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By Father Perry D. Leiker, pastor "There are people who can kill the body, but they can't kill the soul. Hear what God is saying, and let that work on your hearts, and on your spirit, and on your life," Father Perry tells us for the 23rd episode of our Sunday Homilies podcast. "And if you that, I guarantee the word of God will be effective."

Por Padre Perry D. Leiker, párroco "¿Que está bloqueando a la gente a oír la voz de Dios? ¿Como Dios puede iluminar mi vida que puedo ver otra vez su presencia, su razón, y su amor," nos dice Padre Perry D. Leiker, párroco, para nuestra celebración del XV Domingo Ordinario, y el vigesimotercer episodio de nuestro podcast de homilías dominicales. "Dios nos está hablando constantemente. Pero el punt...

By Father Perry D. Leiker, pastor "But we come here so that in our plan, for all the storms that are gonna come our way — and they will. That we have a plan to find faith and peace," Father Perry tells us for the 22nd episode of our Sunday Homilies podcast. "And we build that plan week by week by week as listen to the word, as we lift up our hearts in prayer, as we sing out from the center of our...

Por Padre Perry D. Leiker, párroco "Dios tiene todo; todo el universo está en Dios. El no necesita nada," nos dice Padre Perry D. Leiker, párroco, para nuestra celebración del XII Domingo Ordinario, y el vigésimo segundo de nuestro podcast de homilías dominicales. "Pero nosotros necesitamos mucho. Y cuando nos inundamos con las tormentas de la vida … venimos aquí a poner a Cristo en nuestra vida,...

By Father Perry D. Leiker, pastor "Jesus was interested in us becoming more and more a kingdom-people. And more and more and more welcome the kingdom of God into our lives," Father Perry tells us for the 21st episode of our Sunday Homilies podcast. "What this scripture — and even what Father's Day is about — is finding the gift of fathering and what comes to us through fathering. We have the chanc...

Por Padre Perry D. Leiker, párroco "En este Día de los Padres, escuchamos un Dios que afectó al mundo. Un Dios que quiere una formación normal en nuestras vidas, que podamos recibir y expresar. Recibir y expresar," nos dice Padre Perry D. Leiker, párroco, para nuestra celebración del XI Domingo Ordinario, y el vigésimoprimero episodio de nuestro podcast de homilías dominicales. "Es posible que cad...

By Father Perry D. Leiker, pastor "Sin affects us. And sin breaks down our spirit," Father Perry tells us for the now 20th episode of our Sunday homilies podcast. "So today, with these scriptures, and with the help of these two baptisms, we are brought to a place where we elevate and rejoice in the dignity that has been given back to us from the Garden. Jesus is our brother and sister, and we are...

Por Padre Perry D. Leiker, párroco "La palabra … habla como perdimos esta dignidad, y regalamos esta dignidad," nos dice Padre Perry D. Leiker, párroco, para nuestra celebración del X Domingo Ordinario, y el vigésimo episodio de nuestro podcast de homilías dominicales. "Tenemos en este Evangelio, una explicación de la dignidad que recibimos en Cristo. Pero antes, perdimos eso."

By Father Perry D. Leiker, pastor "But this is what we're praying for you all. You put in a chunk of time ... that you spent going through formation here," Father Perry tells the graduating Class of 2024. "Learning not only all of the obvious like math and reading and spelling and all that stuff. But also contemplating in your head, and in your heart, your faith."

By Father Perry D. Leiker, pastor "Why would he want us to eat his body and drink his blood? It sounded horrific to some. Some disciples left and never went back to him because he said that," Father Perry tells us for the 19th episode of our Sunday Homilies podcast, and our celebration of the Solemnity of the Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ (Corpus Christi). "Jesus did not want to be an idea in...

Por Padre Perry D. Leiker, párroco "Como un beso que solo es dos labios tocando. Pero es mucho más. Es un modo que dos personas pueden dar su amor y su espíritu; los dos pueden ser uno," nos dice Padre Perry D. Leiker, párroco, para nuestra celebración de Solemnidad del Cuerpo y la Sangre de Cristo, y el decimonoveno episodio de nuestro podcast de homilías dominicales. "Y Cristo hizo lo mismo. Por...

By Father Perry D. Leiker, pastor "It's been revealed in the word of God that God is Father, Son, and Spirit. And we relate to Father as creator, and Son as redeemer, and the Spirit is sanctifier," Father Perry tells us for the 18th episode of our Sunday Homilies podcast, and our celebration of the Solemnity of the Most Holy Trinity. "And this is the great mystery that we live."

Por Padre Perry D. Leiker, párroco "Cuando yo digo que la Trinidad es un misterio, es un diferente tipo de misterio," nos dice Padre Perry D. Leiker, párroco, para nuestra celebración de Solemnidad de la Santísima Trinidad, y el decimo octavo episodio de nuestro podcast de homilías dominicales. "Pero podemos buscar este misterio. Es como una flor que está cerrada y empieza abrir. Los misterios es...

By Father Perry D. Leiker, pastor "If we get desperate, then desperation guides us, and that's not a good guide, I don't think," Father Perry tells us for the 17th episode of our Sunday Homilies podcast, and our celebration of Pentecost. "I think that when we look at Pentecost, we have to appreciate what the gifts of the Spirit means. What if for the next year, not one day went by without our aski...

Por Padre Perry D. Leiker, párroco "Cuando recibimos el Espíritu … da algo que puede unirnos," nos dice Padre Perry D. Leiker, párroco, para nuestra celebración de Domingo de Pentecostés, y el decimoséptimo episodio de nuestro podcast de homilías dominicales. "El poder del pecado pone mi espíritu en conflicto todo el tiempo. Y tengo que intencionalmente decir no al pecado o la oscuridad, y decidir...

By Father Perry D. Leiker, pastor "We have not seen, but we have believed — and it's 2,000 years later! And we're still believing. So I dare say this baptism has power," Father Perry tells us for the 16th episode of our Sunday Homilies podcast, and our celebration of the Second Sunday of Easter. "When we get baptized, we belong to Christ. We open our hearts and souls to Christ and to his word. And...

Por Padre Perry D. Leiker, párroco "En el momento que entramos al bautismo, estamos explícitamente diciendo, 'yo amo a Cristo.' Estás entrando en una zona de cariño," nos dice Padre Perry D. Leiker, párroco, para nuestra celebración de Domingo de Pascua, y el decimosexto episodio de nuestro podcast de homilías dominicales. "Pero la zona no está fuera de nosotros. La zona está interior en nuestros...

By Father Perry D. Leiker, pastor "You and I come here on Easter. And we come here to be models of faith to be leavened and yeast for others," Father Perry tells us for the 15th episode of our Sunday Homilies podcast, and our celebration of Easter Sunday of the Resurrection of the Lord. "And we must absolutely must believe that's who we are. If we don't, what are we doing? Just going through the a...

Por Padre Perry D. Leiker, párroco "El punto de este día es nosotros en Pascua, somos llamados por Dios ser la levadura por el mundo, por nuestras familias," nos dice Padre Perry D. Leiker, párroco, para nuestra celebración de Domingo de Pascua, y el decimoquinto episodio de nuestro podcast de homilías dominicales. "Yo creo que este día estamos aquí porque Cristo ha resucitado. Si podemos apreciar...

Por Padre Perry D. Leiker, párroco "Esta cruz no es solo una reverencia personal o individual," nos dice Padre Perry D. Leiker, párroco, para nuestra celebración de Viernes Santa de la Pasión del Señor. "Que como una comunidad de fe estamos aquí, que la cruz puede tener un impacto en nosotros y tener la habilidad de cambiar y transformarnos a nosotros como un cuerpo de Cristo."

By Father Perry D. Leiker, pastor "He not only offered the sacrifice, he WAS the sacrifice. And he was so that we could all find freedom, find new life," Father Perry tells us for our celebration of Good Friday of the Lord's Passion. "This is God teaching us how we could be, he we can be. I think in a way we should say how we must be, if we want God to live in us and live among us."

By Father Perry D. Leiker, pastor "We are dealing with a great mystery, and it is not just simply put," Father Perry tells us for our celebration of Holy Saturday. "We can put it simply. But the truth is it demands from us a real faith; and something bigger than life, and bigger than, really, what we can expect."

By Father Perry D. Leiker, pastor "That's what we always root, back to this moment when the Eucharist was instituted. And here over 2,000 years later, it's what we do. We break the bread, and drink from the cup," Father Perry tells us for our celebration of Holy Thursday of the Lord's Supper. "We share the Eucharist. Christ becomes our food — food for our spirit. And it all began on this night, Ho...

By Father Perry D. Leiker, pastor "I wonder how much, sometimes, we believe that same Spirit poured upon Isaiah, poured upon the suffering servant, poured upon Jesus at this time — even poured upon the crowds who were coming out in amazement to see Jesus," Father Perry tells us for our celebration of Monday of Holy Week. "I wonder if we relish how blessed and anointed we are, and how much we actua...

By Father Perry D. Leiker, pastor "We hear this truth at least twice a year, dramatically, with several readers, so that we are drawn into it and I hope awakened within us a spirit that says never again," Father Perry D. Leiker, pastor, tells us for the 14th episode of our Sunday homilies podcast, and our celebration of Palm Sunday. "Never would we join a mob to hate. And if that's what this day d...