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Por Padre Perry D. Leiker, párroco "El poder del pecado es real," nos dice Padre Perry D. Leiker, párroco, para nuestra celebración del V Domingo de Cuaresma, y el décimo cuarto episodio de nuestro podcast de homilías dominicales, y celebración de Domingo de Ramos. "Entonces, yo creo que celebramos esta Pasión de Cristo dos veces esta semana — hoy y viernes — que podemos abrir de la gracia de nues...

By Father Perry D. Leiker, pastor "There is a perfect connection between Jesus and the Father. But I ask you, do we believe the same about us? Baptized in Christ, anointed with his Spirit, can we say with confidence and believe it?" Father Perry asks us for the 16th episode of our Lenten podcast. "Why would the Father love me and hold on to me? And my only answer is, because he's God. God's not li...

By Father Perry D. Leiker, pastor "We're the beneficiaries of that covenant with Abraham and Jesus, who he didn't just say we have a covenant of God's promises of love. He says, he's our Father," Father Perry tells us for the 15th episode of our Lenten podcast. "When you pray to him say, 'our Father.' What a gift that we have been given from Jesus. Not only does he identify with God, he is God. Bu...

By Father Perry D. Leiker, pastor "Can you imagine living each day in a spirit of gratitude for all the things that we have, all the blessings that are ours, for the blessing of this moment? To live with gratitude I think is one of the most precious and wonderful things that we can do. I think it's more important than praising God. I think it is praise of God at the highest level to be just gratef...

By Father Perry D. Leiker, pastor "Jesus became the healer. Jesus became the source of grace. Jesus became the one invited the woman to something more. Now that's extraordinary!" Father Perry tells us for the 14th episode of our Lenten podcast. "And the real value of this story is for us. Would he do the same? Does he do the same? Does Jesus just look to our good actions, or does he want to grab u...

By Father Perry D. Leiker, pastor "I think we're just beginning the experience of God. And when we finally get freed of our bodies through death, I think that we experience real life, the fullness of life," Father Perry tells us for the 13th episode of our Sunday Homilies podcast, and our celebration of the Fifth Sunday of Lent. "We gotta die to things that cling to us, and that we cling to, becau...

Por Padre Perry D. Leiker, párroco "Yo creo que el mundo está tremendo. La creación es tremenda. Y yo quiero vivir, me gusta vivir," nos dice Padre Perry D. Leiker, párroco, para nuestra celebración del V Domingo de Cuaresma, y el décimo segundo episodio de nuestro podcast de homilías dominicales. "Pero yo imagino, cuando yo estoy separado espiritualmente de mi cuerpo en la muerte, yo imagino que...

By Father Perry D. Leiker, pastor "What we did as a church, and what we do so well, is we took this reflection about the just man — any just man, all just men — and we applied it specifically to Jesus Christ as the just one, the Son of God," Father Perry tells us for the 12th episode of our Lenten podcast. "And all of the language fits because, again, it's part of that spirituality, but it fits so...

By Father Perry D. Leiker, pastor "Anyone here who wants to believe this word literally — that God is angry, he'll wipe us out if we don't do what he says — be my guest, but you won't get me there," Father Perry tells us for the 11th episode of our Lenten podcast. "I think instead this Gospel begins to capture it ... 'God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son so that everyone who b...

Por Padre Perry D. Leiker, párroco "Dios puede llenarnos con gracia, con su amor, que puede cambiar nuestros ojos a abrir a la luz, escuchar a la voz de Dios," nos dice Padre Perry D. Leiker, párroco, para nuestra celebración del IV Domingo de Cuaresma, y el décimo segundo episodio de nuestro podcast de homilías dominicales. "Y cuando los ojos y oídos están abiertos, podemos recibir. En este cuart...

Por Padre Perry D. Leiker, párroco "Dios puede llenarnos con gracia, con su amor, que puede cambiar nuestros ojos a abrir a la luz, escuchar a la voz de Dios," nos dice Padre Perry D. Leiker, párroco, para nuestra celebración del IV Domingo de Cuaresma, y el décimo segundo episodio de nuestro podcast de homilías dominicales. "Y cuando los ojos y oídos están abiertos, podemos recibir. En este cuart...

By Father Perry D. Leiker, pastor "I think it's important to allow these texts to speak to that part of us that might be sinful, or narrow, or something like sometimes the people in the scriptures," Father Perry tells us for the 10th episode of our Lenten podcast. "Do we ever miss it? Hear the kingdom of God being preached to us, but we miss it; we're afraid to look at our own sinfulness or to adm...

By Father Perry D. Leiker, pastor "Do we listen? Like this rich man never listened in his life. He had everything he wanted," Father Perry tells us for the ninth episode of our Lenten podcast. "That heart had no eyeballs in it, no ears — couldn't see or hear a thing. And that's what I think Jesus is saying. You know, there's nothing wrong with having fine clothes, lots of linen; nothing wrong with...

By Father Perry D. Leiker, pastor "Nobody's perfect. But we can always open ourselves to God's grace so that more and more perfecting happens in us, by the grace of God," Father Perry tells us for the eighth episode of our Lenten podcast. "Jesus is really inviting us to put on the cloak of humility and the cloak of service. And it's not just serving others, it's having an attitude of service. In h...

By Father Perry D. Leiker, pastor "I think it's so obvious — treat people like you want to be treated. And I have to say for the vast majority of people in the world I think that's how we live," Father Perry tells us for the seventh episode of our Lenten podcast. "Jesus gives us the better example — how to live so that we can truly, truly live."

By Father Parker Sandoval "God provides a ram for Abraham. And God provides for us a lamb," Father Parker Sandoval tells us for the 11th episode of our Sunday Homilies podcast. "Jesus the lamb of God offers himself in sacrifice for our sins. He dies in our place. He takes on our guilt in himself, and so passes the test for us. We can stand in his victory."

Por Padre Perry D. Leiker, párroco "Podemos apreciar algo de Abraham — era obediente, y tenía total fe y confianza en Dios," nos dice Padre Perry D. Leiker, párroco, para nuestra celebración del II Domingo de Cuaresma, y el décimo primer episodio de nuestro podcast de homilías dominicales. "El demostró — por Dios, no — por nosotros."

By Father Perry D. Leiker, pastor "We're asked to do some reconciling. Reconciling is not an easy thing," Father Perry tells us for the sixth episode of our Lenten podcast. "Or should we not at last attempt to reconcile? Because if we walk away with blessings in our heart, that is so much better than to walk away with resentments in our heart. And resentments kill the spirit. So Jesus says it simp...

By Father Perry D. Leiker, pastor "It's just in time that we would have such a pope in Rome. We pray for him everyday at every Mass, and I do personaly because I'm grateful for him and what he has given to the church," Father Perry tells us for the fifth episoe of our Lenten podcast. "Today ... the chair isn't mentioned in the prayers. It's all about Peter. It's almost as if Peter's the chair. The...

By Father Perry D. Leiker, pastor "When God speaks, his word goes out of his mouth to cause an effect. And the effect is to give the gift of the kingdom," Father Perry tells us for the fourth episode of our Lenten podcast. "Now, whether we accept the gift, or even recognise the gift, or even want the gift, that's on our side. But on his side, he's giving the gift of life. That gift of life will pr...

By Father Perry D. Leiker, pastor "You can do all kinds of loving things for a person that you don't like, and if we don't do that this world becomes a terribly frayed world. Terrible," Father Perry tells us for the third episode of our Lenten podcast. "People are enemies; they hate, they hurt each other. They don't take care of the needs of one another — and that is what Jesus asks us to do. I su...

By Father Perry D. Leiker, pastor "The word of God is supposed to lift us up. I think that we go through, most of us, trusting in money, trusting in power, trusting in friendship, trusting in people's confidence in us," Father Perry tells us for 10th episode of our Sunday Homilies podcast, and our celebration of the First Sunday of Lent. "And I think we build lives that are meant to try to make us...

Por Padre Perry D. Leiker, párroco "Yo creo que usualmente no queremos entrar a nuestro desierto," nos dice Padre Perry D. Leiker, párroco, para nuestra celebración del I Domingo de Cuaresma, y el decimo episodio de nuestro podcast de homilías dominicales. "Queremos estar bien, en control. Pero cada año la iglesia dice, pueden entrar en el desierto con Jesús. En este lugar, espiritualmente, podemo...

By Father Perry D. Leiker, pastor "You want to know what kind of fasting I want? That you turn away from sin, that you quit fighting, that you act justly, that you remove the burdens and the yoke that are heavy on people's back," Father Perry tells us for the second episode of our Lenten podcast. "You help people. That's the fasting. And instead let your hearts be changed so that you do good. That...

By Father Perry D. Leiker, pastor "Fast. Give alms. Pray. What do those things do to us? What happens to us when we fast?" Father Perry asks us for our celebration of Ash Wednesday. "It's not to punish ourselves or make ourselves miserable. It's to strip away what we don't absolutely need or something even that we like just to go without a little bit. Sometimes that opens us the spirit. But also i...