May 23, 2022. Meditation with Fr. Eric Nicolai, guest priest from Toronto on "In Your Presence" on Spotify. Image: "Scena Allegorica" by Ginevra Cantofoli in a Sotheby's Auction, 2008. (Wikimedia Commons)
Music: Handel, Opera Rinaldo, Aria "Lascia ch'io pianga", arranged for guitar by Bert Alink.

How Do I Live Temperance?

June 16, 2022. Gospel Passages: Matthew 5:48; Matthew 11:29; Matthew 13:45-46; Matthew 26:39. Meditation with Fr. Francis Ongkingco, Woodrose School Chaplain. Quoting from "Friends of God" Point #6 by St. Josemaría Escrivá. Quoting also St. Cyprian: “Prefer nothing whatever to Christ, because He did not prefer anything to us." St. Athanasius: "God became man, so that man might become God." St. Thomas Aquinas: “For this is why the Word became man, and the Son of God became the Son of man: so that man, by entering into communion with the Word and thus receiving divine sonship, might become a son of God." (Catechism of the Catholic Church, Point #460)

Image: "Christ in the Garden of Gethsemane" (The Agony in the Garden) by Gerard van Honthorst in Netherlands Institute for Art History, The Hague. (Wikimedia Commons)

Thy Will Be Done

August 11, 2022. Gospel Passages: Matthew 16:24; Matthew 18:21-22; Mark 7:37; Luke 24:13-35. Also quoting James 2:18; The Forge #74 and #856 by St. Josemaría Escrivá. Meditation with Fr. Francis Ongkingco, Woodrose School Chaplain. Photo Credit: "Group of People Standing on Streetside at Daytime" by Denisse Leon on Unsplash.

The Apostolate of Good Example

August 29, 2022. Gospel Passage: Mark 6: 17-29, Memorial of the Passion of Saint John the Baptist. Meditation with Fr. Eric Nicolai, guest priest, recorded in Toronto on "In Your Presence" on Spotify on August 29, 2020. Quoting St. Bede's homily in the Office of Readings in http://www.liturgies.net/saints/johnthebaptist/officeofreadings_martyr.htm
Referring to "Hand of God: A Journey from Death to Life by The Abortion Doctor Who Changed His Mind" by Bernard Nathanson. Image: "La decapitación de San Juan Bautista" (The Beheading of St. John the Baptist) by Caravaggio in Saint John's Co-Cathedral, Malta. (Wikimedia Commons)  The introductory aria is from Handel guitar piece, by Bert Alink Rinaldo:  Aria "Lascia che io pianga".

Death of St. John the Baptist ~ Defender of the Truth

December 11, 2022. Gospel Passages: Matthew 11:2-11, John 3:23-30. Meditation with Fr. Francis Ongkingco, Woodrose School Chaplain. Image: "Saint John the Baptist in Prison Visited by Two Disciples" by Giovanni di Paolo in the Art Institute of Chicago. (Wikimedia Commons)

Hide and Disappear, Like John the Baptist (Third Sunday of Advent)

Friday 4woa 23dec22

June 11, 2023. Liturgy of The Solemnity of the Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ: Deuteronomy 8:2-3, 14b-16a; 1 Corinthians 10:16-17; John 6:51-58, 60-66. Meditation with Fr. Francis Ongkingco, Woodrose School Chaplain. Photo Credit: "Monstrance" by ARC Creative. (One Secret Mission)

Rating Our Holy Mass (Solemnity of the Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ)

Tuesday 11wot 20jun23

July 17, 2023. Reference: The Liturgy of the Eucharist during Holy Mass in liturgies.net/Liturgies/Catholic/roman_missal/roman_missal_order_of_mass.htm Meditation with Fr. Francis Ongkingco, Woodrose School Chaplain. Photo Credit: “Eucharist-Body of Christ-Church” by Robert Cheaib on Pixabay.

The Paten of the Heart of Christ (Rebroadcast)

March 4, 2024. Gospel Passages: Matthew 5:38-48; 18:21-22; 13:32-33. Also Exodus 21:23-25, Leviticus 19:2. Quoting from "Christ Is Passing By" Point 58 by St. Josemaría Escrivá; "Catechism of the Spiritual Life" Chapter IX by Robert Cardinal Sarah; St. Augustine in "Sermon 169, 15" and "On the Gospel of St. John 21, 8"; and "Lumen gentium" Dogmatic Constitution, Vatican II, promulgated by Pope Paul VI, dated November 21, 1964 in www.vatican.va/archive/hist_councils/ii_vatican_council/documents/vat-ii_const_19641121_lumen-gentium_en.html. Reference: "The Image of the Divine Mercy" by St. Maria Faustina Kowalska in thedivinemercy.org/message/devotions/image. Meditation with Fr. Francis Ongkingco, Woodrose School Chaplain. Image: "De Bergrede" (Sermon on the Mount) by Carl Joseph Begas in the Begas Haus Museum, Heinsberg. (Wikimedia Commons)

Perfection in Conversion in the Liturgy

May 26, 2024.  Gospel Passages: Matthew 28:16-20; Luke 11:1-4; John 14:13-14. Also quoting from Ephesians 2:18, Romans 5:2, and John Paul II’s Apostolic Letter “Novo Mllennio Ineunte” Point 32 dated January 6, 2001 in https://www.vatican.va/content/john-paul-ii/en/apost_letters/2001/documents/hf_jp-ii_apl_20010106_novo-millennio-ineunte.html, from “Complete Works: Instructions” by St. Angela of Fiorno in https://www.loyolapress.com/catholic-resources/saints/saints-stories-for-all-ages/saint-angela-of-foligno and in books.google.com.ph/books/about/Complete_Works.html?id=06djmQnH9vAC, from "Christ Is Passing By" Point 85 by St. Josemaría Escrivá in escriva.org/en/es-cristo-que-pasa/85 and from "Contemplating the Trinity: The Path to the Abundant Christian Life" by Fr. Raniero Cantalamessa, OFM. Meditation with Fr. Francis Ongkingco, Woodrose School Chaplain. Image: “La Santísima Trinidad” by Raúl Berzosa. Used with permission.

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