Author: Father Albert

Daily Collection: Third Sunday of Easter

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The Collect for the Third Sunday of Easter is: "May your people exult for ever, O God, in renewed youthfulness of spirit, so that, rejoicing now in the restored glory of our adoption, we may look forward in confident hope to the rejoicing of the day of resurrection. 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 Joy is the theme of the season, so we ask for the grace to find that joy, to "exult," in the right things. Since salvation...Read More

Daily Collection: Saturday of the Second Week of Easter

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The Collect for Thursday of the Second Week of Easter is: "Set aside, O Lord, the bond of sentence written for us by the law of sin, which in the Paschal Mystery you canceled through the Resurrection of Christ your Son. Who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever." Reflection Many people do not seem to think in this way anymore, but the reality is that Original Sin put all of humanity in debt. That's what this prayer means by the "bond of sentence." In justice, that debt means...Read More

Daily Collection: Pope St. Martin I

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The Collect for Pope St. Martin is: "Grant, almighty God that we may withstand the trials of this world with invincible firmness of purpose, just as you did not allow your Martyr Pope Saint Martin the First to be daunted by threats or broken by suffering. 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 Pope St. Martin I was the last Pope to be martyred. He was exiled and died from mistreatment and starvation. He vehemently opposed a terrible heresy that...Read More

Daily Collection: Thursday of the Second Week of Easter

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The Collect for Thursday of the Second Week of Easter is: "O God, who for the salvation of the world brought about the paschal sacrifice, be favorable to the supplications of your people, so that Christ our High Priest, interceding on our behalf, may by his likeness to ourselves bring us reconciliation, and by his equality with you free us from our sins. 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 Though a complicated sentence, this prayer is rich in what...Read More

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