This podcast is Sunday's weekly inspiration, by Father Perry D. Leiker, pastor.

New episodes air every Sunday, and are based on Cycle C of the readings year.

Episodes air through the Solemnity of Christ the King of Nov. 23, 2025.

Sunday Homilies

St. Bernard's Sunday Homilies podcast

Este podcast es inspiración cada domingo, por Padre Perry D. Leiker, párroco.

Nuevos episodios publicados cada domingo. Se basa en el Ciclo C del año litúrgico de la santa palabra.

Homilías dominicales

Iglesia de san Bernardo podcast de homilías dominicales

Forty days (more or less) of Lenten reflection, by Father Perry D. Leiker, pastor.

New episodes air — March 6 to April 16, on Mondays, Tuesdays; and Thursdays and Fridays.

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Lenten podcast

St. Bernard's Lenten podcast

By Father Perry D. Leiker, pastor

"The focus is the preparing, the changing of heart," Father Perry D. Leiker, pastor, tells us for the second episode of our Sunday Homilies podcast, for our celebration of the Second Sunday of Advent. "That's what we're about. As we have with all of our liturgy, it instructs us, it teaches us. That's what it's supposed to do."

The Sunday Homilies (Based on the Readings of Liturgical Cycle C)

Sunday Homilies podcast Episode 2: "Advent is a liminal space"

By Father Perry D. Leiker, pastor

"We have this journey, and we get a chance to move forward to become something more," Father Perry tells us for the 15th episode of our Sunday Homilies podcast, for our celebration of the First Sunday of Lent. "This event — the death and resurrection of the Lord — is the pinnacle, it's the climax, it's the most important thing that we believe about Jesus the Christ. So this journey is allowing us to saturate ourselves in the spirit of Lent."

Sunday Homilies podcast Episode 15: "A Lenten journey to become something more"

Por Padre Perry D. Leiker, párroco

"Aquí, donde está escrito está nueva alianza, vamos a conocer que Dios nos está pidiendo de nosotros," nos dice Padre Perry D. Leiker, párroco, para nuestra Misa de Sanación para él mes de enero. "Dios nos está invitando a escuchar con él corazón, ver con corazón. Que podemos responder y entender que todos nosotros en bautismo, nosotros somos bautizados e invitados a ser discípulos/apóstoles. Que podemos conocer lo que Dios quiere de nosotros, y podemos anunciar al mundo este mensaje del Señor."

Misa de Sanación

Misa de Sanación, enero: "Dios nos está invitando a escuchar, ver con él corazón"

Por Padre Perry D. Leiker, párroco

"En los ojos de Jesús, podemos ganar él poder de la cruz en nuestras vidas, nos dice Padre Perry D. Leiker, párroco, para él décimo séptimo episodio de nuestra podcast de homilías dominicales, para la celebración del Domingo de Ramos de le Pasion del Señor. "No existe ni una persona en este planeta que no vaya a experimentar la cruz en su vida."

Podcast de homilías dominicales (Basado en las lecturas del Ciclo Litúrgico A)

Podcast de homilías dominicales Episodio 17: "Con Jesús, ganamos poder de la cruz en nuestras vidas"

Por Padre Perry D. Leiker, párroco

"Esta cruz no es solo una reverencia personal o individual," nos dice Padre Perry D. Leiker, párroco, para nuestra celebración de Viernes Santa de la Pasión del Señor. "Que como una comunidad de fe estamos aquí, que la cruz puede tener un impacto en nosotros y tener la habilidad de cambiar y transformarnos a nosotros como un cuerpo de Cristo."

Viernes Santo de la Pasión del Señor

Viernes Santo de la Pasión del Señor: "Necesitamos la cruz"

Viernes Santo

By Father Perry D. Leiker, pastor

"In all of the readings we hear about 'the call.' And the implication for us is that every one of us is called," Father Perry tells us for the 11h episode of our Sunday Homilies podcast. "We're being called everyday, and called into whole commitments of life. But we need to listen. Are we capable of finding God anywhere and hearing his voice?"

Sunday homilies podcast (based on Sunday readings of Cycle C)

Sunday Homilies podcast Episode 11: "Called into whole commitments of life"

Por Padre Perry D. Leiker, párroco

"Su pecado es su lugar, yo creo, de que Dios quiere llamarnos. El quiere tener su pecado, dar su gracia, y transformarlo," nos dice Padre Perry D. Leiker, párroco, para el decimo primer episodio de nuestro podcast de homilias dominicales. "Muchas veces el área de pecado en la vida es el área que puede desarrollar más — si tenemos fe. Dios quiere llamarnos de cualquier situación en nuestras vidas, pero específicamente cuando somos pecadores. Yo creo que es por nosotros aceptar su misericordia, aceptar su gracia, aceptar su amor."

Podcast de homilías dominicales (basada en las lecturas dominicales del Ciclo C)

Podcast de homilías dominicales Episodio 11: "Llamarlo a ser mi apóstol"

By Father Perry D. Leiker, pastor

"At the deepest, deepest, deepest level, especially when there is strife and there there are problems with our lives, that's when we have to dig down deep and find our trust in God and look for listen to hat God will speak in our hearts," Father Perry tells us for the 12th episode of our Sunday Homilies podcast. "Well, what is this contradictory message? How do we find blessing in all those negatives that were listed in the scriptures today? Well, it seems, to me, that is where we need God most — when we can't seem to pull it together, or figure it out, when we seem stuck n a place. And we often go and look in the wrong place for answers, when the answers, I think, lie deep within us in our relationship with God. God, what are you saying? What do I need to do?"

Sunday Homilies podcast Episode 12: "Go, and figure it out with God"

By Father Perry D. Leiker, pastor

"Jesus is focusing on something that is so essential if we want to have good hearts, good souls, good lives," Father Perry tells us for the 13th episode of our Sunday Homilies podcast. "God's love filled Jesus' heart, and he couldn't hold it all in there; he had to speak it out loud. When someone hurts us, hurt turns rather quickly into anger. And when we feel anger again and again we call it resentment. We feel it again. We feel it again. And Jesus says, you know what, it doesn't have to be that way; you can be free from that, you can free yourself from that. All you have to do is forgive."

St. Bernard Catholic Church

Sunday Homilies podcast Episode 13: "Rescuing us from that inner hatred and anger"

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."

Sunday Homilies podcast Episode 14: "Jesus bestows his divinity on us"

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."

St. Bernard's Lenten podcast (based on weekday readings Year I)

St. Bernard's Lenten podcast Episode 2: "Opening our hearts this Lent to God in a deeper way"

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."

Sunday Homilies podcast Episode 15: "Journey, and vulnerability"

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."

Podcast de homilías dominicales Episodio 15: "Una jornada de fe con Cristo en el desierto"

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."

St. Bernard's Lenten podcast Episode 3: "Jesus' challenge"

By Father Perry D. Leiker, pastor

"The Bible is also the place where God is met many times in darkness. And probably that's where we meet God most profoundly. We do it in joy and singing and praising and praying," Father Perry tells us  But boy, when darkness hits our life — illness, sadness, or just a disarray of our lives — that's where we really, really have to be people of faith, and that's where we really have to be transformed by our faith. And that's what happens to Abraham today. Do we experience an inner voice that is so clear that after hearing it, we se everything differently?"

Sunday Homilies podcast Episode 16: "We are citizens of God, heaven"

By Father Perry D. Leiker, pastor

"The secret is: Let God in. Let God's grace come in and do its work. And if we just listen, and if we just open up, wonderous things can happen to us," Father Perry tells us for the eighth episode of our Lenten podcast. "Jesus is not saying what do to and what not to do; he says more — it's not what you do, it's how you do it. That's the secret."

St. Bernard's Lenten podcast Episode 8: "Even more"

By Father Perry D. Leiker, pastor

"We have those lifegiving waters," Father Perry tells us for the 17th episode of our Sunday Homilies podcast. "All we have to do is taste it. To drink of it, and to experience the life that Jesus wants to give."

St. Bernard's Sunday homilies podcast (based on Sunday readings of Cycle C)

Sunday Homilies podcast Episode 17: "Experience the taste of lifegiving water"

Por Padre Perry D. Leiker, párroco

"La compasión y el amor de Dios es profundo, y siempre, es el deseo de Dios, que va a penetrar la vida de su gente," nos dice Padre Perry para nuestro décimo séptimo episodio de nuestro podcast de homilías dominicales. "Siempre necesitamos echar un abono de gracia en nuestras vidas. La verdad es que todos nosotros somos pecadores. Entonces yo necesito abono que pueda fertilizar; y dar con, la compasión y gracia de Dios, un efecto en mi que puede asistir vivir bien. Todos lo necesitan."

Podcast de homilías dominicales Episodio 17: "Fertilizador de gracia"

By Father Perry D. Leiker, pastor

"The beauty of this feast day and these scriptures readings is this interaction of God with us, with humanity," Father Perry tells us for the 12th episode of our Lenten podcast. "Mary is the model of church, the model of Christian. What if every single day this was the one word we put on our lips to God — Yes. Yes, God, anything you ask of me, anything you want from me, or for me. Anything you want me to do to bring your grace and your word and your light a little more into the world. To be a blessing to others. Yes. Even without knowing what it is, yet. Even without knowing what you might be asking of me."

St. Bernard's Lenten podcast Episode 12: "My answer is yes"

By Cardinal Roger M. Mahony

"All of us have the ability to be a saint. It isn't saints who lived centuries ago; saints live now. And everyone of them has the same pattern — just loving Jesus, taking chances to get the name of Jesus out there. To bring others to compassion, and mercy in the Lord. Today, at your confirmation we have the Holy Spirit to give you energy, and courage, and strength to do more to follow Jesus, and especially to help attract other young people to the Lord through your own lives."

Youth confirmation Mass

Youth confirmation Mass: "Be there for others in the name of Jesus"

Confirmation

By Father Perry D. Leiker, pastor

"We need the light to see. It's only through Christ that we find the light. It's because we realise the specialness of Christ — he is the CHRIST —, the one who was sent. And when we put our faith in Christ, and finish that off by being baptised — entering into the waters of life and receiving Christ the light — we see differently," Father Perry tells us for the 18th episode of our Sunday Homilies podcast. "People that love Christ and love his word — and want to be faithful to that word, and open themselves up to that word — they have something more, something extra."

St. Bernard's Sunday Homilies podcast Episode 18: "Let Christ be your light!"

Sunday Homilies podcast Episode 18: "Let Christ be your light!"

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."

Sunday homilies podcast (based this week on scrutiny Sunday readings of Cycle A)

Sunday Homilies podcast Episode 19: "Life happens deep within our spirit"

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."

Podcast de homilías dominicales (basada esta semana en las lecturas dominicales del escrutinio del Ciclo C)

Podcast de homilías dominicales Episodio 19: "Intimos con Jesus"

Podcast de homilías dominicales Episodio 19: "Intimos con Jesús"

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."

St. Bernard's Lenten podcast Episode 20: "Drug-induced scripture writing?"

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."

St. Bernard's Lenten podcast Episode 21: "Preparing for the Easter experience"

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."

St. Bernard's Lenten podcast Episode 22: "Realize and understand God's presence in you"

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."

Sunday Homilies podcast Episode 20: "Relish in the central mystery of our faith"

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."


Podcast de homilías dominicales (basada en las lecturas dominicales del Ciclo A)

Podcast de homilías dominicales Episodio 20: "Si podemos ver dentro"

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."

St. Bernard's Lenten podcast Episode 23: "This is the week for intuition"

By Father Ramon Reyes

"Gathering together at the feast day, the Passover, he humbles himself in humility, knowing that one of this friends is going to do something against him. Such is the great love he has for us that he teaches us, even in moments when we think we have our own choice," Father Ramon tells us for the 24 the last episode of our 2025 Lenten podcast. "He loves us so much, and he cares for us so much, that humility and humbleness go hand in hand. And he shows us that when you are ridiculed for his sake, he will glorify you as children of God. Are we prepared, not just to accept God, but to accept the good and the bad that God has for us?"

St. Bernard's Lenten podcast Episode 24: "Glorified as children of God"

By Father Perry D. Leiker, pastor

"At this last supper, this meal that Jesus will say, commemorate this always in my name, that he would tie to it service," Father Perry tells us for Holy Thursday. "We are called to be followers of Jesus Christ. And we're really called to be foot washers. Foot washing is our call, that we would love one another and service one another in the style of Jesus. All of this stuff is supposed to spiritually activate us, spiritually touch us in a way that makes us long for Jesus, and long to be like Jesus, and long to follow Jesus."

Holy Thursday of the Lord's Supper: "Love, service one another in the style of Jesus"

By Father Perry D. Leiker, pastor

"Tonight, that's why this is the mother of all celebrations — we tell the great stories," Father Perry tells us for our celebration of Holy Saturday Easter Vigil. "We celebrate baptism, confirmation, and Eucharist. We reaffirm our deepest, deepest belief in the resurrection of Jesus Christ and our future resurrection into eternal life. It just doesn't get any better. That's why we're here tonight."

Holy Saturday At the Easter Vigil in the Holy Night of Easter

Holy Saturday Easter Vigil: "The reason we're here tonight"

Holy Saturday

By Father Perry D. Leiker, pastor

"So he dies, and we believe that he has been raised up. And we will hear story after story, in the weeks ahead up until Pentecost, of many stories of his appearances," Father Perry tells us for the 21st episode of our Sunday Homilies podcast. "We can't say we've been there. But we believe. This is the center of our faith."

Sunday Homilies podcast Episode 21: "You will be yeast"

Por Padre Perry D. Leiker, párroco

"Nosotros somos levadura espiritual por el mundo. Por lo más que podemos conocer Cristo, amar Cristo, oír su palabra en nuestros corazones y vidas, somos levadura que podemos cambiar el mundo," nos dice Padre Perry para nuestro vigésimo primer episodio de nuestro podcast de homilías dominicales. "Cuando estamos haciendo cosas sin sabiduría, podemos hablar como locos. La gente busca. Pero cuando hablamos con sabiduría, la gente escucha. La sabiduría penetra y da significado a la vida. Cada día, cada uno de nosotros debemos de pedir por esa sabiduría. Lo más que podemos vivir como eso, lo más divino; es como una levadura que puede transformarnos."

Podcast de homilías dominicales Episodio 21: "Una cuestión de fe"

By Father Perry D. Leiker, pastor

"On the first day after Easter, and all of this erupts in our face. We are going to now unwrap for 50 days the powerful presence of the Spirit, and the powerful presence of Christ Jesus rising from the dead, and all that it would mean to his people," Father Perry tells us for our celebration of Monday in the Octave of Easter. "We should be ready to relish to in the glorious scriptures."

Monday in the Octave of Easter (based on weekday readings Year I)

Monday in the Octave of Easter: "Give testimony to the resurrection of Jesus Christ"

Octave of Easter

By Father Perry D. Leiker, pastor

"Baptism and confirmation are only received once; you can't receive them twice. But communion you can receive it every day — even more than once in a day," Father Perry tells us for the 22nd episode of our Sunday Homilies podcast. "And so this moment is a very lifegiving moment. We talk about God's love is everlasting? Here it is. We experience in Eucharist as he feeds us, loves us, and on this feast day, gives us mercy. That is, forever. We can follow the example of Thomas. We can question, we can doubt, and we can be led to greater faith."

Sunday Homilies podcast Episode 22: "Led to greater faith"

Por Padre Perry D. Leiker, párroco

"La historia está explicando algo más importante. ¿Cómo podemos creer en cosas que no podemos explicar? O provar. Tenemos que probar todas las cosas?" nos pregunta Padre Perry para nuestro vigésimo primer episodio de nuestro podcast de homilías dominicales. "Posiblemente podemos decir con toda fe, si yo recibo a Cristo en la Eucharistia, ese pan de vida, yo recibo su amor, su misericordia, su paz, su Espíritu. Y él va a caminar siempre conmigo."

Podcast de homilías dominicales Episodio 22: "Entender lo que no se entiende"

By Father Perry D. Leiker, pastor

"I think the bishops got it right when they said, the gift of the Spirit isn't fear; it's reverence and awe for God's greatness," Father Perry tells us for our celebration of Divine Mercy Sunday. "I hear in these scriptures a real call to believe what Jesus says. How blessed you are, all of us, because we believe without even having seen. I hear on this feast of Divine Mercy, that God is pouring his mercy out everlastingly. That love of God touches us so deeply that we become more and more like God ourselves."

Divine Mercy Sunday (based on Sunday readings of Cycle C)

Divine Mercy Sunday (Third Week of Easter): "To be a Good Friday people"

Divine Mercy

By Father Perry D. Leiker, pastor

"Jesus invites us — do you love me? And we are able to say — yes, Lord, you know I love you. But Jesus said that ain't enough — it's not just about loving me, it's about loving me in action. Words are words, and they're important, but actions are much more important," Father Perry tells us for the 23rd episode of our Sunday Homilies podcast. "And when we love Jesus and our neighbor, and even people that we don't particularly like because they are not very nice to us, we don't have to hate; we can still love in spite of the way that people treat us. And if we get that message, I assure you every time we receive the Christ in Eucharist, we will truly, truly be fed."

Sunday Homilies podcast Episode 23: "Around a charcoal fire in the morning"

Por Padre Perry D. Leiker, párroco

"Todos son ovejas de Jesucristo — los buenos y los malos. Y dijo en otra parte de la Biblia, Dios y Jesus, el Espíritu, ellos dan gracia a los buenos y malos. Amor por los buenos y malos," nos dice Padre Perry para nuestro vigésimo tercer episodio de nuestro podcast de homilías dominicales. "Y después diciendo, en efecto todo eso, le dijo a san Pedro — sígueme. Yo creo que esto es pascua."

Podcast de homilías dominicales Episodio 23: "Una imitación divina"

By Monsignor H. Gerald McSorley

Like the ad limina visits that some of our bishops are participating in this week, we are called to make an ad limina visit of our own; that is, to the empty tomb of Jesus, Monsignor McSorley tells us in his homily for the Third Sunday of Easter. "The question we should ask ourselves is, how real is Jesus for me? Is he some kind of ghostly figure out there, outside of my life? Is he present in my life? Do I believe in his presence with me? Do I sense his presence in all my daily activities? Is he truly alive for me at this time?"

Third Sunday of Easter Homily for 9:30 a.m. Mass on Sunday, April 22, 2012

By Father Perry D. Leiker, pastor

"We, too, are baptized. We're baptized in the baptism of Jesus, which is not just with water and the forgiveness of sins ... but it's fire and the Spirit." Father Perry D. Leiker, pastor, tells us for the seventh episode of our Sunday Homilies podcast, on the Baptism of the Lord. "This baptism is supposed to transform us, make us different. It's supposed to give us a new identity. We're identified in baptism as sons and daughters of God. If we believe it with out heart, it's got to be transforming."

Sunday Homilies podcast (Based on the readings of Sunday Cycle Year C)

Sunday Homilies podcast Episode 7: "We're identified in baptism as sons, daughters of God"

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