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Tag Archives: Father Perry D. Leiker

The fulfillment of the law calls us to love, reconcile, heal, peacefully coexist with our neighbor

Posted on February 12, 2023February 11, 2023

Jesus sees the law as “calling us to be holy as God is holy.”

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We have an AH HA! moment, we are forever changed

Posted on February 11, 2023February 11, 2023

We can learn. We can be transformed. We can change. We can become more.

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Jesus comes with a sacred touch to free us from our impediments, sins, shame, struggles

Posted on February 10, 2023February 10, 2023

By Father Perry D. Leiker, pastor A reflection on the daily readings, for the Memorial of St. Scholastica, virgin, by Father Perry. + To be innocent is to be blameless, lacking guilt, uncorrupted, sinless, pure. The second story of creation […]

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Adam and Eve in the eden.

Pinocchio shows us that truth can come to us in many ways

Posted on February 9, 2023February 9, 2023

Again and again we receive stories and examples that are more than just a story. They are a call to us to discover the same truth in and for us.

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Indeed, heart and soul makes us clean

Posted on February 8, 2023February 9, 2023

Stuck in the head and stuck in feelings, the negative can sink deep into the heart and soul and can truly defile.

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The word of God offers a biblical mirror for us to look into

Posted on February 7, 2023February 9, 2023

Once again, the word of God offers a biblical mirror for us to look into to see and hear what, and how and when, we live that harmony and balance, or sink into dissonance and disarray.

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We discover the power, grace of God in our own lives, actions

Posted on February 5, 2023February 9, 2023

Becoming light and salt is a dual thing. We do it because it seasons and brightens the lives of others. But we also do it because in the becoming of light and salt, our own lives are changed.

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Good advice makes life better, often bits easier

Posted on February 4, 2023February 9, 2023

But faith has to go deeper.

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The Lord is light, salvation — it must remain so for us in order to live an optimal Christian life

Posted on February 3, 2023February 7, 2023

That is so, and it must be so, and it also must remain so.

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This week, we celebrate the Feast of the Presentation of the Lord.

Has the cross done what it was prophetically promised to do?

Posted on February 2, 2023February 7, 2023

Has it, indeed, turned hearts back to our fathers and our fathers to us; back to our mothers and our mothers to us. Back to our brothers and our sisters, and even back to ourselves? One wonders.

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