Meditation on the Twenty-fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time (C)

This week features the parable of The Prodigal Son.  We know that wonderful story of mercy; but concentrate, instead, on the disgruntled older son in this painting.  It's not difficult to place ourselves in his shoes.  This older son has worked hard for his father and has done all that his father required of him.  He feels his father is treating him unfairly.

"... when your son returns, who has swallowed up your property with prostitutes, for him you slaughter the fattened calf," complained the older son.

The father said: "My son, you are here with me always; everything I have is yours."

"Everything I have is yours" - our Heavenly Father reminds us... We need to remember that too.

Luke 15:1-32




Image Source:   "The Return of the Prodigal Son" ~ unknown artist, Museum of Biblical Art, New York.