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 suppose it's the golden rule."

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, podemos conectar con Dios diferentemente. Jesús está tratando de enseñarnos cómo confiar más en Dios."

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 as secure as we can possibly be. And the truth is, there are no guarantees in life."

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's the kind of fasting I want."

By Father Perry D. Leiker, pastor

"It's really important to know our feelings, but not always trust them or give over to them. Our feelings tell us things we like and don't like," Father Perry tells us for the first episode of our Lenten podcast. "And if we don't know how to read our feelings, I think that a lot of life passes us by and we miss the importance of things. But feelings aren't everything. And if we hold onto them and trust them like they're everything, we can lose our soul."

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 it can get us in touch with people who have so little in the world, who don't have any of the necessities — let alone the extras."

Por Padre Perry D. Leiker, párroco

"No es simplemente esta enfermedad de lepra, sino algo más bonito," nos dice Padre Perry D. Leiker, párroco, para nuestra celebración del VI Domingo Ordinario, y el noveno episodio de nuestro podcast de homilías dominicales. "Cada uno de nosotros tiene lepra en algún tiempo. Es la razón por la confesión. Pero Jesus siempre va a tocarnos. Siempre. El siempre va amarnos. Jesus nunca nos condena."

By Father Perry D. Leiker, pastor

"Do we believe that, in our relationship with God, that we are always touchable by God, that we are always clean in God's eyes?" Father Perry asks us for the ninth episode of our Sunday Homilies podcast, and our celebration of the Sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time. "It matters to us if we sin, but that doesn't stop God from loving us."

By Father Perry D. Leiker, pastor

"I don't think Jesus wanted to be famous. He didn't want people to be impressed by him. He wanted people to believe in him," Father Perry tells us for the eighth episode of our Sunday Homilies podcast, and celebraion of the Fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time. "He wanted people to believe in him. He wanted people to hear his words and take them into their hearts. He came to bring the kingdom of God to us. For 2,000 years we've been living this kingdom of God. We get a chance today to appreciate its urgency and then to say I want to live it. So how does one live it? And when we open up with that question, we begin to have things revealed to us. Things that we become aware of. Things that can transform us and change our hearts and our lives."

Por Padre Perry D. Leiker, párroco

"Yo creo que Jesus no quería que la gente estuviera impresionada con él. Él … no quería fama. Él quería que podamos oír la palabra de Dios. El era el verbo de Dios, la palabra de Dios," nos dice Padre Perry D. Leiker, párroco, para nuestra celebración del IV Domingo Ordinario, y el octavo episodio de nuestro podcast de homilias dominicales. "Él quería … personas a oír la palabra. Es la verdad. Y no solamente con la mente, sino con el corazón."