Tag: Fruits of the Spirit

Where’s the Fruit? Homily for the 27th Sunday OT 2026

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27th Sunday in Ordinary Time                                                            October 4, 2026Fr. Alexander Albert                                                               St. Mary Magdalen, Abbeville https://youtu.be/ii6lQ1HkMrw Where is the fruit? Did the tenants refuse to give the vineyard’s produce to the owner because they were greedy and wanted to keep it for themselves? Maybe. It says they killed the owner’s son because they wanted his inheritance… which is a greedy thing to do, but the son’s inheritance isn’t the fruit. The owner eventually comes back and kills them for what they did, but it never tells us what happened to the produce they were supposed to give him. So, where is...Read More

The Flight of Joy: Homily for the 3rd Sunday of Advent 2023

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3rd Sunday of Advent, B                                                                                 December 17, 2023Fr. Alexander Albert                                                               St. John the Evangelist, Jeanerette https://youtu.be/hGXZtli3eJ8 Fly! Go on, start flying! It’s not like you don’t know how, there are about a million people in the air right now. So why aren’t you flying? Probably because it’s not as simple as just deciding “I’m flying now.” We can only fly in specific circumstances. It is the result of several forces beyond our control, it took us thousands of years to figure out how to do it. Flying is the fruit of a complex process. Despite being possible,...Read More

Homily for the 5th Sunday of Easter, B: Tending the Garden

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5th Sunday of Easter, B                                                                                              May 2, 2021Fr. Albert                                                                                St. John the Evangelist, Jeanerette https://youtu.be/cuuQwlxIuaU I tried. Last year, as the pandemic hit, I tried to start gardening, dabbling mostly… Tomatoes, bell peppers, a few vegetables… It did not go well. Most of what I started is dead now, overrun with weeds. The reason why is pretty straightforward: I didn’t take care of it. I started to be a gardener, but I did not remain a gardener, defaulting instead to a passive observer after the first few tomatoes and a single pumpkin. Such fruitlessness isn’t...Read More