Tag: love

Loved to the Max: Homily for VC’s Opening Mass 2026

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Memorial, St. Maximilian Kolbe                                                                   August 14, 2026Fr. Alexander Albert                                                              Vermilion Catholic, Abbeville https://youtu.be/OPrEYfMIRwc Parents & grandparents, if your child or grandchild was in danger and the only way to save them would mean you had to die… would you do it? Would you trade your life for theirs? Students, raise your hand if you have younger brother or sister. Don’t raise your hand for this one, but think about this: would you trade your life to save your younger sibling? People, would you trade your life for your best friend? For your neighbor? Would you trade your...Read More

Love That Believes: Homily for the 19th Sunday OT 2026

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19th Sunday of Ordinary Time, A                                                                   August 9, 2026Fr. Alexander Albert                                                   St. Mary Magadalen, Abbeville, LA https://youtu.be/19d4nHV-1E8 “O you of little faith, why did you doubt?” Because it’s kinda crazy to be walking on water, Jesus, that’s why! Like, it’s one thing to watch you heal people and do miracles. It doesn’t stretch our minds too much to say “okay, Jesus is special and has miraculous power, so of course he can heal people.” It’s quite a different thing to be standing on water in the middle of a storm! How does that even work? Were his...Read More

If You Love Me: Homily for the 18th Sunday OT 2026

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18th Sunday of Ordinary Time, A                                                                   August 2, 2026Fr. Alexander Albert                                                   St. Mary Magadalen, Abbeville, LA https://youtu.be/8lNz9OUZfO8 “If you love me, then you would…” We all have experiences of people who claim to love us but then fail to act like it. We have all said we love and then failed to live it. It’s not about putting conditions on love, but there is room for putting conditions on believing someone when they claim to love us. When that claim does not match their actions they either lied to us, didn’t understand what they promised, or allowed...Read More

Authority and Peace: Homily for the 2nd Sunday of Easter 2026

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2nd Sunday of Easter, A                                                                               April 12, 2026Fr. Alexander Albert                                                            St. Mary Magdalen, Abbeville N.B. Technical problems caused the video to cut in and out several times. https://youtu.be/VEPFxw-u_90 Authority is a terrifying thing. And a comforting one. Without the authority of divine revelation and the authority of divine mercy, there are many questions that cannot be answered and many human faults that cannot be overcome. When authority is abused, however, it creates things so terrible that it’s hard to imagine worse. That Apostles knew this on a deep, experiential, existential level. They are cowering in fear...Read More

Desire for Love: Holy Thursday, Pt 1 of the Paschal Triduum 2026

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Mass of the Lord's Supper                                                                              April 2, 2026Fr. Alexander Albert                                                               St. Mary Magdalen, Abbeville N.B. This is the first of a three-part series of homilies on the topic of desire. The second part can be found here and the third part here. https://youtu.be/Y6TwfJLpISU “I have eagerly desired to eat this Passover with you” (Lk 22:15). You could say that desire is destiny. Not that that is always a good thing. The human heart wants many things it should not want and fails to want many of the things it should. Anyone who has known an...Read More

To See Joy: Homily for the 4th Sunday of Lent 2026

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4th Sunday of Lent, A                                                                                 March 15, 2026Fr. Alexander Albert                                                           St. Mary Magdalen, Abbeville https://youtu.be/AWIMSO5cuWY Can you see joy? Maybe. There’s one trend in short internet videos that I enjoy which captures the change in someone’s expression before and after they see someone or something they love. One version involves professional photographers who do something to get a more genuine smile. I’ve seen one kick their shoe at the person to make them laugh. My favorite involves a guy who suddenly breaks out a literal sword for them to hold. You should see the way people smile when they’re holding...Read More

Not By Sight: Homily for the Funeral of Unclaimed Bodies 2026

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Funeral Mass for the Unclaimed Bodies                                                      March 5, 2026Fr. Alexander Albert                                                           St. Mary Magdalen, Abbeville https://youtu.be/7l4POdGvkYs “We walk by faith, not by sight.” It’s a common expression among us Christians. We often hear it in preaching and in the lives of the saints. We’ve just heard the part of scripture it comes from: St. Paul’s second letter to the Corinthians. And the context of that saying is important because it tells us what the original point was. It is meant as an expression to help us face death because none of us can see past death. And...Read More

The Rules of Love: Homily for the 6th Sunday OT 2026

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6th Sunday of Ordinary Time, A                                                            February 15, 2026Fr. Alexander Albert                                                          St. Mary Magdalen, Abbeville https://youtu.be/9p8fk5Jcj84 Ladies, if you had walked into the house yesterday to find three roses and a box of chocolates inside a grocery bag on the counter and him off playing a game or something, how would you have reacted? It’s certainly better than if he ignored the day completely. Now compare that to if you walked in the house to find him holding those same three roses, smiling and greeting you with enthusiasm, if he had that same box of chocolates, but presented them...Read More

A Father’s Approval: Homily for the Baptism of the Lord, 2026

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Baptism of the Lord, A                                                                      January 11, 2026Fr. Alexander Albert                                                            St. Mary Magdalen, Abbeville https://youtu.be/sJHGxSiOQ6k Why are you here? Why do you go to Mass, pray, do the Catholic thing? Habit? Someone else making you do it? Curiosity? Fear of Hell? Motivation in human beings is strange. Animals have instincts that tell them what to seek. They are biologically programed to want food, water, sleep, affection, pleasure and so on. We want those things too, but under the surface, there’s a whole mess of tangled motivations. You feed, shelter, and show affection to an...Read More

Viva Cristo Rey: Homily for Christ The King Sunday 2025

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Christ the King, C                                                                   November 23, 2025Fr. Alexander Albert                                                          St. Mary Magdalen, Abbeville https://youtu.be/UcLneADiZKo Ninety-eight years ago today, the Mexican Jesuit priest José Ramón Miguel Agustín Pro Juárez was led before a firing squad in Mexico City. The Mexican government had severely restricted Catholicism at that time. So, Padre Miguel Pro continued to minister in secret. Eventually, he was caught. On the morning of November 23, 1927, Miguel Pro, holding a rosary in one hand and a crucifix in another, blessed the men about to shoot him and knelt to pray. He then stood and extended his hands like...Read More