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Meditations and Devotions

John Henry Newman

The devotional writings of St. John Henry Newman, gathered after his death by Fr. William P. Neville of the Birmingham Oratory (1893). Part I: the meditations for each day of May on the Litany of Loreto, the memorandum on the Immaculate Conception, and the Novena and Litany of St. Philip. Part II: the Stations of the Cross, the Good Friday meditations, the litanies, and short prayers (Anima Christi, Ave Maris Stella, a Triduo to St. Joseph, a prayer for a happy death). Part III: the Meditations on Christian Doctrine, with a visit to the Blessed Sacrament.

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Source: All three parts, 48 chapters: Newman Reader page numbers, navigation, and its editorial remarks are dropped; Newman's and the editor's notes are kept as footnotes (17); litanies and prayers keep their line breaks. Checked by sampled 6-word passages against the Internet Archive scan MeditationsAndDevotionsOf (Google Books copy of the 1893 edition; OCR-noise differences only). Raw page text in sources/en-US-originals/.