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By Father Perry D. Leiker, pastor "It's the mistakes, the errors, the things that we regret that turn into the biggest blessings in our life," Father Perry tells us for the 15th episode of our Sunday Homilies podcast. "We once walked in darkness. God has given us a great light through Jesus the Christ. And he showed us even in his dying what it means to be fully human and fully divine. That you ca...

Por Padre Perry D. Leiker, párroco "La verdad es que todos nosotros somos ciegos. Yo imagino que cada uno de nosotros este día va ser un ciego él mínimo una vez," nos dice Padre Perry D. Leiker, párroco, para él décimo quinto episodio de nuestro podcast de homilías dominicales, para nuestra celebración del IV Domingo de Cuaresma. "Con una mala palabra. Criticando. No perdonando."

Por Padre Parker Sandoval "Sí la fe es una jornada, podemos saber dónde estamos en está jornada. Aún más. Tenemos que saber cuál es nuestro destino, ¿cuál es la meta de esta fe?" nos pregunta él Padre Parker Sandoval para el décimo cuarto episodio de nuestro podcast de homilías dominicales, para nuestra celebración del III Domingo de Cuaresma. "Pues para nosotros los Cristianos, nuestro destino es...

By Father Perry D. Leiker, pastor "How often do we hold our brothers and sisters — literally, our blood brothers and sisters, or very close family members — to these standards where we're always just on the edge of condemning them, just on the edge of criticizing them, just on the edge of seeing them less?" Father Perry asks us for the ninth episode of our Lenten podcast. "And I think this scriptu...

By Father Isaiah Mary Molano, O.P. "God blesses us so that me may be a blessing to others. This is why in our Lenten season, we emphasize the acts of mercy, the necessity for penance," Father Isaiah Mary Molano, O.P., tells us for the 14th episode of our Sunday Homilies podcast. "Not only for us, but so that God can bestow his love to all his creation. The Lord Jesus encounters us so that he can h...

By Father Perry D. Leiker, pastor "Just because Jesus Christ came back from the dead do we all listen?" Father Perry D. Leiker, pastor, asks us for the eighth episode of our Lenten podcast, for our celebration of Thursday of the Second Week of Lent. "This scripture is asking us to become not aware, but super-aware of the need for goodness and spirituality, and life-giving Spirit of God to fill our...

By Father Perry D. Leiker, pastor "My God only wants me to have life to the fullest, I'm convinced of it," Father Perry tells us for the seventh episode of our Lenten podcast, for our celebration of Tuesday of the Second Week of Lent. "My God wants peace and joy and happiness and life and goodness and God-ness, and every other good thing to fill my life and bring it to fullness and fruition. I rea...

Por Padre Perry D. Leiker, párroco "Dios quiere que seamos una gente que siempre está escuchando él Señor — cada palabra," nos dice Padre Perry D. Leiker, párroco, para el décimo tercer episodio de nuestro podcast de homilías dominicales, para nuestra celebración del II Domingo de Cuaresma. "En está cruz tan fea, él estaba lleno de gloria, de amor, de perdón. Escuchalo, porque él tiene la palabra...

By Father Perry D. Leiker, pastor "It's so easy so sink into just taking care of the bodily needs, the desires," Father Perry D. Leiker, pastor, tells us for the sixth episode of our Lenten podcast. "And those scream at us. The Spirit doesn't scream at us, the Spirit is whispering, 'listen to me, listen to me.' But the body screams, and so we're always taking care of the body and all of these need...

By Father Perry D. Leiker, pastor "When he gets to that cross, he's not glorified; he's not shining like the sun," Father Perry tells us for the 13th episode of our Sunday Homilies podcast, for the Second Sunday of Lent. "He's being killed! He's bleeding to death on the cross. He's been spit on, and thorns stuck in his head; and stripped and beaten and forced to carry a cross — nailed to it, lifte...

By Father Perry D. Leiker, pastor "I think these scriptures today — they are about prayer; they are about asking and seeking and longing for," Father Perry tells us for the fifth episode of our Lenten podcast, for our celebration of Thursday of the First Week of Lent. "If you don't knock on the door, why would you think it would be open to you? You got to knock! If you don't seek, how do you think...

By Father Perry D. Leiker, pastor "A yearning, a longing — I really think that in our relationship with God and in our prayer life, that's the most important ingredient," Father Perry D. Leiker, pastor, tells us for the fourth episode of our Lenten podcast, for our celebration of Tuesday of the First Week of Lent. "That we long, that we yearn for, that we seek; because if we're not seeking, if we'...

By Father Perry D. Leiker, pastor "The scripture often is trying to form us into a different people," Father Perry tells us for the third episode of our Lenten podcast, for our celebration of Monday of the First Week of Lent. "God wants to form us into, I'll say, Christian warriors; but just men and women who just live [and] love. And when we do that, what a powerful source in the world! That we g...

Por Padre Perry D. Leiker, párroco "Está es la verdad también. Cuando estamos bien espiritualmente, conectados con Dios, abriendo en oración, usualmente no estamos listos a pecar," nos dice Padre Perry D. Leiker, párroco, para nuestra celebración del I Domingo de Pascua, para él décimo segundo episodio de nuestro podcast de homilías dominicales. "Pero sí podemos entender un poco más de este gran m...

By Father Perry D. Leiker, pastor "The scripture often is trying to form us into a different people," Father Perry tells us for the third episode of our Lenten podcast, for our celebration of Monday of the First Week of Lent. "God wants to form us into, I'll say, Christian warriors; but just men and women who just live [and] love. And when we do that, what a powerful source in the world! That we g...

By Father Perry D. Leiker, pastor "What good is there in fasting? What good is it if you fast to become a better person, but you end up a worse person?" Father Perry asks us for the second episode of our Lenten podcast, for our celebration of Friday After Ash Wednesday and the third day of Lent. "Then your fast was a physically, bodily thing. If we fast, and if we hunger, and then we taste the hun...

By Father Perry D. Leiker, pastor "What if we walked with God like that? What if we listened to God's word like that? God, speak to me. God, these words are tough," Father Perry tells us for the first episode of St. Bernard's Lenten podcast, for our celebration of Thursday After Ash Wednesday. "What are you saying? Are you really saying that you would reject us and you wouldn't let our descendants...

By Father Perry D. Leiker, pastor "What would be the one thing I would like to do to be a better person? Imagine if everyone of us left this church tonight with some idea of what that one thing is that we want to change about our lives in the next 40 days and 40 nights," Father Perry tells us for our celebration of Ash Wednesday. "It's extraordinary. It's powerful. This is new life. So today we do...

By Father Perry D. Leiker, pastor "The Spirit of God dwells in you. And once we really believe that, that's God already perfecting us, Father Perry tells us for the 11th episode of our Sunday Homilies podcast, for our celebration of the Seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time. "If we really believe we're sacred, if we really believe each other is sacred, then all the other stuff follows."

Por Padre Perry D. Leiker, párroco "La cosa es que podemos estar abiertos siempre recibir eso y apreciar la perfección y la bondad de nuestro Señor," nos dice Padre Perry D. Leiker, párroco, para nuestra celebración del VII Domingo Ordinario, para él décimo episodio primer de nuestro podcast de homilías dominicales. "Somos templos de Dios. Y por está razón podemos decir que tenemos que amarnos uno...

By Father Perry D. Leiker, pastor "Who are we, and how do we want to be? God, through Jesus, is inviting us to something profound," Father Perry tells us for the 10th episode of our Sunday Homilies podcast, for our celebration of the Sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time. "Jesus is pushing it forward a little bit more to challenge us."

Por Padre Perry D. Leiker, párroco "Cuando escuchamos la palabra de Dios, él está poniendo en nosotros su sabiduría. Vamos a vivir diferentemente," nos dice Padre Perry D. Leiker, párroco, para nuestra celebración del VI Domingo Ordinario, para él décimo episodio de nuestro podcast de homilías dominicales. "Él nos está pidiendo tener una diferente actitud de vida, de fe, de sabiduría. Podemos trat...

By Father Perry D. Leiker, pastor "What about our anger ... what about the murders that we do with our tongues? Because that can be pretty nasty and mean," Father Perry tells us for the third episode of our Divine Mercy podcast, for our celebration of the Sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time. "But he takes it a step further. And this shows the wisdom of God that's trying to reach into our hearts and tran...

By Father Perry D. Leiker, pastor "What if it is true to say that you and I are salt and light? What are we supposed to do with that?" Father Perry D. Leiker, pastor, tells us for the ninth episode of our Sunday homilies podcast. "The mission is to love this world. The mission is to reach out and care for those who need it. The mission is to be light and to be salt. And we are promised that when w...

Por Padre Perry D. Leiker, párroco "Dios nos está invitando a considerar qué tan importante somos con la luz y sal con la apreciación del reino de Dios en nuestras vidas," nos dice el Padre Perry D. Leiker, párroco, para él noveno episodio de nuestro podcast de homilias dominicales. "¿Cuánto efecto podemos tener en él mundo? Ustedes pueden ser luz por él mundo. Como? Dar comida a los que tienen ha...