By Father Perry D. Leiker, pastor

"I think these scriptures today — they are about prayer; they are about asking and seeking and longing for," Father Perry tells us for the fifth episode of our Lenten podcast, for our celebration of Thursday of the First Week of Lent. "If you don't knock on the door, why would you think it would be open to you? You got to knock! If you don't seek, how do you think you'll find?"

By Father Perry D. Leiker, pastor

"A yearning, a longing — I really think that in our relationship with God and in our prayer life, that's the most important ingredient," Father Perry D. Leiker, pastor, tells us for the fourth episode of our Lenten podcast, for our celebration of Tuesday of the First Week of Lent. "That we long, that we yearn for, that we seek; because if we're not seeking, if we're not stretching ourselves, we're not looking for anything, we're just waiting for things to happen."

Por Padre Perry D. Leiker, párroco

"Está es la verdad también. Cuando estamos bien espiritualmente, conectados con Dios, abriendo en oración, usualmente no estamos listos a pecar," nos dice Padre Perry D. Leiker, párroco, para nuestra celebración del I Domingo de Pascua, para él décimo segundo episodio de nuestro podcast de homilías dominicales. "Pero sí podemos entender un poco más de este gran misterio del pecado, es posible que podemos entender un poco más él gran misterio de la gracia."

By Father Perry D. Leiker, pastor

"The scripture often is trying to form us into a different people," Father Perry tells us for the third episode of our Lenten podcast, for our celebration of Monday of the First Week of Lent. "God wants to form us into, I'll say, Christian warriors; but just men and women who just live [and] love. And when we do that, what a powerful source in the world! That we go out and transform the world with godliness and goodness; that, it seems to me, is the power of these scriptures."

By Father Perry D. Leiker, pastor

"The scripture often is trying to form us into a different people," Father Perry tells us for the third episode of our Lenten podcast, for our celebration of Monday of the First Week of Lent. "God wants to form us into, I'll say, Christian warriors; but just men and women who just live [and] love. And when we do that, what a powerful source in the world! That we go out and transform the world with godliness and goodness; that, it seems to me, is the power of these scriptures."

By Father Perry D. Leiker, pastor

"What good is there in fasting? What good is it if you fast to become a better person, but you end up a worse person?" Father Perry asks us for the second episode of our Lenten podcast, for our celebration of Friday After Ash Wednesday and the third day of Lent. "Then your fast was a physically, bodily thing. If we fast, and if we hunger, and then we taste the hungers of the heart, then, I think, the spiritual growth that God really wants us to experience will happen even more deeply."

By Father Perry D. Leiker, pastor

"What if we walked with God like that? What if we listened to God's word like that? God, speak to me. God, these words are tough," Father Perry tells us for the first episode of St. Bernard's Lenten podcast, for our celebration of Thursday After Ash Wednesday. "What are you saying? Are you really saying that you would reject us and you wouldn't let our descendants live? I don't think so. We got to read the word intuitively. We've got to read it with our hearts, not just like some mathematic text. We got to read between the lines."

By Father Perry D. Leiker, pastor

"What would be the one thing I would like to do to be a better person? Imagine if everyone of us left this church tonight with some idea of what that one thing is that we want to change about our lives in the next 40 days and 40 nights," Father Perry tells us for our celebration of Ash Wednesday. "It's extraordinary. It's powerful. This is new life. So today we do it in ceremony ... we're in this together. We're doing this because, as a people of God, as a church, we want to improve, we want to be better."

Por Padre Perry D. Leiker, párroco

"La cosa es que podemos estar abiertos siempre recibir eso y apreciar la perfección y la bondad de nuestro Señor," nos dice Padre Perry D. Leiker, párroco, para nuestra celebración del VII Domingo Ordinario, para él décimo episodio primer de nuestro podcast de homilías dominicales. "Somos templos de Dios. Y por está razón podemos decir que tenemos que amarnos uno al otro, bendecirnos uno al otro y vivir diferentemente."

By Father Perry D. Leiker, pastor

"The Spirit of God dwells in you. And once we really believe that, that's God already perfecting us, Father Perry tells us for the 11th episode of our Sunday Homilies podcast, for our celebration of the Seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time. "If we really believe we're sacred, if we really believe each other is sacred, then all the other stuff follows."