God

By Father John A. Hardon, S.J. If there is one divine attribute that we spontaneously associate with Christ and Christianity it is the attribute of mercy. Mercy, we may safely say, is the distinctive quality of being a Christian: to be a Christian is to be merciful. There are many reasons for this. One reason […]

By Father John A. Hardon, S.J. I doubt if too many years ago a conference on holiness, except perhaps to a cloistered community of religious, would have been, I don’t say appreciated, but even really understood. Things have changed. For the first time in her councilor history the Catholic Church in her latest Council, the […]

By Father John A. Hardon, S.J. The moment we hear the word fidelity we think of a promise that one person makes to someone else. It is assumed that once a promise has been made it should be kept. I may be free, and in most cases I am, not to make a promise; but […]

By Father John A. Hardon, S.J. We believe that, provided we believe in these divine attributes and live them, we shall understand in a way we could not possibly fathom here on earth who God is when we see him face to face. The condition for our beholding the face of God and enjoying our […]

By Father John A. Hardon, S.J. We are continuing with our reflections on the worship of God as our greatest privilege on earth. We wish to see how we are to worship God on the second level of our human being. We have a mind, we have a will and we have a body. How […]

By Father John A. Hardon, S.J. We have been speaking on the worship of God as our greatest privilege on earth. Now we wish to address ourselves to the worship of God with our bodies. As we mentioned and stressed in previous conferences, these three ways of worshiping God, in our minds, in our wills, […]