By Father Perry D. Leiker, pastor

"When you didn't do it to the least, the least of my brothers and sisters. What a challenge Jesus is putting before us. And when you stop to think about it, what a world this would be if we lived like that. Gut we don't. We do sometimes, but this is the challenge," Father Perry tells us for the fourth episode of our Lenten podcast. "If you love somebody who doesn't love you back, if you're kind to somebody who isn't really kind to you, if you are generous to somebody who's never given you a penny, there is the mark of somebody who knows the kingdom in their life and is walking and living in the kingdom of God."

Por Padre Perry D. Leiker, párroco

"Si podemos seguir a Cristo y estar con él por estos cuarenta días, invitando a Cristo a entrarnos y darnos su gracia, y guiándonos en este tiempo," nos dice Padre Perry para nuestro décimo quinto episodio de nuestro podcast de homilías dominicales. "Este es un tiempo sagrado. Un tiempo donde muchas cosas pueden pasar. Con alegría vamos entrando esta jornada con Cristo y le pedimos que el puede hacer algo especial a nuestros corazones."

By Father Perry D. Leiker, pastor

"It was there in vulnerability that he had to put his trust in God the most — and he did. And for everything that the devil tried to do to tempt him he came back speaking the word of God," Father Perry tells us for the 15th episode of our Sunday Homilies podcast. "And there he was, safe and sound with God and the Spirit. That's what this Lent is about."

By Father Perry D. Leiker, pastor

"Fasting should change our hearts. It should make us contrite and humble, like the psalm says. It should make us appreciate things more," Father Perry tells us for the second episode of our Lenten podcast. "If you don't eat chocolate, or smoke, or have your daily beer ... and then you hate it, and you're miserable ... God doesn't want us miserable; he just doesn't. He wants us contrite, humble, and open-hearted. Now, does this mean you shouldn't fast during Lent? I'm not saying that; it's a good practice. But if you do it, if we do it, we should do it in a way that makes our heart be more loving."

By Father Perry D. Leiker, pastor

"Jesus is asking us to take a step back, and then take a look and say, what is really, really, really valuable to us?" Father Perry D. Leiker, asks us for the first episode of our Lenten podcast. "What matters the most? And he said, it's being good to lose your life for others, to lose your life for Christ, to give until it hurts and then still give more."

By Father Perry D. Leiker, pastor

"There is still yet another way we can approach Lent, and that is to do something more," Father Perry tells us for our evening celebration of Ash Wednesday. "Not stop doing something, but start doing something. If this Lent simply opens our hearts a little bit — and we can experience a little more grace, a little more blessing, a little more love — then, I guarantee you, all of these events that we'll be celebrating will have so much more power in your life."

By Father Perry D. Leiker, pastor

"This is a time to turn ourselves inside-out, to take a good look at ourselves," Father Perry tells us for our 9 a.m. celebration of Ash Wednesday. "This isn't the time to hate [Lent]; this is a time to love, a time to open up deeper, to discover more life in us, to see what changes we can make to be holy — holier — to have more life in us, to have more love alive in us."

By Father Perry D. Leiker, pastor

"This is a time to turn ourselves inside-out, to take a good look at ourselves," Father Perry tells us for our 9 a.m. celebration of Ash Wednesday. "This isn't the time to hate [Lent]; this is a time to love, a time to open up deeper, to discover more life in us, to see what changes we can make to be holy — holier — to have more life in us, to have more love alive in us."

Por Padre Perry D. Leiker, párroco

"La cosa más importante es que sale de tu boca. La palabra de Dios está aquí, formada en mente y corazón," nos dice Padre Perry para nuestro décimo cuarto episodio de nuestro podcast de homilías dominicales. "Dependiendo de la calidad de tu corazón, ¿vamos a decir buenas cosas o malas cosas? Todo lo que era corruptible estaba incorruptible en Cristo. Todo lo que estaba mortal cambió a ser inmortal, porque Jesús murió, matando el poder del pecado. Con todo el pecado que estaba cerca de él … en este momento [en la cruz] más vulnerable, él era el más divino."

By Father Perry D. Leiker, pastor

"And of all the things he could have said, he said the most diving thing you imagine — 'Father, forgive them, they know not what they do.' That, for me, is him giving up his divinity, bestowing on us that the corruptible — that stuff that comes from sin — has become incorruptible; he's shown how to defeat it," Father Perry tells us for the 14th episode of our Sunday Homilies podcast. "How is that a defeat? Well, we see it three days later in his resurrection."