/ Some Help in Assenting to Mysteries of Faith from John Henry Newman's   An Essay in Aid of a Grammar of Assent (1870)     Sunday by Sunday Christians solemnly declare, "I believe in one God", and a whole set of dogmatic statements which follow from that. The grounds for this statement of faith seems radically inconsistent with ... http://www.holyname.co.uk/news/2009/11/newman-on-assenting-to-mysteries/ Come si vadia al cielo, e non come vadia il cielo How to go to Heaven: not how the heavens go It seems a fight that has been going on for centuries; science in the blue corner of the ring and religion in the red corner, and the crowd cheering for their ... http://www.holyname.co.uk/news/2009/10/galileo-and-the-oratory-science-and-faith/ Statue of St Philip Neri   We have been extremely fortunate to have received a beautiful statue of St Philip. It is from the old church of our Lady St Mary and St Philip, Radcliffe in north Manchester. Fr Manock, the parish priest, has built a new church, with a new shrine to St Philip, ... http://www.holyname.co.uk/news/2009/07/st-philips-statue/