Category: Homilies

Fourth Sunday of Lent, A                                                                               March 22, 2020Fr. Albert                                                                                St. John the Evangelist, Jeanerette Facebook Stream Video: https://www.facebook.com/stjohnjtown/videos/836609773487639/ It’s all about the lighting. Photography, the mood in a restaurant, the football field at night, the choice of entertainment. Light can make or break any one of these things. Indeed, how many people are right now staring at the thousands of flashing colored lights that make up a computer screen or a television? The lights we use say a lot about who we are. Even the lack of light becomes a defining characteristic –...Read More

First Sunday of Lent, A                                                                                              March 1, 2020Fr. Albert                                                                                St. John the Evangelist, Jeanerette “Then the eyes of both of them were opened, and they realized that they were naked.” Adam and Eve were naked the whole time, why is it suddenly a problem? Because of what their nakedness covers up. Now, that might seem like a strange thing to say. How can you be covered up when you’re not wearing anything? Because there is more to the world – and our bodies – than what we can see. When it says their...Read More

Seventh Sunday of Ordinary Time, Year A                                                   February 23, 2020Fr. Albert                                                                                St. John the Evangelist, Jeanerette The devil is real, you know. As are the fallen angels who serve him. When I talk about demons, though, most people start thinking about ghosts. They fear shadows and strange sounds. That stuff does happen, but it’s actually pretty rare. It’s also not that big a deal. Scare tactics and not much more. Other think of possession. That is real. Superstition, Ouija boards, fortune telling, witchcraft. These things are much bigger problems – don’t dabble in them. But possession is still pretty rare....Read More

Fifth Sunday of Ordinary Time, A                                                                 February 9, 2020Fr. Albert                                                                                St. John the Evangelist, Jeanerette “Are you salty?” That’s a question you may have heard from a young person, a tv show, or seen on in the internet. When someone is “salty,” it means they are angry or bitter. But when Jesus called his disciples “the salt of the earth,” he didn’t mean they should go around angrily fussing at people. Sadly, that’s exactly what many people think of when the imagine Christians “preaching the Gospel.” They think of angry hypocrites using their religion to...Read More