By Father Perry D. Leiker, pastor

"This is a season of preparation. The purpose of Advent is to ready ourselves," Father Perry tells us for the second episode of our Sunday Homilies podcast, for our celebration of the Second Sunday of Advent. "And the real birth of Christ isn't going to be in a little manger scene over there. The birth of Christ has got to be here. That's the purpose of Advent — to ready the heart, to keep opening, listening, and saying ... maranatha."

Por Padre Perry D. Leiker, párroco

"Él tiempo de Adviento no es un día. Queremos estar transformados," nos dice Padre Perry D. Leiker, párroco, para el segundo episodio de nuestro podcast de homilías dominicales, para nuestra celebración del II Domingo de Adviento. "Porque queremos recibir a Cristo, recordando su nacimiento es una celebración. Queremos estar preparados para su segunda venida."

By Father Perry D. Leiker, pastor

"That you and I could give testimony to our lives being changed because we believe in Jesus," Father Perry tells us for the fourth episode our Advent podcast, for our celebration of Friday of the First Week of Advent. "This Gospel is our Gospel. And it in a very real way, we have to realize that all of us, too, are right now, have been blind and will be blind in the future. But there's blindness that flows out of our sin, out of our little selves, out of our stubbornness."

By Father Perry D. Leiker, pastor

"To choose to do the good, to choose to live the life, to live in the mansion right now," Father Perry tells us for the third episode of our Advent podcast. "To live in the mansion, right now, we don't have to wait until we die. Live in the mansion of God right now and know his light within us. That's what these scriptures offer to us."

By Father Perry D. Leiker, pastor

"We go through this Advent saying: O come, O come, Emmanuel," Father Perry tells us for the second episode of our Advent podcast. "Rescue us. Show us. Teach us. Give us your light. Be God with us. And the more that we can open up to that Advent message, the more Christmas will powerfully and wonderfully mean something to us."

By Father Perry D. Leiker, pastor

"Do we believe it, with the faith of the centurion? Do we have that sense [that] Lord, I'm a sinner; I'm not worthy," Father Perry tells us for the first episode of our Advent podcast. "What I do know is that you have authority and power, and you are always loving. I would say that is the difference between somebody who goes to church and somebody who is church. That we know the power of the presence of Christ in our lives."

Por Padre Perry D. Leiker, párroco

"Estamos celebrando un evento que pasó dos mil años pasado — él nacimiento de Jesús. Pero estamos celebrando también la segunda venida de Cristo," nos dice Padre Perry D. Leiker, párroco, para él primer episodio de nuestro podcast de homilías dominicales, para nuestra celebración del I Domingo de Adviento. "Él punto de este Adviento por cuatro semanas es abrir a Cristo. No queremos pasar él día de Navidad sin [sentir] la presencia de Cristo, más en él día que recordamos su nacimiento."

By Father Perry D. Leiker, pastor

"There are a lot of promises that all of life will be changed," Father Perry D. Leiker, pastor, tells us for the first episode of our Sunday Homilies podcast for the 2023 liturgical year, and our celebration of the First Sunday of Advent. "And the truth is, we celebrate Christ coming in Christmas because we say that event changed the whole; it was never the same after the coming of the Christ."

By Father Perry D. Leiker, pastor

"Thanksgiving Day is about seeing with the heart. It's about seeing with the heart in a way that gratitude just bubbles up inside of us, and we experience gratitude," Father Perry D. Leiker, pastor, for our annual Thanksgiving Day Mass. "On this day we all experience gratitude. Would that we would every single day, that we would begin our day with gratitude. I'm alive! Thank you, God, for another full day. The reason that we gather at every liturgy is to give thanks, to celebrate thanks."

By Father Parker Sandoval

"God comes as king in the person of Jesus," Father Parker Sandoval tells us for the 51st and last episode of our Sunday Homilies podcast for the 2022 liturgical year, for our celebration of the Solemnity of Our Lord Jesus Christ, King of the Universe, and the final Sunday of the 2022 liturgical year. "And Jesus comes announcing good news — the kingdom of God is at hand; the kingdom of God has come near. And as Jesus announces this good news, he awakens the hope in the people, because they remember the promises."