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Prodigal Son and I

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                       Today let us reflect on the parable of Prodigal son and his loving father. The parable of the Prodigal son told by Jesus comes after the parable of the Lost Sheep and the parable of the lost coin. The youngest son comes to the father and asks his inheritance. There was no tradition among the Jews that children demand their share of property when father is alive; but the younger one does. For him his father was dead in his mind, because he fails to understand the care and warmth of his father’s love towards him. So, temporal things became more attractive factors for him than the affection of his father. Secondly, we see in the parable of the lost sheep, the shepherd seeks after the lost sheep; in the parable of the Lost coin, the woman seeks after the lost one. On the contrary here the father does not go in search of the younger son; but the loving father patiently waits for the return of the prodigal son. Why? It is the peculiarity of the loving

Role of Jesus’ Mother in Cana (John 2:1-12)

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Mother of Jesus first appears in the Forth Gospel in Cana. And only through her intersession Jesus perform the first sign there. We see the mother of Jesus introduces her son to the world at the beginning of his public ministry. What does it mean? Jesus says that his hour has not yet come. John 2:4. But still his mother tells to the servants to do whatever Jesus tells to them. It means only Mary the mother of Jesus knew who really Jesus is. Mary had the pre-knowledge about her son. As we go through this passage we see that both mother and Jesus speak different things or we can see that their conversation is not in a logical manner. At the beginning of the conversation Mary says to Jesus “Son they do not have wine” John 2:3. Then the reply of Jesus is “ What to me and to you, woman? My hour is not yet come ” John 2:4. Jesus is not answering to the conversation of mother Mary in a logical way; rather he is speaking about something else. As we go further, Mary leaves the conversatio