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A corrected version of the meditation preached by Fr. Eric Nicolai at Kintore College, Dec 7, 2023.

Matt 7, 24-27: Therefore, everyone who listens to these words of mine and acts on them will be like…

Fr. Eric Nicolai preached this meditation to a group of young men at Ernescliff College in Toronto, on December 9, 2023. The Gospel of Mark 10, 17-31 tells the account of the young man who presented …

We have just begun today the novena to the Immaculate Conception. It starts with the feast of St. Andrew, the brother of Peter. The two became the most effective apostles ever, and they remained fait…

St. Josemaria had a magnanimous soul, he drew beauty, and great dreams of ambition to sanctity out of others. What is our greatest ambition? He said: The greatest ambition of the children of God in O…

Yesterday we had the passage from Luke about the blind man who is healed by Jesus also in Jerico. From Matthew we know the blind man’s name, Bartimaeus. Today Luke 19 tells us about another man, also…

Today's reading is from Luke 18:35-43, about the blind man of Jerico, healed by Jesus.

This passage lends itself to our prayer, because we can easily conjure up the image, the sounds, the atmosphere,…

Fr. Eric Nicolai preached today November 11: at the 11th hour, the 11th day, the 11th month in 1918, the bugle sounded to announce the ceasing of all hostilities. Today we remember the fallen.

Now Po…

After the 313 edict of Emperor Constantine which conceded to Christians the freedom to practice their religion, Pope Silvester dedicated the Basilica of St. John the Lateran as the Cathedral of the B…

Fr. Eric Nicolai preaches in Kintore College from today's Gospel:

Luke 14, 25-33: ‘And indeed, which of you here, intending to build a tower, would not first sit down and work out the cost to see if…

Psalm 127: Nisi Dominus aedificaverit domum, in vanum laboraverunt, qui aedificant eam. Nisi Dominus custodierit civitatem, frustra vigilat, qui custodit eam.

Psalm 127: Unless the Lord builds the h…

Letter from the Prelate of Opus Dei, February 2023:

7. Understanding also has a close relationship with the extraordinarily important reality of forgiveness: both asking for forgiveness and forgivi…

It pains us to see such hatred exploding now in the world, from the divisons in politics, the screams, the demonstrations, the protests, and the denunciations. Women against men, left against right, …

St. Luke, evangelist and apostle, responsible for the Gospel and for Acts of Apostles.

A native of Antioch in Syria and a physician, and one of the early converts from paganism. He accompanied St. Pa…

Matthew 22:1-14: The King who sought to invite people to the wedding feast of his son, but nobody would come. What is to be done? There is nothing for it but to send out into the streets and lanes of…

Luke 11:15-26: Today’s Gospel has words of Jesus speaking about the devil, and the attempts of demons to overtake us. But if the devil is divided, he falls apart. Unity in the church is what keeps it…

A meditation preached by Fr. Eric Nicolai on October 9, 2023 at Ernescliff College in Toronto.

Psalm 116, 12-13 sings: What shall I return to the Lord for all his goodness to me? I will lift up the c…

A meditation preached by Fr. Eric Nicolai at Lyncroft centre, Toronto, on October 7, 2023.

Way 267: We've got to be convinced that God is always near us. We live as though he were far away, in the he…

Fr. Eric Nicolai preaches in Ernescliff College of the Feast of the Archangels Michael, Gabriel and Raphael, September 29, 2023. It is a special day in the archdiocese of Toronto, dedicated to St. Mi…

Matthew 25:14-30. The Parable of the talents.

The man going abroad. The servants with different talents. The one with one talents digs a hole in the ground. To the others he says good, well done, goo…

Fr. Eric Nicolai preached this meditation at Cedarcrest Conference Center north of Toronto on September 17, 2023. The focus is some notes of Saint Josemaria Escriva from 1932 in which he writes down …