Saturday, February 3, 2018

Sunday of the Prodigal Son

& General Sharing for the Sunday of the Prodigal Son: The Father's Philanthropy: -I will return to my Father!

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Dan Everiss

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Fri, Feb 2, 2018 at 1:08 PM


The Divine Economy: The Plan of Salvation: Bringing back to our All-Loving Creator, Our Fallen Creation, starting with each one of us. 


About the composition and meaning of this icon, which is a faithful modern copy of ancient icons:
To the left is the prodigal son, despondent among the swine, whilst to the right he has returned to his father, shown unmistakably as Jesus Christ.
Above them is an empty [Byzantine styled, cushion-throne], surrounded by angels; a heavenly throne, It is empty.... because  Jesus Christ our God, the Second Person of the Most Holy Trinity,  descended from His throne in Heaven,  and became man, so that while  we, as.... repentant sinners...... were "still a great way off," He could rush out to meet us. Knowing those of us who have come to our senses and have risen up, through repentance, ....Jesus Christ.... runs the greater distance..... to embrace us, cloth  us, feed us, and to bring us into the Father's  house.
When I disobeyed in ignorance Your fatherly glory,
I wasted in iniquities the riches that You gave me.
Therefore, I cry to You with the voice of the prodigal son:
“I have sinned before You, O compassionate Father, receive me repentant,
And make me as one of Your hired servants”.

(Kontakion for the Sunday of the Prodigal Son)

 





The Parable of the Lost Son

11 Then He said: “A certain man had two sons. 12 And the younger of them said to his father, ‘Father, give me the portion of goods that falls to me.’ So he divided to them his livelihood. 13 And not many days after, the younger son gathered all together, journeyed to a far country, and there wasted his possessions with prodigal living. 14 But when he had spent all, there arose a severe famine in that land, and he began to be in want. 15 Then he went and joined himself to a citizen of that country, and he sent him into his fields to feed swine. 16 And he would gladly have filled his stomach with the pods that the swine ate, and no one gave him anything.
17 “But when he came to himself, he said, ‘How many of my father’s hired servants have bread enough and to spare, and I perish with hunger! 18 I will arise and go to my father, and will say to him, “Father, I have sinned against heaven and before you, 19 and I am no longer worthy to be called your son. Make me like one of your hired servants.”’
20 “And he arose and came to his father. But when he was still a great way off, his father saw him and had compassion, and ran and fell on his neck and kissed him. 21 And the son said to him, ‘Father, I have sinned against heaven and in your sight, and am no longer worthy to be called your son.’
22 “But the father said to his servants, ‘Bring[b] out the best robe and put it on him, and put a ring on his hand and sandals on his feet. 23 And bring the fatted calf here and kill it, and let us eat and be merry; 24 for this my son was dead and is alive again; he was lost and is found.’ And they began to be merry.
25 “Now his older son was in the field. And as he came and drew near to the house, he heard music and dancing. 26 So he called one of the servants and asked what these things meant. 27 And he said to him, ‘Your brother has come, and because he has received him safe and sound, your father has killed the fatted calf.’
28 “But he was angry and would not go in. Therefore his father came out and pleaded with him. 29 So he answered and said to his father, ‘Lo, these many years I have been serving you; I never transgressed your commandment at any time; and yet you never gave me a young goat, that I might make merry with my friends. 30 But as soon as this son of yours came, who has devoured your livelihood with harlots, you killed the fatted calf for him.’
31 “And he said to him, ‘Son, you are always with me, and all that I have is yours. 32 It was right that we should make merry and be glad, for your brother was dead and is alive again, and he was lost,  and now is found".

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