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Ordinary Time (Before Lent), January 13, 2025 to March 4, 2025

Chapter 8- Chastity

If We Look- Fr. Louka Sidarous

Youth Meeting @ St. Mary & Archangel Michael Coptic Orthodox Church - Oviedo, FL ~ September 6, 2023

Acquiring Godly & Pure Thoughts

تأملات للنفس الحزينة - أبونا داود لمعي

January 12, 2025. Gospel Passages: Luke 3:15-16, 21-22; Matthew 3:13-17. Quoting from the Catechism of the Catholic Church Points 1265-1266 and 1213 in www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/__P3N.HTM#-1J3 and www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/__P3G.HTM and from "The Way" Point 152 by St. Josemaría Escrivá in escriva.org/en/camino/152 and General Audience, "Catechesis on Prayer 3" by Pope Francis dated May 20, 2020 in www.vatican.va/content/francesco/en/audiences/2020/documents/papa-francesco_20200520_udienza-generale.html. Meditation with Fr. Francis Ongkingco, Woodrose School Chaplain. Image: "Jesus at Baptism" (AI-generated) by Karen3nt from Pixabay.

Our Rebirth in Prayer (The Baptism of the Lord)

January 13, 2025. Gospel Passages: Mark 6:45-52, 34-44. Mark 4:38; John 2:5. Also quoting Psalm 46:10. Quoting St. Elizabeth of the Trinity, "The Complete Works of Elizabeth of the Trinity," St. Francis de Sales, "Treatise on the Love of God" in ccel.org/ccel/desales/love.all.html, and St. Josemaría Escrivá in "Friends of God" Point 215 in escriva.org/en/amigos-de-dios/215 and "Holy Rosary" Fourth Sorrowful Mystery in escriva.org/en/santo-rosario/9. Meditation with Fr. Francis Ongkingco, Woodrose School Chaplain. Image: "Jesus Walking on Water" (AI-generated) by Way to Christ in 0:32 in https://youtu.be/uIm5wP0k0qA?si=MSwsutVGNJIftC6L

"Be still, and know that I am God"

January 14, 2025. Gospel Passages: Mark 1:21-26; Mark 6:31; Matthew 18:20; Luke 2:19, 51. Also Psalm 95:8. Quoting John of the Cross in "Selected Writings" Chapter 13 and St. Josemaría Escrivá in "The Way" Point 281 in escriva.org/en/camino/281. References: Homily of Pope Benedict XVI dated July 4, 2010 in www.vatican.va/content/benedict-xvi/en/homilies/2010/documents/hf_ben-xvi_hom_20100704_sulmona.html and ", The Power of Silence: Against the Dictatorship of Noise" by Robert Cardinal Sarah, and anonymous poem: "No Time to Pray." Meditation with Fr. Francis Ongkingco, Woodrose School Chaplain. Image: "Prayer" by Cassandra Christensen Barney in LDSArt. Used with Permission.

The Value of Silence (Rebroadcast)

January 15, 2025. Gospel Passages: Mark 1:29-39, Matthew 19:1-30. Quoting “Furrow” Number 672 in escrivaworks.org/book/furrow-point-672.htm and  “The Way” Numbers 382 in escrivaworks.org/book/the_way-point-382.htm 235 in escrivaworks.org/book/the_way-point-235.htm and 882 in escrivaworks.org/book/the_way-point-882.htm by St. Josemaría Escrivá. Anecdote on Fr. Steven Scheier+ as interviewed  by Mother Angelica on EWTN in https://youtu.be/9VFE8ToVatI. Meditation with Fr. Francis Ongkingco, Woodrose School Chaplain. Image: “Christ Healing the Sick" (The Hundred Guilder Print) by Rembrandt in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (Wikimedia Commons).

Our Daily Spiritual Etchings - The Hundred Guilder Print (Rebroadcast)

January 16, 2025. Gospel Passages: Mark 1:40-45; John 6:12-13; Luke 1:26-38. Meditation with Fr. Francis Ongkingco, Woodrose School Chaplain. Photo Credit: "Jesus Heals a Man with Leprosy"(Slide 6) from the LUMO project in FreeBibleImages.

"Of course I want to" (Rebroadcast)

February 7, 2025. Gospel Passages: Mark 4:35-41; Luke 10:42. Also Ephesians 4:14. Meditation with Fr. Francis Ongkingco, Woodrose School Chaplain. Image: "In a Storm with Jesus" by Eero Järnefelt in the Raahe Church, Finland (Wikimedia Commons).

Struggling versus Active Lukewarmness

تأمل استعـدوا للأنبا كاراس أسقف عام مطرانية المحلة الكبرى تامل للقلوب المتحجرة (1).mp3

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.