Image: "The Holy Family with Saints Francis and Anne and the Infant Saint John the Baptist" by Peter Paul Rubens at The Metropolitan Museum of Art
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/437528

Advent of Desire. “Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring” (First Sunday of Advent)

Day 1, Preparing for the Feast of the Immaculate Conception on December 8

Image: "La Inmaculada de Soult" by Bartolomé E. Murillo at the Museo del Prado (Wikimedia Commons)

Mary’s Vocation and Ours(Preparing for the Feast of the Immaculate Conception on December 8)

Day 6, Preparing for the Feast of the Immaculate Conception on December 8
Image: "The Virgin in Prayer" by Giovanni Battista Salvi da Sassoferrato (after) in the Mauritshuis Museum (Wikimedia Commons)

Mary in Prayer, Model of My Prayer

Image: "John the Baptist" by Moretto da Brescia in the Gallerie dell'Accademia, Venice (Wikimedia Commons)

Called To Be Messengers (Second Sunday of Advent)

On the Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception, December 8.
Image: Prayer card (stampita) of a bronze life-sized polychrome statue of the Immaculate Conception by Vincenzo Assenza in The Manila Cathedral, located above the central high altar. Consecrated by Pope Pius XII's Papal Bull Impositi Nobis in 1942, the Virgin Mary under this title is honored as the Principal Patroness of the Philippines. (Wikimedia Commons)

Mary Immaculate. Live a Marian Life. Tell Her Your Story. December 8.

"Jesus and his Disciples on the Sea of Galilee" by Carl Wilhelm Friedrich Oesterley based on an auction at Dorotheum.com (Wikimedia Commons)

Jesus as Friend

Image: “Eternal Father Painting Guadalupe” by an unknown artist (Wikimedia Commons)

Becoming the Canvases of God. The Story of Our Lady of Guadalupe.(Feast Day, December 12)

Father Charles Belmonte, guest priest
Image: Plato (left) and Aristotle in the fresco "The School of Athens" by Raphael at the Vatican Museum (Wikimedia Commons)

The True Meaning of Life. Using Time Well. Making Our Talents Bear Fruit.

Image: "Saint Joseph Seeks a Lodging in Bethlehem" by James Tissot in the Brooklyn Museum (Wikimedia Commons)

December 17: Gratitude. Mary, Mother of Divine Grace, pray for us.

Mary, Queen of Angels, pray for us.

Image: "The Dream of Saint Joseph" by Anton Raphael Mengs at the  Kunsthistorisches Museum.(Wikimedia Commons)

December 18: Saint Joseph's Creative Courage, Our Model for the Daily Examination of Conscience

Image: "Mary and Joseph Travel to Bethlehem" with permission from the Our Lady of the Assumption Parish, PA USA at https://www.olastrafford.org/mary-joseph-travel-to-bethlehem-3/

December 19: The Virtue of Detachment. Mary, Ark of the Covenant, pray for us.

Uploaded by friends of Father Francis Ongkingco, with his guided meditations from the Philippines. We also have guest priests. We are also on Spotify as Blessed Meditations.