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 él habla sobre su hora."

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 each one of us with many gifts, to serve one another, to serve the church, to serve the world? It's the same old story of Jesus: love. Love one another as I've loved you."

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 pecadores — Dios no sale. Dios es amor."

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 story of Jesus 30 years later. I think that this Gospel is story more about the Holy Spirit and what the Holy Spirit was doing there — being sent by the Father — than about the baptism in itself."

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 apreciar la habilidad a ver, cuando era un tiempo de ser un ciego. Yo creo que esta es la razón por la que Herodes es muy importante en esta historia."

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 them. But it's not new to us. And we keep repeating, year after year, the Epiphany."

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. "Que podamos estar en su casa. Y aquí podemos sentir que es sagrada su presencia. Y que sagrada la relación que tenemos unos a otro."

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 church is that we actually celebrate that. We proclaim it. We pray it together. We come together in this sacred space, and we feel it: That we're all God's children, and that we're all brothers and sisters of one another — no matter what, no matter what degree of sin that we live in."

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. Que Dios estaba haciendo algo nuevo en nosotros porque él vio a nosotros en su Hijo."

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 vulnerability to take him into death — and what a horrific death it was. But I believe, and it's been my greatest reflection this year that keeps hitting me in the face: The reason that cross is so important, and connects with this humanity of Jesus, is that if the darkness of sin and the ugliness of human behavior can do that ..., that could condemn and reject like that — to spit on his face ... — he could still speak the words, God, forgive them all, they know not what they do. That's divinity. That's the presence of God. So propound, that even in the midst of murderous hate, he could love and he could forgive. That's what restores our humanity. That's what brings the divinity into us."