Our Lady of the Divine Indwelling

The Indwelling of the Holy Trinity – by Servant of God, Fr. John A. Hardon, S.J.

“The Church commonly teaches distinguishing between God’s Presence and His Indwelling. The Indwelling, unlike the Omnipresence, is not natural but Super – beyond natural. The Indwelling is not universal but particular, very particular. The Indwelling is not merely the Presence of God in the world but it is the Special Way in which the Holy Trinity Dwells in the souls of those who are in Sanctifying Grace.”

“Grace is favor, the free and undeserved help that God gives us to respond to His call to become children of God, adoptive sons, partakers of the Divine Nature and of Eternal Life.^”(Catechism of the Catholic Church, hereafter CCC, 1996).

What is this Divine Indwelling of which Our Lady of America speaks? God Lives in us! The Holy Trinity, God the Father, Son and Holy Spirit, three Persons in one God, Dwell in us by their free Gift of Grace of which we are not worthy. The Fathers of the early Church said that “the Son of God became a man, in order that men might become sons of God.”