By Father Perry D. Leiker, pastor

"How are we supposed to go out and preach justice by our lives without spitting on people and getting in their face and breaking people down? Just be this loving presence in the world," Father Perry tells us for the 23rd episode of our Lenten podcast. "What might this mean for us? How are we, or could we be, like the suffering servant? How are we, or could we be, like Mary. How might we be — and hopefully aren't like Judas — like Jesus the Christ? I think these scriptures are meant to dig down intuitively into us and lift up this stuff, and open up levels of spirituality that we might not even be aware of or don't think about much. This is a week to think — and not just with the head, but with the heart."

Por Padre Perry D. Leiker, párroco

"Cada vez que escuchamos la palabra de Dios en la Biblia es como un espejo — si podemos ver adentro," nos dice Padre Perry para nuestro vigésimo episodio de nuestro podcast de homilías dominicales. "La palabra de ellos es una gran invitación a nosotros a recibir el amor de Dios y ser transformado por el amor de Dios."

By Father Perry D. Leiker, pastor

"All of this is beginning this week: the most holy week of the year," Father Perry tells us for the 20th episode of our Sunday Homilies podcast. "And this Passion of Christ is welcoming us into this story, so that the power of the hatred and death and love, and the power of entombment and resurrection, and ascension and feasting all the way until Pentecost, and the birth of the church, is extraordinary. It's a central mystery of our faith."

By Father Perry D. Leiker, pastor

"It's all about realizing and understanding that the Father is in the Son, and the Son is in the Father," Father Perry tell us for the 22nd episode of our Lenten podcast. "But I'm going to go further; it's also about realizing and understanding that Jesus the Christ is in us, and we are in him. Christ lives in us; we are the body of Christ. There's something so powerful and sacred in that. We simply have to realize it."

By Father Perry D. Leiker, pastor

"We see what's happening. We're being prepped for the great story this Sunday and next Friday when we listen to the Passion: First of Luke, and then of John," Father Perry tells us for the 21st episode of our Lenten podcast. "And we're being drawn into it; we're being drawn into that hour. And actually, THE hour, as we will celebrate it, will be on Good Friday. And it's just not an hour — it's not just 60 minutes — it's Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday, the whole Easter experience. That's the hour."

By Father Perry D. Leiker, pastor

This is like a kaleidoscope of drug-induced writers. This is just confusion, and too much mystery, and where is this going? But, bottom line, what Jesus testifies to and says so clearly today in this Gospel — about that there is no confusion — he says I AM," Father Perry tells us for the 20th episode of our Lenten podcast. The Father has sent me, and everything I say, I say it because the Father has given it to me to say. And I will return to the Father. Although the Pharisees where confused, and the leaders wanted to take him to that cross, they couldn't get it, they couldn't understand it."

By Father Perry D. Leiker, pastor

"He's not asking us just to come and praise him, God. But to be disciples of his Son Jesus. And that's our call, it's a mighty call," Father Perry tells us for the 19th episode of our Lenten podcast. "Like the Passion story, we are standing outside of all this scripture we've heard a hundred times. And we keep looking at this through a double set of eyes, we look at it through the eyes of the people in the story who don't get it. And then, because we get it, we get the point of it, we get to look at them, but we look at it through our eyes that believe it, that know it's true, that see the truth of it."

Por Padre Perry D. Leiker, párroco

"[La mujer en flagrante adulterio] tenía que buscar adentro, y responder con una promesa, con una intención," nos dice Padre Perry para nuestro décimo noveno episodio de nuestro podcast de homilias dominicales. "Seguir y escuchar la palabra de Jesús."

By Father Perry D. Leiker, pastor

"The deepest part of us, deep in our spirit, is where the real life of God is," Father Perry tells us for the 19th episode our Sunday Homilies podcast. "All the physical things we do — they're important, they're valuable, they communicate love. But we got to learn how; and it's usually through prayer and contemplation that we get way down deep into the spirit. Of course, Jesus' body is going to die, but the spirit deep within us is where he gives life and makes life happen."

By Father Perry D. Leiker, pastor

"This three-day period is the hour, not 60 minutes. It's his hour of time. It's the moment that everything is going to be resting on — his death and resurrection. That's the moment. That's the hour," Father Perry tells us for the 18th episode of our Lenten podcast. "And that's the hour we celebrate in faith all the time; and know that, after we die, we will celebrate it in the fulness of life."