Name: Come Away Into My Heart by Blessed Meditations
Duration: 28 min 7 s
Description: February 5, 2024. Gospel Passage: Mark 6:30-34. Meditation with Fr. Francis Ongkingco, Woodrose School Chaplain. Image: "The Kingdom Within" by Greg Olsen. Used with permission.

January 22, 2024. Gospel Passages: Mark 3:7-12; John 8:44; Luke 15:11–32; Luke 10:25-37; Luke 23:42-43; Mark 1:23-28. Also refers to St. Josemaría Escrivá in "The Forge" Point 73 in escriva.org/en/forja/73 and "Friends of God" Point 296 in escriva.org/en/amigos-de-dios/296. For further reading: "Work and Contemplation" in opusdei.org/en-ph/article/work-and-contemplation-i. Meditation with Fr. Francis Ongkingco, Woodrose School Chaplain. Photo Credit: "Tabernacle" by Josh Applegate on Unsplash.

Becoming Contemplatives in the Midst of the World

January 31, 2024. Gospel Passages: Luke 17:20-21; Matthew 13:44-46; John 21:15-17. Quoting from Revelation 12:1-2, Colossians 3:1 and St. Irenaeus in the Catechism of the Catholic Church, Point 294 in vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/__P19.HTM and Furrow, Point 10 by St. Josemaría Escrivá in escriva.org/en/surco/10. Meditation with Fr. Francis Ongkingco, Woodrose School Chaplain. Image: "Christ of St. John of the Cross" by Salvador Dali in the Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum, Glasgow. (Wikimedia Commons)

Corresponding to Grace

February 4, 2024. Gospel Passage: Mark 1:29-39. Meditation with Fr. Francis Ongkingco, Woodrose School Chaplain. Image: "To Be With God" by Simon Dewey. Used with permission through Altus Fine Art.

Learning Prayer With Christ (Fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time)

February 5, 2024. Gospel Passage: Mark 6:30-34. Meditation with Fr. Francis Ongkingco, Woodrose School Chaplain. Image: "The Kingdom Within" by Greg Olsen. Used with permission.

Come Away Into My Heart

February 8, 2024. Gospel Passages: Matthew 7:28-29; John 13:34-35; John 3:30. Also quoting from "Awake, Not Woke" by Noelle Mering (Tan Books, 2021). Meditation with Fr. Francis Ongkingco, Woodrose School Chaplain. Image: "La Santa Cena" (The Last Supper) by Juan Ribalta in the Museu de Belles Arts de València. (Wikimediia Commons)

Grace and Unity of Life

February 12, 2024. Gospel Passages: Mark 7:24-30; Matthew 15:21-28. Quoting from the “Catechism of the Spiritual Life” Chapter IX by Robert Sarah (Sophia Institute, 2022), "The Way" Point 755 in http://escriva.org/en/camino/755, and “Christ Is Passing By” Point 124 in escriva.org/en/es-cristo-que-pasa/124 by St. Josemaría Escrivá. Meditation with Fr. Francis Ongkingco, Woodrose School Chaplain. Image: “Christ and the Canaanite Woman” by an unknown Italian artist after Annibale Carracci. Location unknown. (MutualArt Auctions)

Borderline Christianity and the Syrophoenician Woman

February 15, 2024. Gospel Passages: Luke 9:22-25; Mark 8:22-28; Matthew 3:2; Mark 1:15; Luke 1:28-38. Also quoting Galatians 2:20 and "The Way" Points 319 and 283 by St. Josemaría Escrivá in escriva.org/en/camino/319 and in escriva.org/en/camino/283;  "Furrow" in escriva.org/en/surco/460 and "The Forge" Point 405 in escriva.org/en/forja/405. Meditation with Fr. Francis Ongkingco, Woodrose School Chaplain. Image: "Cristo coronato di spine" (Christ Crowned with Thorns" by Fra Angelico in the Cathedral of Livorno, Italy. (Wikimedia Commons)

Recollection and Penance

February 16, 2024. Gospel Passage: Matthew 6:1-6, 16-18. Meditation with Fr. Francis Ongkingco, Woodrose School Chaplain. Photo Credit: "Volunteer handing bulletin" by Erika Giraud on Unsplash.

Lent to Us (Rebroadcast)

February 20, 2024. Gospel Passages: Matthew 5:13-16; 1-12.  Also quoting from the “Catechism of the Spiritual Life” Chapter 10 by Cardinal Robert Sarah (EWTN, 2022). Meditation with Fr. Francis Ongkingco, Woodrose School Chaplain. Image: "Salt and Light" by by Bernie Rosage Jr. Used with Permission.

Salt and Light

February 25, 2024. Gospel Passage: Mark 9:2-10; Matthew 16:24; 5:17; Luke 24:13-35; Mark 1:11. Also quoting from Exodus 34:29-35, 20:2-17, and “Jesus of Nazareth: From the Baptism in the Jordan to the Transfiguration” by Pope Benedict XVI (Doubleday, 2007). Meditation with Fr. Francis Ongkingco, Woodrose School Chaplain. Image: “Transfiguration” by Peter Paul Rubens in the Museum of Fine Arts in Nancy, France. (Wikimedia Commons)

Pitching Tents in our Hearts (Second Sunday of Lent)

March 13, 2024. Gospel Passages: John 5:17-30; Luke 1:39-56. Quoting from "Letter from the Prelate on Fidelity" by Fr. Fernando Ocáriz dated March 19, 2022, in opusdei.org/en-ph/article/letter-from-the-prelate-19-march-2022-fidelity, from "The Way" Point 999 by St.Josemaría Escrivá in escriva.org/en/camino/999, and from the Homily of Pope John Paul II in Mexico dated Jan. 26, 1979 in www.vatican.va/content/john-paul-ii/en/homilies/1979/documents/hf_jp-ii_hom_19790126_messico-cattedrale.html. Meditation with Fr. Francis Ongkingco, Woodrose School Chaplain. Image: "Holy Trinity" (detail) by Szymon Czechowicz in the Lithuanian National Museum of Art, Vilnius. (Wikimedia Commons)

The Tension and Thrill of Doing God's Will (Rebroadcast)

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