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By Father Perry D. Leiker, pastor "La palabra no estaba escrita para la gente hace dos mil años pasados. Sí, pero más por la gente que siguió — por nosotros," nos dice Padre Perry D. Leiker, párroco, para nuestro vigésimo episodio de nuestro podcast de homilías dominicales, para nuestra celebración del III Domingo de Pascua. "Está palabra debe tener un impacto en nosotros y causar en nosotros una...

By Father Perry D. Leiker, pastor "The mercy of God is real. If we meet the mercy of God, and we are touched and overcome by it, we know that we're forgiven, we know it," Father Perry tells us for the 19th episode of our Sunday Homilies podcast, for our celebration of Divine Mercy Sunday on the Second Sunday of Easter. "And we're expected to walk forth not only in the peace of that but also to be...

By Father Perry D. Leiker, pastor "You can't be a Thomas. If we fall in love with it, some miraculous things can happen," Father Perry tells us for the fifth episode of our Divine Mercy podcast, for our celebration of Divine Mercy Sunday on the Second Sunday of Easter. "I would beg you and dare you just to say some thank yous today for the gift of his divine mercy."

Holy Saturday At the Easter Vigil in the Holy Night of Easter: "We are people of the light" by St. Bernard Catholic Church, Los Angeles

Por Padre Perry D. Leiker, párroco "Algo más grande de nuestros pecados es la misericordia del Señor. Y sí creemos eso, puede sanar nuestras vidas," nos dice Padre Perry D. Leiker, párroco, para nuestro décimo noveno episodio de nuestro podcast de homilías dominicales, para nuestra celebración del II Domingo de Pascua. "La palabra de Dios nos está invitándonos a aceptar que muchas veces somos como...

Por Padre Perry D. Leiker, párroco "La palabra de Dios es mucho más verdadera y grande de la verdad lógicamente, o científicamente. Es un libro de la palabra de Dios. Es misterio, es profundo, y dice mucho más aparte de las cosas científicas," nos dice Padre Perry D. Leiker, párroco, para nuestro décimo octavo episodio de nuestro podcast de homilías dominicales, para nuestra celebración del Doming...

By Father Perry D. Leiker, pastor "For us as Catholics, as Christians, we celebrate mystery," Father Perry D. Leiker, pastor, tells us for the 18th episode of our Sunday Homilies podcast, for our celebration of Easter Sunday. "We're not afraid of it. We don't run from it. We believe in Jesus the Christ. We believe that he came to destroy the power of sin and death. And how he did that, for me, is...

By Father Perry D. Leiker, pastor "This word of God challenges us to see it in a very explicit way today, and to recognize that something very sacred is being told to us in this Passion, something very full of mystery," Father Perry tells us for our celebration of Good Friday of the Lord's Passion. "When we look up at this cross, if we can't say 'thank you,' then I think we've missed the point."

Por Padre Perry D. Leiker, párroco "La palabra de Dios es mucho más verdadera y grande de la verdad lógicamente, o científicamente. Es un libro de la palabra de Dios. Es misterio, es profundo, y dice mucho más aparte de las cosas científicas," nos dice Padre Perry D. Leiker, párroco, para nuestra celebración del Viernes Santo de la Pasion del Señor. "La palabra nos está guiando a ustedes y yo a es...

By Father Perry D. Leiker, pastor "So on this night, as we celebrate for the first time the Last Supper, and we celebrate this gift to us of his presence — his Spiritual presence — as food for our spirit," Father Perry D. Leiker, pastor, tells us for our celebration of the Holy Thursday Evening Mass of the Lord's Supper. "It leads us perfectly up to this event tomorrow — the crucifixion and death...

By Father Perry D. Leiker, pastor "We're all supposed to be light. We're all supposed to give the light; that's our call, that's when God has made us in his holiness," Father Perry tells us for the 19th and final episode of St. Bernard's Lenten podcast, for our celebration of Tuesday of Holy Week. "But beware, because there's also darkness. And so we play with these two themes of light and darknes...

By Father Perry D. Leiker, pastor "What would conquer that sin would be love and forgiveness. Intuitively, it seems to me, that's what this suffering servant image gives to us," Father Perry tells us for the 18th episode of our Lenten podcast, and our celebration of Monday of Holy Week. "Jesus will wash the feet ... to give a model and example of service. You must wash the feet of everyone."

By Father Perry D. Leiker, pastor "We believe that in that hatred and justice and sinfulness, that a good man, a just man — a man of truth, a man who would call himself Son of God — would end up like this," Father Perry tells us for the 17th episode of our Lenten podcast, for our celebration of Friday of the Fifth Sunday of Lent. "We immerse ourselves deeply into this mystery of the cross, so that...

Por Padre Perry D. Leiker, párroco "En los ojos de Jesús, podemos ganar él poder de la cruz en nuestras vidas, nos dice Padre Perry D. Leiker, párroco, para él décimo séptimo episodio de nuestra podcast de homilías dominicales, para la celebración del Domingo de Ramos de le Pasion del Señor. "No existe ni una persona en este planeta que no vaya a experimentar la cruz en su vida."

By Father Perry D. Leiker, pastor "We are asked to immerse ourselves as deeply as we can in the mystery and the wonder of the cross," Father Perry tells us for the 16th episode of our Lenten podcast, for our celebration of Thursday of the Fifth Week of Lent. "We see the good that comes from this new covenant in the blood of Christ and that we are the recipients, therefore, of a promise of life and...

By Father Perry D. Leiker, pastor "What indignity — taking the thing that he had preached about daily to them about the kingdom of God, and making fun even of that," Father Perry D. Leiker, pastor, tells us for the 16th episode of our Sunday Homilies podcast, and our celebration of Palm Sunday of the Lord's Passion. "So they crucified him. And then as he's hanging on a cross, they couldn't stop mo...

By Father Perry D. Leiker, pastor "Are you ready to enter into mystery today? Our life is a mystery; our relationship with God is a mystery," Father Perry tells us for the 15th episode of our Lenten podcast. "There's no moment where God isn't gracing us, I don't think. I don't think God turns grace on and turns it off like a spigot, like a faucet; God is always grace and love. Embracing this myste...

By Father Perry D. Leiker, pastor "All of us will sin. And, clearly, we know that," Father Perry tells us for the 16th episode of our Sunday Homilies podcast. "But Jesus is forever seeking that we would be unbound of our sin. That the things that tie us up would be loosed."

Por Padre Perry D. Leiker, párroco "Sí este tipo de pecado — falta de amar — existe en ustedes, es él tiempo de decir Dios, ayúdame," nos dice Padre Perry D. Leiker, párroco, para él décimo sexto episodio de nuestro podcast de homilías dominicales, para nuestra celebración del V Domingo de Cuaresma. "Quiero este pecado fuera de mí. Sí estamos atentos a eso, estamos viviendo este Evangelio. Jesús e...

Por Padre Perry D. Leiker, párroco "¿Qué cosas hacemos nosotros como muertos? O como una momia? Estamos en la vida como eso," nos dice Padre Perry D. Leiker, párroco, para Misa de clausura para él Kairos Kai Metanoia retiro de mujeres. "No puede ver, no puede caminar sin caerse. ¿Y qué es eso? Es pecado — pecados grandes y chiquitos."

By Father Perry D. Leiker, pastor "We hear two womans' stories. We hear incredible mercy and love, and forgiveness and God supporting and carrying us through the valley of darkness," Father Perry tells us for the 14th episode of our Lenten podcast, for our celebration of Monday of the Fifth Week of Lent. "And we're asked to face this just a week before Holy Week, so we come into the holiest week o...

By Father Perry D. Leiker, pastor "We are a community of foot washers, and absolutely we should be. We should have that attitude that we would wash the feet of one another," Father Perry tells us for the 13th episode of our Lenten podcast. "And we would do it joyfully; and do it with a great sense that we're doing something valuable, something loving, something merciful."

By Father Perry D. Leiker, pastor "I hope you and don't believe that — that God will destroy us," Father Perry D. Leiker, pastor, tells us for the 12th episode of our Lenten podcast. "Rather, do we believe in an eternal love that never gives up on us — ever? No matter how sinful. No matter how much doubt, no matter how much we reject God in our lives. Even if we hate God, that he could never hate...

By Father Perry D. Leiker, pastor "There are no limits to the power of love, or to the power of showing love," Father Perry tells us for the 11th episode of our Lenten podcast, for our celebration of Tuesday of the Fourth Week of Lent. "Do we not hear in all of this the abundant graces of God that we do believe in? And the waters are a symbol of it; they give life, they sustain our physical lives....

Father Perry D. Leiker, pastor "It may also be a story that is stating some important things for us to appreciate about Joseph and Mary, and also about Jesus," Father Perry D. Leiker, pastor, tells us for the 10th episode of our Lenten podcast, for our celebration of the Solemnity of St. Joseph, spouse of the Blessed Virgin Mary. "What a role he had to be the foster father of Jesus. What a role he...