Tag: Space Travel

To Touch The Sky: Homily for the Feast of Pentecost 2026

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Pentecost, A                                                                                                    May 24, 2026Fr. Alexander Albert                                                               St. Mary Magdalen, Abbeville https://youtu.be/vA2qnc-syaI “They gathered in a large crowd, but they were confused because each one heard them speaking in his own language.” Why is it confusing to hear someone speak your native language? Shouldn’t that make things less confusing? Apparently not for this crowd. Nor is it really any different today. You can find a sub-genre of prank videos where someone is talking to people from another country in English before switching to fluently speaking the native language of the other person. Every time, the...Read More

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