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By Father Rafal Kipigroch "Without your financial support, we will be unable to sustain our ministry," Father Rafal Kipigroch of Apostolic Vicariate of San Jose del Amazonas, in the Peruvian jungle, tells us for the 31st episode of our Sunday Homilies podcast. "The Amazon for us is a beautiful place, a remote area thriving with God's people, who are hungry to hear the work of God and to receive th...

By Father L. Nilo Mangussad "We are the little ones who Jesus is taking care of. We are the learned who has given us the potential and ability to perfect our lives and increase opportunities," Father L. Nilo Mangussad tells us for the 30th episode of our Sunday Homilies podcast. "But primarily we are children of God our Father, waiting for us to come back to him, thank him, establish our wonderful...

Por Padre Perry D. Leiker, párroco "Yo creo que cuando estamos preocupados por problemas, Dios no puede entrar. Es casi imposible. Estamos preocupados por nosotros mismos," nos dice Padre Perry D. Leiker, párroco, para nuestro trigésimo episodio de nuestro podcast de homilías dominicales, para nuestra celebración del XIV Domingo Ordinario. "Pero cuando estamos relajando, o descansando, jugando, es...

By Father Perry D. Leiker, pastor "And that's what Jesus wants — our attention. Especially when it comes to living the Gospel — his Gospel," Father Perry tells us for the 29th episode of our Sunday Homilies podcast. "Because he knows that his Gospel gives life. And he loves to speak in paradoxes: To have your life, you have to lose your life. If you want to receive, you have to give. And in speaki...

Por Padre Perry D. Leiker, párroco "Este es él paradoxo — que podemos ganar cuando estamos perdiendo. Podemos vivir cuando estamos muriendo," nos dice Padre Perry D. Leiker, párroco, para nuestro vigésimo noveno episodio de nuestro podcast de homilías dominicales, para nuestra celebración del XIII Domingo Ordinario.

By Father Perry D. Leiker, pastor "On this great solemnity of Peter and Paul, where we get these wonderful little snapshots of faith and life," Father Perry tells us for our celebration of the Solemnity of Sts. Peter and Paul, apostles. "For us to stop today, sometime, and see what we can appreciate in our lives and in our lives of faith, and how God maybe is really there for us."

By Father Perry D. Leiker, pastor "Not having fear is an essential component of faith. If we have fear, then we're probably trusting less," Father Perry tells us for the 28th episode of our Sunday Homilies podcast, for our celebration of the 12th Sunday in Ordinary Time. "But if our fear gets blocked or erased or lessened because we have trust, then we're really responding to God's call and especi...

Por Padre Perry D. Leiker, párroco "La cosa que puede bloquear nuestra fe y confianza en Dios es él temor," nos dice Padre Perry D. Leiker, párroco, para nuestro vigésimo octavo episodio de nuestro podcast de homilías dominicales, para nuestra celebración del XII Domingo Ordinario.

By Father Perry D. Leiker, pastor "God cannot do anything but love — he's immutable," Father Perry tells us for the 27th episode of our Sunday Homilies podcast, for our celebration of the 11th Sunday in Ordinary Time. "Do you think any of you or all of us combined can make God get upset? Really? God loves us through our 'terrible twos.'"

Por Padre Perry D. Leiker, párroco "Sí no vamos amar a nuestro prójimo, que vamos hacer — vivir con odio y maldad dentro de nosotros?" nos dice Padre Perry D. Leiker, párroco, para nuestro vigésimo séptimo episodio de nuestro podcast de homilías dominicales, para nuestra celebración del XI Domingo Ordinario. "Él quiere que nosotros podamos recibir su amor, su gracia, y salir de aquí y hacer su bon...

By Father Perry D. Leiker, pastor "It really is asking of us to understand what we do — not just what we receive, but what we do — and what it is supposed to do to us," Father Perry tells us for the 26th episode of our Sunday Homilies podcast, for our celebration of the Solemnity of the Body and Blood of Christ. "We've been fed. We drank in Christ our Lord and his word so that we can take him out...

Por Padre Perry D. Leiker, párroco "Estamos recibiendo Cristo en todo — su palabra, su ejemplo, su cruz, su resurrección," nos dice Padre Perry D. Leiker, párroco, para nuestro vigésimo sexto episodio de nuestro podcast de homilías dominicales, para nuestra celebración de la Solemnidad del Cuerpo y la Sangre de Cristo (Corpus Christi). "Jesús está dándonos una oportunidad de experimentar él reino...

By Father Francis Mendoza "We were made for the deepest kind of love, brothers and sisters. Love that brings connection in Christ," Father Francis Mendoza tells us for the sixth episode of our Divine Mercy podcast. "What we celebrate today in the gift of the Eucharist, the body, blood, soul, and divinity of our Lord and saviour Jesus Christ, is the real presence of God. In the Eucharist, we receiv...

By Father Perry D. Leiker, pastor "We believe that you have the capability not only of finding great happiness in your own life, but becoming your best person and making a real difference," Father Perry tells us in his homily for St. Bernard Catholic School's annual graduation Mass. "And I would say, when you're look around the world, there's a lot going on in our world today. A lot of sadness. .....

By Father Perry D. Leiker, pastor "If the Father, Son, and Spirit are in this communion of love, and they are giving the gift of each other to us all the time, when we relate to them, if we experience it in terms of love, it makes a lot more sense," Father Perry D. Leiker, pastor, tells us for the 25th episode of our Sunday Homilies podcast, for our celebration of the Solemnity of the Most Holy Tr...

Por Padre Perry D. Leiker, párroco "Cuando yo me marcó con la cruz … estoy celebrando mi redención. Él dio una libertad tremenda," nos dice Padre Perry D. Leiker, párroco, para nuestro vigésimo quinto episodio de nuestro podcast de homilías dominicales, para nuestra celebración de la Solemnidad de la Santísima Trinidad. "Yo creo, en mi opinión, no existe un minuto él día, incluyendo cuando estoy d...

By Father Perry D. Leiker, pastor "When we respect and honour each other enough to actually listen to each other, and not go right to judgement or condemnation," Father Perry tells us for Pentecost Sunday, for the 24th episode of our Sunday Homilies podcast. "This Pentecost not only changed the apostles but all of us and forever. We are a Pentecost people. Every single day we should be opening our...

Por Padre Perry D. Leiker, párroco "El pecado destruye la unidad. El pecado destruye la paz. El pecado destruye él deseo en nosotros de unirse y conocer y escuchar y hablar con el otro," nos dice Padre Perry D. Leiker, párroco, para nuestro vigésimo cuarto episodio de nuestro podcast de homilías dominicales, para nuestra celebración del Domingo de Pentecostés. "Esto es divino. Esto es la divinidad...

Por Padre Perry D. Leiker, párroco "Jesús está diciendo que tenemos que estar vacíos. Que no estoy contigo, pero que pueden recibir mi Espíritu," nos dice Padre Perry D. Leiker, párroco, para nuestro vigésimo tercer episodio de nuestro podcast de homilías dominicales, para nuestra celebración del la Solemnidad de la Ascensión del Señor. "Cuando estamos vacíos en una forma, es artificial. Pero sí p...

By Father Perry D. Leiker, pastor "If we can have that sense, that feeling of Jesus not with us, how much more important when we receive him in his Spirit?" Father Perry D. Leiker, pastor, tells us for the 23rd episode of our Sunday Homilies podcast, for our celebration of the Ascension of the Lord. "Jesus is describing a need to be empty inside, a sense that he was not present, so that when he do...

By Father Perry D. Leiker, pastor "Don't be afraid. Have faith. Have faith in God, have faith also in me, Jesus says," Father Perry D. Leiker, pastor, tells us for the 22nd episode of our Sunday Homilies podcast. "He speaks these words because he was telling them about the fact he had to leave them, which they were not going to understand. Jesus taught the [Our Father] in that way, I think, to sho...

Por Padre Perry D. Leiker, párroco "Esta nueva vida que él vivió, que esta dandonos, cuando estamos experimentando la cruz en nuestras vidas," nos dice Padre Perry D. Leiker, párroco, para nuestro vigésimo segundo episodio de nuestro podcast de homilías dominicales, para nuestra celebración del V Domingo de Pascua. "Podemos amar en la cara de odio e injusticia. Cuando mis hechos viven en ustedes,...

Por Padre Perry D. Leiker, párroco "Yo creo que este tiempo de Pascua, este es un clímax sí podemos escuchar eso … podemos empezar más y más intencionalmente aceptar la palabra," nos dice Padre Perry D. Leiker, párroco, para nuestro vigésimo primer episodio de nuestro podcast de homilías dominicales, para nuestra celebración del IV Domingo de Pascua. "Recibiendo la palabra, viviendo la palabra. Y...

By Father Perry D. Leiker, pastor "Faith isn't something that should just happen," Father Perry tells us for the 21st episode of our Sunday Homilies podcast. "Jesus wants to go right up on that cross — and our cross — and lead us to call us by name. To maybe discover a different place."

By Father Perry D. Leiker, pastor "In the breaking of the bread, we are asked to believe, really, that Jesus Christ gives himself to us," Father Perry tells us for the 20th episode of our Sunday Homilies podcast. "But in this breaking of the bread and eating this bread, we are told by Christ 'do this in memory of me.' When we do this ritual, are we really letting God more deeply into our life? Do...