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Billboards & Mirrors: Homily for the 5th Sunday OT 2026

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5th Sunday of Ordinary Time, A                                                              February 8, 2026Fr. Alexander Albert                                                           St. Mary Magdalen, Abbeville N.B. Technical difficulties during streaming mean the video is broken up and incomplete. https://youtu.be/uTQDN-xeZLM Audio Re-recorded: In 1835, a New York City printer named Jared Bell used his equipment to print an image on a special cloth-based paper that was 6 feet wide and 8 feet high. The specialized paper meant the image was durable enough to stay outside for a long time, thus marking the first ever modern billboard advertisement. Jared Bell used this cutting-edge marketing technology to advertise Barnum & Bailey’s circus....Read More

Beyond The Way of All Flesh: Homily for St. Agatha, VC School Mass

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Thursday, Week 4 OT (St. Agatha)                                                         February 5, 2026Fr. Alexander Albert                                                           St. Mary Magdalen, Abbeville https://youtu.be/q9o9fzR-g7Y “I am going the way of all flesh.” When King David says that to his son Solomon, he means he is going to die. But the way he expresses that is important for us to understand. Death really is the way of all flesh. Everyone dies eventually. King Solomon is a legendary king, but he’s dead now. The 12 apostles that Jesus sends out? All dead. The people they healed, the ones they delivered from demons? All dead. When we really think about...Read More

The Water of the Temple: Homily for the Anniversary of the Dedication of St. Mary Magdalen Church

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Anniversary of the Church's Dedication                January 31, 2026Fr. Alexander Albert                                                        St. Mary Magdalen, Abbeville https://youtu.be/UX7mVfx6Cmo It’s about the water, you know. For us, at least… for our earthly building, this glorious temple to God called St. Mary Magdalen Church, it is about the water flowing to the right side of the temple, the water that makes polluted water fresh, that gives life to plant and animal, the water that so enriches the trees it nourishes, their fruit in unfailing food and their leaves perfect medicine. What do I mean? I mean grace, of course. This building, this temple truly is...Read More

A Heavenly Hunger: Homily for the 4th Sunday OT 2026

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4th Sunday of Ordinary Time, A                                                             February 1, 2026Fr. Alexander Albert                                                           St. Mary Magdalen, Abbeville https://youtu.be/DAKE9jarScg Are you unsatisfied? Is something missing, something not quite right? Do you often wake up or fall asleep with the nagging sense that there’s something you want but don’t yet have? Like maybe you’re hungry, but not quite sure if it’s real hunger or just boredom… that you don’t even know what you want to eat? And after the late-night snack or the early morning breakfast, does that vacancy, that subtle emptiness still tug at the edge of your mind? Good. If any...Read More

Education of the Heart: Homily for Catholic Schools Week 2026

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Tuesday Week 3 OT               Catholic Schools Week                            January 27, 2026Fr. Alexander Albert                                                           Vermilion Catholic, Abbeville “Then David came dancing before the Lord with abandon.” When is the last time you danced with abandon? The last time you got so excited about something you completely let loose and celebrated without caring about how you looked or what others might think? I don’t often let loose in that kind of way. I think of the first time I got a deer while hunting and I simply shouted with joy right there on the spot. I think of running down...Read More

The Call of the Light: Homily for the 3rd Sunday OT 2026

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3rd Sunday of Ordinary Time, A                                                             January 25, 2026Fr. Alexander Albert                                                            St. Mary Magdalen, Abbeville https://youtu.be/hAUKlxBw3kY “What can we do? What can I do?” Maybe you’ve asked that question a few times this month. From international anxiety over Venezuela and Greenland to ongoing unrest in Minnesota to the disturbing allegations of abuse in our own diocese, there are a lot of reasons to be worried or even feel powerless. Perhaps you identify with that description of Zebulun and Naphtali in Isaiah. Perhaps you feel like a people who “sit in darkness” and like “those dwelling in a land overshadowed...Read More

Making Peace for Life: Homily for VC Pro-Life Mass 2026

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Pro-life Mass (Peace & Justice)                                                      January 15, 2026Fr. Alexander Albert                                                           St. Mary Magdalen, Abbeville https://youtu.be/VFEnWw-Y-FY “Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called children of God.” What, I wonder, do you imagine when I describe a person as a “peacemaker?” Someone who gets along with everyone? St. James the Apostle in our second reading describes wisdom as “pure, peaceable, gentle, compliant, full of mercy and good fruits.” So, yeah, gentleness, compliance, and mercy are all connected to peace and making peace. But St. James also says that peace has to be connected to righteousness. Then Isaiah the prophet says,...Read More

A Father’s Approval: Homily for the Baptism of the Lord, 2026

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Baptism of the Lord, A                                                                      January 11, 2026Fr. Alexander Albert                                                            St. Mary Magdalen, Abbeville https://youtu.be/sJHGxSiOQ6k Why are you here? Why do you go to Mass, pray, do the Catholic thing? Habit? Someone else making you do it? Curiosity? Fear of Hell? Motivation in human beings is strange. Animals have instincts that tell them what to seek. They are biologically programed to want food, water, sleep, affection, pleasure and so on. We want those things too, but under the surface, there’s a whole mess of tangled motivations. You feed, shelter, and show affection to an...Read More

Gifts that Reveal: Homily for Epiphany 2026

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Solemnity of the Epiphany                                                                       January 4, 2025Fr. Alexander Albert                                                           St. Mary Magdalen, Abbeville https://youtu.be/r41LqpPi4aA Epiphany. It means “manifestation.” Having an “epiphany” is like an “aha!” moment. Funnily enough though, today’s solemnity is so rich in meaning that it can be hard to pinpoint any one insight. Because God is the ultimate author of scripture, he endows the words with the power to convey more than one truth. It’s why, despite spending 1700 years studying God’s word, there are still parts we don’t fully understand and that we’re still finding new insights in other parts....Read More

The Smile of God: Homily for Mary, Mother of God 2026

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Mary, Mother of God                                                                                January 1, 2026Fr. Alexander Albert                                                           St. Mary Magdalen, Abbeville https://youtu.be/EPagZfs_8uo When I was serving as a deacon at Cathedral, Msgr. Mouton was living there in retirement. Very much his own man, Monsignor Mouton was quite disciplined. His expectations of others and himself were quite high. I’ve also heard stories that, when he taught seniors at Vermilion Catholic, he would tell his students outright, “you are not going to make an ‘A’ in my class.” I don’t know if that proved to be true or not, but I get the impression that...Read More