Por Padre Perry D. Leiker, párroco

"Este es él clímax de nuestra fe. Sí no entendemos eso, sí no entendemos y abrazamos la cruz, yo creo que no estamos entendiendo suficientemente nuestra fe," nos dice Padre Perry D. Leiker, párroco, para nuestra celebración del Viernes Santo de la Pasión del Señor. "Porque todo pasa aquí. Y no solamente porque Jesús murió en la cruz, sino como él murió. Y este es puro amor, puro sacrificio, pura obediencia a Dios."

By Father Perry D. Leiker, pastor

"He hands himself over. If we only look at this Passion today and think of 2,000 years ago and think what Jesus went through, I suppose on one level that's enough," Father Perry D. Leiker, pastor, tells us for our celebration of Good Friday of the Lord's Passion. "But how does it apply to us? What's it supposed to do to us or for us?"

By Father Perry D. Leiker, pastor

"Who do we want to be? Do we want to be like Judas. Do we want to be like the people who are beating up on the prophet Isaiah? Do we want to be people who pay back exactly what we got? Do we want to be forgivers?" Father Perry asks us for the 30th and final episode of our 2022 Lenten podcast. "Do we believe that even in our suffering and struggles — even in the rejections we go through — that God is enough and that he'll carry us through them?"

By Father Perry D. Leiker, pastor

"The cross is the most essential symbol of our faith; if we don't get the cross, I don't think we really get the resurrection," Father Perry tells us for the 29th episode of our Lenten podcast. "And the resurrection is a big thing to bite off and to believe in. It's huge. But I think we can come close to appreciating and welcoming the resurrection if we can really appreciate and welcome the cross in our life."

By Father Perry D. Leiker, pastor

"Get ready for the ride; we're gonna see and hear lots of things," Father Perry D. Leiker, pastor, tells us for the 28th episode of our Lenten podcast, for our celebration of Monday of Holy Week. "But let it be known that the first reading about the suffering servant from Isaiah is really the heart of today's liturgy. It foretells how in this broken, angry, ugly, vicious, murderous act against Jesus — when he is at his weakest point in his years of life — the most powerful messages of justice and love come out of his love and out of his actions."

Padre Parker Sandoval

"Cuando Jesús tiene que cargar él peso de la madera de la cruz, necesita ayuda," nos dice Padre Parker Sandoval, para nuestro vigésimo episodio de nuestro podcast de Homilías dominicales, para nuestra celebración del Domingo de Ramos de la pasión del Señor. "Simón de Cirene — un extrangero — tiene que ayudarlo. Es decir: Jesús es nuestro hermano en todo, menos en él pecado. Cada uno de nosotros necesita ayuda para cargar las cruces en nuestras vidas. Y él que nos ayuda es Jesús mismo."

By Father Perry D. Leiker, pastor

"We need to be able to relate to those women. ... We need to be able to relate to Peter, and to Judas, and to Herod, and the Pilate, and Jesus himself," Father Perry D. Leiker, pastor, tells us for the 20th episode of our Sunday Homilies podcast, for our celebration of Palm Sunday of the Lord's Passion. "Because the truth is, everyone of us has a little bit of every one of them in us at different times. And we have to come to this great mystery of the cross, and all the characters in this story, and realize that this represents us."

By Father Reynaldo B. Matunog

"If we really go into the spirit of what we celebrate this week, then we'll go back again to that message when the ashes were being imposed on each and everyone of us on Ash Wednesday — repent and believe in the Gospel," Father Reynaldo B. Matunog tells us for the fifth episode of our Divine Mercy podcast, for our celebration of Palm Sunday of the Lord's Passion. "Because that's the very reason why the Lord offered himself and died on the cross. "Our sinfulness, our need for redemption, our need for reconciliation with him; our need for conversion."

By Father Perry D. Leiker, pastor

"Jesus is not arrested against his will; he hands himself over," Father Perry D. Leiker, pastor, tells us for the 27th episode of our Lenten podcast. "And again by the time of this Gospel, we're beginning to see how the cross is really part of our life."

By Father Perry D. Leiker, pastor

"Coming to that cross, to that new promise: that in Christ we are raised to life eternal," Father Perry tells us for the 26th episode of our Lenten podcast. "But this inner spirit of life that we get from Christ never dies. And I believe it doesn't die for anybody; but for us explicitly, we celebrate it, proclaim it all the time. Because we know it as our truth, our truth that Jesus himself proclaimed to us."