Name: The Docility of God's Children by Blessed Meditations
Duration: 30 min 23 s
Description: October 19, 2022. Scriptural Passages: 1 Samuel 3:1-21; Romans 8:14. Also quoting St. Josemaría Escrivá in "The Way" #57 and #130. Meditation with Fr. Francis Ongkingco, Woodrose School Chaplain. Image: "The Prayer" by Pierre Edouard Frère in the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam. (Wikimedia Commons)

October 19, 2022. Scriptural Passages: 1 Samuel 3:1-21; Romans 8:14. Also quoting St. Josemaría Escrivá in "The Way" #57 and #130. Meditation with Fr. Francis Ongkingco, Woodrose School Chaplain. Image: "The Prayer" by Pierre Edouard Frère in the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam. (Wikimedia Commons)

The Docility of God's Children

October 20, 2022. Gospel Passage: Luke 12:1-7 (Friday of the Twenty-eighth Week in Ordinary Time, Oct. 14, 2022); Luke 12:32. Meditation with Fr. Eric Nicolai, guest priest, recorded at Kintore College in Toronto on "In Your Presence" on Spotify. Photo Credit: "A young woman feeding birds (sparrows) at the entrance of El Retiro Park in Madrid, closed after the heavy snowfall which paralyzed the city during a week." by Cédric VT on Unsplash.

Worth More Than a Hundred Sparrows

October 24, 2022. Gospel Passage: Luke 6:1-5. (Gospel of Saturday, Twenty-second Week in Ordinary Time, Sept. 3, 2022) Also quoting Leviticus 19:30; St. Ireneus in "Against Heresies"; Fr. Fernando Ocariz in "Love In Action"; and William Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet" Act Two, Part One. Meditation with Fr. Francis Ongkingco, Woodrose School Chaplain. Photo Credit: "Milan Cathedral" by Caleb Stokes on Unsplash.

Love and God's Glory

October 21, 2022. Gospel Passages: Luke 6:1-5, Mark 2:23-28; Luke 5:1-7; Luke 9:10-17; John 2:1-5. Also quoting from Hebrews 13:7-8 and the letter of Pope Benedict XVI on St. Josemaría Escrivá in opusdei.org/en-us/article/pope-benedict-xvi-on-st-josemaria-escriva; St. Josemaría Escrivá in "The Way" Point 755 in escriva.org/en/camino/755; and the Apostolic Exhortation of Pope Francis dated March 19, 2018 "Gaudete Et Exsultate" (Rejoice and Be Glad) Points 3-9 in vatican.va/content/francesco/en/apost_exhortations/documents/papa-francesco_esortazione-ap_20180319_gaudete-et-exsultate.html. This podcast by Fr. Donncha Ó hAodha originally appeared on the St. Josemaria Institute Podcast https://stjosemaria.org/podcasts/a-calling-to-do-great-things-for-god © St. Josemaria Institute. Rebroadcasted by permission. Image: "Miraculous Catch of Fish" by Johann Georg Platzer in ghe Residenzgalerie Gallery, Salzburg. (Wikimedia Commons)

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A Calling to Do "Great Things" for God

November 7, 2022. Gospel Passages: Matthew 28:19-20; Matthew 10:8; Matthew 5:3–12; Matthew 19:16-30; Luke 1:39–56. Also quoting 2 Peter 1:4 and the "Catechism of the Catholic Church" Part One, Section Two: The Creeds; Matthew 5:3–12. For further reading: "The Implicit Pedagogy of St. Josemaría Escrivá" in https://opusdei.org/en-ph/article/the-implicit-pedagogy-of-saint-josemaria-escriva-2/ Meditation with Fr. Javier del Castillo on the St. Josemaria Institute Podcast for the November Day of Recollection in https://stjosemaria.org/recollection-november-year-a/ © St. Josemaria Institute. Rebroadcasted by permission. Image: "Saints Mark and Marcellinus Being Led to Martyrdom" by Paolo Veronese in the Chiesa di San Sebastiano, Venice. (Wikimedia Commons)

Transmitting the Gift of Faith (The Values of My Children)

November 8, 2022. Gospel Passage: Matthew 21:12–17. Also quoting from “The Spirit of the Liturgy” by Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger (Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI), Ignatius Press 2000; The Spirit of the Liturgy (Milestones in Catholic Theology), by Romano Guardini, originally 1918; ﻿"Catechism of the Catholic Church" Point 1324 in https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/__P3X.HTM; and "The Forge" Point 69 by Saint Josemaría Escrivá in https://www.escrivaworks.org/book/the_forge-point-69.htm Meditation with Fr. Eric Nicolai, guest priest, recorded in Toronto on "In Your Presence" on Spotify. Image: "The Ghent Altarpiece: Adoration of the Lamb" by Jan van Eyck in the St. Bavo's Cathedral, Ghent. (Wikimedia Commons)

The Mass and the Sacrifice of the Altar

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

December 23, 2022. Gospel Passages: Luke 2:4-7; John 4:4-42. Quoting St Josemaría Escrivá in "Friends of God" Point 207 in https://www.escrivaworks.org/book/friends_of_god-point-207.htm Meditation with Fr. Francis Ongkingco, Woodrose School Chaplain. Image: "L'Adoration des bergers" (The Adoration of the Shepherds) (detail) by Charles Le Brun at the Louvre Museum, Paris. (Wikimedia Commons)

"O" Antiphon, December 23: O Emmanuel (Isaiah 7:14, 8:8; Luke 1:31-33), our king and our lawgiver (Genesis 49:10; cf. Ezekiel 21:32), the hope of the nations and their Savior (Isaiah 33:22): Come and save us, O Lord our God.

December 23: The Gift of Hope. Mary, Cause of our Joy, pray for us. (Rebroadcast)

December 25, 2022. Gospel Passages: Luke 2:1-14; Matthew 26: 27-29; John 19:17-18, 20; John 20:22-23. Quoting St. Athanasius in the Catechism of the Catholic Church Point 460: "For the Son of God became man so that we might become God." and Luke 2:1-14; Matthew 26: 27-29; John 19:17-18, 20; John 20:22-23. Quoting St. Athanasius in the Catechism of the Catholic Church Point 460: "For the Son of God became man so that we might become God." and 1 John 3:2. Meditation with Fr. Francis Ongkingco, Woodrose School Chaplain. Image: "Adoration of the Shepherds" by Giorgione at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC. (Wikimedia Commons)

December 25:  Christmas Day ~ Last in Everything, First in Love

January 4, 2023. Gospel Passages: Matthew 22:35-40; Mark 10:46-52. Also quoting from Galatians 2:20; 1 Corinthians 13:4–8; 1 John 4:7-21; ﻿ Genesis 1:26-27. Meditation with Fr. Timothy Uhen, guest priest from "Meditations in Manhattan" on Spotify. Sculpture: "Jesus Healing Blind Bartimaeus" by Johann Heinrich Stöver in St John's Church, Hesse. (Wikimedia Commons)

Seeing with the Eyes of Christ

February 27, 2023. Gospel Passages: Luke 5:27-32; Matthew 4:18–22 / Mark 1:16-20 / Luke 5:1–11; John 21:3; Matthew 17:24-27; John 17:15. Also quoting from Genesis 3:1-24; Romans 5:12-14. Meditation with Fr. Francis Ongkingco, Woodrose School Chaplain. Image: "The Calling of Saint Peter and Saint Andrew" by Jacob Willemsz De Wet. Private collection. (Wikimedia Commons)

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