Tag: Work

The Primacy of Grace: Homily for the 19th Sunday OT 2024

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19th Sunday of Ordinary Time, B                                                                   August 11, 2024Fr. Alexander Albert                                                               St. Mary Magdalen, Abbeville N.B. This is the third homily in a series. The second is here. https://youtu.be/vkwyEiRKMWc Mission trips, podcasts, retreats, books and articles, hard conversations, clever marketing, good music – all these strategies and more can be found in the Church’s efforts to evangelize non-believers and strengthen those who already believe. None of them are the most important tool, however. None of them are the most effective. Not to say that we can bypass these things. Last week, as we continued our journey...Read More

The Work of Belief: Homily for the 18th Sunday of Ordinary Time 2024

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18th Sunday of Ordinary Time, B                                                                   August 4, 2024Fr. Alexander Albert                                                              St. Mary Magdalen, Abbeville N.B. This is the second homily in a series. The first is here. https://youtu.be/03__dket1y8 Last week, we saw the importance of bringing our hunger, our desires to Jesus no matter what they were. This allows Jesus to satisfy, heal, transform, or transcend those desires. Jesus was happy to multiply the loaves and feed the crowds last week, knowing they’d be hungry again and that they’d follow him. This time when they come to him, instead of feeding them again he deliberately...Read More

Joseph, the Worker of Renewal: Homily 2024

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Memorial of St. Joseph the Worker                                                                            May 1, 2024Fr. Alexander Albert                                                               St. John the Evangelist, Jeanerette https://youtu.be/UR0pIbqjhS0 Jeanerette is a dying town. Dying, but not dead. Nor is it without hope. Though it may never be quite what it was 100 or even 40 years ago, there is nonetheless reason to hope it shall yet be better than it is now. But that hope cannot lie in governmental policy or the sudden arrival of outside investors. Both of those can greatly help or greatly harm our prospects, but neither can be the foundation of a lasting hope....Read More