stages of life on God as Father

A few weeks ago, when I was out surfing, there was no one else in the water. In fact, there was no one around at all, except a guy the size of Goliath doing tae kwon do on the beach. After I’d been ou...

No one can have God as his father who does not have the Church as his mother.

God is the archetypal Father; all other fatherhood is a more or less imperfect copy of his perfect fatherhood.

He remembers our frame and knows that we are dust. He may sometimes chasten us, it is true, but even this He does with a smile, the proud, tender smile of a Father who is bursting with pleasure over a...