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By Father Perry D. Leiker, pastor "He's not talking about 60 minutes. He's talking about a time so important," Father Perry tells us for the eighth episode of our Sunday Homilies podcast, and our celebration of the Second Sunday in Ordinary Time. "This we read is for us, right now. Do we believe that God has poured out his Spirit on each of us? He's anointed us. Do we believe that he has gifted ea...

Por Padre Perry D. Leiker, párrocode "No 60 minutos, pero un momento, un evento," nos dice Padre Perry para nuestro octavo episodio de nuestro podcast de homilías dominicales, y celebración del Segundo Domingo Ordinario. "La hora de Jesus era la cruz, la resurrección, y la ascensión — los tres combinados. Y todo el Evangelio está preparándonos para esta hora. Pero estamos en el segundo capítulo, y...

By Father Perry D. Leiker, pastor "Maybe this is a way of dragging us into and away from just simply recognising Jesus in his birth, but most of all recognising him in all the preaching and teaching he did as he began his public ministry when he was 30," Father Perry tells us for the seventh episode of our Sunday Homilies podcast, and our celebration of the Baptism of the Lord. "We're telling the...

Por Padre Perry D. Leiker, párrocode "Posiblemente lo más fuerte aquí es la acción del Espíritu Santo. Y yo creo mas importante que el bautismo de Jesus es buscar la accion del Espiritu Santo," nos dice Padre Perry para nuestro séptimo episodio de nuestro podcast de homilías dominicales. "El mismo Espíritu Santo está en nosotros, viviendo en nosotros. Y cuando somos pecadores — y todos somos pecad...

By Father Perry D. Leiker, pastor "We are looking at this feast as a people who believe it fully. And like the opening prayer said, we come to see the glory of this," Father Perry tells us for the sixth episode of our Sunday Homilies podcast, and our celebration of Epiphany. "They came to see the mystery unfold before them. At first sight, I'm sure they didn't know this. It was all just new to the...

Por Padre Perry D. Leiker, párroco "Vamos a apreciar más la luz cuando podamos también apreciar el poder de la oscuridad de corazón," nos dice Padre Perry para nuestro sexto episodio de nuestro podcast de homilías dominicales. "Cuando somos como ciegos, que no podemos ver, y si podemos tener experiencia por un poco tiempo no podemos ver, pero después un milagro ocurre, podemos ver; ahora vamos apr...

Por Perry D. Leiker, párroco "¿No están impresionados, porque tenemos este título de Dios todopoderoso: papi? Increible. Pero también, yo creo que Jesus nos esta dando en este dia una idea como podemos tener una relación con nuestro papi en el cielo," nos dice Padre Perry para nuestra celebración de la Fiesta de la Sagrada Familia, y el quinto episodio de nuestra podcast de homilias dominicales. "...

By Father Perry D. Leiker, pastor "God the Father is not just the Father of Jesus, he's the Father of us all," Father Perry tells us for the fifth episode of our Sunday Homilies podcast. "He is Father to Jesus, he is Father to me, to you, to all of us. And we gather and congregate in this sacred space as his children, united with one another. He's Father of us all. And the gift that we get in the...

Por Perry D. Leiker, párroco "Nuestra humanidad tiene problemas. Somos pecadores," nos dice Padre Perry D. Leiker, párroco, para nuestra celebración de la Natividad de Señor. "Hay oscuridad. Hay tinieblas en el mundo. El invito si podemos conocerlo, escucharlo, seguir su ejemplo, podemos tener la misma divinidad tocando y abrazando nuestras vidas. Es profundo. En este día, tenemos que celebrar eso...

By Father Perry D. Leiker, pastor "Advent has been packed with them, this prophetic sense of someone is coming into this world who would make the difference," Father Perry tells us for the 13th and final episode of our Advent podcast. "How many people everyday think of Jesus? How many people single day turn to Jesus and acknowledge him as Lord, God, and savior? And that's 2,000 years later. That i...

By Father Perry D. Leiker, pastor "I think this Advent has been one of the most productive ones for me, because for whatever reason I really, in the last year-and-a-half, but this Advent more than ever, have connected the deepest theological meaning of this event. I think we all say that Jesus Christ is truly the Son of God," Father Perry tells us for our celebration of the vigil Mass of the Nativ...

By Father Perry D. Leiker, pastor "Jesus entered into our complete humanity, even accepting death, and as the scriptures say, death on a cross. Extraordinary. What a mystery," Father Perry tells us for our celebration of the Nativity of the Lord at night. "On one level, for me, it almost doesn't make sense, until I have come to an appreciation. It isn't enough that we remember 2,000 years that he...

By Father Perry D. Leiker, pastor "God chose to come among us as one of us. That he emptied himself of his godliness: He didn't come down in power. He came down in vulnerability," Father Perry tells us for our celebration of the Nativity of the Lord at day. "He came down as an infant. What is more vulnerable than a baby? And 30 years later, 33 years later, that's what happened to him; he allowed v...

By Father Perry D. Leiker, pastor "God wants to see a change. God, your ways are the right ways. We are being called once again so clearly in humility to recgognise that the ways of the Lord are the ways," Father Perry tells us for the 12th episode of our Advent podcast. "The ways are going to get us to live how we should live, and to know his peace and justice in our lives. And that's what we're...

By Father Perry D. Leiker, pastor "Isn't that what we celebrate at Christmas, the Prince of Peace. He captures peace in his Spirit so deeply. Look on the cross. Jesus came to do the will of the Father," Father Perry tells us for the fourth episode of our Sunday Homilies podcast. "And why would the will of the Father be to put his Son on a cross? It's not that he was forced to the cross; he surrend...

Por Padre Perry D. Leiker, párroco "No va a traer la paz. No va a anunciar la paz. El ES la paz. Entonces decimos siempre, Cristo es el Principe de Paz," nos dice Padre Perry D. Leiker, párroco, para nuestra celebración de IV Domingo de Adviento, y el cuarto episodio de nuestro podcast de homilias dominicales. "Entonces si estamos aprendiendo eso, aceptando eso, y recibiendo eso, estamos más lleno...

By Father Perry D. Leiker, pastor "I wonder if the truth is that we also sometimes are struck dumb, because we doubt, because we don't believe in ourselves and all the grace that fills our lives, the goodness that we are, and the goodness that we have," Father Perry tells us for the 11th episode of our Advent podcast. "Don't you think it is so, that God wants to use you and me? We're all anointed...

By Father Perry D. Leiker, pastor "For the next nine days, counting today, the emphasis is on the birth of Jesus the Christ, and what that means for us," Father Perry tells us for the 10th episode of our Advent podcast. "That's the great mystery to which we are invited, into which we are being invited to share; and because of it, we are redeemed, and all is made new. And that is what we celebrate...

By Father Perry D. Leiker, pastor "We celebrate an event that happened over 2,000 years. But for me, I wonder if we are curious how that child Jesus that was born 2,000 years ago can truly and magnificently be born in our hearts," Father Perry tells us for the third episode of our Sunday Homilies podcast, and our celebration of the Third (Gauedte) Sunday of Advent. "That's where it all matters. If...

Por Padre Perry D. Leiker, párroco "Porque Dios puede tener bastante interés en nosotros y en cada uno de nosotros? Como? ¡Es Dios — yo no soy nada! Pero él quiere protegerme y amarme," nos dice Padre Perry D. Leiker, párroco, para nuestra celebración de III Domingo (Gaudete) de Adviento, y el tercer episodio de nuestro podcast de homilias dominicales. "Dios quiere que caminemos en alegría siempre...

By Father Perry D. Leiker, pastor "What we're getting here is a little piece of darkness. Here we're past the third week ... and we're tasting a little bit of the darkness which is exactly what Jesus came to destroy," Father Perry tells us for the ninth episode of our Advent podcast. "And it comes to the highest climactic in that cross. Right there in that cross is where Jesus also gives the most...

By Father Perry D. Leiker, pastor "She is that woman filled with grace and blessing, covered in sun, moon, and stars. The heavens," Father Perry tells us for the seventh episode of our Advent podcast, and our celebration of the Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe. "Is this so odd, or so special, or should we think in these terms: That God truly means to visit us. I think daily. Not just at this hour of...

Por Padre Sergio Medina "Si a pesar de que nosotros somos limitados, frágiles, nuestro amor a veces es cambiante, basado en sentimientos, y experimentamos eso — el amor. Como no sera el amor de Dios?" nos pregunta Padre Sergio para nuestra celebración de Fiesta de la Virgen de Guadalupe. "¿Quien más refleja el amor de Dios? Así como refleja más la luz del sol, la luna — es así Maria. El amor de ma...

Por Padre Sergio Medina "Santa Maria de Guadalupe une ambas culturas, y le responde a todos. Para los españoles, para los creyentes. Encuentran aquella mujer con la luna bajo sus pies, con aquellas estrellas alrededor," nos dice Padre Sergio para nuestra celebración solemne de Fiesta de la Virgen de Guadalupe. "¿Quién es esta Virgen que tiene el cabello recogido? ¿Quién es esta Virgen? La que el c...

By Father Perry D. Leiker, pastor "You know, when we do the commandments of the Lord, it isn't that I don't think it is to please God; it's because God knows it's good for us!" Father Perry tells us or the eighth episode of our Advent podcast. "And that's why we try to do what God commands us to do. But there really is just one commandment. It's love! Love God. Love your neighbour; and if you do t...