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By Father Perry D. Leiker, pastor "Where is that room for us? Where do we still need to change? What do we need to say we're sorry for?" Father Perry asks us for the ninth episode of our Advent podcast, for our celebration of the Memorial of St. Lucy, virgin and martyr. "Is there anyone with whom we should or could reconcile? Do we have to ask for forgiveness? What's the one change, more than anyt...

Por Padre Perry D. Leiker, párroco "Él nos está amando sin condiciones, sin límites. ¿Podemos creer eso?" nos pregunta Padre Perry D. Leiker, párroco, para el tercer episodio de nuestro podcast de homilías dominicales, para nuestra celebración del III Domingo de Adviento (Domingo Gaudete). "Y la prueba siempre es la cruz. Espero que en este Adviento estamos viniendo más cerca a la luz."

By Father Perry D. Leiker, pastor "She denies any worthiness, she denies any right to this grace this she has been filled with; she denies any kind of responsibility for this. She just surrenders to God and sees that everything that has happened in her proclaims his greatness," Father Perry tells us for the eighth episode of our Advent podcast, for our celebration of the Feast of Our Lady of Guada...

Por Padre Perry D. Leiker, párroco "Estamos enfocándonos en una mujer muy humilde. Una mujer que dijo 'Sí' al ángel, cuando él ángel le estaba dando un mensaje que Dios quería usarla para algo muy especial" nos dice Padre Perry D. Leiker, párroco, para nuestra celebración de la Fiesta de Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe. "Y ella tenía bastante fe. Y ella estaba ofreciendo todo — su cuerpo, su futuro, s...

By Father Perry D. Leiker, pastor "That's why we're in pink, shouting out 'Gaudete — rejoice, rejoice!' because we're getting really close to remember that feast, and always we're looking forward to forever in Christ," Father Perry tells us for the third episode of our Sunday Homilies podcast, for our celebration of the Third Sunday of Advent (Gaudete Sunday). "Christ is never apart from us. And,...

Por Padre Ramón Reyes "La Virgen Maria viene y entra en nuestras vidas. La Virgen María de Guadalupe les enseña una nación a un pueblo que hay un Dios," nos dice Padre Ramon Reyes para nuestra celebración de la Fiesta de Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe. "Ella siempre está ahí. Cuando hay un problema de algo en este mundo, una oscuridad, un pecado, ella está ahí para cuidarnos. Sí creen eso? Por eso es...

By Father Reynaldo B. Matunog "We are being reminded and also celebrating the very essence and the real and true spirit of the season — which is joy," Father Reynaldo B. Matunog tells us for the first episode of our Divine Mercy podcast, for our celebration of the Third Sunday of Advent (Gaudete Sunday). "That joy that is a gift of God that's rooted in the fact and the truth that what we are prepa...

By Father Perry D. Leiker, pastor "If we started with love, truly — love of self and love of neighbour — that we would do the right thing," Father Perry tells us for the seventh episode of our Advent podcast. "You know what justice is. You know what peace is. You know what generosity and kindness and forgiveness are, if you're living in love. But the moment that our feelings and our fears take ove...

By Father Perry D. Leiker, pastor "This isn't just a feast to praise Mary, but it's a feast to look at her and say, we get the exact same call," Father Perry tells us for the sixth episode of our Advent podcast, for our celebration of the Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary. "So how does it become so real for us? What happened to Mary is exactly what is supposed to ha...

By Father Perry D. Leiker, pastor "Jesus acted super divine. So with all of that sufferring, with all of that pain, with all of that rejection, he loved and forgave," Father Perry tells us for the fifth episode of our Advent podcast, for our celebration of Tuesday of the Second Week of Advent. "That is saving us from ourselves. That's a rescue mission that's unbelievable. You don't have to hate ba...

By Father Perry D. Leiker, pastor "This is a season of preparation. The purpose of Advent is to ready ourselves," Father Perry tells us for the second episode of our Sunday Homilies podcast, for our celebration of the Second Sunday of Advent. "And the real birth of Christ isn't going to be in a little manger scene over there. The birth of Christ has got to be here. That's the purpose of Advent — t...

Por Padre Perry D. Leiker, párroco "Él tiempo de Adviento no es un día. Queremos estar transformados," nos dice Padre Perry D. Leiker, párroco, para el segundo episodio de nuestro podcast de homilías dominicales, para nuestra celebración del II Domingo de Adviento. "Porque queremos recibir a Cristo, recordando su nacimiento es una celebración. Queremos estar preparados para su segunda venida."

By Father Perry D. Leiker, pastor "To choose to do the good, to choose to live the life, to live in the mansion right now," Father Perry tells us for the third episode of our Advent podcast. "To live in the mansion, right now, we don't have to wait until we die. Live in the mansion of God right now and know his light within us. That's what these scriptures offer to us."

By Father Perry D. Leiker, pastor "That you and I could give testimony to our lives being changed because we believe in Jesus," Father Perry tells us for the fourth episode our Advent podcast, for our celebration of Friday of the First Week of Advent. "This Gospel is our Gospel. And it in a very real way, we have to realize that all of us, too, are right now, have been blind and will be blind in t...

By Father Perry D. Leiker, pastor "We go through this Advent saying: O come, O come, Emmanuel," Father Perry tells us for the second episode of our Advent podcast. "Rescue us. Show us. Teach us. Give us your light. Be God with us. And the more that we can open up to that Advent message, the more Christmas will powerfully and wonderfully mean something to us."

By Father Perry D. Leiker, pastor "Do we believe it, with the faith of the centurion? Do we have that sense [that] Lord, I'm a sinner; I'm not worthy," Father Perry tells us for the first episode of our Advent podcast. "What I do know is that you have authority and power, and you are always loving. I would say that is the difference between somebody who goes to church and somebody who is church. T...

By Father Perry D. Leiker, pastor "There are a lot of promises that all of life will be changed," Father Perry D. Leiker, pastor, tells us for the first episode of our Sunday Homilies podcast for the 2023 liturgical year, and our celebration of the First Sunday of Advent. "And the truth is, we celebrate Christ coming in Christmas because we say that event changed the whole; it was never the same a...

Por Padre Perry D. Leiker, párroco "Estamos celebrando un evento que pasó dos mil años pasado — él nacimiento de Jesús. Pero estamos celebrando también la segunda venida de Cristo," nos dice Padre Perry D. Leiker, párroco, para él primer episodio de nuestro podcast de homilías dominicales, para nuestra celebración del I Domingo de Adviento. "Él punto de este Adviento por cuatro semanas es abrir a...

By Father Perry D. Leiker, pastor "Thanksgiving Day is about seeing with the heart. It's about seeing with the heart in a way that gratitude just bubbles up inside of us, and we experience gratitude," Father Perry D. Leiker, pastor, for our annual Thanksgiving Day Mass. "On this day we all experience gratitude. Would that we would every single day, that we would begin our day with gratitude. I'm a...

By Father Parker Sandoval "God comes as king in the person of Jesus," Father Parker Sandoval tells us for the 51st and last episode of our Sunday Homilies podcast for the 2022 liturgical year, for our celebration of the Solemnity of Our Lord Jesus Christ, King of the Universe, and the final Sunday of the 2022 liturgical year. "And Jesus comes announcing good news — the kingdom of God is at hand; t...

Por Padre Perry D. Leiker, párroco "Sí, estamos celebrando Cristo Rey. Pero estamos celebrando la cosa sobre que él estaba siempre predicando — él reino de Dios," nos dice Padre Perry D. Leiker, párroco, para él quincuagésimo primer episodio de nuestro podcast de homilías dominicales, para nuestra celebración del XXVII Domingo Ordinario. "Y, porque somos bautizados — ungidos también como él, ungid...

By Father Perry D. Leiker, pastor "The way that I think that he describes to us most of all is to be a people of trust, to open our lives and trust," Father Perry D. Leiker, pastor, tells us for the 50th episode of our Sunday Homilies podcast, for our celebration of the 33rd Sunday in Ordinary Time. "And I think that happens when we recognize our limitations. It should lead us to a place of profou...

Por Padre Parker Sandoval "Sí queremos ser santos, tenemos que permanecer cercas de las personas en nuestras vidas que ya están cerca de Dios," nos dice Padre Parker Sandoval para él quincuagésimo episodio de nuestro podcast de homilías dominicales, para nuestra celebración del XXXIII Domingo Ordinario. "Sí, tenemos él gran ejemplo de los santos canonizados por la iglesia. Y en la historia de la i...

By Father Peter Saucedo "God is the God of the living. That's what God' desires for us, my friends," Father Peter Saucedo tells us for the 49th episode of our Sunday Homilies podcast, for our celebration of the 32nd Sunday in Ordinary Time. "God desires for us to be alive. God teaches that in the middle of suffering, there's something greater. And he offers what the world can't. That's why Jesus C...

Por Padre Pedro Saucedo "Nosotros no somos gente que se queda en la muerte. Pero nosotros somos gente que cree en la vida," nos dice Padre Pedro Saucedo para él cuadragésimo noveno episodio de nuestro podcast de homilías dominicales, para nuestra celebración del XXXII Domingo Ordinario. "Y no solamente aquí, sino en la vida eterna. "Por medio de la muerte de Cristo, él ha conquistado la muerte y é...