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Meditations: Friday of the Eighteenth Week of Ordinary Time

Some reflections that can assist our prayer during the 18th week of Ordinary Time.

Meditations: Thursday of the Eighteenth Week of Ordinary Time

Some reflections that can assist our prayer during the 18th week of Ordinary Time.

Meditations: 2 January

Some reflections that can assist our prayer during these days of the Christmas season.

January Recollection Kit (2025)

A recollection is time spent in silence with God, talking to Him and “recollecting” who we are before Him. This is a package of resources for a recollection in your own home, including a downloadable PDF.

Meditations: 1 January, Holy Mary, Mother of God

Some reflections that can nourish our prayer on the feast of Holy Mary, Mother of God. The topics are: contemplating Mary; Mary’s motherhood; receiving Jesus as Mary did.

“May 2025 be a year in which peace flourishes!”

Pope Francis' message for the 58th World Day of Peace, on 1 January 2025.

Meditations: 31 December

Some reflections that can assist our prayer on the last day of the year.

Mother of God and Our Mother

The Solemnity of Mary, Mother of God is celebrated on 1 January and commemorates the dogma of Mary's divine Maternity. This homily by St. Josemaría, published in "Friends of God," was given on 11 October 1964, then the feast of the Motherhood of the Blessed Virgin Mary.

Meditations: Feast of the Holy Family

Some reflections that can assist our prayer during these days of the Christmas season. The topics are: God's plan for the family; cradle of all gifts; our first apostolate.

Meditations: 28 December, The Holy Innocents

Some reflections that can assist our prayer during these days of the Christmas season. The topics are: the Child Jesus is born amid suffering; Saint Joseph acts with faith and realism; the Holy Innocents and their mothers' pain.