Left Wanting More: Homily for the 17th Sunday of Ordinary Time 2024

17th Sunday of Ordinary Time, B                                                                   July 27, 2024Fr. Alexander Albert                                                               St. Mary Magdalen, Abbeville This is the first in a series, the next homily continues here. https://youtu.be/nMHtaVvIdgU Whatever did or did not happen at the opening show of the Olympics, whatever was or was not intended by its designers, one thing is certain: we all need Jesus Christ. More than that, all human beings hunger for him, though we so often fail to realize that. Complicating things still further, we often try to satisfy that hunger with a substitute version of him. If indeed we...Read More

Homily for the 17th Sunday of Ordinary Time: It Begins With Hunger

17th Sunday of Ordinary Time, B                                                                              July 25th, 2021Fr. Albert                                                                                St. John the Evangelist, Jeanerette https://youtu.be/SbCpnC6Ad1Q Are you hungry? Are you willing to be hungry? Because that’s how this whole thing starts. The Eucharist is the source and summit of the Christian life, the gift where God literally gives us himself… and it started with a crowd that was willing to go hungry. Not that they said anything about being hungry. These people saw paralyzed men get up and walk, fevers disappear, leprosy wiped away by Jesus. So they followed him without cell phones and google maps. Jesus was...Read More