Author: Father Albert

Daily Collection: Tuesday of the Second Week of Easter

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The Collect for Tuesday of the Second Week of Easter is: "Enable us, we pray, almighty God, to proclaim the power of the risen Lord, that we, who have received the pledge of his gift, may come to possess all he gives when it is fully revealed. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever." Reflection The power of the risen Lord is the power to overcome death and live in eternal happiness. In order to benefit from this power, we not...Read More

Pope Francis Endorses Albert the Ordinary!

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Okay, that title was kind of click-bait [caption id="attachment_1157" align="alignright" width="161"] "Thumbs up to Albert the Ordinary!" 1[/caption] But, it a very real sense it is true. When I created "Albert the Ordinary," I did not know that Pope Francis was planning to write a whole 44 page exhortation on ordinary holiness, but he did! On the Solemnity of the Annunciation, the Vatican released Gaudete et Exsultate: On The Call To Holiness In Today's World. In essence, the whole point of the document is to tell the whole world, all those ordinary people out there, that they too can and...Read More

Daily Collection: The Annunciation

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The Collect for the Solemnity of the Annunciation is: "O God, who willed that your Word should take on the reality of human flesh in the womb of the Virgin Mary, grant, we pray, that we, who confess our Redeemer to be God and man, may merit to become partakers even in his divine nature. Who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever." Reflection This prayer refers to what we often call "the marvelous exchange." God becomes man so that we can be come like God, "partakers in the...Read More
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Bring Your Baggage

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Homily for Divine Mercy Sunday                                            April 8, 2018 Fr. Albert                                                                   St. Peter’s, New Iberia  When you’ve been on a long trip, what’s the first thing you want to do when you get back? Perhaps you like to take a nap, grab a bite to eat, or just take a few moments to unwind. But what if, instead of all that, you were to go over to your neighbor’s house, take out the trash, mow the lawn, sweep, mop and clean up their whole house? Sounds fun? Well, that’s kind of what Jesus did. Jesus...Read More

Daily Collection: Second Sunday of Easter (Divine Mercy)

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The Collect for Divine Mercy Sunday is: "God of everlasting mercy, who in the very recurrence of the paschal feast kindle the faith of the people you have made your own, increase, we pray, the grace you have bestowed, that all may grasp and rightly understand in what font they have been washed, by whose Spirit they have been reborn, by whose Blood they have been redeemed. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever." Reflection We refer to the "very recurrence...Read More
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Disproving Christianity

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Homily for Easter Sunday                                                                              April 1, 2018 Fr. Albert                                                                                            St. Peter’s, New Iberia  Christianity is easy to disprove. Or at least, it should be. Our faith, the whole religion, the entire worldwide, two millennia old Catholic Church rests upon a single historical fact: that Jesus actually rose from the dead. If you can show that Jesus did not rise from the dead, then we are a bunch of fools… two billion people radically altering their lives all for the sake of some supposedly miraculous Jew from two thousand years ago… that would...Read More
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Daily Collection: Easter Sunday

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The Collect for the Easter Vigil is: "O God, who on this day, through your Only Begotten Son, have conquered death and unlocked for us the path to eternity, grant, we pray, that we who keep the solemnity of the Lord's Resurrection may, through the renewal brought by your Spirit, rise up in the light of life. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever." Reflection Christ conquers death, plain and simple. Easter is about his resurrection, which "unlocks the path to...Read More
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Daily Collection: The Easter Vigil

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The Collect for the Easter Vigil is: "O God, who make this most sacred night radiant with the glory of the Lord's Resurrection, stir up in your Church a spirit of adoption, so that, renewed in body and mind, we may render you undivided service. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever." Reflection By the time this prayer is prayed, the congregation will have heard the glorious Exsultet sung in honor of Christ the Light who dispels the darkness of sin....Read More
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What is Truth?

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Homily for Good Friday                                                                     March 30, 2018 Fr. Albert                                                                                           St. Peter’s, New Iberia  “What is Truth?” Pilate asks Jesus this question and our Lord says nothing in return. But he does give him an answer, just not with words. Yesterday at the Last Supper, we reflected on the meaning of words in general and one word in particular, love. We saw that Jesus’ new commandment, “love one another as I have loved you,” is a deadly, but truly beautiful command. Today however, we will not go very far with words. Love, and its...Read More
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Daily Collection: Good Friday

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The Collect for Good Friday's commemoration of the Cross is: "Remember your mercies, O Lord, and with your eternal protection sanctify your servants for whom Christ your Son, by the shedding of his Blood, established the Paschal Mystery. Who lives and reigns for ever and ever. Amen" Reflection As we remember Christ's passion and death, we begin our prayer by asking God to remember His mercy. Of course He does not need to be reminded, but this way of talking to God is an ancient practice found throughout scripture. In reality, we are reminding ourselves of God's mercy in order...Read More