Por Padre Perry D. Leiker, párroco

"La verdad es que todos nosotros somos ciegos. Yo imagino que cada uno de nosotros este día va ser un ciego él mínimo una vez," nos dice Padre Perry D. Leiker, párroco, para él décimo quinto episodio de nuestro podcast de homilías dominicales, para nuestra celebración del IV Domingo de Cuaresma. "Con una mala palabra. Criticando. No perdonando."

By Father Perry D. Leiker, pastor

"It's the mistakes, the errors, the things that we regret that turn into the biggest blessings in our life," Father Perry tells us for the 15th episode of our Sunday Homilies podcast. "We once walked in darkness. God has given us a great light through Jesus the Christ. And he showed us even in his dying what it means to be fully human and fully divine. That you can love those who hate you. You don't have to hate because they hate you. You can't make me hate you back — that's my choice. And if I choose to hate you, I am no better than you. That's the light that Jesus the Christ gives to us."

Por Padre Parker Sandoval

"Sí la fe es una jornada, podemos saber dónde estamos en está jornada. Aún más. Tenemos que saber cuál es nuestro destino, ¿cuál es la meta de esta fe?" nos pregunta él Padre Parker Sandoval para el décimo cuarto episodio de nuestro podcast de homilías dominicales, para nuestra celebración del III Domingo de Cuaresma. "Pues para nosotros los Cristianos, nuestro destino es Jesús. En verdad, siempre nos reunimos aquí con fe. Posiblemente, una fe inicial, pero con una fe. Pero la gran noticia es que la gracia que recibimos aquí — por la escucha de la palabra y la recepción de la sagrada Comunión — tiene él poder de fortalecer la fe, la conversión, para que podamos caminar más al destino, quién es Jesús."

By Father Perry D. Leiker, pastor

"How often do we hold our brothers and sisters — literally, our blood brothers and sisters, or very close family members — to these standards where we're always just on the edge of condemning them, just on the edge of criticizing them, just on the edge of seeing them less?" Father Perry asks us for the ninth episode of our Lenten podcast. "And I think this scripture reveals not only that scenario, but reveals the condition and power of sin — how suddenly sometimes it corrupts and taints our inner spirit, and creates in us, allows us to create in ourselves a kind of ugliness."

By Father Isaiah Mary Molano, O.P.

"God blesses us so that me may be a blessing to others. This is why in our Lenten season, we emphasize the acts of mercy, the necessity for penance," Father Isaiah Mary Molano, O.P., tells us for the 14th episode of our Sunday Homilies podcast. "Not only for us, but so that God can bestow his love to all his creation. The Lord Jesus encounters us so that he can heal us, so that he can cherish us, so that he can love us and bring us healing."

By Father Perry D. Leiker, pastor

"Just because Jesus Christ came back from the dead do we all listen?" Father Perry D. Leiker, pastor, asks us for the eighth episode of our Lenten podcast, for our celebration of Thursday of the Second Week of Lent. "This scripture is asking us to become not aware, but super-aware of the need for goodness and spirituality, and life-giving Spirit of God to fill our lives and direct our thinking, [and] direct our choices, our values. The further we get from God the more likely, I think, is that we can become desert-like — empty and barren."

By Father Perry D. Leiker, pastor

"My God only wants me to have life to the fullest, I'm convinced of it," Father Perry tells us for the seventh episode of our Lenten podcast, for our celebration of Tuesday of the Second Week of Lent. "My God wants peace and joy and happiness and life and goodness and God-ness, and every other good thing to fill my life and bring it to fullness and fruition. I really believe that."

By Father Perry D. Leiker, pastor

"It's so easy so sink into just taking care of the bodily needs, the desires," Father Perry D. Leiker, pastor, tells us for the sixth episode of our Lenten podcast. "And those scream at us. The Spirit doesn't scream at us, the Spirit is whispering, 'listen to me, listen to me.' But the body screams, and so we're always taking care of the body and all of these needs."

Por Padre Perry D. Leiker, párroco

"Dios quiere que seamos una gente que siempre está escuchando él Señor — cada palabra," nos dice Padre Perry D. Leiker, párroco, para el décimo tercer episodio de nuestro podcast de homilías dominicales, para nuestra celebración del II Domingo de Cuaresma. "En está cruz tan fea, él estaba lleno de gloria, de amor, de perdón. Escuchalo, porque él tiene la palabra de vida."

By Father Perry D. Leiker, pastor

"When he gets to that cross, he's not glorified; he's not shining like the sun," Father Perry tells us for the 13th episode of our Sunday Homilies podcast, for the Second Sunday of Lent. "He's being killed! He's bleeding to death on the cross. He's been spit on, and thorns stuck in his head; and stripped and beaten and forced to carry a cross — nailed to it, lifted up on the cross. He's dying. For three hours — total rejection, total hatred, killing him. We really have to have our eyes fixed on Jesus. We have to have our ears fixed on Jesus. We should pay close attention to what he says in the scriptures."