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

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

Considered Suffering: Homily for the 15th Sunday of Ordinary Time

15th Sunday of Ordinary Time, A                                                                               July 16, 2023Fr. Alexander Albert                                                               St. John the Evangelist, Jeanerette https://youtu.be/fmqitH9yJVY “I consider that the sufferings of this present time are as nothing.” Isn’t that a bit callous? If you tell someone in serious pain that their pain is nothing, people would think you are insensitive, cold-hearted, mean. Rightly so, too. But that’s not what St. Paul is saying in our second reading. We need to pay attention to what he actually says. He doesn’t say “suck it up” or “your pain is nothing.” He says he “considers” the suffering is...Read More