A meditation preached by Fr. Eric Nicolai at Cedarcrest Centre on February 14, 2025. This is a new audio, the last was the wrong file uploaded by mistake

Mother of Fair Love. Learning how to love with the help of Our Lady. It is not in the Litany. Mater Pulchrae Dilectionis, Mother of Fairest Love. Beautiful love.

Beauty is a wounding experience that moves us beyond our mundane lives, creating a longing for something greater. Beauty and truth are intrinsically linked. The absence of one can lead to the denial of the other, and both are essential to human flourishing.

Music: Komm, süsser Tod, BWV 478, played on guitar by Bert Alink.

A meditation preached by Fr. Eric Nicolai at Cedarcrest Centre on February 14, 2025.

Mother of Fair Love. Learning how to love with the help of Our Lady. It is not in the Litany. Mater Pulchrae Dilectionis, Mother of Fairest Love. Beautiful love.

Beauty is a wounding experience that moves us beyond our mundane lives, creating a longing for something greater. Beauty and truth are intrinsically linked. The absence of one can lead to the denial of the other, and both are essential to human flourishing.

Music: Komm, süsser Tod, BWV 478, played on guitar by Bert Alink.

A meditation about heaven, preached by Fr. Eric Nicolai during a retreat at Cedarcrest Conference Centre in Belfountain, Ontario, on February 15, 2025.

Pope Benedict XVI emphasized that heaven is not an abstract concept or imaginary place, but the true reality of God's presence. He said heaven is not a departure from the world but a "new mode of presence to the world. Its not a physical location in the cosmos.

Music: 'Moonlight' by Scott Buckley - released under CC-BY 4.0. www.scottbuckley.com

Thumbnail: The oculus of the Pantheon, Rome.

A meditation preached by Fr. Eric Nicolai on December 31, 2024 at Shelbourne Conference centre in Valparaiso, IN.

The story of St. Gregory the Great (590 to 604) having a vision of Christ during his Mass. Christ is surrounded by all the instruments of the passion. It became a devotional piece to meditate on the cross, to look upon it, and dicern its layers of meaning in our life.

Music: Helios relaxing music Into The Woods

Thumbnail: Simon Marmion, The Mass of St. Gregory, 1460, Art Gallery of Ontario, Canada.

A meditation preached by Fr. Eric Nicolai to High School students in Beamsville, Ontario ,on February 2, 2025.

Today is the feast of the presentation. It is a feast of pour Lady, but really focused on Our Lord who is being presented by his parents in the temple. It was the law of Israel that each first born should be presented to the Lord, 40 days after his birth. They are complying with the Mosaic Law. It is his mission. He is presented, offered, given over, and his parents do so with faith, knowing his purpose more than anyone.

Music: Original track by Michael Lee, of Toronto.

Thumbnail, Peter Paul Rubens, Presentation in the Temple, sketch, 1632, Naala Nura, ground level, Grand Courts.

Matt 25 Tells about the stewards and their talents. Some five talents, others two. But the guy with one talent hid it, buried it, and gave it back.  Like he wanted a refund. He did t open the package. It was still wrapped in plastic. Still with the bubble wrap. 

What good is a talent that is buried in the ground? What will I do with it when I die?

Music: Original music by Michael Lee from Toronto

Thumbnail: Simone Barabino, The Death of Saint Joseph, Philbrook Museum of Art, 1620.

A meditation preached by Fr. Eric Nicolai at Hawthorn School in Toronto, on January 23, 2025.

There is one line by St. Josemaria that might encapsulate a mystery, and a mission. A fundamental truth that is both very clear, yet very mysterious. Both exciting and scary. Something that applies to all of us and is clear as the day, but is interpreted as not really applying to us, but just to a few.

There is something holy, something divine, hidden in the most ordinary situations (Conversations, 114)

It is that something that is still mysterious, still not fully articulated, perhaps vague or tenuous that we still need to bring to life, and apply to ourselves today with hope.

This meditation was preached by Fr. Eric Nicolai on at Lyncroft centre in Toronto, January 19, 2025.

You may have heard that Pope Francis has published his autobiography, published by Penguin Canada, now that he is an old man, and his pontificate has lasted longer than anyone expected.

Here is what he tells his readers: “If one day you are overcome by fears and worries, think of that episode in the Gospel of John, at the marriage at Cana (John 2:1– 12), and say to yourselves: The best wine has yet to be served.”

A meditation preached by Fr. Eric Nicolai on January 15, 2025 in Kintore College, Toronto.

The Gospel today from Mark 1:29-39, tells us about some of the sick that Jesus healed, and the demons that he expelled.

We see this at the beginning of the Jubilee Year of Redemption. It is a year of hope, as described by the Bull of Indiction, Spes non confudit, established by Pope Francis.

Music: Regi Stone, Regi Stone, All Heaven Declares, 2003 Straight Arrow Records. Released in 2003.

Thumbnail: Pope Francis opening the Holy Doors.

This is the last meditation of a retreat preached at Shellbourne Conference Centre in Valparaiso, IN, on December 31, 2024.

Mark 6: When the Sabbath was over, Mary Magdalene, Mary the mother of James, and Salome bought spices so that they might go to anoint Jesus’ body. 2 Very early on the first day of the week, just after sunrise, they were on their way to the tomb 3 and they asked each other, “Who will roll the stone away from the entrance of the tomb?”

4 But when they looked up, they saw that the stone, which was very large, had been rolled away.

Music: Regi Stone, All Heavens Declares Catholic music on Youtube