Newman’s message to a Church in crisis
SIR – The news that Blessed John Henry Newman is to be canonised is wonderful. What that holy man would have us to heed at this critical time for the Church is to be found in his sermon on Jeroboam. There he contrasts the responses of Jeroboam and David to God’s promise to place the kingdom in the hands of each.
Jeroboam chose to regard the promise as giving him the right to grab the kingdom from Solomon. David chose to wait for God to fulfil his promise in his own way and in his own time. David did that even when he had King Saul at his mercy.
