In Your Presence

A meditation preached by Fr. Eric Nicolai at Roseaire conference Center in Delray Beach, Florida onSeptember 6, 2025.

Lk 6: 1-15: Today we have another dispute of the pharisees with Jesus about the wa…

This meditation was preached by Fr. Eric Nicolai at Roseaire Conference Center in Delray Beach, Florida, on September 3, 2025.

At the beginning of this annual course, we experience a feeling of appre…

Fr. Eric Nicolai preached this meditation outside in the woods on the memorial of the beheading of John the Baptist at Camp Caribou near Barry's Bay on August 29, 2025.

 The church celebrates both his…

A meditation preached in the woods by Fr. Eric Nicolai at camp Caribou near Barry's Bay, Ontario.

Matt 23: 13-22: Jesus said: ‘Alas for you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You who shut up the …

Fr. Eric Nicolai preached this meditation on August 17, 2025 at Lyncroft centre in Toronto.

Luke 12:49: “I came to bring fire to the earth, and how I wish it were already kindled! I have a baptism wit…

A meditation preached in the rectory of the Cathedral of the archdiocese of St. Boniface, Manitoba, August 5, 2025.

The account of Jesus walking on the water (Matt 14, 22-36) frightened the apostles, …

A meditation by Fr. Eric Nicolai in Lyncroft centre in Toronto, preached on August 2, 2025, on the invitation to contemplation. We start with the scene of the transfiguration on Mount Tabor, where Pe…

A meditation preached at Kintore College, an Opus Dei student residence in Toronto.

Matthew 13:44-46: Jesus said to the crowds: ‘The kingdom of heaven is like treasure hidden in a field which someone …

A meditation preached by Fr. Eric Nicolai on July 25, 2025, the feast of St. James, at Lyncroft Centre in Toronto. Jesus called James and his brother John as they mended their nets on the Sea of Gali…

A meditation preached by Fr. Eric Nicolai at Hawthorn School for Girls in Toronto.

Matthew 13:1-9: A sower went out to sow. Jesus at the lakeside. The people all stood on the beach, and he told them m…

A meditation preached at Lyncroft Centre, Toronto, on July 20, 2025.

In Genesis 18 we have the account of the appearance of the Lord to Abraham at the Oak of Mamre.  It is a wonderful account, in the …

A meditation preached by Fr. Eric Nicolai at Lyncroft Centre in Toronto.

The verse from the psalm: “My soul thirsts for God, for the living God” (Ps 42:2). To thirst like that is a deep desire nestle…

Fr. Eric Nicolai preached this meditation in ernescliff College on July 11, 2025, the feast of Saint Benedict of Nursia.

The Lord sent out the apostles, his ambassadors, he sent them out, telling the…

This is a meditation preached on July 9, 2025 at Kintore College in Toronto, after having spent almost a month in Germany.

First reading is from Genesis 41. Our dramatic story of the terrible famine i…

A meditation by Fr. Eric Nicolai preached at Lyncroft Centre in Toronto, June 7 2025.

There is this incredible line in St. Paul in which he speaks of having the same sentiments that Christ Jesus had …

Mary was there at Pentecost, she was at the centre in the early community, so she plays her role in our life too. The Holy Spirit is like the active principle in our sanctification. Mary is called th…

A meditation preached by Fr. Eric Nicolai at Kintore College, Toronto on May 28, 2025.

Jn 16, 12-15: Jesus said to his disciples: ‘I still have many things to say to you but they would be too much for…

A meditation preached by Fr. Eric Nicolai at Ernescliff College on May 18, 2025. Upon entering the oratory, I notice the holy water font had a large artistically inscribed text just over the font its…

A funeral homily for Mr. Peter Rebello at the church of St. Clement in Toronto on May 20, 2025. Peter died from Leukemia on May 13, the feast of our Lady of Fatima. He was 77.

Music: Be not afraid by …

A meditation preached by Fr. Eric Nicolai on May 18, 2025, at Lyncroft Center in Toronto.

The Lord took care to leave a deep impression on the disciples, the apostles, when he gave them the mandatum n…