June 17, 2025. Gospel Passages: Matthew 5:48, 11:29, 13:45-46, 26:39. Quoting from "Friends of God" Point 6 by St. Josemaría Escrivá in escriva.org/en/amigos-de-dios/6 and from St. Cyprian: “Prefer nothing whatever to Christ, because He did not prefer anything to us." St. Athanasius: "God became man, so that man might become God." St. Thomas Aquinas: "For this is why the Word became man, and the Son of God became the Son of man: so that man, by entering into communion with the Word and thus receiving divine sonship, might become a son of God" (Catechism of the Catholic Church, Point 460). Meditation with Fr. Francis Ongkingco, Woodrose School Chaplain. Image: "Christ in the Garden of Gethsemane" (The Agony in the Garden) by Gerard van Honthorst in Netherlands Institute for Art History, The Hague (Wikimedia Commons).