Religious faith is practical: it is a reality in which the supernatural grace thatprecedes it, and that makes it possible, is melted with the human conditionsrequired to embrace and experience it. In accordance with such understandingof the theology of faith, J. H. Newman’s Parochial and Plain Sermons, preachedbetween 1824 and 1843, pose the believer experience as a realization instead ofan abstraction. The article aims to prove this suggesting sympathy by revealingthe qualitative mediation of the dogmatic formulation, which, in the proposalof Newman, is presented as sympathetic to the meaning of faith within itspractical dimension.