Author: Father Albert

The Worth of Obedience: Homily for 26th Sunday OT 2026

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26th Sunday in Ordinary Time                                                            September 27, 2026Fr. Alexander Albert                                                               St. Mary Magdalen, Abbeville https://youtu.be/LdGkqgGqOuw In the 1950s, a show called Life is Worth Living aired on Tuesdays at 8pm. By 1957, 30 million people in the United States watched it each week – almost 20% of the country. It was simply Bishop Fulton J. Sheen standing in front of a chalk board teaching viewers about the Catholic faith. Yet, right as it reached that peak, it was suddenly cancelled. Why? Cardinal Spellman, the Archbishop of New York, pulled strings get Sheen off that channel. Why? Because Fulton Sheen had...Read More

Better Than We Deserve: Homily for the 25th Sunday OT 2026

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25th Sunday of Ordinary Time, A                                                                   September 20, 2026Fr. Alexander Albert                                                               St. Mary Magdalen, Abbeville https://youtu.be/KeTsb9J-QAc Jacinta and Marto were 9 and 10 years old when they died just two years after seeing Mary at Fatima. They are now canonized saints who enjoy the eternal reward of heavenly glory. Antoni of the desert lived to be105 years old and Charalambos to 113. Both men endured several decades of intense penance and prayer. Charalambos was even tortured and martyred at the end of his long life. Both men are also canonized saints who enjoy the eternal reward of heavenly glory. Is...Read More

Paying Heaven’s Debt: Homily for the 24th Sunday OT 2026

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24th Sunday of Ordinary Time, A                                                                  September 13, 2026Fr. Alexander Albert                                                               St. Mary Magdalen, Abbeville https://youtu.be/82kj-WxMJP8 Imagine for a moment that you were put in charge of the new spaceport being built in Pecan Island, overseeing billions of dollars of construction. Succeed and you’ll travel to the stars in splendor. Mess it up, though, and you’ll owe all that money back. Now, imagine that you get in over your head. You get careless and the whole thing blows up and it’s definitely your fault. You are now 10 billion dollars in debt. How would you pay it back? What...Read More

Love Enough to Lose: Homily for 23rd Sunday OT 2026

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23rd Sunday of Ordinary Time, A                                                       September 9, 2026Fr. Alexander Albert                                                  St. Mary Magadalen, Abbeville, LA https://youtu.be/Dyifbk38pi0 Towards the end of her life, Mother Teresa had become quite famous and was beloved by most of the world. The Nobel Prize in 1979, articles and covers on major publications, speaking engagements at the national and international level… these helped her work get attention and funding, so Mother Teresa was willing to accept the popularity. At the US National Prayer Breakfast in 1994, however, Mother Teresa famously preached against abortion despite knowing it would upset the Clinton administration that invited her....Read More

Into the Deep of Worship: Homily for VC Upper School Sep 3 2026

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Thursday, Wk 21 OT                                                  August 14, 2026Fr. Alexander Albert                                                              St. Mary Magdalen, Abbeville https://youtu.be/HX1e4ouxSm8 One thousand four hundred thirty-six years ago, a fifty-year-old monk named Gregory was elected as the 64th bishop of Rome - pope - by popular acclamation. Over the next 14 years, Pope Gregory wrote important letters and books, restored the influence of Catholicism in France and Spain, challenged and held powerful people accountable, sent missionaries to convert England, protected the Church's teaching on the sacraments, defended the human rights of non-Christians, organized the largest charity network the world had ever seen to feed, and made important...Read More

Untamed Faith: Homily for the 22nd Sunday OT 2026

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22nd Sunday of Ordinary Time, A                                                                  August 30, 2026Fr. Alexander Albert                                                  St. Mary Magadalen, Abbeville, LA https://youtu.be/67OBrwIGMZs “Is he quite safe?” “Safe?... who said anything about safe? Course he isn't safe. But he's good.” C.S. Lewis uses that little dialogue to introduce the central Christ-figure of his books, The Chronicles of Narnia – a magical world full of talking animals in which God appears as a lion named Aslan. It’s what fiction stories are meant for – to take an idea that’s familiar to us and put in a different form so we can see it in a new...Read More

The Heavens Proclaim Your Glory: Invocation for SpaceX Louisiana Announcement

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https://youtu.be/2xkMQRz-FDM In the eighth psalm, the Church prays, “When I see the heavens, the work of your hands, the moon and the stars which you arranged, what is man that you should keep him in mind, mortal man that you care for him? Yet you have made him little less than a god; with glory and honor you crowned him, gave him power over the works of your hands, put all things under his feet.” From when the first man gazed in wonder at the stars unto today, Lord, humanity has marveled at the glories of the universe you have made. Yet,...Read More

A Divine Footnote: Homily for the 21st Sunday OT 2026

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21st Sunday of Ordinary Time, A                                                                   August 23, 2026Fr. Alexander Albert                                                   St. Mary Magadalen, Abbeville, LA https://youtu.be/a6yMdHUoeIM In 1949, a Russian philosopher named Nikolai published a book about God. As a scholar, he used footnotes to cite his sources. One footnote, however, has becoming an enduring meme on the internet because it just says, “this was revealed to me in a dream.” Try that on next paper in English class and see what happens! And yet… if St. Joseph had written a paper about traveling to Egypt, he would be right to say “this was revealed to me in...Read More

Put Me In, Coach: Homily for the 20th Sunday OT 2026

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20th Sunday of Ordinary Time, A                                                                   August 16, 2026Fr. Alexander Albert                                                   St. Mary Magadalen, Abbeville, LA https://youtu.be/PKGsXlQav88 Here’s a modern day parable. A football coach was leading practice when a soccer player approached and said, “please help me be a better athlete.” The coach ignored him, focusing on leading passing drills. The soccer player kept insisting until the football players complained he was getting in the way. So the coach said to the soccer player, “I’m here to help my players get better at catching the ball, I can’t waste time on some foot lover.” The soccer...Read More

Loved to the Max: Homily for VC’s Opening Mass 2026

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Memorial, St. Maximilian Kolbe                                                                   August 14, 2026Fr. Alexander Albert                                                              Vermilion Catholic, Abbeville https://youtu.be/OPrEYfMIRwc Parents & grandparents, if your child or grandchild was in danger and the only way to save them would mean you had to die… would you do it? Would you trade your life for theirs? Students, raise your hand if you have younger brother or sister. Don’t raise your hand for this one, but think about this: would you trade your life to save your younger sibling? People, would you trade your life for your best friend? For your neighbor? Would you trade your...Read More