In Your Presence

Fr. Eric Nicolai gives this meditation to High School boys that are part of the OneUp program of Ernescliff College. It was preached on September 9, 2023.

Luke 5:17-26 The account of the paralytic l…

Fr. Eric Nicolai welcomes the staff at Hawthorn School (Toronto) to a new academic year, with an appeal to embrace the new challenges with magnanimity and humble joy. St. Peter was called the rock by…

A meditation preached deep in the Ontario woods to counsellors at Camp Caribou on a lake near Barry's Bay, August 25, 2023.

It is based on the three commandments of love mentioned in th Gospel of Mat…

A meditation preached by Fr. Eric Nicolai early in the morning in the woods at Camp Caribou for Boys, on August 23, 2023. The camp is located near Barry's Bay in Ontario.

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A meditation preached by Fr. Eric Nicolai in a parish in Fort Alexander, Manitoba on August 7 2023.

There are traces of subtle humour in the Gospel. There is a touching moment when the Lord heals the…

Mt 13:1-9: “A sower went out to sow his seed. 4 As he was scattering the seed, some fell along the path, and the birds came and ate it up. 5 Some fell on rocky places, where it did not have much soil…

A meditation preached at Kintore College by Fr. Eric Nicolai on July 17, 2023.

Matthew 10:34–11:1: Jesus said to his Apostles: “Do not think that I have come to bring peace upon the earth. I have com…

A meditation preached by Fr. Eric Nicolai at Lyncroft Centre in Toronto in July 2023. It's all about the details of the parable of the sower who went out to sow.

Matthew tells us: “The kingdom of he…

A meditation by Fr. Eric Nicolai on rest, preached at Lyncroft centre, Toronto, on July 2, 2023.

Mark 6, 30-32: "The apostles came back to Jesus. They told him all they had done and taught. Jesus sai…

Homily at the funeral of Fr. Joe Escribano who was among the original pillars of Opus Dei in Canada from 1959. It was preached in French and English by Fr. André Blais at St. George Parish in Ottawa.

Fr. Eric Nicolai preached this meditation on June 26, 2023 at Kintore College in Toronto. We know that Saint Josemaría Escrivá died in 1975: after stepping out of that elevator, looking at an image o…

In the first half the 1940s, the number of people in Opus Dei started really increasing, and there were great pastoral needs. This is an account of the first priests of Opus Dei and how they came to …

The Solemnity of John the Baptist, the Precursor. A meditation preached in Lyncroft Centre, Toronto, by Fr. Eric Nicolai on June 24, 2023.

Lk 1, 57-66: The time came for Elizabeth to have her child, …

Mark 12, 14-17: Is it permissible to pay taxes to Caesar or not? Should we pay, yes or no?’ Seeing through their hypocrisy he said to them, ‘Why do you set this trap for me? Hand me a denarius and le…

A meditation preached by Fr. Eric Nicolai, June 2, 2023 in Ernescliff College, Toronto.

The account of Jesus cleansing the temple.

Mark 11, 11-26: So they reached Jerusalem and he went into the Templ…

Luke 1:39-56: Mary set out and went as quickly as she could to a town in the hill country of Judah. She went with haste. She goes with haste. There is a sense of responsibility here. She knows and un…

Acts of the Apostles 2, 1-11. "When the time for Pentecost was fulfilled, they were all in one place together."

Fr. Eric Nicolai preaches to a group of High School students at Ernescliff College in T…

Fr. Eric Nicolai preaches at Lancemore Centre on May 22, 2023. St. Augustine speaks about the overshadowing of Mary: At that moment, the Holy Spirit, who had already possessed Mary’s soul from the fi…

Fr. Eric Nicolai preached this meditation at Lyncroft Centre on Ascension Sunday, May 21 2023.

Ascension is traditionally celebrated 40 days after after Easter Sunday. So he was with them for 40 days…

Fr. Eric Nicolai preaches a meditation in Kintore College on May 13, 2023. We are unique with are own personal stories. Yet we have a lot in common, a series of bonds that holds us together with a co…