All over the world, people are preparing to celebrate the canonisation of Blessed John Henry Newman on Sunday, October 13. This is a time of special grace for us to join together and form links in a great chain of prayer, where we call upon the soon-to-be-saint to crown our prayers with his intercession in heaven. We encourage you to form links in that chain by joining in the Novena with Newman – nine days of prayerful preparation for the canonisation, starting on Friday, October 4 and finishing on Saturday, October 12, on the eve of the canonisation.