Author: Father Albert

The Commemoration of All Souls                                                                  November 2, 2018 Fr. Albert                                                                                            St. Peter’s, New Iberia  Memento Mori. Since the middle ages, the Church has used this simple Latin phrase to urge us to remember our mortality. “Remember death” is a sound piece of advice to anyone who would like to become wise, and perhaps counterintuitively, to anyone who would like to find happiness. Yes, remembering death helps us to find happiness. How? Because it gives us perspective. Because knowing that you will die helps you to appreciate the time you have. Knowing that you...Read More

The Thirtieth Sunday in Ordinary Time, B                                        October 28, 2018 Fr. Albert                                                                                            St. Peter’s, New Iberia  “What do you want me to do for you?” What a question! This man is a blind beggar, what do you think he wants, Jesus? Even worse, Jesus is God; he knows what this man wants even before talking to him. Really, Jesus could have just healed him from a distance as soon as he heard the man calling. He could have snapped his fingers or simply willed it to happen. Why not give him what he wants...Read More

The Twenty-Eighth Sunday in Ordinary Time, B                              October 14, 2018 Fr. Albert                                                                                            St. Peter’s, New Iberia  Scandal, crisis, confusion. Priests against bishops, cardinals against each other, and bishops versus the Pope himself. We are rocked by ongoing revelations of abuse cover-ups. We are faced with a continually declining attendance at Mass and all the sacraments. We see the world becoming more secular, even hostile towards the faith. What happened? Well, many things happened, but the foremost is this: we reversed the order of the Great Commandment. The great commandment is to love God with your...Read More

The Twenty-Seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time, B                                        October 7, 2018 Fr. Albert                                                                                            St. Peter’s, New Iberia [Due to a cold and a cough, I couldn't actually deliver the homily verbally. I instead gave a short summary at each Mass] I love dogs. I think they are a marvelous piece of evidence of God’s design – that the universe is meant for us. What’s remarkable about dogs is that they sprang up all around the world at almost the same time and the best we can tell, we didn’t make it happen. It happened on its...Read More

Homily for Mass @ CHS                   Grandparent’s Day                             September 27, 2018 Fr. Albert                                                                                            Catholic High, New Iberia  “New and improved.” That tagline advertisement is just about everywhere. The next iphone, the next computer, the next update of fortnight. Things are always getting improved, getting better, becoming new again. And as the world changes, we start to see differences between different generations. One hilarious illustration of this difference I saw in a video a while back. It features a dad who decided to test his daughter’s ability to understand how things used to work. He’s sitting down...Read More