By Father Perry D. Leiker, pastor

"We either listen to the word and accept it and believe it, or we don't," Father Perry D. Leiker, pastor, for the fifth episode of our Lenten podcast, for our celebration of Tuesday After Ash Wednesday. "And if we don't, that hardens our heart. But I think Jesus the great teacher put it in that language to make the point stronger: that we just need to learn how to forgive."

Por Padre Perry D. Leiker, párroco

"Tenemos que transformar y cambiar nuestras vidas. Está es la invitación y él poder del tiempo de Cuaresma," nos dice Padre Perry D. Leiker, párroco, para él décimo quinto episodio de nuestro podcast de homilías dominicales, para nuestra celebración del I Domingo de Cuaresma. "Sí estamos transformados, Cuaresma tiene poder."

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."

By Father Perry D. Leiker, pastor

"So we have to look with open eyes at the world. What's going on?" Father Perry asks us for the third episode of our Lenten podcast. "Look at our own actions and how we sometimes live — all of us — certainly imperfectly, and often with sin. And not that this Lent will make us perfect. But that we're willing to walk the road. Willing to see the way that God is calling us and doing something, doing whatever we can to follow the Lord and his ways."

By Father Perry D. Leiker, pastor

"The word would have us believe it is just a matter of following laws, albeit God's law," Father Perry tells us for the second episode of our Lenten podcast. "On one level, that might be so. But I think it might be a bit deeper than that and a little more mysterious and mystical and filled with paradox. At a very deep level, and in a very mystical way, we have to give our lives away. We gave to 'hate our lives' and be willing to put the life of another before our own."

By Father Perry D. Leiker, pastor

"What do you want to find on this journey of Lent?" Father Perry D. Leiker, pastor, asks us for the first episode of our Lenten podcast, for our celebration of Ash Wednesday and the beginning of Lent. "Christ wants to use you to bring his good news into the world. I want to be Christ's ambassador, and I am going to be a faithful one. Explore that. What does it mean to be an ambassador for Christ."

By Bishop Alexander D. Aclan

"As we enter the season of Lent, when our church, our religious tradition encourages us greatly to examine ourselves," Bishop Alexander D. Aclan tells us for the 14th episode of our Sunday homilies podcast, for our celebration of the Eighth Sunday in Ordinary Time. "Really look deep into ourselves and see in what ways we still need to improve so our relationship with our God would be better — even better than the way it was before."

Por Monseñor Alexander D. Aclan

"Tenemos que reflejar y pensar en lo que estamos haciendo en nuestras vidas, especialmente las ocasiones en que hemos hecho cosas no son de acuerdo con la voluntad de Dios o directamente contra los Diez Mandamientos," nos dice él Monseñor Alexander D. Aclan para él décimo cuarto episodio de nuestro podcast de homilías dominicales, para nuestra celebración del VIII Domingo Ordinario. "Es muy importante que nosotros por regular examinemos nuestra conciencia."

Por Padre Perry D. Leiker, párroco

"La cosa importante es estar planteado en corazón y mente," nos dice Padre Perry D. Leiker, párroco, para él décimo tercer episodio de nuestro podcast de homilías dominicales, para nuestra celebración del VII Domingo Ordinario. "Yo quiero amar. Yo quiero este ágape dentro de mi. Estamos amando no porque vamos a recibir algo, sino porque queremos tener él fruto de está ágape en nuestros corazones."

By Father Parker Sandoval

"Jesus instructs us to love our enemies," Father Parker Sandoval of Incarnation Catholic Church in Glendale tells us for the 13th episode of our Sunday Homilies podcast, for our celebration of the Seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time. "On the cross, Jesus offers his life as a sacrifice for them and for all: for his executioners, his enemies, and his friends. For you and me. Jesus is summoning us to show the world our culture today an alternative way to live. And Jesus shows us the way."