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To Escape Selfishness

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22nd Sunday OT, Year C Fr. Albert St. Peter Catholic Church, New Iberia   https://sites.google.com/site/fralbertstorage/recordings/22_OT_C.wav   Satan is your worst enemy. But, after him, you are your own worst enemy. Christ knows this and that is why he seizes this banquet as an opportunity to teach the people about real discipleship. We are selfish and our egos seem to never rest in their quest for gratification. Philosophers and psychologists have long debated whether or not altruism even really exists. Those who think it does notargue that every apparently altruistic act really has some hidden selfish benefit. A good feeling for doing the...Read More

How does it end?

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21stSunday OT, Year C Fr. Albert St. Peter Catholic Church, New Iberia   https://sites.google.com/site/fralbertstorage/recordings/21_OT_C.wav   Have you ever binge-watched a TV show? Or perhaps stayed up late into the night reading a book that has really captured your imagination? What’s the motivation behind that? I bet that most people would say something like “I want to know how it will end.” It’s really a natural human desire – wanting to know the whole story – but it can also be quite the temptation. If we’re good, we can use this desire to help stay focused on helping someone till we see...Read More

Fire and Future

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20thSunday OT, Year C  Fr. Albert St. Peter Catholic Church, New Iberia   “And so they took Jeremiah and threw him into the cistern… There was no water in the cistern, only mud.” I guess it’s a good thing Jeremiah didn’t live in South Louisiana. His little adventure in the cistern would have ended quite differently. He may have been stuck in mud, but this weekend, we’ve been just as stuck in the water. Of course, there’s a crucial difference. We certainly pray for and do everything we can to help those who are suffering because of the flooding, but we...Read More

Evidence of God

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19th Sunday OT, Year C                                                                                 Fr. Albert St. Peter Catholic Church, New Iberia   https://sites.google.com/site/fralbertstorage/recordings/19_OT_C_8-7-16.mp3   What is faith? Once, a teacher asked a group of children that question. One little boy raised his hand and said “It’s believing something even when you know it’s not true!” Where did he get such an idea? You gotta love children. They have a real knack for...Read More

Get Rich!

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18th Sunday OT, Year C Alexander Albert St. Peter Catholic Church, New Iberia   https://sites.google.com/site/fralbertstorage/recordings/18_OT_C_10-2016.mp3   “Teacher, tell my brother to vote for my candidate!” “Teacher, tell my boss to pay me better!” “Teacher, tell the police to punish that criminal!” And why not, Jesus! Do you not care about injustice? Do you not care that people are being manipulated, rightful property is being stolen, and that evil is spreading everywhere? So why do you not do what I ask, Lord? Why say something so strange as “who has appointed me your judge and arbitrator?” You are the very source...Read More

“Gotta catch them all…” Or do I?

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17th Sunday OT, Year C Alexander Albert St. Peter Catholic Church, New Iberia   https://sites.google.com/site/fralbertstorage/recordings/17%20OT%20-%20C%20-%207-24-16.wav   “I want to be the very best!” If you recognize that line, you might know something about the game called Pokémon Go. It’s only been around for 3 weeks, but it has made 100s of millions of dollars and is the most popular Smartphone game in the world. It’s pretty clever, really. It uses your phone’s data and GPS to make it seem like these digital monsters, called Pokémon, are actually in different places in the real world. The goal is the same as...Read More

Teacher, Teacher

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15th Sunday OT, Year C Alexander Albert St. Peter Catholic Church, New Iberia   https://sites.google.com/site/fralbertstorage/recordings/15_OT_C_2016.mp3   What is that feeling? You know the one. It’s the feeling you get when you see a person get of their car and leave the lights on. Or when you pass by someone who is clearly struggling with something. All of a sudden, you start thinking to yourself of reasons that you need to keep moving, that you can’t spare a few moments, that whatever you just saw is none of your business and will probably work out in the end anyway. Is it...Read More

Throwing Stones

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Mon 4th week OT, Year II - Extraordinary Jubilee Year of Mercy Deacon Alexander Albert Notre Dame Seminary   https://sites.google.com/site/fatheralbertmedia/mp3/Mon_OT_4-II_-_NDS.mp3   “He threw stones at David… he was always bruising himself with stones… And as they were stoning Stephen… he cried out… ‘Lord Jesus, receive my spirit…’ ‘he who is without sin cast the first stone.” So, why does Scripture love to throw stones into its stories? Why? Because you’d have to be stupid as a stone to commit even a tiny sin in the face of the almighty, all-loving God.  And yet, that is exactly what we do. And how...Read More

Shall we drink?

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Tue 1st week OT, Year II Alexander Albert Notre Dame Seminary “What is this? A new teaching with authority. He commands even the unclean spirits and they obey him.” I don’t know about you, but I often wonder whether my preaching would produce more converts if I could just throw down a miracle when I needed to make a point. I often wonder about this as a pray with the New Testament stories of the miracles of the Apostles. Healings, exorcisms, supernatural knowledge, speaking new languages… Me, I’ve never seen… much less performed an outright miracle. This sometimes pains me and I...Read More

Whatever We Want?

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29th Sunday OT, Year B (Farewell) Deacon Albert St. John the Evangelist Cathedral   https://sites.google.com/site/fatheralbertmedia/mp3/29_OT_B_6.mp3   “You can do whatever you set your mind to.” Really? Is that true? This claim is made by parents, teachers, advertisements, and politicians throughout our country. Children are filled with this idea from the time they are very little and hear it repeated constantly until some brutal encounter with reality shatters this fragile illusion. Then they must choose between willful naiveté, cold cynicism, or a new-found realism. How few choose the last of these! I once wanted to be a fighter pilot and eagerly researched what it...Read More