God the Father and Creator
Pope St John Paul II gave us catechesis on 'God the Father' at the Wednesday general audiences between March 1985 & August 1986. They were the first part of JPII's catechesis on the Creed, following on from a short series on Catechesis and preceding those on Jesus Christ, Son & Saviour.
There are 60 catecheses in this cycle:
Links included for the texts in Italian, Spanish (& a few Portuguese) on the Vatican website.
Revelation and Faith
1. One can know God by the natural light of human reason
2. God who reveals Himself is the source of our faith
3. Jesus is the definitive fulfillment of the Revelation of God
4. The Holy Spirit constantly perfects our faith so that Revelation may be better understood
5. Through Faith Man accepts the truths contained in God’s Revelation
6. The Transmission of divine Revelation
7. Divine inspiration of Sacred Scripture
8. The light of Revelation in the Old Testament
9. The New Testament is a perpetual and divine witness to Christ
10 Relations with Non-Christian Religions
11 The Problem of unbelief and atheism
12 Faith rooted in the Word of God
13 Faith is the stimulus to work for the union of Christians
The Existence and Nature of God
14 The right attitude before God
15 The proofs for God’s existence
16 Scientists and God
17 The God of our faith
18 God who reveals Himself is He who exists
19 The God of Infinite Majesty
20 Man contacts God in the obscurity of faith
21 God, the fullness of life, is Spirit, immense and invisible
22 God is eternity
23 God the Almighty Father
24 The God of the Covenant
25 Faith culminates in the truth that God is Love
4. The Blessed Trinity
26 The one God is the ineffable & most Holy Trinity: Father, Son & Holy Spirit
27 God is the Father of all Humanity
28 Christ reveals the Father’s countenance to us
29 Christ is the Son of the living God
30 The Church professes her faith in God the Son
31 Through Christ, the Spirit guides us to the Father
32 The Holy Spirit proceeds from the Father and the Son
33 Unity and distinction in the eternal communion of the Trinity
34 Distinction of relations in the Trinity
35 The Thrice Holy God
36 The moral law is identified with the will of God
5. God the Creator
37 The Mystery of Creation
38 God the Creator of Heaven and Earth
39 In creation God calls the world into existence from nothingness
40 Creation is the work of the Trinity
41 Creation reveals God’s glory
42 Created things have a legitimate autonomy
43 Man is created in the image of God
44 Man is a spiritual and corporeal being
45 Man is a subject of knowledge and freedom
6. Divine Providence
46 Faith in divine Providence strengthens our reasons for hope
47 Divine Providence continues to care for creation
48 Divine Providence carries out an eternal plan of wisdom and love
49 Divine Providence and human freedom
50 The Mystery of predestination in Christ
51 The Presence of evil and suffering in the world
52 In Jesus the Redeemer, divine Providence overcomes evil
53 Divine Providence in the light of Vatican II
54 Divine Providence and the growth of the Kingdom of God
7. The Angels
55 Creator of all things, seen and unseen
56 Creator of the angels who are free beings
57 Creator of things unseen — the Angels
58 Angels participate in the history of salvation
59 The Fall of the rebellious angels
60 Christ’s victory conquers evil