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Weariness and Wonderment

Posted on March 12, 2017February 27, 2018 by Father Albert

2nd Sun Lent, Year A Fr. Albert St. Peter Catholic Church, New Iberia [audio wav="http://box5246.temp.domains/~alberuc3/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/Weariness-and-Wonderment.wav"][/audio] Are you tired yet? A week and a half into Lent – have you fallen short on your sacrifice? Your resolutions? We still have a month of Lent left in front of us and the mental burden of having to stick it out can be well… discouraging. Can you imagine, then, the mental weight being carried by the Apostles? Just six days ago, Peter boldly proclaimed that Jesus is the Son of God only to have his excitement dashed to the ground by a...Read More

Your Battle, Your Weapon

Posted on March 5, 2017February 27, 2018 by Father Albert

Lent 1st Sun, Year A Fr. Albert St. Peter Catholic Church, New Iberia [audio wav="http://box5246.temp.domains/~alberuc3/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/Your-Battle-Your-Weapon.wav"][/audio] 1) You will be tempted. We face this battle our whole lives, so we should be prepared to fight. 2) We can win this battle. It is possible to resist temptation and avoid sin with the help of God's grace. To do this we need humility and a spirit of obedience. 3) We must know Scripture: A) Not in the way that the devil knows it, but as it really is. Learn to read and understand Scripture like a Catholic. B) It is imperative...Read More

Marked By God

Posted on March 1, 2017February 27, 2018 by Father Albert

Ash Wednesday, Year A Fr. Albert St. Peter Catholic Church, New Iberia [audio wav="http://box5246.temp.domains/~alberuc3/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/Marked-By-God.wav"][/audio] A tattoo. A dramatic change in hair style or even color. A wedding ring. These are just a few ways that we like to mark something: a change, an occasion, a memory. It’s in our nature as human beings to mark things. That includes our own bodies. Sometimes, that marking, that sign, does more than make a statement. A letter-man jacket or an emblazoned t-shirt. We dress ourselves with these things as a sign, a mark that we belong to something: a particular school or...Read More

To Be and Not to Worry

Posted on February 26, 2017February 27, 2018 by Father Albert

8th Sun OT, Year A Fr. Albert St. Peter Catholic Church, New Iberia [audio wav="http://box5246.temp.domains/~alberuc3/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/To-Be-and-Not-to-Worry.wav"][/audio] Do you exist? Then God loves you. God is the source of existence and God is Love. If you exist, it is because God loves you. And if God loves you, he wants to provide for what you really need and he wants you to be happy. The next time you hear that gnawing question in your heart: does God love me? Will God provide for me? Answer it with this question, do I exist? The answer to that q is the answer to...Read More

An Unusual Love

Posted on February 19, 2017February 27, 2018 by Father Albert

7thSun OT, Year A Fr. Albert St. Peter Catholic Church, New Iberia [audio wav="http://box5246.temp.domains/~alberuc3/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/An-Unusual-Love.wav"][/audio] In 2003 Gary Leon Ridgway confessed to the murder of 48 women and hinted that he may have actually killed as many as 60. During his sentencing, a father of one of Ridgway’s teenage victims looked directly and him and said “You’ve made it difficult to live up to what I believe... what God says to do… to forgive. You are forgiven, sir.” That statement reduced the Green River Killer to tears. On the evening of June 15, 2015 and young man went to Emanuel Church in...Read More

Love is the Law, The Law is Love

Posted on February 12, 2017February 27, 2018 by Father Albert

6thSun OT, Year A Fr. Albert St. Peter Catholic Church, New Iberia [audio wav="http://box5246.temp.domains/~alberuc3/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/Love-is-the-Law-The-Law-is-Lo.wav"][/audio] “I am spiritual, but not religious.” Just look at the way Jesus treats those religious and legalistic Pharisees! Look at the beatitudes. Catholics shouldn’t worry about the rules because Jesus is all about what’s in the heart… and he’s all about mercy. Oh? Try telling a woman “I love you, but I’m not committed to you” or “I promise to spend my life with you, but I won’t marry you.” Is that really love? If someone chooses to believe that, fine, but is that what Jesus Christ taught? It...Read More

Salt, Light, and Refugees

Posted on February 5, 2017February 27, 2018 by Father Albert

5th Sun OT, Year A February 5, 2017 Fr. Albert St. Peter Catholic Church, New Iberia [audio wav="http://box5246.temp.domains/~alberuc3/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/Salt-Light-and-Refugees.wav"][/audio] Eating dirt in the dark. That’s what our world is doing. At least, whatever their eating is so bland and so useless that it might as well be dirt. Without a light to see and without a decent chef to broaden their culinary horizons, human beings spend most of their time groping around without purpose and constantly consuming what they find, but never with the satisfaction they want. The fact is that the human heart craves something and craves it constantly....Read More

Blessedness Of The Gods

Posted on January 29, 2017February 27, 2018 by Father Albert

4th Sun OT, Year A January 29, 2017 Fr. Albert St. Peter Catholic Church, New Iberia [audio wav="http://box5246.temp.domains/~alberuc3/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/Blessedness-Of-The-Gods.wav"][/audio] Like a god! We could almost say that the word for “blessed” could be translated like that. For the ancient Greeks, the word that Jesus uses here – makarios – was primarily used to describe their gods. Only the gods were fortunate enough to be immortal, to be able to escape the inevitability of death and the sorrow it brings. Only the gods could be truly happy, fortunate, and blessed. But not so for Jesus. You have heard the beatitudes so...Read More

Adoptive Providence

Posted on January 24, 2017February 27, 2018 by Father Albert

Pro-Life Mass January 24, 2017 1 Kings 17:10-16 Ps 139 1 John 3:14-18 Matt 25:31-46 Fr. Albert St. Peter Catholic Church, New Iberia [audio wav="http://box5246.temp.domains/~alberuc3/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/Adoptive-Providence.wav"][/audio] Providence is a funny thing. The invisible hand of God directing all things to work according to an inscrutable divine plan. We are told by Jesus that not even a hair on our head is uncounted. Paul says that everything is to the benefit of those who love the Lord. And yet, there is so much wrong with this world. So many who, through no fault of their own, find...Read More

Our Exile

Posted on January 22, 2017February 27, 2018 by Father Albert

3rd Sunday OT, Year A January 22, 2017 Fr. Albert St. Peter Catholic Church, New Iberia [audio wav="http://box5246.temp.domains/~alberuc3/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/our-exile.wav"][/audio] “Turn then, most gracious advocate, thine eyes of mercy towards us, and after this, our exile, show unto us the blessed fruit of thy womb, Jesus.” After this, our exile… this curious little phrase comes from the back half of the prayer Hail Holy Queen, a prayer we have all heard and said. But what does “our exile” mean? Add to that another commonly heard phrase from our Gospel “The Kingdom of Heaven is at hand.” What is “our exile” and what...Read More