Name: What's In a Name? Being Called and Sent by Blessed Meditations
Duration: 22 min 53 s
Description: December 14, 2022. Gospel Passage: Luke 1:26-39. Quoting from Psalm 2. Meditation with Fr. Francis Ongkingco, Woodrose School Chaplain. Image: "March 25, The Annunciation and the Incarnation of the Lord" by Polikipolik.Design on Instagram. Used with permission.

December 3, 2022. Gospel Passages: Mark 1:1-8; Matthew 3:1-12; John 1:19-28; Luke 2:7. Quoting also from Amoris Laetitia (The Joy of Love), Apostolic Exhortation by Pope Francis dated March 19, 2016. Meditation with Fr. John Agnew, guest priest from "Meditations in Manhattan" on Spotify. Image: "The Sermon of Saint John the Baptist" by Pieter Bruegel the Elder in the Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest. (Wikimedia Commons)

Prepare The Way Of The Lord

December 6, 2022. Gospel Passages: Matthew 18:12-14, Luke 1:38. Also quoting Isaiah 35:1-2, Genesis 3:9-11, and "Man is a beggar before God." by St. Augustine, Sermo 56,6,9:PL 38,381 and quoted in the Catechism of the Catholic Church, Point 2559. Meditation with Fr. Francis Ongkingco, Woodrose School Chaplain. Image: "Lost No More" by Greg Olsen. Used with Permission.

Beggars of Grace (Rebroadcast)

On the Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception, December 8, 2022. Gospel Passage: Luke 1:26-38. Further Reading: "Ineffabilis Deus" (Ineffable God),  Apostolic Constitution by Pope Pius IX dated December 8, 1954 in https://www.papalencyclicals.net/pius09/p9ineff.htm Meditation with Fr. Francis Ongkingco, Woodrose School Chaplain. Image: "La Inmaculada Concepción" (The Immaculate Conception) by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo in the Museo Nacional del Prado. (Wikimedia Commons)

Order of Grace, Disorder of Sin. On the Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception.

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)

December 14, 2022. Gospel Passage: Luke 1:26-39. Quoting from Psalm 2. Meditation with Fr. Francis Ongkingco, Woodrose School Chaplain. Image: "March 25, The Annunciation and the Incarnation of the Lord" by Polikipolik.Design on Instagram. Used with permission.

What's In a Name? Being Called and Sent

December 15, 2022. Gospel Passage: Luke 7:24-30. Quoting from "Friends of God" Point 75 by St. Josemaría Escriva in https://www.escrivaworks.org/book/friends_of_god-chapter-5.htm Meditation with Fr. Francis Ongkingco, Woodrose School Chaplain. Image: "Madonna and Child with the Young Saint John the Baptist" by Fra Bartolomeo (Bartolommeo di Pagholo) in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. (Wikimedia Commons)

A Personality Like Christ's

December 17, 2022. Gospel Passage: Luke 2:4-6. Quoting from "Apostolic Letter to All Consecrated People on the Occasion of the Year of Consecrated Life" the By Pope Francis dated November 21, 2014 in https://www.vatican.va/content/francesco/en/apost_letters/documents/papa-francesco_lettera-ap_20141121_lettera-consacrati.html Meditation with Fr. Francis Ongkingco, Woodrose School Chaplain. Image: "Saint Joseph Seeks a Lodging in Bethlehem" by James Tissot in the Brooklyn Museum (Wikimedia Commons)

"O" Antiphon, December 17: O Wisdom, coming forth from the mouth of the Most High (Sirach 24:3), reaching from one end to the other, mightily and sweetly ordering all things (Wisdom 8:1). Come, and teach us the way of prudence (Isaiah 40:14).

December 17: Gratitude. Mary, Mother of Divine Grace, pray for us. (Rebroadcast)

December 18, 2022. Fourth Sunday of Advent. Mary, Queen of Angels, pray for us. Gospel Passages: Matthew 1:18-24, Luke 5:17-26. Quoting from "Apostolic Letter on the 150th Anniversary of the Proclamation of Saint Joseph as Patron of the Universal Church, Patris Corde (With a Father's Heart)" by Pope Francis dated December 8, 2020 in https://www.vatican.va/content/francesco/en/apost_letters/documents/papa-francesco-lettera-ap_20201208_patris-corde.html Also quoting from an article by Fr. Roger J. Landry published in "The Anchor" on January 30, 2015 entitled "The General Examination" quoting St. Bernard of Clairvaux, St. John Vianney, St. Ignatius, and Blessed Alvaro del Portillo in https://catholicpreaching.com/wp/the-general-examination-the-anchor-january-30-2015/ and from "The Way" Numbers 882 and 746 by St. Josemaría Escrivá in https://www.escrivaworks.org/book/the_way-point-882.htm and https://www.escrivaworks.org/book/the_way-point-746.htm Meditation with Fr. Francis Ongkingco, Woodrose School Chaplain. Image: "The Dream of Saint Joseph" by Anton Raphael Mengs at the Kunsthistorisches Museum. (Wikimedia Commons)

"O" Antiphon, December 18:
O Adonai (Exodus 3:14), and leader of the House of Israel (Matthew 2:6; Micah 5:1; 2 Samuel 5:2), who appeared to Moses in the fire of the burning bush (Exodus 3:2) and gave him the law on Sinai (Exodus 20): Come and redeem us with an outstretched arm. (Jeremiah 32:21)

December 18: Saint Joseph, Our Model for the Daily Examination of Conscience (Rebroadcast)

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 19, 2022. Gospel Passage: Luke 2:4-5, 39. Quoting from "Friends of God" Point 125 https://www.escrivaworks.org/book/friends_of_god-point-125.htm and from "The Way" Point 163 in https://www.escrivaworks.org/book/the_way-point-163.htm by St. Josemaría Escrivá. Meditation with Fr. Francis Ongkingco, Woodrose School Chaplain. Image: "Mary and Joseph Travel to Bethlehem" with permission from the Our Lady of the Assumption Parish, PA USA at https://www.olastrafford.org/mary-joseph-travel-to-bethlehem-3/

"O" Antiphon, December 19: O Root of Jesse (Isaiah 11:1), standing as a sign among the peoples (Isaiah 11:10); before you kings will shut their mouths, to you the nations will make their prayer (Isaiah 52:15): Come and deliver us, and delay no longer (Habakkuk 2:3).

December 19: The Virtue of Detachment. Mary, Ark of the Covenant, pray for us. (Rebroadcast)

December 20, 2022. Gospel Passage: Luke 2:4-5. Quoting Romans 4:18 and 2 Corinthians 12:7-9 in the "Apostolic Letter on the 150th Anniversary of the Proclamation of Saint Joseph as Patron of the Universal Church, Patris Corde (With a Father's Heart)" by Pope Francis dated December 8, 2020 in https://www.vatican.va/content/francesco/en/apost_letters/documents/papa-francesco-lettera-ap_20201208_patris-corde.html Meditation with Fr. Francis Ongkingco, Woodrose School Chaplain. Image: "Joseph and Mary arrive at Bethlehem" by William Brassey Hole in "The Life of Jesus of Nazareth." (Wikimedia Commons)

 "O" Antiphon, December 20: O Key of David (Isaiah 22:22; Revelation 3:7) and Sceptre of the House of Israel (Numbers 24:17); you open and no one can shut; you shut and no one can open (Isaiah 22:22): Come and lead the prisoners from the prison house, those who dwell in darkness and the shadow of death (Psalm 107:10).

December 20: Christian Optimism. Jesus, I Trust in You! (Rebroadcast)

Uploaded by friends of Father Francis Ongkingco, with his guided meditations from the Philippines. We also have guest priests.

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