Author: Father Albert

Who Said I Wanted Your Father Anyway?

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5th Sunday of Easter Fr. Albert St. Peter Catholic Church, New Iberia [audio wav="http://box5246.temp.domains/~alberuc3/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/Who-Said-I-Wanted-Your-Father.wav"][/audio]   “No one comes to the Father except through me.” “Who cares? Who said that I wanted to go to the Father anyway? Keep your way and truth to yourself, Jesus, because I’m gonna live my own life and I don’t want or need your father.” Does any of that sound familiar? This Gospel is a profound excerpt from the Last Supper where Christ is pouring out his heart to his Apostles and strengthening them for what is to come. But his message, this whole revelation...Read More

Daily Collection: Fifth Sunday of Easter

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Collect taken from the Fifth Sunday of Easter. Collect: Almighty ever-living God, constantly accomplish the Paschal Mystery within us, that those you were pleased to make new in Holy Baptism may, under your protective care, bear much fruit and come to the joys of life eternal. Through our Lord Jesus Christ... "Almighty ever-living God, constantly accomplish the Paschal Mystery within us," - Note that this is not a description but a request; We are asking God to continue to accomplish the Paschal Mystery within us. Although Christ died and rose once for all we each must go through the process of having...Read More

Daily Collection: Our Lady of Fatima

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Collect taken from memorial of Our Lady of Fatima. Collect: O God, who chose the Mother of your Son to be our Mother also, grant us that, persevering in penance and prayer for the salvation of the world, we may further more effectively each day the reign of Christ. Who lives and reigns... "O God, who chose the Mother of your Son to be our Mother also" - "Behold, your mother." So spoke Jesus on the cross and this is a fact we must often recall. Mary is our Mother. Just as Eve became the mother of all the living, Mary, the...Read More

Daily Collection: Fourth Week of Easter – Friday

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Collect taken from Friday of the Fourth Week of Easter. Collect: O God, author of our freedom and of our salvation, listen to the voice of our pleading and grant that those you have redeemed by the shedding of your Son’s Blood may have life through you and, under your protection, rejoice for ever unharmed. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son... "O God, author of our freedom and of our salvation, listen to the voice of our pleading" - We have free will and that is the image of God in us. Sin enslaves us and takes away our freedom, so...Read More

Daily Collection: Fourth Week of Easter – Thursday

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Collect taken from Thursday of the Fourth Week of Easter. Collect: O God, who restore human nature to yet greater dignity than at its beginnings, look upon the amazing mystery of your loving kindness, and in those you have chosen to make new through the wonder of rebirth may you preserve the gifts of your enduring grace and blessing. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son... "O God, who restore human nature to yet greater dignity than at its beginnings, look upon the amazing mystery of your loving kindness" - God not only overcame the Original Sin of Adam, but made us even...Read More

Daily Collection: Fourth Week of Easter – Tuesday

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Collect taken from Tuesday of the fourth week of Easter. Collect: Grant, we pray, almighty God, that, celebrating the mysteries of the Lord's Resurrection, we may merit to receive the joy of our redemption. Through our Lord Jesus Christ... "Grant, we pray, almighty God, that, celebrating the mysteries of the Lord's Resurrection" - We invoke God's help as always, but notice that it is a prayer which presumes some action on our part. We pray for God to make fruitful our efforts to celebrate the mysteries of the Lord's resurrection. And we must not overlook the use of the word "mystery." The resurrection...Read More

Daily Collection: Fourth Week of Easter – Monday

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Collect taken from Monday of the fourth week of Easter. Collect: O God, perfect light of the blessed, by whose gift we celebrate the paschal mysteries on earth, bring us, we pray, to rejoice in the full measure of your grace for ages unending. Through our Lord Jesus Christ... "O God, perfect light of the blessed, by whose gift we celebrate the paschal mysteries on earth" - Psalm 36 prays to God "in your light we see light." Because God is the source of all existence and the ultimate meaning of existence, knowing God gives us a clearer picture of reality. The "blessed"...Read More

Daily Collection: Fourth Sunday of Easter

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Collect taken from the Fourth Sunday of Easter. Collect: Almighty ever-living God, lead us to a share in the joys of heaven, so that the humble flock may reach where the brave Shepherd has gone before. Who lives and reigns... "Almighty ever-living God, lead us to a share in the joys of heaven" - We look forward to heaven, but we can share in some of it's joys here and now.  Holiness, virtue, good liturgy; all these and more are ways we can share in that joy now. "so that the humble flock may reach where the brave Shepherd has gone before" -...Read More

Call Out!

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4th Sunday of Easter  Fr. Albert [audio wav="http://box5246.temp.domains/~alberuc3/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/Call-Out.wav"][/audio]   “Now when they heard this, they were cut to the heart.” Have you ever been cut to the heart? You hear something so true, so brutally honest about yourself that you just have to say “you’re right?” It’s not easy to cut to another person’s heart. You have to speak an objective truth, but to speak it directly to the person. It must reach through to their subjective and personal experience in some way. What do you think? Are people “cut to the heart” by Jesus and his teachings today? Is the...Read More

Daily Collection: Third Week of Easter – Saturday

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Collect taken from the Saturday of the Third Week of Easter. Collect: O God, who in the font of Baptism have made new those who believe in you, keep safe those reborn in Christ, that, defeating every onslaught of error, they may faithfully preserve the grace of your blessing. Through our Lord Jesus Christ... "O God, who in the font of Baptism have made new those who believe in you, keep safe those reborn in Christ" - People who have been baptized are new creatures. This is not common knowledge or a popular thing to say, but the baptized are Children of God...Read More