Category: Homilies

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What He Gives: Homily for the 17th Sunday of Ordinary Time 2025

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17th Sunday of Ordinary Time, C                                                                   July 27, 2025Fr. Alexander Albert                                                               St. Mary Magdalen, Abbeville https://youtu.be/DUyblY3tRNo Couldn’t even find 10 people, could he? Abraham, I mean. God promises not to destroy Sodom and Gomorrah if there are just 10 innocent people in it. But they were destroyed. There’s even some archaeological evidence of where those cities were and what happened. Even if this story was just fictional morality parable, the point would be the same: Sodom and Gomorrah were so evil that they couldn’t come up with 10 innocent people. What does that mean for us? Well, a common...Read More

Him Whom My Heart Loves: Homily for the Patronal Feast of St. Mary Magdalen 2025

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Patronal Feast of St. Mary Magdalen                                                                         July 20, 2025Fr. Alexander Albert                                                              St. Mary Magdalen, Abbeville https://youtu.be/szYXUkvax6U “Him whom my heart loves.” Who does your heart love? Last week, Jesus exhorted us to love God with our whole heart, mind, being, and strength. Now we hear this love poem from the bible. The Song of Songs is 8 chapters of lyrical verse about love. Traditionally ascribed to King Solomon, some Church Fathers read this poem as an allegory for the kind of love that should exist between God and the human soul with God as the groom and the...Read More

Too Fast For Family: Homily for the 14th Sunday OT 2025

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14th Sunday of Ordinary Time, C                                                                   July 6, 2025Fr. Alexander Albert                                                               St. Mary Magdalen, Abbeville https://youtu.be/iiVB2xqgZao Have you ever been on the highway behind someone going too slow? You go to pass them, but right as you get even with them, it seems like they speed up to stay even with you? Are they being spiteful? Trying to stop you from passing? Maybe. More likely is that it’s not a conscious choice. Human beings are instinctively communal. Some part of our subconscious tells us “stay together.” So, unless the person is using cruise control or actively thinking about what...Read More

Sacramental Vision: Homily for the Solemnity of Sts. Peter and Paul 2025

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Solemnity of Sts. Peter and Paul                                                               June 29, 2025Fr. Alexander Albert                                                            St. Mary Magdalen, Abbeville https://youtu.be/bSt9aI65OsU Is a flower just a plant? Just a briefly living thing that withers and dies? Is a building just a composite of materials in a useful shape? In one sense, yes. In a far more important sense, no. Nothing is “just” that thing. A flower picked by a man in love and given to his beloved is obviously something more, but good luck in trying to measure that. In every culture, buildings are always more than just the shape and stuff....Read More

To Follow the Holy Spirit: Homily for Pentecost 2025

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Pentecost Sunday, C              Adult Confirmation Mass                          June 8, 2025Fr. Alexander Albert                                                          St. Mary Magdalen, Abbeville https://youtu.be/-W_p5fkkP_M Jesus says the word “peace” 23 times in the gospels. A few times are as part of a lesson. A few times are when he uses it like a simple farewell, “go in peace.” A few are when he tells the apostles to wish peace to the houses they visit while going on mission. The only time he gives peace directly to the Apostles, however, is the last supper and here. At the last supper, he says “Peace I leave with you;...Read More

How Would They Know? Homily for the 5th Sunday of Easter 2025

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5th Sunday of Easter, C                                   May 18, 2025Baccalaureate MassFr. Alexander Albert                                                      St. Mary Magdalen, Abbeville https://youtu.be/kHJjTW50yM4 “Nobody’s gonna know. Nobody’s gonna know. They’re gonna know. How would they know?” A few years ago, that little exchange became something of a trend on social media. People are still using it to make funny clips. So, let’s imagine for a moment that’s how today’s gospel plays out. Jesus is telling the apostles he’s about to leave them. He’s going to be “glorified;” the “glory” he’s talking about, by the way, is him being crucified and raised from the dead. After that,...Read More

Shepherds and Gunmen: Homily for 4th Sunday of Easter, 2025

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4th Sunday of Easter, C May 11, 2025Crisis Anniversary, New Pope, Good Shepherd SundayFr. Alexander Albert                                                          St. Mary Magdalen, Abbeville https://youtu.be/Q4ZzzNKinlw “With you I am a Christian, for you a bishop.” This is the quote our new Pope, Leo XIV used in his opening address. He’s quoting St. Augustine and the original context for it is even more amazing. When St. Augustine first said those words, he was afraid. The full quote is “What I am for you terrifies me; what I am with you consoles me. For you I am a bishop; but with you I am a...Read More

Obey, and be Free: Homily for the 3rd Sunday of Easter 2025

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3rd Sunday of Easter, C                                                                                   May 4, 2025Fr. Alexander Albert                                                               St. Mary Magdalen, Abbeville https://youtu.be/hCt3nyokYfk Though I never quite rejected my Catholic faith, there was a time that I didn’t live it, a time of selfishness and sin and distraction where no one looking in from the outside would have considered me a practicing Catholic. Then I had a conversion experience. Literally overnight, my life went from selfish pointlessness to a dedicated, daily effort to live my faith wholeheartedly. I suddenly enjoyed praying. I wanted to go to Mass, even during the week. I craved...Read More

Why Be Catholic? Homily for Divine Mercy Sunday 2025

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Divine Mercy Sunday                                                                                     April 27, 2025Fr. Alexander Albert                                                               St. Mary Magdalen, Abbeville https://youtu.be/Mm1TdLw5ZSY “Yet more than ever, believers in the Lord, great numbers of men and women, were added to them.” So our first reading depicts the beginning of the Catholic Church, people joining the Apostles in great numbers. Why do it? Why join the Catholic Church? Considering that around 15% of the entire U.S. population is ex-Catholic or that, in the U.S., about 8 people leave the Church for every 1 person that joins it, it’s an interesting question. Though that number sounds bad,...Read More