THE GOSPEL IN THE GOSPEL

Reference Luke 15:11-32
The homily shared from the Gospel was eye opening, so I share it with as much verbatim as I recall it

“If there was an Oscar’s for the best parable in the Gospel, that of the prodigal son will probably be an easy first contender. It is referred to as the Gospel in the Gospel. To start with, you do not need to leave the church to be far from God, you can be in the church and still be miles away. The elder son did not allow himself to be embraced and cuddled by his father’s love. What good then was all his hard work in the field if it only increased the distance between him, his father and his brother?

One son demanded a share of the inheritance, the other demanded appreciation. One forgets his father, and the other does not see himself as a son. One does not know how to exercise freedom, and the other does not know how to appreciate closeness.

The real problem lies in our refusal to accept and respond to the father’s love. When we refuse to let God father us. The quality of our relationship with God is therefore the crux of this matter, not our behavior.

Our awareness of the ways we have used God’s gifts wastefully is not the end of the story, but our ability to remember that “in any situation of life, forever, I must not forget that I will never cease to be a child of God. Even in the worse of situations, God waits for me to brace me. God expects me” 

#Rev. Fr Boguslaw Kot