Questionnaire for Life and Virtues
Cause of Servant of God Fr. John A. Hardon, S.J.
Interrogatory
General Questions
1. What is your full name, address, telephone number?
2. Date of birth, place of birth
3. Present occupation
4. You have some means of identification?
Do you have a written statement of deposition that you wish to present?
If so, do you swear that you personally wrote this statement?
Do you swear that the contents are true?
Oath: Please place your hand on the Holy Scriptures. Do you swear to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, so help you God?
Particular Questions:
Relationship with Fr. Hardon –
5. When and where did you get to know Fr. Hardon?
6. How long did you experience him directly?
7. What was your first impression of him?
What did it effect in you?
Did you talk about Fr. Hardon with others?
8. How was your relationship with Fr. Hardon during his lifetime?
9. How was it after his death?
10. What impressed you most in his personality?
11. What, if anything, bothered you most?
12. In what way did he influence those he was with?
13. What is your attitude towards the beatification process of Fr. Hardon?
The Life of Fr. Hardon
Birth and Childhood:
14. What can you say about his family, about his parents, siblings, and relatives, about his piety and the mutual relationship in his parental home?
15. What is the source of your information?
16. How did his piety manifest itself in his childhood?
17. Could something particular and striking be reported about his childhood, to which others could give testimony?
School days and education:
18. What can be reported about his grade school days?
19. What is known about the time of his studies and professional training?
20. How did he live his faith and the commandments of the Church in his youth?
21. Could something particular and striking be reported about the time of his youth?
Activity as a teacher:
22. What can be reported about his professional life as a teacher?
23. How did he practice his faith and dedicated himself to the apostolate?
24. Could something particular and striking be reported about the time of his active teaching?
Activity as a theologian:
25. What can be reported about his activity as a theologian?
26. What were the defining characteristics of his work as a theologian?
27. Could something particular and striking be reported about his service to the Church as a theologian?
Activity as a spiritual director:
28. What can be reported about his activity as a spiritual director?
29. What were the defining characteristics of his work as a spiritual director?
30. Could something particular and striking be reported about his charism of spiritual direction?
Priesthood. Life in the community: Society of Jesus:
31. How did his priestly vocation manifest itself?
What were the defining characteristics of his life as a seminarian?
What were the external signs of his priestly prayer life?
32. How did he fulfill his responsibility as a member of the Society of Jesus?
33. What were the most characteristic marks of his priestly service?
In what way did he exhibit faithfulness regarding the celebration of the liturgy?
How was he dedicated in his priesthood to those in need?
Was he faithful in his administration of the sacraments, available for confessions, etc.?
34. What example did Fr. Hardon give of priesthood as “alter Christus”?
What was his reputation among fellow priests and other faithful?
His death:
35. How did he prepare for death and how did he look toward dying?
36. How was the participation of the people at his funeral?
What was said about him at his funeral?
The reputation of holiness during his life, at his death, and after his death
37. Was Fr. Hardon considered to be a holy person in the course of his life?
What was said about him?
How did he react?
38. What was said about his holiness at the time of his death?
39. What was said about his holiness after his death?
How is Fr. Hardon venerated?
Heroic degree of virtue
The three theological virtues: faith, hope charity:
Faith –
40. How did he prove his love for the Church, the sacraments, the commandments, the representatives of the Church?
41. How was his love for God, for Christ, and for the Holy Spirit?
How did he live in every-day life with God – with the Father, the Son and crucified Savior, and the Holy Spirit?
42. How did he venerate Mary and the Saints?
43. How did he live his faith heroically?
44. How did his faith prove itself in the most difficult situations of his life?
Did he have doubts of faith?
45. How did he live his faith heroically?
46. How did his faith prove itself in the most difficult situations of his life?
Did he have doubts of faith?
Hope –
47. How did he live the virtue of hope?
48. How did he preserve hope in the most difficult situations of his life?
Charity –
49. How did he live love for God heroically?
50. Was he completely directed to God, and was his will one with the will of God?
51. Did he practice love of neighbor heroically? How did you see this love in action?
52. Did he love Mother Church heroically? How did you see this love in action?
The cardinal virtues: prudence, justice, temperance, fortitude:
Prudence –
53. Did he live prudence heroically in his speech, his actions, and his activity as a teacher, theologian, priest, and spiritual guide?
Justice –
54. How did he live justice heroically?
Temperance – self-discipline –
55. How did he live temperance heroically?
56. Was he moderate with regard to food and drink?
57. Did he control his natural impulses?
58. What was his attitude toward wasting time?
Fortitude –
59. How did he live fortitude heroically?
60. Did he bear his suffering readily, joyfully, patiently and simply?
61. Was he able to inspire others with his fortitude?
Poverty, chastity, and obedience:
Poverty –
62. How did he live poverty heroically?
63. Was he detached from material things?
Chastity –
64. How did he live chastity heroically?
65. Was he concerned about vain and worldly things, honors, etc.?
Obedience –
66. How did he live obedience towards God and other heroically?
67. How did he accept criticism?
Loyalty to the Holy Father (4th Jesuit vow) –
68. In what was did he live his vow of loyalty to the Holy Father heroically?
69. Did he inspire others to this virtue?
Charism and special mission of Fr. Hardon –
70. Did Fr. Hardon possess extraordinary gifts, for instance, the gifts of the Holy Spirit, of counsel, of understanding, etc.?
71. What specific apostolates were founded under his leadership, both during his life and after his death according to his directives?
72. Did he exert a special influence on the Church and the world and his apostolates?
73. What was the center of his life?
74. In what consists his special mission for the Church and the world?
75. What is his charism?
The reputation for holiness and veneration:
76. Are there answers to petitions and gifts that are attributed to the intercession of Fr. Hardon?
77. Are there cures?
The notary or vice notary will read the recorded deposition to the witness:
Is this as read a complete and accurate report of your testimony?
Is there anything you wish to add, change, or omit?
Oath:
The witness ratified his/her deposition and confirmed it under oath:
“I swear that I told the truth in my deposition and I confirm what I deposed.”
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Witness
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(Vice) Notary