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Por Padre Perry D. Leiker, párroco "'Ciudadanos del cielo," que tremendo esta expresión. Entonces la gloria prometida en nosotros está expresado en esto," nos dice Padre Perry para nuestro décimo sexto episodio de nuestro podcast de homilías dominicales. "Somos una parte del cielo, y el cielo está en nosotros. Entonces tenemos la gloria que fue presentada finalmente en la resurrección de Jesus. ¿C...

By Father Perry D. Leiker, pastor "The Bible is also the place where God is met many times in darkness. And probably that's where we meet God most profoundly. We do it in joy and singing and praising and praying," Father Perry tells us But boy, when darkness hits our life — illness, sadness, or just a disarray of our lives — that's where we really, really have to be people of faith, and that's whe...

By Father Perry D. Leiker, pastor "If we're doing things to please God, and then think that if we please God, God will love us more and give us more grace, I don't think there's evidence of that in the scripture," Father Perry tells us for the fifth episode of our Lenten podcast. "Rather, I think because I know God loves us even when we sin; because God love us even when we mess up, because we kno...

By Father Perry D. Leiker, pastor "Praying isn't getting what you want, it's what you need. God gets us what's good for us. And when we have to face the troubles of life — and they're there for all of us, well all get our share," Father Perry tells us for the fifth episode of our Lenten podcast. "The point is, do we do it with faith? Do we do it with hope? Do we do it with confidence, and are we r...

By Father Perry D. Leiker, pastor "I think the Egyptians made their own hearts hard. And I think that's true of all things in our life," Father Perry tells us for the fourth episode of our Lenten podcast. "If we listen to God, and if we walk with God, and if we work with God, the grace and blessings of God will pour into our hearts and lives. But if we don't, we choose the opposite; we do it to ou...

By Father Perry D. Leiker, pastor "It was there in vulnerability that he had to put his trust in God the most — and he did. And for everything that the devil tried to do to tempt him he came back speaking the word of God," Father Perry tells us for the 15th episode of our Sunday Homilies podcast. "And there he was, safe and sound with God and the Spirit. That's what this Lent is about."

Por Padre Perry D. Leiker, párroco "Si podemos seguir a Cristo y estar con él por estos cuarenta días, invitando a Cristo a entrarnos y darnos su gracia, y guiándonos en este tiempo," nos dice Padre Perry para nuestro décimo quinto episodio de nuestro podcast de homilías dominicales. "Este es un tiempo sagrado. Un tiempo donde muchas cosas pueden pasar. Con alegría vamos entrando esta jornada con...

By Father Perry D. Leiker, pastor "When you didn't do it to the least, the least of my brothers and sisters. What a challenge Jesus is putting before us. And when you stop to think about it, what a world this would be if we lived like that. Gut we don't. We do sometimes, but this is the challenge," Father Perry tells us for the fourth episode of our Lenten podcast. "If you love somebody who doesn'...

By Father Perry D. Leiker, pastor "Jesus is asking us to take a step back, and then take a look and say, what is really, really, really valuable to us?" Father Perry D. Leiker, asks us for the first episode of our Lenten podcast. "What matters the most? And he said, it's being good to lose your life for others, to lose your life for Christ, to give until it hurts and then still give more."

By Father Perry D. Leiker, pastor "Fasting should change our hearts. It should make us contrite and humble, like the psalm says. It should make us appreciate things more," Father Perry tells us for the second episode of our Lenten podcast. "If you don't eat chocolate, or smoke, or have your daily beer ... and then you hate it, and you're miserable ... God doesn't want us miserable; he just doesn't...

By Father Perry D. Leiker, pastor "This is a time to turn ourselves inside-out, to take a good look at ourselves," Father Perry tells us for our 9 a.m. celebration of Ash Wednesday. "This isn't the time to hate [Lent]; this is a time to love, a time to open up deeper, to discover more life in us, to see what changes we can make to be holy — holier — to have more life in us, to have more love alive...

By Father Perry D. Leiker, pastor "This is a time to turn ourselves inside-out, to take a good look at ourselves," Father Perry tells us for our 9 a.m. celebration of Ash Wednesday. "This isn't the time to hate [Lent]; this is a time to love, a time to open up deeper, to discover more life in us, to see what changes we can make to be holy — holier — to have more life in us, to have more love alive...

By Father Perry D. Leiker, pastor "There is still yet another way we can approach Lent, and that is to do something more," Father Perry tells us for our evening celebration of Ash Wednesday. "Not stop doing something, but start doing something. If this Lent simply opens our hearts a little bit — and we can experience a little more grace, a little more blessing, a little more love — then, I guarant...

Por Padre Perry D. Leiker, párroco "La cosa más importante es que sale de tu boca. La palabra de Dios está aquí, formada en mente y corazón," nos dice Padre Perry para nuestro décimo cuarto episodio de nuestro podcast de homilías dominicales. "Dependiendo de la calidad de tu corazón, ¿vamos a decir buenas cosas o malas cosas? Todo lo que era corruptible estaba incorruptible en Cristo. Todo lo que...

By Father Perry D. Leiker, pastor "And of all the things he could have said, he said the most diving thing you imagine — 'Father, forgive them, they know not what they do.' That, for me, is him giving up his divinity, bestowing on us that the corruptible — that stuff that comes from sin — has become incorruptible; he's shown how to defeat it," Father Perry tells us for the 14th episode of our Sund...

By Father Perry D. Leiker, pastor "Jesus is focusing on something that is so essential if we want to have good hearts, good souls, good lives," Father Perry tells us for the 13th episode of our Sunday Homilies podcast. "God's love filled Jesus' heart, and he couldn't hold it all in there; he had to speak it out loud. When someone hurts us, hurt turns rather quickly into anger. And when we feel ang...

Por Padre Perry D. Leiker, párroco "Él dijo, reza por esta persona. Espera por bondad para esta persona. El dijo esto con una intención muy clara, y está expresado en el Evangelio," nos dice Padre Perry para nuestro décimo tercer episodio de nuestro podcast de homilías dominicales. "Jesús dice, ustedes son libres de perdonar y amar. Tú puedes perdonar y amar."

By Father Perry D. Leiker, pastor "At the deepest, deepest, deepest level, especially when there is strife and there there are problems with our lives, that's when we have to dig down deep and find our trust in God and look for listen to hat God will speak in our hearts," Father Perry tells us for the 12th episode of our Sunday Homilies podcast. "Well, what is this contradictory message? How do we...

Por Padre Perry D. Leiker, párroco "La palabra está tratando de hacer un punto de fe. Cuando las cosas están muy mal en nuestras vidas — salud, finanzas, relaciones — debemos confiar más que nunca, y totalmente en Dios. Tenemos que escuchar a nuestro Señor," nos dice Padre Perry para nuestro décimo segundo episodio de nuestro podcast de homilías dominicales. "En estas situaciones, la necesidad por...

By Father Perry D. Leiker, pastor "In all of the readings we hear about 'the call.' And the implication for us is that every one of us is called," Father Perry tells us for the 11h episode of our Sunday Homilies podcast. "We're being called everyday, and called into whole commitments of life. But we need to listen. Are we capable of finding God anywhere and hearing his voice?"

Por Padre Perry D. Leiker, párroco "Su pecado es su lugar, yo creo, de que Dios quiere llamarnos. El quiere tener su pecado, dar su gracia, y transformarlo," nos dice Padre Perry D. Leiker, párroco, para el decimo primer episodio de nuestro podcast de homilias dominicales. "Muchas veces el área de pecado en la vida es el área que puede desarrollar más — si tenemos fe. Dios quiere llamarnos de cual...

By Father Perry D. Leiker, pastor "This is our story. Do we see the light? Do we recognise Christ, truly, as the light of the world. And when we look at him, he enlightens us. He brings his light into our spirits and souls," Father Perry tells us for the 10th episode of our Sunday Homilies podcast. "That we reveal our darkness — Holy Spirit of God: I am confused. I am filled with feelings that are...

Por Padre Perry D. Leiker, párroco "La palabra de Dios es para nosotros ahorita. La intención de escribir la palabra de Dios era dar en el futuro gente que pudiera conectar con Dios, entender a Dios más en nuestras vidas," nos dice Padre Perry para nuestro décimo episodio de nuestro podcast de homilías dominicales, y celebración de Fiesta de la Presentación del Señor. "Entonces, nosotros estamos i...

By Father Perry D. Leiker, pastor "For someone to be a giant of love, who can love even those who don't like them, that's what Jesus is about," Father Perry tells us for the ninth episode of our Sunday Homilies podcast, and the beginning of Catholic School's Week. "That, we believe, is what Catholic schools are about; not just teaching math and reading and science — all wonderful things —, but mos...

Por Padre Perry D. Leiker, párroco "Todo está contenido simplemente en amar. Amar a Dios y su prójimo y el mismo. Si estamos viviendo eso, estamos buscando la vida con cuidado por todos," nos dice Padre Perry para nuestro octavo episodio de nuestro podcast de homilías dominicales, y celebración del Segundo Domingo Ordinario. "Todos somos el cuerpo de Cristo: la iglesia. Cada persona aquí presente...