In Your Presence

A meditation preached by Fr. Eric Nicolai at Cedarcrest Conference Centre. The feast of the Baptism of the Lord, a dimension of Epiphany, closes the Christmas season and opens it outward into Ordinar…

We are all well aware that the figures that are always placed in the extremities of the nativity scene, far off, sometimes even forgotten, are the magi. Sometimes with their turbans and elaborate clo…

John was a native of Bethsaida, a town of Galilee on the northern shore of the Sea of Tiberias. His parents were Zebedee and Salome, and his brother James the Greater. The words of John the Evangelis…

Luke 2, 1-14: The beautiful account of the decree of Cesar. He wanted to get an idea of the extension of his kingdom. We experience some of that fullness. Christmas is always a special day. A unique …

Fr. Eric Nicolai streamed this meditation from Ernescliff College on December 23, 2021, about the Magnificat of Our Lady (Lk 1, 46-56)

In these days as we approach Christmas, we are filled with expec…

Fr. Eric Nicolai preaches on December 19, 2021 at Lyncroft Centre.

Every year the liturgy leads us to Christmas with three guides: Isaiah, John the Baptist and Mary. The first announced the Messiah f…

We are in preparatory phase: The octave to Christmas. Fr. Eric preaches about today's Gospel from St. Matthew on the genealogy of Jesus (Matt 1, 1-17)

For Matthew, two names are of key significance i…

Fr. Eric Nicolai preaches at Pavillon Soulanges in Quebec on the feast day of Our Lady of Guadalupe.  Today Mexicans all over the world will be singing las mañanitas, with their sombreros, guitars, a…

Fr. Eric Nicolai preaches about the mystery of the annunciation, an event, a moment in time. It was a direct communication between God who came in the form of an angel, and transmitted himself direct…

On Day 2 of the Novena to the Immaculate Conception, Fr. Eric Nicolai preaches at Ernescliff College on the birth of Mary, and her realization of her divine vocation.

Music: Adeste Fideles by John F…

Fr. Eric Nicolai begins the Novena to the Immaculate Conception at Ernescliff College, on November 30, 2021, feast of St. Andrew, the brother of Peter. The two became the most effective apostles ever…

Fr. Eric Nicolai preaches about how we can be actively engaged in the Holy Mass: to do so worthily, attentively and piously.

Music: Amores de Estudiante (Carlos Gardel) Arranged by Bert Alink 2018 Pu…

Luke 19, 45-48: My House shall be a house of prayer, you have made it into a house of thieves…God instructed Moses to build a tabernacle where he would dwell among the Israelites (Ex 25:40). King Sol…

The meaning of commitment is seen in the story of the farmer who had breakfast a pair of fried eggs with Iberian bacon. Well, in that splendid breakfast involved the contribution of the hen. But the …

From a meditation by Fr. Eric Nicolai at Lyncroft Centre, November 12, 2021. 

Today's Gospel is filled with apocalyptic language: the story of Noah and the ark, the image of Lot fleeing from Sodom an…

In this meditation at Lyncroft Centre in Toronto on November 10, 2021, Fr. Eric Nicolai reflects on aspects of the famous book "The Spirit of the Liturgy," by Cardinal Ratzinger (Ignatius press, 2000…

Ignem veni mittere in terram (Lk.12,49)

“I have come to set the earth on fire, and how I wish it were already blazing! There is a baptism with which I must be baptized, and how great is my anguish un…

Fr. Eric Nicolai preaches at Kintore College on November 1, 2021, solemnity of all saints.

Psalm 145, 10-11.  ”All Thy works praise Thee, O Lord, and Thy saints give thanks unto Thee: they show the g…

Today is the 31st Sunday of Ordinary time (B), in which Jesus emphasizes the most important commandment of the Law of Moses: In Hebrew, the "Shema", the command to love God, and to love your neighbou…

Fr. Eric Nicolai preaches a meditation to Lyncroft Centre in Toronto on October 27, 2021, on the notion of having sound judgement, sound criteria. How to develop it, and what it means. We see it in a…