By Father Perry D. Leiker, pastor

"If we just look up at that cross and just look up at that love, and just begin to get it," Father Perry tells us for the 25th episode of our Lenten podcast. "That even hated you don't have to hate back. That's salvation, that's making the human divine. And this is the gift that is given to us at Holy Week."

By Father Perry D. Leiker, pastor

"It is the most sacred hour of our church year, every year," Father Perry tells us for the 24th episode of our Lenten podcast. "Because it just absolutely labels who we are supposed to be and how we are supposed to follow this Jesus the Christ."

By Father Perry D. Leiker, pastor

"We are supposed to be drawn to the cross. We're supposed to embrace that cross and know it from the inside-out," Father Perry tells us for the 19th episode of our Sunday Homilies podcast, for our celebration of the Fifth Sunday of Lent. "As we come to this climax of our Lent in Holy Week, are we ready to accept this cross, to understand this cross, to let its power in us to transform us?"

Por Padre Perry D. Leiker, párroco

"Vamos a encontrar aquí en la cruz misericordia. Aquí en la cruz, perdón. Aquí en la cruz, amor," nos dice Padre Perry D. Leiker, párroco, para nuestro décimo noveno episodio de nuestro podcast de Homilías dominicales, para nuestra celebración del V Domingo de Cuaresma. "Sí podemos encontrar Cristo y su palabra, posiblemente como la mujer pecadora, nosotros pecadores podemos estar cambiados con él amor, perdón, y misericordia de nuestro Señor."

By Father Perry D. Leiker, pastor

"What we think and what God thinks is when we are most humanly and divinely one," Father Perry tells us for the 22nd episode of our Lenten podcast. "When we look at the cross and we see what Jesus did and say, ah ha! Even loving your enemies; that's what it's about. It doesn't mean we can do it perfectly or do it all the time."

By Father Perry D. Leiker, pastor

"How else can you explain the cross if it isn't a divine moment where Jesus and the Father are so connected, that he could love while being tortured to death. It makes no sense! Unless it's a divine moment," Father Perry D. Leiker, pastor, tells us for the 23rd episode of our Lenten podcast. "And truly, God's love has filled him in the depths of his pain and suffering. The more that we understand that cross — as best we can — and the more that we can find ourselves united with that, we will discover depths of love in ourselves that are incredible."

By Father Perry D. Leiker, pastor

"As we come close to the Holy Week and we end up at that cross, it's anything but peaceful," Father Perry tells us for the 21st episode of our Lenten podcast. "And yet, in that scene, Jesus is able to transform total ugliness and hate and total suffering into a moment of forgiveness and love; it's extraordinary, it's just grace-filled."

By Father Perry D. Leiker, pastor

"When we get to the cross — and get to lots of them in our lives — the question is, do we become bitter or better? And that's what the cross does — it challenges us," Father Perry tells us for the 20th episode of our Lenten podcast. "Can we love in the face of the cross? Can we? Can we forgive in the face of the cross?"

By Father Perry D. Leiker, pastor

"Would that it would be that easy that we would see the works of God in our lives and believe," Father Perry tells us for the 19th episode of our Lenten podcast. "And I suppose we all do, but to go deeper, down in profound depths of love and faith and hope and trust, we need to open wide our eyes and listen carefully. But most of all, read the signs of the times with our hearts, because I think it's in the heart where faith and trust and love and all of it comes together."

Por Padre Perry D. Leiker, párroco

"Yo creo que está palabra nos invita a considerar la necesidad por reconciliación en nuestras vidas," nos dice Padre Perry D. Leiker, párroco, para él décimo octavo episodio de nuestro podcast de homilías dominicales, para nuestra celebración del IV Domingo de Cuaresma. "Sí estamos buscando por eso en nuestras vidas — reconciliación con Dios, con uno al otro, y con nosotros mismos — es probablemente que vamos a recibir las promesas de este día, la reconciliación que nos va dar vida, más vida."