By Father Perry D. Leiker, pastor

"All of this is beginning this week: the most holy week of the year," Father Perry tells us for the 20th episode of our Sunday Homilies podcast. "And this Passion of Christ is welcoming us into this story, so that the power of the hatred and death and love, and the power of entombment and resurrection, and ascension and feasting all the way until Pentecost, and the birth of the church, is extraordinary. It's a central mystery of our faith."