Tag: Unity

Being Love: Homily for Trinity Sunday 2024

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Trinity Sunday, B                                                                                                       May 26, 2024Fr. Alexander Albert                                                               St. John the Evangelist, Jeanerette https://youtu.be/LWnwLJEZS3w Three weeks ago, I focused on the teaching that God is love. But what is love? “Love is to will the good of the other.” If God is love, then this means that God’s very existence is to will the good of the other. We tend to think of existence or being as this kind of passive reality. If you ask me “what are you doing?” and I answer “existing,” you’d probably think “ah, so he’s doing nothing” and you’d...Read More

What Unity Means: Homily for Trinity Sunday

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Trinity Sunday, A                                                                                                       June 4, 2023Fr. Alexander Albert                                                               St. John the Evangelist, Jeanerette https://youtu.be/7CSgy6PHzs4 You may have noticed that instead of the usual greeting of “the Lord be with you” at the beginning of Mass, I said: “The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ and the love of God and the [communion] of the Holy Spirit be with [you all].” Then we heard something very similar from the conclusion of our second reading, which is also the end of St. Paul’s Second letter to the Corinthians. Indeed, the greeting I used came from that part of scripture...Read More

Homily for the 2nd Sunday of Advent: Poison and Fire

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2nd Sunday of Advent, A                                                                                December 4, 2022Fr. Alexander Albert                                                               St. John the Evangelist, Jeanerette https://youtu.be/a8ZR_5PdF2w “You brood of vipers!” So much for Christmas cheer. John the Baptist says this to the Pharisees and Sadducees, but it’s not like he’s caught them doing something terrible. These are the ones who came to him! They traveled out of the city all the way to the Jordan river to hear him preach. They came to be baptized! People often say pastors should just be grateful that people show up… that they shouldn’t get caught up...Read More

Pastor Column: Mystici Corporis I

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[Note: This is not the Sunday Homily. It is an article for the bulletin of May 15, 2022]      The next encyclical of Pope Pius XII is Mystici Corporis Christi (“On the Mystical Body of Christ”) written in 1943. By “Mystical Body,” the pope is referring to the Church and this document gives a thorough teaching on what we mean when we say “the Church is the body of Christ.” So, we’ll take it a little at a time and see what it says.      To start with, Pope Pius says he is speaking specifically about the Church Militant, which...Read More