Category: Homilies

Homily for Ascension Sunday Fr. Albert St. Peter Catholic Church, New Iberia [audio wav="http://box5246.temp.domains/~alberuc3/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/And-These-Three-Remain.wav"][/audio]   “Behold, I am with you always, until the end of the age.” Isn’t it odd that this is the Gospel passage we read on the very day that we celebrate the Ascension? The Apostles watch as Jesus ascends into heaven and disappears. They stand there staring for so long that an Angel has to appear to them and shake them out of it. “What are you doing? Quit staring at heaven; Jesus has been taken up… he will return later.” If he has been taken up,...Read More

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

3rd Sunday of Easter Fr. Albert [audio wav="http://box5246.temp.domains/~alberuc3/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/From-Where-To-Where.wav"][/audio]   “He was made known to them in the breaking of the bread.” Jesus Christ, risen from the dead, reveals himself to the disciples in the Eucharist. This journey to Emmaus, this journey to a deeper faith is what we do at every Mass. Reading from Scripture; a homily explaining the Scriptures, the breaking of the bread and recognizing Christ present in the Eucharist. He disappears immediately after breaking the bread to tell us, to show us that we will see him there instead of in the flesh. But, that journey of...Read More

Easter Sunday Fr. Albert St. Peter Catholic Church, New Iberia [audio wav="http://box5246.temp.domains/~alberuc3/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/Christmas-vs-Easter.wav"][/audio] Christmas or Easter? Which is your favorite? I think most people generally prefer Christmas. Decorations, all kinds of great foods and desserts, and, of course, presents! Plus, Christmas is all about family and the Baby Jesus, and who doesn’t love the baby Jesus? And, really, that’s great. Christmas is about the Incarnation, about God becoming man. Now every human being has a new dignity, a new value, a new hope because God became one of us. Imagine – it’s impossible, but still, imagine – that we found a...Read More

Palm Sunday Fr. Albert St. Peter Catholic Church, New Iberia [audio m4a="http://box5246.temp.domains/~alberuc3/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/Nothing-I-Can-Say.m4a"][/audio] What can I tell you to illuminate what we have just experienced? What eloquence could possibly add to this? There is nothing more to say other than that, just 30 minutes after welcoming our God with palms, we cry out for his crucifixion. No, there is nothing more to do than this: to sit and consider the ugly reality that you just killed your God.