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A Divine Footnote: Homily for the 21st Sunday OT 2026

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21st Sunday of Ordinary Time, A                                                                   August 23, 2026Fr. Alexander Albert                                                   St. Mary Magadalen, Abbeville, LA https://youtu.be/a6yMdHUoeIM In 1949, a Russian philosopher named Nikolai published a book about God. As a scholar, he used footnotes to cite his sources. One footnote, however, has becoming an enduring meme on the internet because it just says, “this was revealed to me in a dream.” Try that on next paper in English class and see what happens! And yet… if St. Joseph had written a paper about traveling to Egypt, he would be right to say “this was revealed to me in...Read More

The Key to Evangelizing: Homily for the 21st Sunday of Ordinary Time

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21st Sunday of Ordinary Time, A                                                                   August 27, 2023Fr. Alexander Albert                                                               St. John the Evangelist, Jeanerette https://youtu.be/2g6YXhWwMqc Maybe you felt it… With all the talk about tension and jealousy and evangelization, maybe you felt this uncomfortable question in the back of your mind. I’ve been focusing on what it means to evangelize the world while also becoming less like the world. But perhaps you’ve found yourself wondering about more basic questions like: “What’s a practical way to evangelize?” “Why is God doing things this way?” and “Are we really sure we’re right and the world isn’t?” For a...Read More