This second Sunday of Great Lent takes its lesson from the “Parable of the Prodigal Son”—arguably the most concise, profound, and beautiful of our Lord’s statements on the nature of God’s love. In a story of fewer than 600 words (related in Luke 15:11-32), Jesus depicts the follies of our fallen nature, the shame and self-loathing that lie at the heart of human vice, the tender love that can heal a fractured world, and the price such love exacts. And these grand ideas are all conveyed through characters one might find in an ordinary domestic comedy: “There once was a man who had two sons…”
Like all great works of storytelling, this parable invites the reader to approach it at different times in his or her life—as a child, an adult, a sibling, a parent—to experience it anew, and to discover new rewards, new wisdom, with each encounter.
This Sunday in church is the perfect opportunity to have that encounter, and perhaps to engage in the self-examination that is one hallmark of the Lenten season.
In the meantime, to read a reflection on the Prodigal Son, click here. http://www.armenianchurch-ed.net/wpblog/2016/02/a-father%E2%80%99s-love/
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