Tag: Paschal Triduum

Desire for Light: Easter Vigil, Pt 3 of the Paschal Triduum 2026

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Easter Vigil                                                                                           April 4, 2026Fr. Alexander Albert                                                           St. Mary Magdalen, Abbeville N.B. This is the third of a three-part series of homilies on the topic of desire. The first part can be found here and the second part here. https://youtu.be/Ul20JcyOtU0 Three days ago, 4 people sat atop 6 million pounds of machinery filled with 700,000 gallons of fuel for 3 hours, waiting for the whole thing to explode and launching them into an environment completely incompatible with human life: the vacuum of space. Now, at this very moment, those 4 people are closer to the moon...Read More

Desire to Suffer: Good Friday, Pt 2 of the Paschal Triduum 2026

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Good Friday of the Lord's Passion                                                             April 3, 2026Fr. Alexander Albert                                                           St. Mary Magdalen, Abbeville N.B. This is the second of a three-part series of homilies on the topic of desire. The first part can be found here and the third part here. The video livestream kept disconnecting, so there is only this audio recording done after the fact: https://youtu.be/HySy3uVGiSk “Shall I not drink the cup that the Father gave me?” Jesus wants to drink that cup, he desires to embrace the suffering and death prepared for him by the Father’s will. Why? Because desire...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

2025 Triduum Part III: Healing our Bodies

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N.B. This is Part III of a 3-parts series on the Triduum. Part I is here. Part II is here. Easter Vigil                                                                                                     April 19, 2025Fr. Alexander Albert                                                              St. Mary Magdalen, Abbeville https://youtu.be/7YjlSCMhqyg “Their story seemed like nonsense.” Yet, we’re here because of that nonsense, here at the culmination of the Paschal Mystery. Since Thursday, we’ve dwelt in this mystery, reflecting on how it heals us. At the Last Supper, we considered how Jesus heals our community through forgiveness and new priorities. At the Crucifixion, we considered how Jesus heals our souls by entering into...Read More

2025 Triduum Part II: By His Stripes We Are Healed

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N.B. This is Part II of the 3-part Triduum Series. Part I can be found here. Good Friday of the Lord's Passion                                                                 April 18, 2025Fr. Alexander Albert                                                               St. Mary Magdalen, Abbeville https://youtu.be/HuMvxV79v9c “By his stripes we were healed.” How strange to say the wounds, the “stripes” left by a whip could bring healing. Yet what God has written, he has written. Today, we continue our reflection on the healing power of the Paschal Mystery. Last night, at the Last Supper, we reflected on how it heals our community. Salvation is not a private thing, but...Read More

Easter Vigil – Part III of the Triduum: An Enduring Love

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Easter Vigil, B                                                                                                March 30, 2024Fr. Alexander Albert                                                               St. John the Evangelist, Jeanerette https://youtu.be/GafqqCduUs0 This is part III of a series for the Paschal Triduum. Part I of the series here. Part II of the series here. Love endures. At the Last Supper, Jesus revealed to us the new commandment of love and so we’ve taken love as the theme of this Paschal Triduum. That new love called us to serve in a way that makes another person our “own.” Because such love cannot set aside the truth, that love turned deadly yesterday when it brought Jesus to...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