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Childlikeness
On several dramatic occasions Christ had children brought to Him that He might bless them, embrace them and identify them as models for His followers to imitate. Clearly when Christ identified children as the patterns that we are somehow to pattern our lives on if we...
Survival of the Catholic Family
Why is the strength of the Catholic family necessary for the restoration of family life throughout the world? Because the survival of the family throughout the world depends on strong Catholic families. We are entering on a new era in human history. The world is fast...
What Does It Mean to Believe?
by Fr. John A. Hardon, S.J. Before we begin to answer what it means to believe, it may be useful to explain that faith is not some strange experience professed by some people and denied by others. Faith is a common possession of the human race. Aristotle defined man...
Salvation of the Infidel
Where do those who have traditionally been called infidels obtain the faith that St. Paul says is necessary to please God? The Body of Christ (not unlike human bodies) is active beyond its own physical self. From the Spirit of Christ, which animates the Church, it...
How to Keep Your Children Catholic
by Fr. John A. Hardon, S.J. This is surely an unusual subject for today’s conference, “How to Keep Your Children Catholic.” The subject may be unusual, but it is desperately important. I would like to briefly address myself to three questions, expressed in three...
Practice and Virtue of Penance
by Fr. John A. Hardon, S.J. The practice of penance is simply living out the virtue. Where the virtue is the divinely endowed power, the practice is our exercising this power. Of course, we still need grace to practice penance, but nobody is going to do it for us. We...
The Importance of Gentleness
by Fr. John A. Hardon, S.J. In the spirit of the Gospel we have just read from St. Matthew and in the context of so much that our Savior has been teaching us we should reflect on the virtue of gentleness. As Isaiah foretold of the Savior, He will not break the bruised...
The Second Coming of Christ
by Fr. John A. Hardon, S.J. For our closing mediation, following logically on all we have seen so far, it will be on the second coming of Christ. Much has already been seen in the week that we have been reflecting about Christ’s return to the world in His glory on the...
We All Have Our Own Special Guardian Angel
There are few aspects of the Christian faith that are more satisfying to the human spirit than to know that each one of us has our own personal guardian angel. We may say this is part of God’s loving providence over the human race. If there is one thing that we all...
The Christian Family: Parents For Eternal Life
by Fr. John A. Hardon, S.J. The family as a group of persons of common ancestry began with the human race. But if we are to understand the meaning of the Christian family, we should know something of the family in pre-Christian times. The reason is that Christ...