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Cardinal O'Brien celebrates Mass for beatification of Newman

Cardinal Keith Patrick O'Brien, Archbishop of St Andrews and Edinburgh, celebrated what he described as "an historic" Votive Mass of the Holy Spirit for the beatification of the Venerable John Henry Cardinal Newman, in the little chapel at Abbotsford, the former home of Sir Walter Scott, in the Scottish Borders, today.

Newman himself celebrated Mass in the chapel when he went to Abbotsford during the winter of 1852, and later in 1872, when he stayed with his friend James Robert Hope-Scott, who built the beautiful oratory which is attached to the house.

The Cardinal and Fr Paul Chavasse, Provost of the Birmingham Oratory and Postulator of the Newman Cause, wore the chasubles used by Cardinal Newman. The other two concelebrants were Fr Gregory Winterton, Vice Chairman of the Friends of Cardinal Newman, and Fr Jared Kaminski, a Polish priest, who is working for a few months in the Borders parish of Jedburgh.

Full story at Independent Catholic News.