God

Father Hardon’s writings on God explore the nature, attributes, and mystery of the Divine Being revealed in Catholic teaching. These articles examine the Trinity, God’s love and justice, creation, providence, and humanity’s relationship with the Creator.

The Divine Attributes Retreat: The Attributes of God – The Providence of God (Part 2)

By Father John A. Hardon, S.J. We saw something of the meaning of divine providence. In the teaching of Sacred Scripture and especially of Christ, throughout the Bible the one sustained theme is to trust in God: Be not anxious; do not worry; be not despondent; be not desolate; trust; have confidence, and Christ’s crowning […]

The Divine Attributes Retreat: The Attributes of God – The Unchangeable God

By Father John A. Hardon, S.J. As we read the Old Testament it seems that God is anything but unchangeable. He becomes angry with his people; they repent, and he is said to be appeased. God watching the infidelity of his chosen ones is grieved; then men like Moses and Abraham pray, and God, it […]

The Divine Attributes Retreat: The Attributes of God – The Knowledge and Wisdom of God

By Father John A. Hardon, S.J. We know both by reason and faith that God is a living Being. We also know that he is a pure spirit. In that sense, because God is a spiritual being like us whom he made, he has an intellect and a will. Our focus in this meditation is […]

The Divine Attributes Retreat: The Attributes of God – The Love and Goodness of God

By Father John A. Hardon, S.J. We have been concentrating on God as a pure Spirit, who has, as all spiritual beings possess, a mind or intellect and a will. In the mind of God we saw there is knowledge: what he knows. When using that knowledge in the interests of his creatures, it is […]

The Divine Attributes Retreat: The Attributes of God – The Omnipresence of God

By Father John A. Hardon, S.J. We have so far reflected on the nature of God and his divine attributes. We have seen that God is absolutely one; there is only one true God. We have seen that God is a pure spirit; he is absolutely simple and as pure spirit he has a divine […]

The Divine Attributes Retreat: The Attributes of God – The Glory of God

By Father John A. Hardon, S.J. The capstone of the attributes of God is the glory of God. The first time the divine glory is revealed in the New Testament is on Christmas morning when the angels appeared to the shepherds in Bethlehem and said: “Glory to God in the highest and on earth peace […]

The Divine Attributes Retreat: The Attributes of God – The Indwelling of the Holy Trinity

By Father John A. Hardon, S.J. We have so far seen something of what the Church calls the omnipresence of God. He is present, we believe, in the world which he made, and his presence is what sustains this world in existence and gives the world the power to be alive, to act and survive. […]

The Divine Attributes Retreat: The Attributes of God – The Real Presence

By Father John A. Hardon, S.J. We have been considering the ways in which God, who made the world out of nothing, continues to remain in the world that he created: his universal natural presence, called omnipresence; his supernatural presence in the sense that we are in his friendship, the Holy Trinity dwelling in the […]

The Divine Attributes Retreat: The Attributes of God – The True Divinity of Jesus Christ

By Father John A. Hardon, S.J. We have been meditating on the divine attributes and so far have seen no less than a dozen mysteries of our faith about God, beginning with the fact that there is only one true God and concluding on the fact that God is present and active in the world […]

The Divine Attributes Retreat: The Attributes of God – The Humility of God

By Father John A. Hardon, S.J. As we begin our reflections on the divine attributes revealed by God become Man, a panorama opens up that would never have been visible except for the Incarnation. We can now see who God is and how he relates to the world he made as we could never in […]

The Divine Attributes Retreat: The Attributes of God – The Patience of God

By Father John A. Hardon, S.J. We were last considering the humility of God and especially his humility in becoming Man. In other words, in speaking of Christ we distinguish between his humility as the Son of God who became Man and then his humility as Man in which he revealed the humility of himself […]

The Divine Attributes Retreat: The Attributes of God – The Justice of God

By Father John A. Hardon, S.J. It may seem strange that we should be reflecting on the justice of God as one of the divine attributes specially revealed by the coming of Christ. We may have become so accustomed to associate divine justice with the Old Testament and divine mercy with Christ in the New […]

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