Tag: Our Father

Paying Heaven’s Debt: Homily for the 24th Sunday OT 2026

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24th Sunday of Ordinary Time, A                                                                  September 13, 2026Fr. Alexander Albert                                                               St. Mary Magdalen, Abbeville https://youtu.be/82kj-WxMJP8 Imagine for a moment that you were put in charge of the new spaceport being built in Pecan Island, overseeing billions of dollars of construction. Succeed and you’ll travel to the stars in splendor. Mess it up, though, and you’ll owe all that money back. Now, imagine that you get in over your head. You get careless and the whole thing blows up and it’s definitely your fault. You are now 10 billion dollars in debt. How would you pay it back? What...Read More

What He Gives: Homily for the 17th Sunday of Ordinary Time 2025

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17th Sunday of Ordinary Time, C                                                                   July 27, 2025Fr. Alexander Albert                                                               St. Mary Magdalen, Abbeville https://youtu.be/DUyblY3tRNo Couldn’t even find 10 people, could he? Abraham, I mean. God promises not to destroy Sodom and Gomorrah if there are just 10 innocent people in it. But they were destroyed. There’s even some archaeological evidence of where those cities were and what happened. Even if this story was just fictional morality parable, the point would be the same: Sodom and Gomorrah were so evil that they couldn’t come up with 10 innocent people. What does that mean for us? Well, a common...Read More

How Ought We To Pray? Homily for the 16th Sunday of Ordinary Time

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16th Sunday of Ordinary Time, A                                                                               July 23, 2023Fr. Alexander Albert                                                               St. John the Evangelist, Jeanerette https://youtu.be/XzE9cl6zTII “The Spirit comes to the aid of our weakness; for we do not know how to pray as we ought.” That’s comforting, but it does raise an important question: How “ought” we to pray? Last week we heard about the groaning of all creation and how we are awaiting “adoption, the redemption of our bodies.” We used this to reflect on how that groaning and hope allow us to “consider the sufferings of this present time as nothing.” Today’s section...Read More