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When Heart Speaks to Heart: My Ongoing Communion with St. John Henry Cardinal Newman by Dcn. Jack Sullivan
When Heart Speaks to Heart: My Ongoing Communion with St. John Henry Cardinal Newman
by Dcn. Jack Sullivan
This book recounts his profound spiritual journey centered on his miraculous healings attributed to the intercession of St. John Henry Cardinal Newman. Sullivan describes how these events not only led to his ordination as a permanent deacon but also played a pivotal role in Cardinal Newman’s beatification and canonization. The narrative begins with Sullivan’s debilitating spinal condition that seemed to end his aspirations, only to be reversed after heartfelt prayers to Cardinal Newman. Two miraculous healings enabled him to continue his diaconate studies, culminating in his ordination on a feast day rich with symbolic significance.
The book delves into the enduring relationship between Sullivan and Cardinal Newman, marked by a shared path of faith, trials, and perseverance. It further details other miraculous healings attributed to Newman’s relic, facilitated by Sullivan during healing services worldwide. Sullivan also highlights his role in guiding Melissa Villalobos, another recipient of a Newman miracle, in navigating the process for Vatican recognition.
Through personal anecdotes and theological reflections, Sullivan demonstrates how faith, prayer, and intercession from saints actively shape believers’ lives. “When Heart Speaks to Heart” celebrates the communion of saints as a tangible and transformative reality, inspiring readers to trust in divine providence even in life’s darkest moments. It is a testament to God’s love and the enduring legacy of Cardinal Newman’s spiritual insights.
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TESTIMONIALS
“Once again Deacon Jack Sullivan has opened up for us his close relationship with St John Henry Newman, who has entered and changed his life in such a remarkable way. Now Jack also unfolds the wonder of intercessory prayer and the impact of the role of saints in the plan of God for each one of us. I hope many will be deeply touched by the accounts given in this book and, like Jack, will entrust themselves to the intercession of the saints, and to St John Henry Newman in particular. I thank Deacon Jack for this work of love and devotion.” – Cardinal Vincent Nichols, Archbishop of Westminster, UK
“The Catechism of the Catholic Church reminds us that the saints share in the living tradition of prayer by the example of their lives. In his book When Heart speaks to Heart: My Ongoing Communion with St John Henry Cardinal Newman, Deacon Jack gives witness to this truth of faith through a deeply personal and moving account of his own encounter with God’s miraculous grace through the intercession of St John Henry Newman. Amid the numerous challenges that Deacon Jack has experienced on his journey of faith, his reliance and trust in the friendship of St John Henry Newman reveals evermore the profound beauty of the late Cardinal’s motto, Heart speaks to Heart – words which offer a greater insight and understanding as to the depths of God’s love, and which draws us further into our life with God. As Deacon Jack shares with us his remarkable stories of others who have also experienced God’s grace through the intercession of St John Henry Newman, these reflections remind us of our communion with the saints and their joyful witness to the presence of God for our world today.” – + Bernard Longley, Archbishop of Birmingham, UK
“Attributing powerful physical healings, including his own, to his communion with Cardinal Newman, in these pages, Deacon Jack will invite you into a heart-to-heart relationship with Jesus, through the holiness and sometimes miraculous intercession of St John Henry Newman.” – Robert P Reed, Auxiliary Bishop of Boston, President of the Catholic TV Network
“The history of our faith has many examples of those whom the Lord has chosen as his mouthpiece for the people of their day, quite often those who didn’t know why they were chosen, but who spoke profoundly of their encounter with the Lord. Deacon Jack Sullivan and his wife Carol have encountered the Lord in a very particular way through Jack’s healing through the intercession of Cardinal John Henry Newman. Deacon Jack has embraced this favor from the Lord and grown in love of the Lord through the ongoing Communion with St John Henry Newman. He has spent his life sharing the joy that this encounter has given him. To learn of the Lord’s goodness through a recipient of it is very special.” – Bishop Timothy Menezes, Bishop of the Archdiocese of Birmingham, UK
“It is rare indeed to find a book that can name and testify to such a full range of God’s loving action in the ordinariness and simplicity of everyday life, but this is such a book! The chapters are reflections, meditations, contemplations and finally conversations regarding the interaction of time and eternity. It speaks of the Lord’s election of Cardinal Newman to become the intercessor for Deacon Jack Sullivan’s prayers for healing and the mediator of God’s miracle in answer to those prayers. This begins their communion, and one that continues to bring healing, physical and spiritual, to numerous others as Deacon Jack evokes the intercession of St John Henry Newman on those who suffer.” – Bishop Arthur L. Kennedy, PHO, Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus, Archdiocese of Boston
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
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Father John P. Cush, STD, a priest of the Diocese of Brooklyn, is the Editor-in-Chief of Homiletic and Pastoral Review. Fr. Cush serves as a full-time Professor of Dogmatic and Fundamental Theology, Director of Seminarian Admissions and Recruitment, and Formation Advisor at Saint Joseph’s Seminary and College in New York. Before that, he served in parochial work and in full-time high school teaching in the Diocese of Brooklyn and had served as Academic Dean/Assistant Vice-Rector and Formation Advisor at the Pontifical North American College Rome, Italy. Fr. Cush has taught theology and Church History at the Pontifical Gregorian University, the Pontifical University of Saint Thomas Aquinas (the Angelicum), and the Pontifical University of the Holy Cross (Santa Croce), all in Rome, Italy.
Julie McPhillips, OCDS, is a lifelong Catholic, wife, mother, and grandmother. In 2009, she began her journey as a secular Discalced Carmelite and pursued ten years of 
Father Ray Introvigne served his country in the United States Air Force from 1952 to 1956. He graduated from Holy Apostles Seminary in 1960 with a Bachelor of Arts with a major in Philosophy, and later attended Saint Bonaventure University, Christ the King Seminary, receiving a Master of Divinity degree in 1964. He was ordained a priest in 1964, and served in the Diocese of Norwich, Connecticut. He retired from active ministry—but will never retire from serving our Lord. Father Ray—a Catholic Charismatic Priest—is 91 years young—and still going strong!
Dr. William Ayles graduated from the University of Connecticut, where he earned a Bachelor of Science degree (1980) and a Master of Business Administration degree (1981). He also earned a Doctor of Divinity degree from the American Institute of Holistic Theology (2008). His published books include: The Prophecy (2002), Treasures in Heaven (2017), The Mystery of God (2023), and Don’t Fear the Reaper (2024).