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"El dijo, si tú quieres entrar al reino de Dios, tienes que servir. Ser esclavo de otros. Y yo creo que esto es algo tremendo que estaba diciendo," nos dice Padre Perry D. Leiker, párroco, para nuestra celebración del XXIX Domingo Ordinario, y el trigésimocuarto episodio de nuestro podcast de homilías dominicales. "Estar en servicio, las personas aprenden cómo amar, y cómo poner a otras personas a...

Por Padre Perry D. Leiker, párroco "Jesús vino entre nosotros solo para hacer bondad. Y decidieron matarlo. Es el poder del pecado. Hay mucho pecado, maldad que existe," nos dice Padre Perry D. Leiker, párroco, para nuestra celebración del XXIX Domingo Ordinario, y Misa del Ministerio Kairós Kai Metanoia. "La redención de la cruz ... no era que Jesus murió en la cruz para eliminar nuestros pecados...

By Father Perry D. Leiker, pastor "Is that really what Jesus is asking — give up everything you have, give it to the poor, and then leave everything and follow him?" Father Perry asks us for the 33rd episode of our Sunday Homilies podcast, and our celebration of the 28th Sunday in Ordinary Time. "That we would hear his words and have love for the poor. That we would hear his words and give generou...

Por Padre Perry D. Leiker, párroco "Jesús, yo creo, no estaba simplemente diciendo da todo tu dinero a los pobres y sígueme. Si es radical. Pero estaba diciendo más," nos dice Padre Perry D. Leiker, párroco, para nuestra celebración del XXVII Domingo Ordinario, y el trigésimotercer episodio de nuestro podcast de homilías dominicales. "Cuando estas semillas de la palabra de Dios está planteado aquí...

Por Padre Perry D. Leiker, párroco "Hay muchas personas afectadas por el divorcio, especialmente los niños. Pero yo creo que es muy difícil," nos dice Padre Perry D. Leiker, párroco, para nuestra celebración del XXVI Domingo Ordinario, y el trigésimosegundo episodio de nuestro podcast de homilías dominicales. "Si van a hablar, tienen que escuchar también. Jesus estaba levantando de un modo tan alt...

By Father Perry D. Leiker, pastor "I think this is a very difficult homily and set of readings to listen to for a lot of people in our church. There's a whole bunch of stuff out there, there's a whole bunch of relationships, and there's a whole bunch of turmoil over the question of divorce," Father Perry tells us for the 32nd episode of our Sunday Homilies podcast, and or celebration of the 27th S...

By Father Perry D. Leiker, pastor "I think what Jesus was saying is simply that thr blessings and graces of God are abundant; God wants us every single day to be blessed. I believe that every minute we're being graced and loved by God," Father Perry tells us for the 31st episode of our Sunday Homilies podcast, and our celebration of the 26th Sunday in Ordinary Time. "But I don't think a lot of peo...

Por Padre Perry D. Leiker, párroco "No estamos haciendo los preceptos de Dios para ganar su amor. Vamos a seguir los mandamientos del Señor PORQUE conocemos el amor de Dios en nuestras vidas," nos dice Padre Perry D. Leiker, párroco, para nuestra celebración del XXVI Domingo Ordinario, y el trigésimoprimer episodio de nuestro podcast de homilías dominicales. "Entonces, yo creo que muchos no creen...

By Father Perry D. Leiker, pastor "Jesus is opening the door to a gift of life. But if someone always has to be first, always has to get the best ... you got to learn that letting others go first is the gift," Father Perry tells us for the 30th episode of our Sunday Homilies podcast, and our celebration of the 25th Sunday in Ordinary Time. "That we would have this generosity of spirit, of putting...

Por Padre Perry D. Leiker, párroco "Si tu quieres ser primero en el reino de Dios, tienes que ser el último y sirviente a todos," nos dice Padre Perry D. Leiker, párroco, para nuestra celebración del XXV Domingo Ordinario, y el trigesimo episodio de nuestro podcast de homilías dominicales. "Yo creo que esto es una espiritualidad en que estamos aprendiendo servicio, aprendiendo un tipo de amor. Lo...

By Father Perry D. Leiker, pastor "Jesus says the same. We got to take up the cross and follow him. And we have to lose our life if we're going to find him," Father Perry tells us for the 29th episode of our Sunday Homilies podcast, and our celebration of the 24th Sunday in Ordinary Time. "We begin to let the cross express itself, and we let God into our hearts. That Paschal Mystery is that we can...

Por Padre Perry D. Leiker, párroco "En la vida es nuestra decisión cada día si queremos experimentar este misterio pascual," nos dice Padre Perry D. Leiker, párroco, para nuestra celebración del XXIV Domingo Ordinario, y el vigésimo noveno episodio de nuestro podcast de homilías dominicales. "Esta es nuestra liberación. Nos mostró a nosotros como amar en la cara de injusticia y odio."

By Father Perry D. Leiker, pastor "I think that we really can relate to these scriptures today, because we're all blind in some ways. We're all deaf sometimes. All of us," Father Perry tells us for the 28th episode of our Sunday homilies podcast, and our celebration of the 23rd Sunday in Ordinary Time. "We don't hear what we should. Maybe sometimes we hear what we want to hear. But we're not reall...

Por Padre Perry D. Leiker, párroco "Yo creo que tenemos que abrir más que nuestros ojos. Tenemos que tener ojos de corazón," nos dice Padre Perry D. Leiker, párroco, para nuestra celebración del XXIII Domingo Ordinario, y el vigésimo octavo episodio de nuestro podcast de homilías dominicales. "Todos nosotros tenemos la inhabilidad de ver todo. Pero ver con corazon es diferente. Y todos nosotros so...

By Father Perry D. Leiker, pastor "If we don't relate to this exactly as it was related to them, then we're missing the point of the scripture," Father Perry tells us for our celebration of St. Bernard's feast day. "The word of God is supposed to do something to us. And in this case, to unite us to the Father, unite us to the Son, to be filled with the Spirit, and to become one with one another. I...

By Father Perry D. Leiker, pastor "It's very important to learn what the value is behind the laws. God doesn't just want us to just to hear the law, or follow the law, or even just to do the law; that's not enough. It's about loving the law in our hearts," Father Perry tells us for the 27th episode of our Sunday Homilies podcast, and celebration of the 22nd Sunday in Ordinary Time. "The word impli...

Por Padre Perry D. Leiker, párroco "Si no venimos aquí con un alma espiritual, ¿que recibimos cuando recibimos Cristo en la comunión?" nos dice Padre Perry D. Leiker, párroco, para nuestra celebración del XXII Domingo Ordinario, y el vigesimseptimo episodio de nuestro podcast de homilías dominicales. "Cuando podamos oír con corazones, vamos hacer la ley de Dios."

By Father Perry D. Leiker, pastor "We open ourselves to the word of life that gives us life. That allows us to make better choices all the time," Father Perry tells us for the 26th episode of our Sunday Homilies podcast. "The vast majority of people are making good choices all day long. The Eucharist is inviting us to become aware of it, alerted to it, and to become very intentional people. When w...

Por Padre Perry D. Leiker, párroco "Venimos en la presencia del Señor, abriendo nuestros corazones y escuchar la voz del Señor en nuestras vidas," nos dice Padre Perry D. Leiker, párroco, para nuestra celebración del XXI Domingo Ordinario, y el vigesimsexto episodio de nuestro podcast de homilías dominicales.

By Father Perry D. Leiker, pastor "I think Jesus in all of this is trying to grab into us our ascent. Grabbing into us and calling us to something more," Father Perry tells us for the 25th episode of our Sunday Homilies podcast. "And if he says, 'eat my body, and drink my blood' and we just eat the host, OK, but there's something much more. After we eat this host and we are very tangibly, physical...

Por Padre Perry D. Leiker, párroco "En este minuto tan divino, él pudo amar en la cara de los que estaban matandolo. Esto es poder. Esa es la vida eterna que él quiere darnos," nos dice Padre Perry D. Leiker, párroco, para nuestra celebración del XX Domingo Ordinario, y el vigesimoquinto de nuestro podcast de homilías dominicales. "Entonces él dice, 'come mi carne; bebe mi sangre.' Que Jesus puede...

By Archbishop José H. Gomez, archbishop of Los Angeles "Now, my dear brothers and sisters, is a very special time in our lives as Catholics and our life as members of this parish. Now is the time to renew our faith, to renew our love," Archbishop Gomez tells us for our celebration of the 100th anniversary of St. Bernard. "Just think about the first parishioners here 100 years ago were thinking. It...

By Father Perry D. Leiker, pastor "Mary is precious because of what she held in her womb — Jesus the Christ," Father Perry tells us for the Solemnity of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary. "Born of her through the power of the Holy Spirit. She had to be precious to bring Christ into the world."

By Father Perry D. Leiker, pastor "Because of that blood on that cross, he has shown us how to come closer to us, by letting God's divine love live in us," Father Perry tells us for the 24h episode of our Sunday Homilies podcast. "Because on the cross, he could have hated but didn't. Now that's divine love. And that's the love that he offers to us. And once we hear that message, once that love ent...

Por Padre Perry D. Leiker, párroco "Por la sangre de Jesus en la cruz, él está dando salvación a nosotros. Él está regresando a nosotros nuestra humanidad y divinidad, nos dice Padre Perry D. Leiker, párroco, para nuestra celebración del XVI Domingo Ordinario, y el vigesimocuarto de nuestro podcast de homilías dominicales. "El pudo en su vulnerabilidad y su sufrimiento, él pudo amar y perdonar. Qu...