By Father Perry D. Leiker, pastor

"Do we see reconciliation as something valuable, as something possible, and something that we want?" Father Perry asks us for the 18th episode of our Sunday Homilies podcast. "And something that we're willing to do, and something that we're even willing to go out and tell the world about, tell the world about the possibility of reconciliation."

By Father Perry D. Leiker, pastor

"What if we don't hear his voice or don't listen to it? What if we're too occupied with other voices or other things? What if we're being too occupied by our prayers," Father Perry tells us for the 17th episode of our Lenten podcast. "That's the call, that's the challenge — to be very, very, very good listeners, to ask of God and then to be still."

By Father Perry D. Leiker, pastor

"We've got to have an openness of spirit and life that allows us to trust those angelic moments of coming close to God, and trusting God and walking in God's ways and believing that somehow it's gonna turn out," Father Perry tells us for the 18th episode of our Lenten podcast, for our celebration of the Solemnity of the Assumption of the Lord. "Let it be said, that every one of us here, has daily occurrences of angelic visits. But the word of God somehow seeping into our lives."

By Father Perry D. Leiker, pastor

"We are being asked to appreciate that the law and the rules are good," Father Perry D. Leiker, pastor, tells us for the 16th episode of our Lenten podcast, for our celebration of Wednesday of the Third Week of Lent. "God is interested in us becoming better people. I think this word of God is meaning to teach us, to call us, to help us to learn what we can be — the best we can be — and to give us the tools to get there."

By Father Perry D. Leiker, pastor

"We must become a forgiver. Your heart must be changed so that you always are willing and ready to forgive," Father Perry tells us for the 15th episode of our Lenten Homilies podcast. "That's where the Gospel comes alive in us. And that's Jesus' point."

By Father Perry D. Leiker, pastor

"Where do we listen and not listen in our lives and in our faith?" Father Perry asks us for the 14th episode of our Lenten Homilies podcast.

Por Padre Perry D. Leiker, párroco

"Cuando estamos llenos de pecado y estamos muy distantes y lejos de Dios, cosas malas entran en nosotros," nos dice Padre Perry D. Leiker, párroco, para él décimo séptimo episodio de nuestro podcast de homilías dominicales, para nuestra celebración del III Domingo de Cuaresma. "Sí estamos abiertos al reino de Dios, vamos a conocer la misericordia de nuestro Señor, su gracia, su amor. Él va a iluminar nuestras vidas."

By Father Perry D. Leiker, pastor

"Are we the gardener? Are we the fig tree? Are we the owner of the orchard threatening to cut it all down? Are we the soil in which that fig tree is grown?" Father Perry asks us for the 17th episode of our Sunday Homilies podcast. "And we have to understand that we're all of the above at different times. But who has cultivated us in our faith? It becomes important that we see ourselves in all the characters of this parable. Because we are called not only to receive the word of God and to receive the kingdom of God, and to be a soil that is so rich in nutrients that this fig tree just blossoms and grows and produce much fruit."

By Father Perry D. Leiker, pastor

"If do this Lent well — and through our penances and other practices we just keep letting go of some of the [junk], some of the mess of our lives — we may come to this moment with our eyes wide open and our hearts wide open ready to receive all the power and all the glory that comes from that cross," Father Perry tells us for the 13th episode of our Lenten podcast.

By Father Perry D. Leiker, pastor

"If we see God — or God's laws, or God's rules, or walking with God or being in communion with God — it means that we see God in everything, that God is everywhere," Father Perry tells us for the 12th episode of our Lenten podcast. "It's not just a matter of following the laws or not — being an arid wasteland, or like a tree planted near living waters — but rather to be in communion with our God at all times."