Author: Father Albert

19th Sunday OT, Year B  Deacon Albert St. John the Evangelist Cathedral https://sites.google.com/site/fatheralbertmedia/mp3/19%20Sun%20OT%20B.mp3 What a summer! ISIS still on rampage, a Supreme Court decision, shootings, constant political bickering, gut-wrenching undercover videos, financial chaos in Europe, and our own slump in the oil field … did I miss anything? Isn’t summer supposed to be a time of vacation and rest? But sports, school, and politics are just getting started – time, ordinary time doesn’t stop and the demands just keep coming. I don’t think I’m alone in wanting to shout to the heavens with Elijah: “This is enough, O Lord!” Maybe...Read More

12th Sunday in Ordinary Time Deacon Albert St. John the Evangelist Cathedral https://sites.google.com/site/fatheralbertmedia/mp3/12%20Sun%20OT%20B.wav “Teacher, do you not care that we are perishing?” The ship is the Catholic Church and we are the ones inside. Teacher, do you not see this huge storm of secularism that threatens to destroy the Church? The winds of change are blowing so fiercely that many in the world want to actually change what it means to be a family, a man or a woman. Christians are drinking the salt water of relativism and selfishness that has splashed over the sides of our ship. We are being...Read More

13th Sunday OT, Year B Alexander Albert St. John the Evangelist Cathedral https://sites.google.com/site/fatheralbertmedia/mp3/13%20Sun%20OT%20B.wav “Why trouble the teacher any longer?” The Court has ruled, the conservatives lost, same-sex marriage is legal – so why bother the teacher any longer? Why bother your friends and family? Why bother the government? What did your prayers get you? Almost every Sunday, almost every parish includes the government and our country in its petitions at mass. Did we not go before our Lord and Teacher, fall on our knees, and plead with him to come quickly to our country? How many of us thought that...Read More

Wednesday in 11th Week OT,                                   Alexander Albert St. John the Evangelist Cathedral https://sites.google.com/site/fatheralbertmedia/mp3/Wed%2011th%20OT%20Homily.wav             Faith is a virtue and a gift. Faith is not an arbitrary decision to agree with a given set of ideas, but it is a gift from God that is unearned and works by grace. It is also a virtue, a habit – it is the ability to see, to understand, and to trust things that are beyond mere reason.             Faith is supposed to result in actions – thats what virtues do. So,...Read More

Pentecost - May 24, 2015 Acts 2, 1 Cor 12, John 15-16 Deacon Albert Our Lady of Wisdom Catholic Church https://sites.google.com/site/fatheralbertmedia/mp3/First%20Homily%20-%20Pentecost%20Sunday%202015.mp3             Do the Apostles love the Jews? Are they afraid of them? What considerations fill their hearts and minds in today’s reading from the Acts of the Apostles? What concerns press upon them as they stand before thousands of “devout Jews from every nation under heaven” to testify to “the mighty acts of God?” Today’s gospel gives us that answer. Mother Church has often used song as a means of adorning and memorializing truly significant words and prayers, so I chanted these words...Read More