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By Father Perry D. Leiker, pastor "How are we supposed to go out and preach justice by our lives without spitting on people and getting in their face and breaking people down? Just be this loving presence in the world," Father Perry tells us for the 23rd episode of our Lenten podcast. "What might this mean for us? How are we, or could we be, like the suffering servant? How are we, or could we be,...

By Father Perry D. Leiker, pastor "All of this is beginning this week: the most holy week of the year," Father Perry tells us for the 20th episode of our Sunday Homilies podcast. "And this Passion of Christ is welcoming us into this story, so that the power of the hatred and death and love, and the power of entombment and resurrection, and ascension and feasting all the way until Pentecost, and th...

Por Padre Perry D. Leiker, párroco "Cada vez que escuchamos la palabra de Dios en la Biblia es como un espejo — si podemos ver adentro," nos dice Padre Perry para nuestro vigésimo episodio de nuestro podcast de homilías dominicales. "La palabra de ellos es una gran invitación a nosotros a recibir el amor de Dios y ser transformado por el amor de Dios."

By Father Perry D. Leiker, pastor "It's all about realizing and understanding that the Father is in the Son, and the Son is in the Father," Father Perry tell us for the 22nd episode of our Lenten podcast. "But I'm going to go further; it's also about realizing and understanding that Jesus the Christ is in us, and we are in him. Christ lives in us; we are the body of Christ. There's something so po...

By Father Perry D. Leiker, pastor "We see what's happening. We're being prepped for the great story this Sunday and next Friday when we listen to the Passion: First of Luke, and then of John," Father Perry tells us for the 21st episode of our Lenten podcast. "And we're being drawn into it; we're being drawn into that hour. And actually, THE hour, as we will celebrate it, will be on Good Friday. An...

By Father Perry D. Leiker, pastor "He's not asking us just to come and praise him, God. But to be disciples of his Son Jesus. And that's our call, it's a mighty call," Father Perry tells us for the 19th episode of our Lenten podcast. "Like the Passion story, we are standing outside of all this scripture we've heard a hundred times. And we keep looking at this through a double set of eyes, we look...

By Father Perry D. Leiker, pastor This is like a kaleidoscope of drug-induced writers. This is just confusion, and too much mystery, and where is this going? But, bottom line, what Jesus testifies to and says so clearly today in this Gospel — about that there is no confusion — he says I AM," Father Perry tells us for the 20th episode of our Lenten podcast. The Father has sent me, and everything I...

By Father Perry D. Leiker, pastor "The deepest part of us, deep in our spirit, is where the real life of God is," Father Perry tells us for the 19th episode our Sunday Homilies podcast. "All the physical things we do — they're important, they're valuable, they communicate love. But we got to learn how; and it's usually through prayer and contemplation that we get way down deep into the spirit. Of...

Por Padre Perry D. Leiker, párroco "[La mujer en flagrante adulterio] tenía que buscar adentro, y responder con una promesa, con una intención," nos dice Padre Perry para nuestro décimo noveno episodio de nuestro podcast de homilias dominicales. "Seguir y escuchar la palabra de Jesús."

By Father Perry D. Leiker, pastor "This three-day period is the hour, not 60 minutes. It's his hour of time. It's the moment that everything is going to be resting on — his death and resurrection. That's the moment. That's the hour," Father Perry tells us for the 18th episode of our Lenten podcast. "And that's the hour we celebrate in faith all the time; and know that, after we die, we will celebr...

By Father Perry D. Leiker, pastor "Would God blaze up in anger and destroy his own people? Us? Me?" Father Perry asks us for the 17th episode of our Lenten podcast. "I think you have to finally at some point make your claim. What is it that you're going to believe. For me, it's not in a wrathful God. But I get the language. We do it. We do it, parents do it. How many priests have gotten up and spo...

By Father Perry D. Leiker, pastor "Now I know we're believers, I say this all the time. And we're following over 2,000 years of faith. OK? We all believe," Father Perry tells us for the 15th episode of our Lenten podcast. "But, I wonder if we believe the big picture but miss the little picture. We believe in that [the cross], and we believe in that [the resurrection]. This is incredible to believe...

Por Padre Perry D. Leiker, párroco "Es en Cristo que podemos ver la luz. Los que tienen Cristo en su vida, y no solamente estar bautizado, porque tienes que hacer más de lo que es ser bautizado. Tienes que creer en el Señor Jesucristo. Tienes que recibirlo, aceptarlo, caminar en su palabra y en su luz. Cuando hacemos eso, tenemos algo extra," nos dice Padre Perry para nuestro décimo séptimo episod...

By Cardinal Roger M. Mahony "All of us have the ability to be a saint. It isn't saints who lived centuries ago; saints live now. And everyone of them has the same pattern — just loving Jesus, taking chances to get the name of Jesus out there. To bring others to compassion, and mercy in the Lord. Today, at your confirmation we have the Holy Spirit to give you energy, and courage, and strength to do...

By Father Perry D. Leiker, pastor "We need the light to see. It's only through Christ that we find the light. It's because we realise the specialness of Christ — he is the CHRIST —, the one who was sent. And when we put our faith in Christ, and finish that off by being baptised — entering into the waters of life and receiving Christ the light — we see differently," Father Perry tells us for the 18...

By Father Perry D. Leiker, pastor "That's when God, Jesus, is trying to speak to our spirit. But the flesh and the bones the organs and the feelings get in the way," Father Perry tells us for the 13th episode of our Lenten podcast. "And very often they're like a big blockage. We can be so stubborn, rather than opening our spirit. Harden not your hearts. Harden not your spirit. I believe, when we a...

By Father Perry D. Leiker, pastor "Why don't they listen? Why won't they hear me? And that's the 'stress' of God, I think. The words are saying, this is what I want so much for you," Father Perry tells us for the 14th episode of our Lenten podcast. "And thanks be to God, we're sitting here today because it's a sign of our faith and, hopefully, it will rub off on the people we love the most."

By Father Perry D. Leiker, pastor "The beauty of this feast day and these scriptures readings is this interaction of God with us, with humanity," Father Perry tells us for the 12th episode of our Lenten podcast. "Mary is the model of church, the model of Christian. What if every single day this was the one word we put on our lips to God — Yes. Yes, God, anything you ask of me, anything you want fr...

By Father Perry D. Leiker, pastor "When I hear these scriptures, it seems to me, the mirror that we're looking into is asking us to ask this question: 'What insignificant person or event today may bring to us the wonders of God?' Even more interesting to me, ... what little thing might we say or do that might bring God's awareness or love into somebody," Father Perry tells us for the 11th episode...

By Father Perry D. Leiker, pastor "We have those lifegiving waters," Father Perry tells us for the 17th episode of our Sunday Homilies podcast. "All we have to do is taste it. To drink of it, and to experience the life that Jesus wants to give."

Por Padre Perry D. Leiker, párroco "La compasión y el amor de Dios es profundo, y siempre, es el deseo de Dios, que va a penetrar la vida de su gente," nos dice Padre Perry para nuestro décimo séptimo episodio de nuestro podcast de homilías dominicales. "Siempre necesitamos echar un abono de gracia en nuestras vidas. La verdad es que todos nosotros somos pecadores. Entonces yo necesito abono que p...

By Father Perry D. Leiker, pastor "This story isn't for them; this story is for us," Father Perry tells us for the 10th episode of our Lenten podcast. "We know the story ... of the passion and death. So why do we hear it again, told to the Pharisees and scribes? I think, like all of scripture, it's because it becomes a mirror for us. When we can look at somebody else's faults and say, I'm no bette...

By Father Perry D. Leiker, pastor "If people are evil ... — if they are not caring, not generous, not nice, not helpful, accepting — that just keeps increasing in them," Father Perry tells us for the ninth episode of our Lenten podcast. "If they're like that at 20, wait till 40! They'll be double that. And 60? Worse! But the rich who are rich in goodness, kindness, and love and generosity, they te...

By Father Perry D. Leiker, pastor "The secret is: Let God in. Let God's grace come in and do its work. And if we just listen, and if we just open up, wonderous things can happen to us," Father Perry tells us for the eighth episode of our Lenten podcast. "Jesus is not saying what do to and what not to do; he says more — it's not what you do, it's how you do it. That's the secret."

By Father Perry D. Leiker, pastor "Living with revenge and payback and that ugliness is death to the soul. We got to find and live in forgiveness, and healing, and peace," Father Perry tells us for the seventh episode of our Lenten podcast. "It's amazing how we cannot forgive the tiniest things."