Prodigal Son and I
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 th...