With Christ as food for our spirit, we can face anything. With Christ as food for our spirit, we can unite together and bring healing, peace, and new life to a hungry and often broken world.
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Perhaps there is a little bit of the ‘doubter’ in each of us?
Perhaps there is a little bit of the “doubter” in each of us? Perhaps we need to be shown and convinced of our importance in God’s plan?
Continue readingThe experience in the empty tomb is an incredible response of faith
The Easter testimony of the scripture reveals an incredible experience in the empty tomb, an equally incredible response of faith, and hints at the road ahead. The disciples “saw and believed” then spent the rest of their lives growing in their understanding and preaching what they believed. This is the same journey we are invited to make as today’s disciples of Jesus, our risen Lord!
Continue readingHypocrites, wimps, and traitors? Maybe. But another lesson provides hope
On Palm Sunday, they probably think that salvation has already arrived and that every day is going to be as joyful as this one. I think that LGBTQ people know the Palm Sunday dynamic very well through their coming out experiences.
Continue readingThis Holy Week that is upon us is our week
This Holy Week that is upon us is our week. We must pause, absorb, hear, feel, receive, unlock, discover, and understand what has been given to us, what has happened to us.
Continue readingJesus offers us a ‘life’ that is beyond the physical
This “life” Jesus offers may be hard to define, but we clearly know when it is there and when it isn’t. Jesus promises Martha — and us — that whoever “lives and believes in me will never die.”
Continue readingUna carta de Padre Perry D. Leiker, párroco, a los feligreses
Mis queridos feligreses, La semana pasada, la Arquidiócesis de Los Ángeles anunció la suspensión de todas las Misas debido a la actual amenaza para la salud COVID-19 (coronavirus). “Lamento profundamente que nos veamos obligados a suspender temporalmente la celebración pública […]
Continue readingYour ‘Yes’ to Jesus is ‘Yes’ to seeing
That “yes,” however, means that we believe in his teachings, his example, his way of life, his values, his surrendering to God, his unequivocal “yes” to loving always, his preference for the poor and marginalized, his refusal to be blind followers of the law.
Continue readingA letter from Father Perry D. Leiker, pastor, to parishioners
As pastor, I want to communicate these directives from Archbishop Gomez and share my own concerns with you as we deal with difficult decisions and face the future together as the St. Bernard community.
Continue readingJesus knows everything about your life — and still loves you
When we begin to recognize God’s love for us — that accepts us as we are with all of the good and bad choices we have made — then we begin to know the Samaritan woman’s experience.
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