Tag: Holy Thursday

2025 Triduum Part I: Healing our Communion

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Mass of the Lord's Supper                                                                              April 17, 2025Fr. Alexander Albert                                                               St. Mary Magdalen, Abbeville https://youtu.be/3VSL59f5zG4 “I have eagerly desired to eat this Passover with you” (Lk 22:15). Jesus says that in Luke’s Gospel, but I’m saying it too. We aren’t just remembering something, we are entering into it. Tonight, tomorrow, and Saturday, we are participating in a continuous liturgy that truly makes present the most important event in all of time and space. Entering into that reality with you is not just a nice addition to us as parish and pastor… it helps define our...Read More

Holy Thursday – Part I of the Triduum: A New Love

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Mass of the Lord’s Supper                                                                              March 28, 2024Fr. Alexander Albert                                                               St. John the Evangelist, Jeanerette https://youtu.be/W2LmLDbBnDY “Love one another as I have loved you.” We call it the new commandment because that’s what Jesus called it. Like the word “gospel,” however, we’ve heard it so much that it does not strike us as news in any way. It’s old hat, familiar territory, memorized and forgotten, hear the first few words and tune out… But we don’t know it like we think we do. Anyone who thinks the gospel isn’t news isn’t really listening. Anyone who thinks this commandment...Read More

Homily for Mass of the Lord’s Supper: Accepting Perfection

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Mass of the Lord's Supper                  Part 1 of Triduum 2021                                  April 1, 2020Fr. Albert                                                                                St. John the Evangelist, Jeanerette https://youtu.be/Tpp30vmuNUg Good vs. Evil, Obedience, Freedom, Hope, Perfection. These were the themes of our Lenten journey through the fundamentals, a journey that ended with us crucifying Christ this past Sunday. But now we begin a different journey. Lent is over, but tonight begins the Triduum. It is a single liturgy that spans three days, a continual act of worship that takes us through the Last Supper, Christ’s death, and then to his resurrection. So the homilies...Read More