Category: Homilies

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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

Sacramental & Human: Homily for Holy Family Sunday 2025

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Feast of the Holy Family, A                                                       December 28, 2025Fr. Alexander Albert                                                          St. Mary Magdalen, Abbeville https://youtu.be/EWkdXx9XLzo It’s kind of weird, isn’t it? Mary was conceived without sin. Mary is the most perfect servant of God to ever exist. Mary gave birth to God’s own son. Yet, Mary gets exactly one visit from an angel. But Joseph? He gets not one, but four visits from angels. There’s the first confirming Mary’s claim before Jesus is born. Then there are the three we see today. One telling him to flee to Egypt, another telling him to go home,...Read More

Where is God? Homily for Christmas 2025

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Christmas                                                                                         December 25, 2025Fr. Alexander Albert                                                            St. Mary Magdalen, Abbeville https://youtu.be/KaOd3emzO4s “Where is God?” Agnes Bojaxhiu once asked a variation of that question to a bishop during adoration. Agnes was born in 1910 to a devoutly Catholic family. Besides their daily prayers and weekly Mass attendance, the family also expressed their faith in and love of the invisible God with a weekly visit to the poor to bring food and clothes and company. Like any Catholic family and even many secular ones, Christmas was a time of joy and celebration and family and...Read More

What’s In A Name: Homily for the 4th Sunday of Advent 2025

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4th Sunday of Advent, A                                                                  December 21, 2025Fr. Alexander Albert                                                            St. Mary Magdalen, Abbeville https://youtu.be/KGRQCZBwWtE Myth. Legend. Liar. Lunatic. The cause of wars. The symbol of oppression, hatred, and discrimination. The angry judge. The source of guilt and repression. The role model. The teacher. The nice guy. The Lord. The Savior… When you call upon Jesus, when you think or speak of him, how do you name him? Because everyone of those titles, every one of those “names” has been applied to Jesus of Nazareth. But this is not a sociological question. It is a personal one. What do...Read More

The Joy of Poverty: Homily for Gaudete Sunday 2025

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3rd Sunday of Advent, A                                                             December 14, 2025Fr. Alexander Albert                                                         St. Mary Magdalen, Abbeville N.B. Technical Difficulties meant the recording failed this week. You don’t have to feel Catholic in order to be Catholic. You don’t have to feel Catholic in order to be Catholic. Somehow, American Catholics bought into the lie that practicing a faith you don’t feel deep down makes you a hypocrite, that acting Catholic while you have doubts makes you a hypocrite. It doesn’t. How do I know? Because we have an example no less illustrious than John the Baptist himself. Look again at what...Read More

Done To Her For Me: Homily for the Immaculate Conception

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Immaculate Conception of Mary                                                         December 8, 2025Fr. Alexander Albert                                                          St. Mary Magdalen, Abbeville https://youtu.be/DTeKU_PwCgg The most powerful thing ever done by a human being and it was done before she was even born. Mary is the Immaculate Conception. From the very first instant of her existence in her mother’s womb, Mary was immaculate, totally free from sin, a human being the likes of which had not existed since Adam and Eve were first created in the garden. We speak of Mary’s Immaculate Conception with such familiarity that this is lost on us. An uncorrupted human nature? No sin...Read More

In Accord With The Kingdom: Homily for 2nd Sunday Advent 2025

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2nd Sunday of Advent, A                                                                December 7, 2025Fr. Alexander Albert                                                           St. Mary Magdalen, Abbeville https://youtu.be/gL_YwlId6KI I feel as though being a priest, a spiritual father entitles me to the occasional dad joke, so here’s a bible dad joke: What kind of car does Jesus have? A Honda, but he doesn’t drive it: “I came not of my own accord, but he sent me” (Jn 8:42, RSV). Really though, what is this “accord” scripture speaks of? St. Paul today in our second reading prays that “with one accord you may with one voice glorify the God and Father of our...Read More

The Hour of His Coming: Homily for the 1st Sunday of Advent 2025

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1st Sunday of Advent, A                                                                 November 30, 2025Fr. Alexander Albert                                                           St. Mary Magdalen, Abbeville https://youtu.be/kKP5CynznWw One Sunday when I was a boy, we were running late for reasons I don’t remember. My dad insisted on going to Mass every Sunday; that’s one of the only times I remember us not making it. Pulling up to the Church and seeing Mass about to end, my father decided we’d pray in the adoration chapel. He told us to spend some time in prayer to make up for missing Mass. So we did. I went in, knelt down, and told God sorry....Read More