Category: Homilies

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Love Enough to Lose: Homily for 23rd Sunday OT 2026

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23rd Sunday of Ordinary Time, A                                                       September 9, 2026Fr. Alexander Albert                                                  St. Mary Magadalen, Abbeville, LA https://youtu.be/Dyifbk38pi0 Towards the end of her life, Mother Teresa had become quite famous and was beloved by most of the world. The Nobel Prize in 1979, articles and covers on major publications, speaking engagements at the national and international level… these helped her work get attention and funding, so Mother Teresa was willing to accept the popularity. At the US National Prayer Breakfast in 1994, however, Mother Teresa famously preached against abortion despite knowing it would upset the Clinton administration that invited her....Read More

Untamed Faith: Homily for the 22nd Sunday OT 2026

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22nd Sunday of Ordinary Time, A                                                                  August 30, 2026Fr. Alexander Albert                                                  St. Mary Magadalen, Abbeville, LA https://youtu.be/67OBrwIGMZs “Is he quite safe?” “Safe?... who said anything about safe? Course he isn't safe. But he's good.” C.S. Lewis uses that little dialogue to introduce the central Christ-figure of his books, The Chronicles of Narnia – a magical world full of talking animals in which God appears as a lion named Aslan. It’s what fiction stories are meant for – to take an idea that’s familiar to us and put in a different form so we can see it in a new...Read More

The Heavens Proclaim Your Glory: Invocation for SpaceX Louisiana Announcement

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https://youtu.be/2xkMQRz-FDM In the eighth psalm, the Church prays, “When I see the heavens, the work of your hands, the moon and the stars which you arranged, what is man that you should keep him in mind, mortal man that you care for him? Yet you have made him little less than a god; with glory and honor you crowned him, gave him power over the works of your hands, put all things under his feet.” From when the first man gazed in wonder at the stars unto today, Lord, humanity has marveled at the glories of the universe you have made. Yet,...Read More

A Divine Footnote: Homily for the 21st Sunday OT 2026

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21st Sunday of Ordinary Time, A                                                                   August 23, 2026Fr. Alexander Albert                                                   St. Mary Magadalen, Abbeville, LA https://youtu.be/a6yMdHUoeIM In 1949, a Russian philosopher named Nikolai published a book about God. As a scholar, he used footnotes to cite his sources. One footnote, however, has becoming an enduring meme on the internet because it just says, “this was revealed to me in a dream.” Try that on next paper in English class and see what happens! And yet… if St. Joseph had written a paper about traveling to Egypt, he would be right to say “this was revealed to me in...Read More

Put Me In, Coach: Homily for the 20th Sunday OT 2026

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20th Sunday of Ordinary Time, A                                                                   August 16, 2026Fr. Alexander Albert                                                   St. Mary Magadalen, Abbeville, LA https://youtu.be/PKGsXlQav88 Here’s a modern day parable. A football coach was leading practice when a soccer player approached and said, “please help me be a better athlete.” The coach ignored him, focusing on leading passing drills. The soccer player kept insisting until the football players complained he was getting in the way. So the coach said to the soccer player, “I’m here to help my players get better at catching the ball, I can’t waste time on some foot lover.” The soccer...Read More

Loved to the Max: Homily for VC’s Opening Mass 2026

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Memorial, St. Maximilian Kolbe                                                                   August 14, 2026Fr. Alexander Albert                                                              Vermilion Catholic, Abbeville https://youtu.be/OPrEYfMIRwc Parents & grandparents, if your child or grandchild was in danger and the only way to save them would mean you had to die… would you do it? Would you trade your life for theirs? Students, raise your hand if you have younger brother or sister. Don’t raise your hand for this one, but think about this: would you trade your life to save your younger sibling? People, would you trade your life for your best friend? For your neighbor? Would you trade your...Read More

Love That Believes: Homily for the 19th Sunday OT 2026

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19th Sunday of Ordinary Time, A                                                                   August 9, 2026Fr. Alexander Albert                                                   St. Mary Magadalen, Abbeville, LA https://youtu.be/19d4nHV-1E8 “O you of little faith, why did you doubt?” Because it’s kinda crazy to be walking on water, Jesus, that’s why! Like, it’s one thing to watch you heal people and do miracles. It doesn’t stretch our minds too much to say “okay, Jesus is special and has miraculous power, so of course he can heal people.” It’s quite a different thing to be standing on water in the middle of a storm! How does that even work? Were his...Read More

If You Love Me: Homily for the 18th Sunday OT 2026

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18th Sunday of Ordinary Time, A                                                                   August 2, 2026Fr. Alexander Albert                                                   St. Mary Magadalen, Abbeville, LA https://youtu.be/8lNz9OUZfO8 “If you love me, then you would…” We all have experiences of people who claim to love us but then fail to act like it. We have all said we love and then failed to live it. It’s not about putting conditions on love, but there is room for putting conditions on believing someone when they claim to love us. When that claim does not match their actions they either lied to us, didn’t understand what they promised, or allowed...Read More

Worth It: Homily for the 17th Sunday OT 2026

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17th Sunday of Ordinary Time, A                                                                   July 26, 2026Fr. Alexander Albert                                                   St. Mary Magadalen, Abbeville, LA https://youtu.be/l7tpqzU2ojc “Worth it!” That’s what I said when I got off the record-breaking roller coaster Steel Vengeance. Despite the annoyance of traveling to Ohio, despite the cost of the tickets, and despite the hours of waiting in line, it was “worth it.” That’s a fairly insignificant example the fact that the good things in life often cost us something. Jesus is tapping into that common human experience to make his point about the kingdom of heaven. The pearl of great price,...Read More

Our Transfigured Sister: Homily for Mary Magdalen’s Patronal Feast 2026

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Solemnity of St. Mary Magdalen, Patron of the Parish                                  July 19, 2026Fr. Alexander Albert                                                   St. Mary Magadalen, Abbeville, LA https://youtu.be/ZcUhwWttMS0 The best day of my life was also the worst day of my life… if you can call that time period a “day.” It was more like a blur of three days where I’m not sure I slept or ate much. Reeling from a grace-filled decision to walk away from someone I loved and but still ensnared in a life I resented, I reached out desperately for mercy… and found it. Who knows how many nights I...Read More