Author: Father Albert

Daily Collection: Guardian Angels

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Daily Collection from memorial of the Guardian Angels Collect: O God, who in your unfathomable providence are pleased to send your holy Angels to guard us, hear our supplication as we cry to you, that we may always be defended by their protection and rejoice eternally in their company. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son... "O God, who in your unfathomable providence are pleased to send your holy Angels to guard us" -- God's providence is unfathomable for many reasons: it affects all time and space, it works according to a plan we don't fully know, and lastly that it also directs...Read More

Daily Collection: St. Therese of Lisieux

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Daily Collection taken from the memorial of St. Therese of the Child Jesus, Virgin Collect: O God, who open your Kingdom to those who are humble and to little ones, lead us to follow trustingly in the little way of Saint Thérèse, so that through her intercession we may see your eternal glory revealed. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son... "O God, who open your Kingdom to those who are humble and to little ones" -- We praise God because of his humble accessibility. Over half the world lives below the poverty line and has no real share in the political and...Read More

Daily Collection: St. Jerome

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Daily Collection taken from the Memorial of St. Jerome, Doctor of the Church Collect: O God, who gave the Priest Saint Jerome a living and tender love for Sacred Scripture, grant that your people may be ever more fruitfully nourished by your Word and find in it the fount of life. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son... "O God, who gave the Priest Saint Jerome a living and tender love for Sacred Scripture" -- We see that the gift of Scripture is so great, that even the ability to love it is a gift. This also reminds us that we all good...Read More

Daily Collection: Feast of the Angels

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Daily Collection taken from today's feast of the Archangels Michael, Gabriel, and Raphael. Collect: O God, who dispose in marvelous order ministries both angelic and human, graciously grant that our life on earth may be defended by those who watch over us as they minister perpetually to you in heaven. Through our Lord Jesus Christ... "O God, who dispose in marvelous order ministries both angelic and human" -- We praise God in particular for the great diversity and complementarity in his design for the world. Just as Christians work together to be one body in Christ, so the angels are each given their...Read More

Daily Collection: St. Wenceslaus

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Daily Collection is taken from the optional memorial of St. Wenceslaus, Martyr Collect: O God, who taught the Martyr Saint Wenceslaus to place the heavenly Kingdom before an earthly one, grant through his prayers that, denying ourselves, we may hold fast to you with all our heart. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son... "O God, who taught the Martyr Saint Wenceslaus to place the heavenly Kingdom before an earthly one" -- We pray daily "thy kingdom come," but how often do we or anyone we know actually live in this manner? We praise God for the witness of a man who had...Read More

A Bridge ‘For Us’

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26th Sunday OT, Year B                            September 27, 2015 Deacon Albert St. John the Evangelist Cathedral https://sites.google.com/site/fatheralbertmedia/mp3/26_OT_B_11.mp3 “Whoever is not against us is for us.” Not a bad rule of thumb. After all, it is pretty hard to make your way through life if you violently attack anyone and everyone who doesn’t live and think in a way identical to your own. Perhaps this teaching inspires Pope Francis’ efforts to find common ground with politicians by applying the Church’s teaching to major political issues. He has tried to go before them to say “you don’t...Read More

Daily Collection: Sts Cosmas and Damian

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Today's Daily Collection comes from Sts. Cosmas and Damian, Martyrs Collect: May you be magnified, O Lord, by the revered memory of your Saints Cosmas and Damian, for with providence beyond words you have conferred on them everlasting glory, and on us, your unfailing help. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son... "May you be magnified, O Lord, by the revered memory of your Saints Cosmas and Damian" -- To praise the works of the Lord is to praise the Lord. Especially in the case of Martyrs like these two, to remember the great things that a person did for the Love of God...Read More

Does it look like nothing in your eyes?

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Friday of 25th Week OT Deacon Albert St. John the Evangelist Cathedral “Who is left among you that saw this house in its former glory? And how do you see it now? Does it not seem like nothing in your eyes?” There are some who look back on the “glory days” of the Church and the Church of today pales in comparison, it looks much worse off. Perhaps they lament the change in membership, in liturgy, in style or in some other way. But our Lord tells us today “take courage” because the whole world, and especially the Church are...Read More

Daily Collection: Padre Pio

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Today's Daily Collection is from Padre Pio. Collect: Almighty ever-living God, who, by a singular grace, gave the Priest Saint Pius a share in the Cross of your Son and, by means of his ministry, renewed the wonders of your mercy, grant that through his intercession we may be united constantly to the sufferings of Christ, and so brought happily to the glory of the resurrection. Through our Lord Jesus Christ... "Almighty ever-living God, who, by a singular grace, gave the Priest Saint Pius a share in the Cross of your Son" -- While we thank God for the miraculous gift of Padre Pio's...Read More

Daily Collection: St. Matthew

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Today's Daily Collection is from St. Matthew, Apostle Collect: O God, who with untold mercy were pleased to choose as an Apostle Saint Matthew, the tax collector, grant that, sustained by his example and intercession, we may merit to hold firm in following you. Through our Lord Jesus Christ... "O God, who with untold mercy were pleased to choose as an Apostle Saint Matthew, the tax collector" -- God's mercy precedes our conversion. In fact, it is the undeserving gift of grace, coming from God's mercy, that enables us to repent at all. By this Mercy, God's grace can fill our hearts and minds,...Read More