In Your Presence

Mark 4, 35-41: The account of the storm at sea. The whole time, during this storm, the Lord was asleep. Teacher, do you not care that we are perishing? He woke up and rebuked the wind, and said Be qu…

Lk 14, 28: ”Suppose one of you wants to build a tower. Won't you first sit down and estimate the cost to see if you have enough money to complete it?

Jesus said we are building tower.

The daily build…

January 23 is the anniversary of the election of the Prelate of Opus Dei, Msgr. Fernando Ocáriz which took place in Rome in 2017.

He was elected, meaning chosen by his confreres. Simple ceremony. No …

Today Fr. Eric Nicolai preaches about the first reading from the Second Sunday of ordinary time, the account of Samuel’s vocation (1 Sam 3, 3-10, 19.)

We start with the back story of Hannah, who was …

Fr. Eric Nicolai preaches about the empathy of Jesus, how he saw in the depth of the soul. 

Matt 9, 35-36: Our Lord began to go to the towns and villages preaching the Gospel of the Kingdom and curin…

Fr. Eric Nicolai gives one of the first meditations at a retreat at Ernescliff College, Dec 26, 2020. This is on the mystery of vocation. God chooses and calls everyone: He chose us in Christ, that w…

Preached Christmas Eve at Kintore College:

Psalm 88: 2-5: I will sing for ever of your love, O Lord.

I will sing for ever of your love, O Lord;

through all ages my mouth will proclaim your truth.

Of …

A frequent subject of 19th century paints was the land. There was a movement that came to be known as the Barbison school. Painters went out and painted it right there in the fields and along the for…

What does the word advent even mean? It comes from the Greek word parousia, which means presence, or arrival. Advent means the arrival of the Lord that has already begun but has only just begun. It h…

A meditation preached by Fr. Eric Nicolai in Lyncroft centre, Toronto, in the early morning of December 8, 2020.

In his eternal design for his Son to become man, God also chose Mary as the Mother of …

Fr. Eric Nicolai preaches in Lyncroft centre on December 5, 2020: Advent, time for a new conversion. How is that going to happen? In this recollection this is not som much like ascending to a hight m…

Today, November 28, is the anniversary of the Apostolic Constitution “Ut Sit” from 1982, in which Pope John Paul II establish Opus Dei as a Personal Prelature. It was the definitive canonical suit th…

Catherine Labouré was a nun in the Congregation of the Daughters of Charity on Rue du Bac in Paris.  On November 27th, 1830 Our Lady appeared to her and entrusted Catherine with the task of forging o…

On Saturday November 21, 27 deacons we’re ordained in Rome for the Prelature of Opus Dei. Among them the first Lithuanian, a Croatian, a young Japanese and a Montrealer, Fadi Sarraf, originally fromS…

Fr. John Lopez Agundez preaches from Montreal about the challenge of becoming saints in our world, in our work.

Music: Recordações do passado (Souvenirs from the Past) a Valsa for piano (1885) by Ern…

Matt 25, 14-30: You have been faithful in small things: come and join in your master's happiness.

In this 33rd Sunday of Ordinary Time, the last of the liturgical calendar before Christ the King, the…

Today’s Gospel is about the end times. Luke 17:26-37: ‘As it was in Noah’s day, so will it also be in the days of the Son of Man. People were eating and drinking, marrying wives and husbands, right u…

Fr. Eric Nicolai reflects at Kintore College. In the 1650s a Spanish priest from province of Navarre, Pedro Auxular, wrote a book in Basque titled Gero, which means Later. A book about the practice o…

Fr.  Luis de Moya passed away on November 9th, 2020 in Pamplona, Spain, as a result of complications due to an operation. He was in his late 60s. He was a numerary priest of Opus Dei, incarnated in t…

A meditation preached on Saturday November 7, 2020 by Fr. Eric Nicolai in preparation for the feast of Christ the King. He reigns from his throne on the cross. Then he appears to the apostles after h…