The second Sunday of the Trinity is dedicated to the very instructive parable of the prodigal son (Luke 15:13-32). The parable tells of a rich young man who wastefully squandered his wealth in a far country and ended up tending pigs. Then he repented and returned to his father, who received him with infinite love and affection.
The evangelist Luke saved us this parable as follows: “He said, a man had two sons.
And the younger said to their father: father, show me the imperative part of the essence. and give them life. And after not many days, the younger son, having gathered all together, departed to a country far away, and there he scattered the essence of his life in vain. But when he had spent all this, there was a severe famine in that country, and he began to fall behind.
And as they went, one of the citizens of that country was seized, and they sent him to his fields to graze swine. And he wished to fill his belly with the horns of the pigs, and they gave him none. And he came to himself and said: how many of my father’s hired servants have surplus bread, but I am suffering from famine! when you rise, I will go to my father and I will love him; father, I will sin to heaven and before you. For I am worthy to be called your son; make me one of your servants. And having risen, he came to his father. but when he was a long way off, his father saw him and was moved, and a dragon fell on his neck and kissed him.
And the son said to him: Father, I have sinned against heaven and before you, and I am not worthy to be called your son. And the father said to his servants: take out the first garment and put it on him, and put a ring on his hand and shoes on his feet, and having slaughtered the calf you sacrificed, and when we ate we rejoiced, for this my son was dead. And he came to life, and was lost and was found. and there was joy.
And his son, the elder, was in the field; and as he came near the house, he heard an accord and dances, and one of the children being invited asked what these things were. And he said to him that your brother is coming and your father sacrificed the fattened calf, because they took him away after healing him. But he was angry and did not want to enter. Then his father came out and begged him. And he answered and said to his father: behold, I have served you for so many years, and not a single command has come to you, and I have never given you a gift, so that I may rejoice with my friends. calf the fed. And he said to him: son, you are always with me, and all that I have is yours; and he rejoices and rejoices when he sees that this brother of yours was dead and has come back to life, and he was lost and was found. (Luke 15, 11 – 32)
Attribution: “There was a father who had two sons. The latter, at some point, demanded his share of the inheritance and fled to distant lands, where he squandered his fortune in debauchery. The money once ran out and there was a great famine in the region. He was forced to become a swineherd and try to feed himself on the stinking and vile food of the pigs. In his turmoil he remembered the aristocratic life in his father’s house. He remembered that even his father’s slaves lived incomparably better lives than his. Then he made the great decision to return home and ask his father to forgive him and hire him as his slave. But his loving father accepted him as his son and treated him properly, despite the protests of his eldest son, because “he was dead and came to life, and indeed he was found”.
The parable is inexhaustible in meanings, since, as it is said, the entire work of the Divine Economy is found within it. The deeper meaning of the parable is fourfold:
a. The hopeless condition to which the sinner reaches.
b. The necessity of repentance and its saving effects.
c. The magnitude of divine Mercy on which even the most sinful can rely, so that they never reach despair. No sin, however great it may be thought, can overcome the benevolent opinion of God and
d. The avoidance of the feeling of self-sufficiency of the justified, as the eldest son considered himself.
So if we feel our true spiritual condition and honestly confess our mistakes and the waste of the talents that God has given us, we will understand that this Sunday we are all celebrating and we are all, in a way, prodigal sons, removed from ” House of our Heavenly Father”.
Source: ekklisiaonline.gr
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