By Father Perry D. Leiker, pastor

"We are asked to immerse ourselves as deeply as we can in the mystery and the wonder of the cross," Father Perry tells us for the 16th episode of our Lenten podcast, for our celebration of Thursday of the Fifth Week of Lent. "We see the good that comes from this new covenant in the blood of Christ and that we are the recipients, therefore, of a promise of life and life eternal."

By Father Perry D. Leiker, pastor

"Are you ready to enter into mystery today? Our life is a mystery; our relationship with God is a mystery," Father Perry tells us for the 15th episode of our Lenten podcast. "There's no moment where God isn't gracing us, I don't think. I don't think God turns grace on and turns it off like a spigot, like a faucet; God is always grace and love. Embracing this mystery ... are we willing to enter into the mystery? "

By Father Perry D. Leiker, pastor

"All of us will sin. And, clearly, we know that," Father Perry tells us for the 16th episode of our Sunday Homilies podcast. "But Jesus is forever seeking that we would be unbound of our sin. That the things that tie us up would be loosed."

Por Padre Perry D. Leiker, párroco

"¿Qué cosas hacemos nosotros como muertos? O como una momia? Estamos en la vida como eso," nos dice Padre Perry D. Leiker, párroco, para Misa de clausura para él Kairos Kai Metanoia retiro de mujeres. "No puede ver, no puede caminar sin caerse. ¿Y qué es eso? Es pecado — pecados grandes y chiquitos."

By Father Perry D. Leiker, pastor

"We hear two womans' stories. We hear incredible mercy and love, and forgiveness and God supporting and carrying us through the valley of darkness," Father Perry tells us for the 14th episode of our Lenten podcast, for our celebration of Monday of the Fifth Week of Lent. "And we're asked to face this just a week before Holy Week, so we come into the holiest week of the year ready to become confronted by God's mercy, by God's love, by God's forgiveness."

Por Padre Perry D. Leiker, párroco

"Sí este tipo de pecado — falta de amar — existe en ustedes, es él tiempo de decir Dios, ayúdame," nos dice Padre Perry D. Leiker, párroco, para él décimo sexto episodio de nuestro podcast de homilías dominicales, para nuestra celebración del V Domingo de Cuaresma. "Quiero este pecado fuera de mí. Sí estamos atentos a eso, estamos viviendo este Evangelio. Jesús está dando vida espiritual a nuestras vidas. Está dando vida. ¿Crees esto? ¿Todos nosotros? Creo firmemente que tú eres él mesías. Y tú tienes vida, palabras divinas de vida eterna."

By Father Perry D. Leiker, pastor

"We are a community of foot washers, and absolutely we should be. We should have that attitude that we would wash the feet of one another," Father Perry tells us for the 13th episode of our Lenten podcast. "And we would do it joyfully; and do it with a great sense that we're doing something valuable, something loving, something merciful."

By Father Perry D. Leiker, pastor

"I hope you and don't believe that — that God will destroy us," Father Perry D. Leiker, pastor, tells us for the 12th episode of our Lenten podcast. "Rather, do we believe in an eternal love that never gives up on us — ever? No matter how sinful. No matter how much doubt, no matter how much we reject God in our lives. Even if we hate God, that he could never hate us. God is love. Do we believe that? And if we don't, I beg you to consider it."

By Father Perry D. Leiker, pastor

"There are no limits to the power of love, or to the power of showing love," Father Perry tells us for the 11th episode of our Lenten podcast, for our celebration of Tuesday of the Fourth Week of Lent. "Do we not hear in all of this the abundant graces of God that we do believe in? And the waters are a symbol of it; they give life, they sustain our physical lives. But do we connect each day in an aware-way, in a very intentional way, in a very direct way - and saying, 'God, I believe that your pour out your graces everyday, and you will do it again today.' That we begin to see more clearly each day the abundance grace of God in our lives and if we're lucky, have the chance to help somebody who's lame or ill."

Father Perry D. Leiker, pastor

"It may also be a story that is stating some important things for us to appreciate about Joseph and Mary, and also about Jesus," Father Perry D. Leiker, pastor, tells us for the 10th episode of our Lenten podcast, for our celebration of the Solemnity of St. Joseph, spouse of the Blessed Virgin Mary. "What a role he had to be the foster father of Jesus. What a role he had to accept the disturbing and confusing marital issues before he even got married. And what a disturbing and anxious experience to lose your son and to console your wife who is heartbroken and super anxious at the possibility that they would not find their son. And who of us have experienced similar things?"