In Your Presence

A meditation preached by Fr. Eric Nicolai at Kintore College on the solemnity of All Saints, November 1st 2022.

I read a book that dramatizes in first person the personality of the Good Thief. As he …

A meditation preached at Kintore College by Fr. Eric Nicolai on October 27, 2022. Today is the Father’s birthday, born in exile in France in 1944. So that makes him 78. Still young in spirit. Since 2…

A meditation preached by Fr. Eric Nicolai to High School boys at Ernescliff College in Toronto on Oct 22, 2022.

On that day, Oct 22, 1978, facing the vast crowd in the square, and beyond, in the whol…

A meditation preached by Fr. Eric Nicolai at Hawthorn School for Girls in Toronto, on October 19, 2022. Pope John XXIII made the prophetic decision to call an Ecumenical council in 1962. Paul VI brou…

Here are some excerpts of the solemn Pontifical Funeral for Father Jose Luis Soria, celebrated by His Grace, The Most Reverend J. Michael Miller, CSB, Archbishop of Vancouver accompanied by Msgr. de …

A meditation on fear, preached by Fr. Eric Nicolai, at Kintore College, Oct 14, 2022.

Luke 12:1-7: The people had gathered in their thousands so that they were treading on one another. And Jesus bega…

Lk 1, 11-20 "Then an angel of the Lord appeared to him, standing at the right side of the altar of incense. 12 When Zechariah saw him, he was startled and was gripped with fear.  But the angel said t…

"All who are led by the Spirit of God are sons of God" (Rom 8,14). These words of the Apostle Paul, which we have just heard, help us understand better the significant message of today's canonization…

Luke 10:25-37: ‘A man was once on his way down from Jerusalem to Jericho and fell into the hands of brigands; they took all he had, beat him and then made off, leaving him half dead. Now a priest hap…

That explosion of grace came today in 1928, while he was on retreat with 6 other priests. He had prayed the breviary, read the Gospel, and was reviewing some notes. One note after another. Things wer…

There are nine choirs of angels. One of those choirs, or groups, are the archangels. They are powerful allies in our spiritual battles, because God gave them great power to fight against those demons…

Luke 16:19-31: One of the most striking parts of today’s parable of poor Lazarus and the Rich man, the dives, is the way the rich man, even in the afterlife, still speaks of the poor man as a servant…

In John 4, we have that wonderful encounter of Jesus with the Samaritan woman. Jesus said to her, “Give me a drink.” She is transparent, and this is the first moment in her life in which her horizons…

2 Cor 6, 1: As God’s co-workers we urge you not to receive God’s grace in vain. For he says: “In the time of my favor I heard you, and in the day of salvation I helped you.” I tell you, now is the ti…

Matt 14, 12: John’s disciples came and took his body and buried it. Then they went and told Jesus.

Jesus was deeply affected by the sad news of John the Baptist's death. So he wanted to be alone, to …

The prophet Ezekiel speaks about the merciless destruction of the inhabitants of Jerusalem, but then God says touch no-one with the mark on their foreheads. (Ezekiel 9). What is this mark? This is th…

Luke 6:39-42: "Why do you observe the splinter in your brother’s eye and never notice the plank in your own? How can you say to your brother, “Brother, let me take out the splinter that is in your ey…

Saint Josemaria liked the aspiration, Regnare Christum volumus, and it became the episcopal motto of don Alvaro de Portillo. What does it mean?

We have to go back to the origin of kings in the Old Te…

In Today's recollection at Lyncroft Centre in Toronto, Fr. Eric Nicolai reflects on how we can really pray properly, deeply, effectively, and piously, in a way that shows abandonment, and real love. …

A meditation for the staff at Hawthorn School for Girls in Toronto, preached at the start of the academic year on August 31, 2022 by Fr. Eric Nicolai, the chaplain.

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