Category: Homilies

Homily for the Third Sunday of Easter                                                       April 15, 2018 Fr. Albert                                                                                            St. Peter’s, New Iberia  Christianity is on trial. The world is our courtroom and the whole human race is the Jury. The charge is simple: we claim that Jesus rose from the dead and that this means everyone should repent of their sins. And do you know where you are in this trial? The witness stand. Yes, every single Christian believer is testifying to this truth. But we are losing. The vast majority of humanity… about 5 billion people do not...Read More

Homily for Easter Sunday                                                                              April 1, 2018 Fr. Albert                                                                                            St. Peter’s, New Iberia  Christianity is easy to disprove. Or at least, it should be. Our faith, the whole religion, the entire worldwide, two millennia old Catholic Church rests upon a single historical fact: that Jesus actually rose from the dead. If you can show that Jesus did not rise from the dead, then we are a bunch of fools… two billion people radically altering their lives all for the sake of some supposedly miraculous Jew from two thousand years ago… that would...Read More

Homily for Holy Thursday                                                          March 29, 2018 Fr. Albert                                                                            St. Peter’s, New Iberia  “I give you a new commandment… love one another as I have loved you.” This is a dangerous commandment. It led to the death of the one who gave it. It has lead to the deaths of countless millions throughout history. And if you follow it, it will lead you to your death. But I’m here tonight to say to you… you are here tonight to say to the world that this deadly new commandment is the only thing worth living...Read More

Homily for Solemnity of St. Joseph        March 19, 2018 Fr. Albert                                Catholic High School, New Iberia [Silence for 2.5 minutes] Did that make you uncomfortable? Are you afraid of the silence? Maybe it bothers you because you expect me to speak, to teach and preach and bring God to you. True, that is what I am called to do, but today is a fitting day to follow the example of a man much greater than I. What better day than this to quote St. Joseph, to let him speak first. And that’s...Read More

Homily for 4th Sun Lent, Year B                        March 11, 2018 Fr. Albert                                St. Peter’s, New Iberia   [caption id="" align="alignright" width="320"] Photo: insightpest via Visualhunt / CC BY-SA[/caption] We’ve all seen it, when you turn on the lights in a room and cockroaches scatter to every dark corner they can find. They flee the light because they are afraid that we will find and destroy them. And they’re right; Most of us, if we’re not too afraid of them ourselves, will step on or spray any cockroach that...Read More