The Fifth Sunday of Lent
Vespers at St Marys college Oscott
The Seat of Wisdom
The view from the pulpit where John Henry Newman. Later published as ‘The Second Spring’, the sermon was a moving account of the recovery of English Catholicism from the dark days of penal times to its Victorian splendour. It came to characterise the expression of the restoration of Catholicism, and the very title ‘The Second Spring’!