Lead Thou Me On

Selected Sermons of
St. John Henry Cardinal Newman

St. John Henry Newman is known as one of the greatest preachers of the English language. It is in his sermons that we meet Newman the pastor; they are the privileged entryway to his spirituality and thought. But the sheer quantity of his sermons (over 600!) can be daunting – where does one even start?

That is where this series comes in. Our staff has selected a manageable number of the finest of Newman’s sermons and arranged them into volumes by theme. If you start here, you will get a taste of the very best Newman has to offer – and can work out from this beachhead to the rest of the corpus of his preaching.

Lead Thou Me On also breaks the sermons up into smaller paragraphs for the convenience of the reader (original paragraph breaks being marked with a pilcrow), marks many allusions to the Bible and the Book of Common Prayer which were not noted in the original, and includes a scriptural index.