Category: Homilies

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The Voice of the Shepherd: Homily for the 4th Sunday of Easter 2026

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4th Sunday of Easter, A                                                                                  April 26, 2026Fr. Alexander Albert                                                            St. Mary Magdalen, Abbeville https://youtu.be/klDma5Yrmw8 There’s an interesting trend on social media where parents test which one gets the first response from their child. The child is placed evenly. Both then either look at or call to the child. Whoever gets the first response “wins.” Children often have favorites and they are usually not ashamed to make it obvious who their favorite is. Jesus tells us “the sheep follow him because they recognize his voice. But they will not follow a stranger… because they do not...Read More

Making Disciples: Homily for Vermilion Catholic Sacraments Mass 2026

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Is 44, Ps 63, Titus 3, Mt 28                                                                          April 23, 2026Fr. Alexander Albert                                                            St. Mary Magdalen, Abbeville https://youtu.be/qs7oue0ZWSE “Make disciples of all nations.” That’s what we’re here for. That is the mission of Vermilion Catholic, a Legacy of Mt. Carmel. To make disciples. Jesus sends us to all nations and to all nations we will go. First, however, we begin with our own children, our own community. Elsewhere, Jesus even describes this mission as something that radiates outward: first Jerusalem, then the surrounding area of Judea and Samaria, and then to the ends of the earth. Well,...Read More

The Meaning of Your Story: Homily for the 3rd Sunday of Easter 2026

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3rd Sunday of Easter, A                                                                                April 19, 2026Fr. Alexander Albert                                                            St. Mary Magdalen, Abbeville https://youtu.be/cm8RLr6u-CY In 2010, a remake of the movie True Grit was released. There was some general excitement about it, so I went to see it. It’s about a young girl who gets vengeance for the murder of her father and at first, I hated it. I wondered why so many people liked it. Eventually, I came across a commentary that pointed out how the main character – the girl who got vengeance – wasn’t meant to be a hero, but a cautionary tale....Read More

Whom We Obey: Homily for Thursday of Easter Week 2

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Thursday, 2nd Week of Easter                                                                      April 16, 2026Fr. Alexander Albert                                                           St. Mary Magdalen, Abbeville https://youtu.be/uIuFdk_NzAs “We must obey God rather than men.” That is one of my favorite lines in all of scripture. “We must obey God rather than men.” In seven words, it sums up every hero and saint in salvation history. From Noah who endured mockery as he built the ark to Ruth who left her homeland to join God’s people to John the Baptist to Jesus himself, there are always men and women who say, “I don’t care what the world thinks, what powerful...Read More

Authority and Peace: Homily for the 2nd Sunday of Easter 2026

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2nd Sunday of Easter, A                                                                               April 12, 2026Fr. Alexander Albert                                                            St. Mary Magdalen, Abbeville N.B. Technical problems caused the video to cut in and out several times. https://youtu.be/VEPFxw-u_90 Authority is a terrifying thing. And a comforting one. Without the authority of divine revelation and the authority of divine mercy, there are many questions that cannot be answered and many human faults that cannot be overcome. When authority is abused, however, it creates things so terrible that it’s hard to imagine worse. That Apostles knew this on a deep, experiential, existential level. They are cowering in fear...Read More

Desire for Light: Easter Vigil, Pt 3 of the Paschal Triduum 2026

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Easter Vigil                                                                                           April 4, 2026Fr. Alexander Albert                                                           St. Mary Magdalen, Abbeville N.B. This is the third of a three-part series of homilies on the topic of desire. The first part can be found here and the second part here. https://youtu.be/Ul20JcyOtU0 Three days ago, 4 people sat atop 6 million pounds of machinery filled with 700,000 gallons of fuel for 3 hours, waiting for the whole thing to explode and launching them into an environment completely incompatible with human life: the vacuum of space. Now, at this very moment, those 4 people are closer to the moon...Read More

Desire to Suffer: Good Friday, Pt 2 of the Paschal Triduum 2026

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Good Friday of the Lord's Passion                                                             April 3, 2026Fr. Alexander Albert                                                           St. Mary Magdalen, Abbeville N.B. This is the second of a three-part series of homilies on the topic of desire. The first part can be found here and the third part here. The video livestream kept disconnecting, so there is only this audio recording done after the fact: https://youtu.be/HySy3uVGiSk “Shall I not drink the cup that the Father gave me?” Jesus wants to drink that cup, he desires to embrace the suffering and death prepared for him by the Father’s will. Why? Because desire...Read More

Desire for Love: Holy Thursday, Pt 1 of the Paschal Triduum 2026

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Mass of the Lord's Supper                                                                              April 2, 2026Fr. Alexander Albert                                                               St. Mary Magdalen, Abbeville N.B. This is the first of a three-part series of homilies on the topic of desire. The second part can be found here and the third part here. https://youtu.be/Y6TwfJLpISU “I have eagerly desired to eat this Passover with you” (Lk 22:15). You could say that desire is destiny. Not that that is always a good thing. The human heart wants many things it should not want and fails to want many of the things it should. Anyone who has known an...Read More

Keep Watch With Me: Homily for Palm Sunday 2026

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Palm Sunday, A                                                                                           March 29, 2026Fr. Alexander Albert                                                           St. Mary Magdalen, Abbeville https://youtu.be/PSgb2kBhC1s Who wins? The chief priests? Not when the veil of the sanctuary is torn. Judas? Certainly not when he takes his own life. Pontius Pilate? Not when he has to answer to his wife who asked him not to do it. The disciples? Not when they fell asleep in the garden, not in their futile attempt to use the sword, not when they fled and not when Peter denies Jesus. Who wins in the end, then? Jesus wins in his resurrection. But we aren’t there yet. Who...Read More

The Cost of Yes and No: Homily for the Annunciation 2026

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Solemnity of the Annunciation                                                                March 25, 2026Fr. Alexander Albert                                                            St. Mary Magdalen, Abbeville https://youtu.be/RldaNxT7TU0 If a known and proven prophet came to you and offered to do any one miracle you wanted, what would you ask for? Healing? A spectacular vision of heaven? Some impossible thing like the sun dancing across the sky? We know God can and has done miracles like that, so what would you ask for? When it’s hypothetical, I bet most of us could come up with something we’d ask for. In reality, however, many of us… perhaps most of us wouldn’t ask for anything. Why...Read More