Category: Homilies

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

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

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

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

Friday of 25th Week OT Deacon Albert St. John the Evangelist Cathedral “Who is left among you that saw this house in its former glory? And how do you see it now? Does it not seem like nothing in your eyes?” There are some who look back on the “glory days” of the Church and the Church of today pales in comparison, it looks much worse off. Perhaps they lament the change in membership, in liturgy, in style or in some other way. But our Lord tells us today “take courage” because the whole world, and especially the Church are...Read More