Tag: Greatness

You Can Be Great: School Homily for the Memorial of St. Therese 2026

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Memorial of St. Therese of Lisieux                                                               October 1, 2026Fr. Alexander Albert                                                              St. Mary Magdalen, Abbeville https://youtu.be/m7ErMAI8mOg “You can do anything if you set your mind to it.” Maybe they don’t say that anymore – I hope not – but people used to say that all the time when I was a kid: “you can do anything if you set your mind to it.” The intention was to encourage kids to do great things, to build their confidence, and inspire them to dream big. That was the intention. It was not the effect. The human race has more anxiety now than...Read More

Homily for the 29th Sunday of Ordinary Time: Aspiring to Greatness

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29th Sunday of Ordinary Time, B                                                                  October 17, 2021Fr. Albert                                                                                St. John the Evangelist, Jeanerette https://youtu.be/YMh_jINNQ5k “You can do whatever you set your mind to.” No, you can’t. This claim is made all the time by parents, teachers, advertisements, and politicians in our culture. Children are filled with this idea from the time they are very little and hear it repeated constantly until some brutal encounter with reality shatters this fragile illusion. Then they must choose between being willfully naive, coldly cynical, or coming to a greater realism. And few people really get to that last one. I once...Read More