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Meditación del retiro mensual de febrero de 2024, publicada en la página web del Opus Dei, sobre los milagros de Jesucristo.
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Advent is a penitential season, a time to reckon with our sinfulness and to convert. Conversion requires the belief that we can radically change with God's help. God can fill the valley of our frustration and loneliness. He can lower the mountain of our pride and self-reliance. For this to happen, however, we have to desire it and ask for it with confidence.
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Fr. Eric Nicolai preached this meditation at Kintore College in Toronto, on January 18, ant the start of the Octave of prayer for Christian unity.
Mark 3:7-12: Jesus withdrew with his disciples to the lakeside, and great crowds from Galilee followed him. From Judaea, Jerusalem, Idumaea, Transjordania and the region of Tyre and Sidon, great numbers who had heard of all he was doing came to him. And he asked his disciples to have a boat ready for him because of the crowd, to keep him from being crushed. For he had cured so many that all who were afflicted in any way were crowding forward to touch him. And the unclean spirits, whenever they saw him, would fall down before him and shout, ‘You are the Son of God!’ But he warned them strongly not to make him known.
This is the account of the healing ministry of Jesus, and his universal mission to all those ailing people, physically damaged and hurting, but also afflicted by the demons, whose attacks were constant, divisive, agitated, pitting one against the other, loquacious and constantly seeking to break down the unity of Jesus’ plan.
These words are good for us today as we begin the week of Christian unity. After this healing he chose his apostles to continue this task, in unity with Christ and among each other. We too continue.
Music: 'Adrift among the infinite stars' by Scott Buckley - released under CC-BY 4.0. www.scottbuckley.com
Thumbnail: Healing of the demoniac. Morgan Library Museum Medieval illustration from Strasbourg, 1430.
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Let us discover Christ in our ordinary lives. Jesus is there waiting for us. A meditation by Father Timothy Uhen.
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Fr. Eric Nicolai preached this Introduction to a retreat for High School Boys at Cedarcrest Conference Centre, north of Toronto, January 20, 2024.
Saint Fabian and St. Sebastian. Two early Christian martyrs.
Luke 5, 12-16: The story of the leper. He lived in isolation, cut off from normal contact with others. Unable to interact normally. Looked down upon because of his contagion. He was forced to do weird things, like wear bells, and holler out warnings to others, unclean, unclean…Many thought he was like this because he must have sinned. He was getting his just rewards.
“Lord, if you wish, you can make me clean”.
Jesus stretched out his hand before even answering. Of course I want you to be clean. Of course I want you to be part of the community. He is not afraid of him. He is filled with mercy and compassion.
Thumbnail: J. Kirk Richards Christ among the lepers.
Music: Adrift among the infinite stars by Scott Buckley - released under CC-BY 4.0. www.scottbuckley.com
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A meditation by Father Tom Bohlin.
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The feast of the Epiphany tells us that Christ meant for everyone. The Magi are the very first of billions of gentiles who will come to be saved in Jesus. The journey of the Magi speaks to us of our own need to search for God. The star they follow and the finding of Jesus bring them great joy, as our own vocation and conversions give us the joy of meeting God in Christ.
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Christmas puts before us the Virgin Mary loving and caring for her Divine Son. It's a scene that we can enter into in our prayer and in our life. Jesus says that we too are "his mother" insofar as we do God's will. God allows Mary and all of us to love him in the Christ child just as He has always loved us: with a mother's heart. Christmas is a time to begin life again with a newfound trust in the goodness of God.
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Isidoro 100%” es una semblanza; una conversación sobre Isidoro Zorzano en la que se resume lo más significativo de los 259 testimonios que se recogieron tras su fallecimiento, debido a un linfoma cuando estaba cerca de cumplir 41 años y trabajaba como ingeniero de ferrocarriles
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Isidoro 100%” es una semblanza; una conversación sobre Isidoro Zorzano en la que se resume lo más significativo de los 259 testimonios que se recogieron tras su fallecimiento, debido a un linfoma cuando estaba cerca de cumplir 41 años y trabajaba como ingeniero de ferrocarriles
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Isidoro 100%” es una semblanza; una conversación sobre Isidoro Zorzano en la que se resume lo más significativo de los 259 testimonios que se recogieron tras su fallecimiento, debido a un linfoma cuando estaba cerca de cumplir 41 años y trabajaba como ingeniero de ferrocarriles
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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 in Jerico, but on the opposite side of the social spectrum. Not a poor blind man without power, money or standing. But a publican, a tax collector who worked for the Roman occupation, and his named is Zacchaeus. Both could not see Jesus: Bartimaeus because he was blind, Zacchaeus because he was too short. To be able to see Jesus he took initiative. This is an analogous to taking our formation more seriously.
Fr. Eric Nicolai preached this meditation at Ernescliff College on November 21, 2023.
Music: Handel Rinaldo, Aria Lascia che io pianga, adapted for guitar by Bert Alink.
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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 himself to Jesus and asked what he must do to obtain eternal life. A challenging exchange ensued. To dig into this, we must have a deep understanding of what a vocation is. Here's one definition: "The vocation is the providential thought of the Creator for each creature, it is his idea-plan, like a dream found in God's heart, because the creature is found in his heart. God the Father wants this to be different and specific for each living person."
Music: Komm, süsser Tod, BWV 478, Guitar arrangement by Bert Alink.
Thumbnail: Cyprien Tanguay (1819-1902) portrait by Antoine Plamondon, painted c. 1832, Quebec, Canada.
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Let us have a heart that is grateful. Let us give thanks always, an attitude that makes us happy, pushes us to share, and makes us more attentive to God. A meditation by Father John Agnew.
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Isidoro 100%” es una semblanza; una conversación sobre Isidoro Zorzano en la que se resume lo más significativo de los 259 testimonios que se recogieron tras su fallecimiento, debido a un linfoma cuando estaba cerca de cumplir 41 años y trabajaba como ingeniero de ferrocarriles
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Isidoro 100%” es una semblanza; una conversación sobre Isidoro Zorzano en la que se resume lo más significativo de los 259 testimonios que se recogieron tras su fallecimiento, debido a un linfoma cuando estaba cerca de cumplir 41 años y trabajaba como ingeniero de ferrocarriles
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Isidoro 100%” es una semblanza; una conversación sobre Isidoro Zorzano en la que se resume lo más significativo de los 259 testimonios que se recogieron tras su fallecimiento, debido a un linfoma cuando estaba cerca de cumplir 41 años y trabajaba como ingeniero de ferrocarriles
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Let us live our lives so that, one day, God may say to us: “Well done, good and faithful servant. You have been faithful over little things. I will set you over much.” A meditation by Father Tom Bohlin.
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Jesus Christ died for us that he might bring us into the freedom and liberty of the children of God. But we are free to follow Christ, or reject him. We need the Lord’s mercy, for without him, we are hopeless. With Christ’s help, we can achieve true freedom, by being obedient to the ways of God. A meditation by Father Timothy Uhen.
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On Oct. 2, 1928, Saint Josemaria “saw” Opus Dei – he saw that God was calling him to proclaim the universal call to holiness. Jesus says to each of us, “Come follow me.” We are called to seek Christ, to find Christ, to love Christ. There is no greater goal for our lives. If we have Christ, we have everything. A meditation by Father Thomas Bohlin.
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