Category: Homilies

1st Sunday Advent, Year A Fr. Albert St. Peter Catholic Church, New Iberia [audio wav="http://box5246.temp.domains/~alberuc3/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/ADV_1_A.wav"][/audio]   Jesus is the reason for the Season. It’s a common phrase for a bumper sticker, a picture on the internet, or a billboard. Have you really considered what it means? Who is Jesus really? For that matter, which season is this phrase referring to? Those two questions are more closely related than we might think at first. The fact is that many people started to celebrate Christmas earlier this week or even right after Halloween: decorations, Christmas music, seasonal foods and desserts, and shopping...Read More

32nd Sunday OT, Year C Fr. Albert St. Peter Catholic Church, New Iberia [audio wav="http://box5246.temp.domains/~alberuc3/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/32_OT_C.wav"][/audio]   One evening, on the return drive from our weekly Boy Scout meeting, my brother and I were discussing our future. It must have been toward the end of my junior year in high school because I was driving the convertible my parents had just bought me. Life was good, then. A cool car, lots of friends, video games, a beautiful date for the upcoming prom, and not a lot to worry about. Anyway, my brother got on a tangent about his ideal career which...Read More

31st Sunday OT, Year C Fr. Albert St. Peter Catholic Church, New Iberia [audio wav="http://box5246.temp.domains/~alberuc3/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/31_0T_C.wav"][/audio]   “We ask you, brothers and sisters… not to be… alarmed either by a ‘spirit,’ or by an oral statement, or by a letter allegedly from us to the effect that the day of the Lord is at hand.” Christians in every age have worried that their time was going to be the end of the world and the second coming of Jesus Christ. They were both right and wrong. They were wrong because the final Judgment still hasn’t happened even after 2000 years. But,...Read More

30th Sunday OT, Year C  Fr. Albert St. Peter Catholic Church, New Iberia [audio wav="http://box5246.temp.domains/~alberuc3/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/30_OT_C.wav"][/audio]   “Jesus addressed this parable to those who were convinced of their own righteousness and despised everyone else: An American Catholic got up to pray and said ‘O God, I thank you that I am not like the rest of humanity --- supporting Donald Trump and the Republicans --- I am voting for Hillary because I love the poor and want equality for all.’ Or perhaps he said ‘O God, I thank you that I am not like the rest of humanity --- supporting Hillary...Read More

25th Sunday OT, Year C Fr. Albert St. Peter Catholic Church, New Iberia [audio wav="http://box5246.temp.domains/~alberuc3/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/25_OT_C_16.wav"][/audio]   “You cannot serve both God and Mammon.” It’s true, you know. There is no clever homily, no subtle interpretation that lets us get around that fact. Yet, there’s also no getting around the fact that it’s pretty near impossible to survive in this world without making a little money. Anyone who wants to feed their kids, keep them clothed, and possibly even send them to Catholic school knows full well that making money is a necessary part of life. So what can Christ possibly...Read More