Author: Father Albert

Daily Collection: Our Lady of the Rosary

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Daily Collection from the memorial of Our Lady of the Rosary Collect: Pour forth, we beseech you, O Lord, your grace into our hearts, that we, to whom the Incarnation of Christ you Son was made known by the message of an Angel, may, through the intercession of the Blessed Virgin Mary, by his Passion and Cross be brought to the glory of his Resurrection. Who lives and reigns... "Pour forth, we beseech you, O Lord, your grace into our hearts" -- In Jewish and Christian usage, the "heart" is not just the vessel that pumps blood. It is also not just where...Read More

Daily Collection: Blessed Marie Rose Durocher

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Daily Collection from the optional memorial of Blessed Marie Rose Durocher, Virgin Collect: Lord, who enkindled in the heart of Blessed Marie Rose Durocher the flame of ardent charity and a great desire to cooperate in the mission of the Church as a teacher, grant us that same active love, so that, in responding to the needs of the world today, we may lead our brothers and sisters to the blessedness of eternal life. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son... "Lord, who enkindled in the heart of Blessed Marie Rose Durocher the flame of ardent charity and a great desire to cooperate...Read More

Daily Collection: 27th Sunday in Ordinary Time

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Daily Collection taken from the Twenty-Seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time Collect: Almighty ever-living God, who in the abundance of your kindness surpass the merits and the desires of those who entreat you, pour out your mercy upon us to pardon what conscience dreads and to give what prayer does not dare to ask. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son... "Almighty ever-living God, who in the abundance of your kindness surpass the merits and the desires of those who entreat you" -- Although we speak of merit, we always recognize that the ability to merit something is itself God's gift to us. The...Read More

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