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

"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 experience rejection, and loss and hurt, and pain and all of this stuff. But then we can go through it and rise up to new life."

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 really listening."

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 somos ciegos aquí en algunas áreas de la vida. Pero podemos pedir a Jesús: Abre nuestros ojos de corazón. Y milagros van a pasar cuando estamos pidiendo y buscando."

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 believe that St. Bernard must have told his monks again and again that they need to love one another, and live in love. And that would be the way they would be one with Jesus Christ, and one with the Father, and one in the Spirit."

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

"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 implies it so clearly. I think what the law promises is life — life in our hearts, life in our spirit."

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

"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 we intentionally make good or better choices, we touch gladness; the gladness and the love of God fills our lives, fills our heart, fills our spirit."

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 entrar en vidas, en cuerpos, en corazones, su alma."