The prodigal son

Sunday, September 15, 2019 24th Sunday in
Ordinary Time First Reading: Ex 32:7-11, 13-14 Second Reading: 1 Tim 1:12-17 Gospel Reading: Lk 15:1-32
Jesus told them this parable: “There was a man with two sons. The younger said to his father: ‘Give me my share of the estate.’ So the father divided his property between them. Some days later, the younger son started off for a distant land where he squandered his wealth in loose living. He had spent everything when a severe famine broke out in that land. So he hired himself out to a well-to-do citizen of that place and was sent to work on a pig farm. So famished was he that he longed to fill his stomach even with the food given to the pigs. “Finally coming to his senses, he said: ‘How many of my father’s hired workers have food to spare, and here I am starving to death! (…) With that thought in mind he set off for his father’s house. He was still a long way off when his father caught sight of him. His father was so deeply moved with compassion that he ran out to meet him, threw his arms around his neck and kissed him. The son said: ‘Father, I have sinned against Heaven and before you. I no longer deserve to be called your son. Treat me as one of your hired servants’ “But the father turned to his servants: ‘Quick! Bring out the finest robe and put it on him. Put a ring on his finger and sandals on his feet. Take the fattened calf and kill it. We shall celebrate and have a feast, for this son of mine was dead and has come back to life. He was lost and is found.’ And the celebration began.” Meanwhile, the elder son returned from the fields and heard the sound of music and dancing. He called one of the servants and asked what it was all about. The servant answered: ‘Your brother has come home safe and sound, and your father is so happy about it that he has ordered this celebration and killed the fattened calf.’ “The elder son became angry and refused to go in. His father came out and pleaded with him. The indignant son said: ‘Look, I have slaved for you all these years. Never have I disobeyed your orders. Yet you have never given me even a young goat to celebrate with my friends. Then when this son of yours returns after squandering your property with loose women, you kill the fattened calf for him.’ “The father said: ‘My son, you are always with me, and everything I have is yours. But this brother of yours was dead, and has come back to life. He was lost and is found. And for that we had to rejoice and be glad.’”
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(Daily Gospel in the Assimilated Life  Experience)
God is happy to forgive sinners. How hypocrite of sinners to condemn their own kind. –(Atty.) Rev. Fr. Dan Domingo P. delos Angeles, Jr., D.M.