Category: Homilies

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

Homily for Mass @ CHS                                                                               September 20, 2018 Fr. Albert                                                                                            Catholic High, New Iberia  Would you kiss my feet? I mean, I’m a pretty clean person, and these are fresh socks, so it’s probably not too bad. This woman in the Gospel is willing to kiss Jesus feet, and he wore sandals in the desert. Can you imagine how ripe those things would be? Maybe that’s why she washed them first… Still, it’s kind of crazy isn’t it? There are all these people at a dinner party and this woman walks into someone else’s...Read More

The Twenty-Fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time    Educator’s Mass                September 15, 2018 Fr. Albert                                                                                            St. Peter’s, New Iberia  Teachers, what do you demand of your students? I know I want them to pay attention, to be respectful, and to do the assignments I give them. But would you ask them to die? To sit in an electric chair and be executed? If Jesus is the great teacher we consider him to be, if he is someone we want to imitate as teachers, then maybe we should expect that. Because that’s what he’s telling his students, his disciples...Read More

Monday of the 22nd Week of Ordinary Time                                                September 3, 2018 Fr. Albert                                                                    Our Lady Queen of Peace, Lafayette “Jesus made Himself the Bread of Life and the Hungry One”  “Is this not the son of Joseph?” Though it seems like a simple question, this comment hides behind it a hardened heart. This is in Nazareth where Jesus “had grown up.” The people here knew Jesus. They saw the child play games in the street. They saw the boy at prayer with the community. They saw the hungry one, a man like any other, who had...Read More