Author: Father Albert

Why Bother?

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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

On the Inside looking Out (Part I)

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I'm back! and boy have things on this blog gotten turned upside down... or was it inside out? Either way, having grown up in the digital continent, I decided it was time to go see the physical world with its seven! continents - or try to at least. Apparently hurtz and bytes don't get much recognition in the physical world, and we don't exactly issue passports. Long story short, I spent most of that time stuck in a disconnected server bank on the third floor of Notre Dame Seminary in New Orleans - not a visit a recommend unless you...Read More

Faith in Action

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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

My First Homily: Love Testifies to the Truth

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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

The End Is Near!

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33rd Sunday OT, Year C Fr. Albert St. Peter Catholic Church, New Iberia [audio wav="http://box5246.temp.domains/~alberuc3/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/33_OT_C.wav"][/audio]   The end is near! The end is near! Repent now, for we are living in the last days! In all seriousness, however, we are actually living in the last days. Really, the last days started when Jesus died on the Cross. Every day after that is among the “last days.” For us, the time to get right with God is right now, not when we see some cataclysmic warning sign. That is why Christ is keen on telling his disciples that they will “hear...Read More

Posit or pause it?

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Greetings from the Ephesian! For the few that have encountered my not-too-recent initiation of this here undertaking, a question may have arisen: "Where'd the Ephesian go?" Well, I've "gone" far too many places it seems and this going to and fro has left me with little time and even less motivation. Since I seem to be all human and limited and stuff (surprised?), this here blog, with its ambitious "once a week" intention completely fell by the wayside. While its probably no big deal (and mostly likely forgotten by most), I do apologize for any tiny amount of disappointment I...Read More

Dark Knight… of the soul?

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It's just hours before he rises (from where exactly?), and here I am trying to shine light on this Dark fellow. [Warning, dramatic prose may erupt...] As an aside, I would like to point out that my last post took a few tangents into the realm of shoulds and should nots, which were fun, but not the goal. I hope someone noticed that I'm writing posts about movies I've seen (and assume you've seen) and so it makes little sense for me to spend my time trying to tell people not to see what they've already seen. Certainly don't be...Read More

Begin!

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The Dark Knight is about go rising and storming box offices with a grizzly bear voice and a belt full o gadgets - exciting, no? Well, before he makes his cinematic ascension, I wanna talk about where he's been and where he is. The Dark Knight is a long and complicated move, and I intend to tackle it in a single post, so I'll try to concisely deal with major points when I get to it. Nonetheless, it'll probably be a long post, so... Alas, this post is not that post (got enough to make a fence yet?). Instead I...Read More

Ar..gu..u..nt..ur… wha?

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Greetings to the Digital Continent! I'm the Ephesian and this here is my blog: Lumen Est. In case you didn't know that's Latin for "it is light." I call it that because I read this letter by a guy named Paul - I think he's dead now - and that letter had a little section all about "living in the light" and such. Well, right there in the fifth chapter Paul said that everything exposed "by the light" becomes "is light" (visible), and I like things being visible. Apparently some sleeping people will rise from the dead a get a...Read More