The Cremades Plans: A Family's Friendship with Saint Josemaria

From the eBook: “New Mediterraneans.”
By Lucas Buch. Narrated by Mallory Millett Danaher.

"Resolution: foster, uninterruptedly if possible, friendship and a loving, docile conversation with the Holy Spirit." Saint Josemaria discovers another "new Mediterranean" in his spiritual life.

Link to the complete book:
opusdei.org/en-us/article/free-…new-mediterraneans/

Link to this chapter:
https://opusdei.org/en-us/article/new-mediterraneans-iv-don-t-speak-listen-to-him/

New Mediterraneans (IV) - Don't Speak: Listen To Him

June 9, 2022. Scriptural Passages: Matthew 11:28; Genesis 3:9-15, 20; Matthew 18:23-35. Quoting St. Josemaría Escrivá in The Way, Number 299. Meditation with Fr. Tom Bohlin, guest priest from “Meditations in Manhattan” on Spotify, recorded on June 6, 2022. Image: "Even a Sparrow" by Greg Olsen. Used with Permission.

"Christ is so humble that he waits for us, hidden, in the form of  bread, in the Eucharist. Let us seek him, let us receive him. Let us ask him to help us to love him more and more. Christ made us for heaven, for glory. Why would we seek anything else? "

Meditations in Manhattan

Jesus, Help Me to Love You More

October 3, 2022. Gospel Passages: Luke 9:18-22; Matthew 16:17. Meditation with Fr. Francis Ongkingco, Woodrose School Chaplain. Image: "Lovest Thou Me" by Del Parson.  Used with Permission.

Who Am I? ~ Intimacy with Christ

November 6, 2022. Gospel Passages: Luke 20:27-38; John 17:3. Also quoting 2 Maccabees 7:1-2,9-14, the Catechism of the Catholic Church #168 in https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/__PZ.HTM and St. Josemaría Escrivá's The Forge #1019 in https://www.escrivaworks.org/book/the_forge-point-1019.htm
Meditation with Fr. Francis Ongkingco, Woodrose School Chaplain. Image: "Descent into Hell and Resurrection" by Father Marko Ivan Rupnik and the artists of the Centro Aletti in the Cappella del Collegio San Stanislao a Ljubljana, Slovenia. (Wikimedia Commons)

Vibrating with Eternity (Thirty-second Sunday in Ordinary Time)

December 16, 2022. Gospel Passage: Luke 1: 26-38, 39-45. Meditation with Fr. Francis Ongkingco, Woodrose School Chaplain. Image: "The Meeting of Mary and Elisabeth" by Carl Heinrich Bloch at the Brigham Young University Museum of Art, Utah. (Wikimedia Commons)

Rising Up Like Mary

February 9, 2023. Gospel Passages:Mark 7:14-23; Luke 10:38-42; Mark 7:24–30; John 2:1–11. Also quoting "spiritual avarice" from "The Dark Night of the Soul" by St. John of the Cross in https://www.ccel.org/ccel/john_cross/dark_night.vii.iii.html. Meditation with Fr. Francis Ongkingco, Woodrose School Chaplain. Image: "Christus en de vrouw uit Kanaän" (Christ and the Canaanite Woman) by Pieter Lastman in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. (Wikimedia Commons)

Dispositions for Recollection

May 26, 2023. Scriptural Passage: 1 John 2:16-17; Quoting from the "Christ is Passing By" on "The Christian Vocation"  Point 6 by St. Josemaría Escrivá in https://www.escrivaworks.org/book/christ_is_passing_by-point-6.htm and from "About the Holy Spirit" by Francisca Javiera Del Valle (Scepter, 1998) in https://where-you-are.net/ebooks/about-the-holy-spirit-francisca-javiera-del-valle.pdf Meditation with Fr. Francis Ongkingco, Woodrose School Chaplain. Image: "The Fall of the Rebel Angels" by Sebastiano Ricci in the Dulwich Picture Gallery, London. (Wikimedia Commons)

Ten-Day Devotion to the Holy Spirit, Day 9  (Rebroadcast)

May 28, 2023. Scriptural Passages:  Acts 2:1-11; John 10:19-23; Exodus 19:10-15. Meditation with Fr. Francis Ongkingco, Woodrose School Chaplain. Image: “Pentecost” (Pfingstretabel) detail of altarpiece by Alvise Vivarini in the Bode Museum, Berlin. (Wikimedia Commons)

Sowers of Peace and Joy in the Spirit ~ Pentecost Sunday

September 14, 2023. Gospel Passage: John 3:13-17. Also quoting Galatians 5:24, 2 Corinthians 4:10, and "The Forge" point 1025 by St. Josemaría Escriva in https://www.escrivaworks.org/book/the_forge-point-1025.htm For further reading: Pope beatifies the Ulma family in https://www.vaticannews.va/en/pope/news/2023-09/pope-francis-poland-ulma-family-beatification.html and https://www.vaticannews.va/en/pope/news/2023-09/pope-francis-archbishop-pena-parra-letter-ulma-family.html and "The Way" on Mortification in https://www.escrivaworks.org/book/the_way-chapter-6.htm Meditation with Fr. Francis Ongkingco, Woodrose School Chaplain. Image: "El alma cristiana acepta su cruz" (The Christian Soul Accepts the Cross) by Anónimo frances (Anonymous French Artist) in the Museo del Prado, Madrid.

The Contemplative Path of the Cross ~ The Feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross

October 30, 2023. Gospel Passages: Matthew 6:5-15; Luke 13:23-25; Quoting from "The Forge" Point 439 by St. Josemaría Escrivá in https://www.escrivaworks.org/book/the_forge-point-439.htm and from "Prayers of Hope, Words of Courage" by Francis Xavier Nguyen Thuan (Pauline Books, 2022).This podcast by Fr. Eric Nicolai originally appeared on the St. Josemaría Institute Podcast in https://stjosemaria.org/podcasts/spiritual-health-check-up © St. Josemaria Institute. Rebroadcasted by permission. Image: "Interior of a Cathedral" by Samuel Prout in the Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio. (Google Arts & Culture / Unsplash)

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