Author: Father Albert

What We Really Owe: Homily for the 29th Sunday OT 2026

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29th Sunday in Ordinary Time                                                            October 18, 2026Fr. Alexander Albert                                                               St. Mary Magdalen, Abbeville https://youtu.be/KNSv9RoT6Ok “Taxation is theft.” Certain conservative and libertarian political movements – even some Catholics sometimes say that. And you know what? They’re not always wrong. Some taxation is theft. Sometimes a government is a bully with power to take what they want. Even if that’s true, you should probably still pay taxes. Why? “Repay to Caesar what belongs to Caesar.” Remember, Jesus is God. God. Infinitely powerful, all-knowing, and infinitely good. God says, “repay to Caesar.” For a lot of people, Caesar was a corrupt bully...Read More

The Door of Trust: Homily for the 28th Sunday OT 2026

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28th Sunday in Ordinary Time                                                            October 11, 2026Fr. Alexander Albert                                                               St. Mary Magdalen, Abbeville https://youtu.be/Vc1NZ_s-zck When emails, phone calls, and meetings start to weigh on me, I like to just walk into the cafeteria or playground at VC. Yeah, the hugs and high fives and excited shouts – “Fr. Albert!” – are awesome, but it’s also the questions. They’re often silly, but sometimes they are truly profound – the kind that explains why Jesus tells us to become like children… willing to ask and to trust Our Father with what matters most. One question I got recently from a 5-year-old...Read More

Where’s the Fruit? Homily for the 27th Sunday OT 2026

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27th Sunday in Ordinary Time                                                            October 4, 2026Fr. Alexander Albert                                                               St. Mary Magdalen, Abbeville https://youtu.be/ii6lQ1HkMrw Where is the fruit? Did the tenants refuse to give the vineyard’s produce to the owner because they were greedy and wanted to keep it for themselves? Maybe. It says they killed the owner’s son because they wanted his inheritance… which is a greedy thing to do, but the son’s inheritance isn’t the fruit. The owner eventually comes back and kills them for what they did, but it never tells us what happened to the produce they were supposed to give him. So, where is...Read More

You Can Be Great: School Homily for the Memorial of St. Therese 2026

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Memorial of St. Therese of Lisieux                                                               October 1, 2026Fr. Alexander Albert                                                              St. Mary Magdalen, Abbeville https://youtu.be/m7ErMAI8mOg “You can do anything if you set your mind to it.” Maybe they don’t say that anymore – I hope not – but people used to say that all the time when I was a kid: “you can do anything if you set your mind to it.” The intention was to encourage kids to do great things, to build their confidence, and inspire them to dream big. That was the intention. It was not the effect. The human race has more anxiety now than...Read More

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