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By Father Perry D. Leiker, pastor "It's really important to know our feelings, but not always trust them or give over to them. Our feelings tell us things we like and don't like," Father Perry tells us for the first episode of our Lenten podcast. "And if we don't know how to read our feelings, I think that a lot of life passes us by and we miss the importance of things. But feelings aren't everyth...

By Father Perry D. Leiker, pastor "Do we believe that, in our relationship with God, that we are always touchable by God, that we are always clean in God's eyes?" Father Perry asks us for the ninth episode of our Sunday Homilies podcast, and our celebration of the Sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time. "It matters to us if we sin, but that doesn't stop God from loving us."

Por Padre Perry D. Leiker, párroco "No es simplemente esta enfermedad de lepra, sino algo más bonito," nos dice Padre Perry D. Leiker, párroco, para nuestra celebración del VI Domingo Ordinario, y el noveno episodio de nuestro podcast de homilías dominicales. "Cada uno de nosotros tiene lepra en algún tiempo. Es la razón por la confesión. Pero Jesus siempre va a tocarnos. Siempre. El siempre va am...

By Father Perry D. Leiker, pastor "I don't think Jesus wanted to be famous. He didn't want people to be impressed by him. He wanted people to believe in him," Father Perry tells us for the eighth episode of our Sunday Homilies podcast, and celebraion of the Fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time. "He wanted people to believe in him. He wanted people to hear his words and take them into their hearts. He ca...

Por Padre Perry D. Leiker, párroco "Yo creo que Jesus no quería que la gente estuviera impresionada con él. Él … no quería fama. Él quería que podamos oír la palabra de Dios. El era el verbo de Dios, la palabra de Dios," nos dice Padre Perry D. Leiker, párroco, para nuestra celebración del IV Domingo Ordinario, y el octavo episodio de nuestro podcast de homilias dominicales. "Él quería … personas...

Por Padre Perry D. Leiker, párroco "Es urgente que oigan la palabra de Dios y decir la palabra correctamente," nos dice Padre Perry D. Leiker, párroco, para nuestra celebración del III Domingo Ordinario, y el septimo episodio de nuestro podcast de homilias dominicales. "Porque si no lo hacen, no están en buen contacto con Dios."

By Father Perry D. Leiker, pastor "How do we process the word of God today, those three readings, into our lives?" Father Perry asks us for the seventh episode of our Sunday Homilies podcast, and our celebration of the Third Sunday in Ordinary Time. "Do we sense the urgency?"

Por Padre Perry D. Leiker, párroco "Es esperando y abriendo. Y en particular con Dios, si estamos esperando, tenemos que estar buscando, escuchando por la voz de él," nos dice Padre Perry D. Leiker, párroco, para nuestra celebración del II Domingo Ordinario; y el sexto episodio de nuestro podcast de homilias dominicales. "Si, estamos buscando, abriendo nuestras vidas a él."

By Father Perry D. Leiker, pastor "Waiting is a real challenge. And we hear it beautifully expressed in the scriptures today. God came and revealed his presence to Samuel in that call. And that's what I think these scriptures are trying to teach us today," Father Perry tells us for our celebration of the Second Sunday in Ordinary Time; and the sixth episode of our Sunday Homilies podcast. "And tha...

By Father Perry D. Leiker, pastor "When we get the light, the light changes us," Father Perry tells us for our celebration of the Epiphany of the Lord, for the fifth episode of our Sunday Homilies podcast. "And when we receive the light of Christ, then we can draw other's to Christ's light through his word, his example, the living of this life. And we can change the world."

Por Padre Perry D. Leiker, párroco "La luz no es solamente la estrella que estaba dirigiendo los as este lugar, pero la luz que era Cristo," nos dice Padre Perry D. Leiker, párroco, para nuestra celebración de Solemnidad de la Epifanía del Señor y el quinto episodio de nuestro podcast de homilias dominicales. "Imagina si cada persona este día sale de aquí y dan a luz a alguien. Reciben la luz, est...

By Father Perry D. Leiker, pastor "And we see so clearly, visually, but seeing very often to walk in the darkness of sin, the darkness of this inner-spiritual death," Father Perry tells us for our Mass during the night of the Nativity of the Lord (Christmas). "This reading is a prophetic voice, so powerful. That a light would come into the world that we would be able to see — and see clearly — Jes...

By Father Perry D. Leiker, pastor "These scriptures are lifting up our response to this, because this child was born. And when we stop and further reflect, we get today," for our celebration of Mass during the day of the Nativity of the Lord (Christmas). "And then it talks beautifully about this divinity of God ... and became man, became a human being. He entered into our humanity. For me, the mos...

Por Padre Perry D. Leiker, párroco "Todos nosotros debemos de entender que cada día estamos no simplemente oyendo la palabra … pero viviendo la palabra," nos dice Padre Perry D. Leiker, párroco, para nuestra celebración de Misa del día de la Natividad del Señor (Navidad). "Cada día podemos odiar si queremos odiar. Pero también podemos amar. Cuando podemos hacer eso, todo es diferente, porque es el...

Por Padre Perry D. Leiker, párroco "Si estamos llenos — especialmente llenos de nosotros mismos — como Dios puede entrar," nos dice Padre Perry D. Leiker, párroco, para nuestra celebración de Cuarto Domingo de Adviento. "Si yo no necesito nada porque estoy solo buscando en mi, en mi persona, en mis deseos, todo enfocado en mi, ¿como yo puedo recibir Cristo, y la gracia y la bendición que Dios quie...

By Father Perry D. Leiker, pastor "We've been so trained to think that we're doing for God. And that's alright that we do out of love, because doing something out of love changes us and makes us better," Father Perry tell us for the fourth episode of our Sunday Homilies podcast. "Rather than think what we're doing for God, what is he doing to and for us as we do all of that? And we say now, Christ...

By Father Perry D. Leiker, pastor "We share in Mary's greatness and joy. And it'll take us with that Son to the cross, but also to the resurrection," Father Perry tells us for the 11th episode of our Advent podcast. "So there something so big going on here — a blessing by God not just for Mary and for Hannah, but for all generations to come."

By Father Perry D. Leiker, pastor "Are we ready to say Christ is coming into our world?" Father Perry asks us for our Simbang Gabi Mass. "This last nine days you dig in to opening yourselves to the power of this grace that is about to come upon us through the person of Jesus Christ. And the only way it really affects us is if we really are aware, that we really are alert. As we gather for this fin...

By Father Perry D. Leiker, pastor "This is the great feast of incarnation. This is God coming into our humanity, God divinizing our humanity," Father Perry tells us for the ninth episode of our Advent podcast. "He takes away that basic, brokenness in us that could help us or cause us to choose hate rather than love. To me, that's the great gift of Jesus' divinity that heals our humanity and gives...

By Father Perry D. Leiker, pastor "The church places these stories before us just a few days before Christmas, just a few days before we celebrate the great feast of the incarnation," Father Perry tells us for the 10th episode of our Advent podcast. "Because we are being asked to focus on the miracle of preganncy, the miracle of bringing forth life into this world. But the special miracle that we...

By Father Perry D. Leiker, pastor "'My soul proclaims the greatness of the Lord; my spirit rejoices in God my Savior.' That should be our words, too. We've been both anointed and we've been called to carry Christ into the world through our lives," Father Perry tells us for the fourth episode of our Sunday Homilies podcast, and our celebration of the Third Sunday of Advent. "And so when we do that,...

Por Padre Perry D. Leiker, párroco "Estamos aquí para proclamar a Dios. Y más en nuestras acciones, no solamente en nuestras palabras," nos dice Padre Perry D. Leiker, párroco, para nuestra celebración del Tercer Domingo de Adviento. "Esta palabra nos está ayudando a considerar y entender esta jornada de fe. Tenemos que abrir durante el Adviento. Yo creo que debemos pedir a Cristo cada día que él...

By Father Perry D. Leiker, pastor "If we're not alert, ready, and waiting for that word to get into our heart and really speak to our spirit, then I'm afraid we can be like these kids in the marketplace. And they're lamenting," Father Perry tells us for the eighth episode of our Advent podcast. "What's the matter with you? And Jesus criticizes the scribes and Pharisees, and the peoples who were no...

By Father Perry D. Leiker, pastor "Before we get to the cross, we have to get to the birth. And so John the Baptist takes an enormously important place," Father Perry tells us for the seventh episode of our Advent podcast, as we celebrate the Memorial of St. John of the Cross. "He came to point [at the cross], there's the Lamb of God. There he is, Jesus. He's the Lamb of God who takes away the sin...

Por Padre Perry D. Leiker, párroco "La historia de Maria es una historia de nosotros. Esta es una historia famosa de reconocimiento," nos dice Padre Perry D. Leiker, párroco, para nuestra celebración de Fiesta de Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe. "Si tenemos este día de la Virgen de Guadalupe, es tremendo. La alegría es tremenda. Ella quiere no sólo un momento, sino toda la vida. Ella quiere que vamos...