By Father Perry D. Leiker, pastor

"It really is asking of us to understand what we do — not just what we receive, but what we do — and what it is supposed to do to us," Father Perry tells us for the 26th episode of our Sunday Homilies podcast, for our celebration of the Solemnity of the Body and Blood of Christ. "We've been fed. We drank in Christ our Lord and his word so that we can take him out in the world through us."

By Father Francis Mendoza

"We were made for the deepest kind of love, brothers and sisters. Love that brings connection in Christ," Father Francis Mendoza tells us for the sixth episode of our Divine Mercy podcast. "What we celebrate today in the gift of the Eucharist, the body, blood, soul, and divinity of our Lord and saviour Jesus Christ, is the real presence of God. In the Eucharist, we receive Jesus — body, blood, soul, and divinity — his real presence in the Eucharist to empower us to we can love beyond human love."

Por Padre Perry D. Leiker, párroco

"Estamos recibiendo Cristo en todo — su palabra, su ejemplo, su cruz, su resurrección," nos dice Padre Perry D. Leiker, párroco, para nuestro vigésimo sexto episodio de nuestro podcast de homilías dominicales, para nuestra celebración de la Solemnidad del Cuerpo y la Sangre de Cristo (Corpus Christi). "Jesús está dándonos una oportunidad de experimentar él reino de Dios ahorita. Su reino está viviendo en él evangelio."

By Father Perry D. Leiker, pastor

"We believe that you have the capability not only of finding great happiness in your own life, but becoming your best person and making a real difference," Father Perry tells us in his homily for St. Bernard Catholic School's annual graduation Mass. "And I would say, when you're look around the world, there's a lot going on in our world today. A lot of sadness. ... It's a crazy world right now. And we need people like you to make a difference."

Por Padre Perry D. Leiker, párroco

"Cuando yo me marcó con la cruz … estoy celebrando mi redención. Él dio una libertad tremenda," nos dice Padre Perry D. Leiker, párroco, para nuestro vigésimo quinto episodio de nuestro podcast de homilías dominicales, para nuestra celebración de la Solemnidad de la Santísima Trinidad. "Yo creo, en mi opinión, no existe un minuto él día, incluyendo cuando estoy durmiendo, que él Espíritu Santo no está dando sus dones a mi. Bendición y gracia. Y la única cosa que tengo que hacer es abrir mis ojos a ver."

By Father Perry D. Leiker, pastor

"If the Father, Son, and Spirit are in this communion of love, and they are giving the gift of each other to us all the time, when we relate to them, if we experience it in terms of love, it makes a lot more sense,"

Father Perry D. Leiker, pastor, tells us for the 25th episode of our Sunday Homilies podcast, for our celebration of the Solemnity of the Most Holy Trinity. "There's nothing more redemptive, it seems to me, than to be able to choose love when hate is readily more available. And if we choose love, we've already been redeemed."

By Father Perry D. Leiker, pastor

"When we respect and honour each other enough to actually listen to each other, and not go right to judgement or condemnation," Father Perry tells us for Pentecost Sunday, for the 24th episode of our Sunday Homilies podcast. "This Pentecost not only changed the apostles but all of us and forever. We are a Pentecost people. Every single day we should be opening ourselves to the presence of God in our life through the gift of the Spirit."

Por Padre Perry D. Leiker, párroco

"El pecado destruye la unidad. El pecado destruye la paz. El pecado destruye él deseo en nosotros de unirse y conocer y escuchar y hablar con el otro," nos dice Padre Perry D. Leiker, párroco, para nuestro vigésimo cuarto episodio de nuestro podcast de homilías dominicales, para nuestra celebración del Domingo de Pentecostés. "Esto es divino. Esto es la divinidad de Cristo en la cruz. Él Espíritu Santo viene a nosotros a informarnos, educarnos, guiarnos, y dar su luz, para que podamos entender eso. Y esto es un momento de gracia. Cristo nos está devolviendo la dignidad de nuestra humanidad."

Por Padre Perry D. Leiker, párroco

"Jesús está diciendo que tenemos que estar vacíos. Que no estoy contigo, pero que pueden recibir mi Espíritu," nos dice Padre Perry D. Leiker, párroco, para nuestro vigésimo tercer episodio de nuestro podcast de homilías dominicales, para nuestra celebración del la Solemnidad de la Ascensión del Señor. "Cuando estamos vacíos en una forma, es artificial. Pero sí podemos experimentar que estamos vacíos y queremos recibir. Estamos abiertos a conocer Cristo más fuerte en nuestras vidas."

By Father Perry D. Leiker, pastor

"If we can have that sense, that feeling of Jesus not with us, how much more important when we receive him in his Spirit?" Father Perry D. Leiker, pastor, tells us for the 23rd episode of our Sunday Homilies podcast, for our celebration of the Ascension of the Lord. "Jesus is describing a need to be empty inside, a sense that he was not present, so that when he does become present, it's a powerful-feeling thing."