24 th Sunday in Ordinary Time C-12 September 2010
Vatican Radio - Christian Horizons
Biblical Commentary by Don Fabio Rosini
Luke 15: 1-31 Parables of Mercy
the three parables of mercy
1 approached him all the publicans and sinners to hear him. 2 The Pharisees and scribes murmured, saying, "This man welcomes sinners and eats with them." 3 Then he told them this parable:
The lost sheep
4 "Which of you has a hundred sheep and loses one, does not leave the ninety and nine in the wilderness and go after the lost one until he finds it? 5 Ritrovatala, puts it on his shoulders, rejoicing, 6 go home, call together his friends and neighbors, saying: Rejoice with me, because I found my lost sheep. 7 So, I tell you, there is more rejoicing in heaven over one sinner who repents than over ninety-nine righteous persons who need no conversion.
The lost coin
8 Or what woman, if she has ten silver coins and loses one, light a lamp and sweep the house and search thoroughly till she found it? 9 And after finding it, call her friends and neighbors, saying: Rejoice with me, because I found the coin I lost. 10 So, I tell you, there is joy before the angels of God over one sinner who repents. "
The prodigal son and the faithful son, "the prodigal son"
11 he said: "A man had two sons. 12 The younger one said to his father, Father, give me the share of property that falls to me. So he divided his property between them. 13 few days later, the younger son gathered his belongings and set off for a distant country where he squandered his life of debauchery. 14 when he had spent everything, a severe famine struck that country, and he began to feel the pinch. 15 So he went and joined himself to a citizen of that country, who sent him into his fields to feed swine. 16 would gladly have fed with the pods that the pigs were eating, but no one gave him anything. 17 he came to himself, 'How many hired servants of my father's have bread enough and I perish here with hunger! 18 I will arise and go to my father and say: Father I have sinned against heaven and against you; 19 am no longer worthy to be called your son. Treat me like one of your hired men. 20 he got up and went to his father.
When he was away his father saw him and compassion, and ran, and fell on his neck and kissed him. 21 The son said: Father, I have sinned against heaven and against you no longer deserve to be called your son. 22 But the father said to his servants, "Quick, bring out the best robe and put it on, Put the ring on his finger and sandals on his feet. 23 Bring the fattened calf and kill it; we are celebrating, 24 for this my son was dead and is alive, he was lost and is found. And they began to celebrate.
25 The eldest son was in the field. Come back when it was close to home, he heard music and dancing 26 called a servant and asked him what it was all about. 27 The servant answered: 'return your brother and your father has killed the fattened calf because he has him back safe and sound. 28 He became angry and refused to go. His father came out to beg. 29 But he answered his father: Behold, I served you for many years and I never disobeyed your command, and you will not ever have given me a kid to celebrate with my friends. 30 But now that this son of yours who has devoured your property with prostitutes, for him you slaughter the fattened calf. 31 The father said, 'Son, you are always with me and all that is mine is yours 32 but we must celebrate and rejoice, because your brother was dead and is alive again, was lost and is found. "
The long form of the Gospel also gives us the parable of the prodigal son. We had other opportunities to see the parable that we focus on these first two parables that the short form of this proclamation Sunday. All part of why Jesus told this parable. He welcomed sinners, he has welcomed tax collectors and Pharisees, the scribes murmured, saying, This man welcomes sinners and eats with them. That is not fair that he accept them, this reality of their sin. He is accepting that these are in fact till today they are sinners, tax collectors.
Here, then Jesus tells these three parables. The first two are exactly those of the drama and the lost. We have to accept a figure present in these first two parables, then in more detail, the third parable, that of the prodigal son, is a catechesis the reality of sin, says the scribes and Pharisees, what do you think is the sin? The sin is death. In fact, the other character will appear, the eldest son, who will be the one who does not understand the fact of a return, the fact of a recovery. In these first two parables, the emphasis is on those who are lost. On the lost sheep. On the lost drachma.
What is the attitude that characterizes this pastor? The shepherd leaves the ninety-nine in the wilderness and goes in search of the lost one until you find it. Because God is seeking us? For the same reason this shepherd seeks the sheep. Because he knows it's there. Why not say: I do not remember more if they were a hundred or ninety-nine. Why is this sheep. Why this woman sweeps thoroughly until finding the lost coin? The coin that is not. Because it is recalled that there were ten and not to be confused on this point. So the money is there. Because God is seeking us? For in us there is his son. Because God is insistent with us, because God is merciful? Because you see what is latent in us, in us is lost, what we lost ourselves. How many times have a look at a person and despises and does not see anything good. God looks at it in another way because he sees other possibilities. God can take a sinner a saint, God can draw from a violent person full of mercy, God can draw from a person who has made a big mistake, horrible, unspeakable, a person of a gentle, full of tenderness, wisdom, that maybe will help someone else. What seeks God in me? What I did not know was there. I had discarded. God has searched me, God seeks in us his son, the lost sheep. E 'in all of us. There in us a coin, a hidden value that God is looking for.
why Jesus welcomed tax collectors and sinners, because he knows that inside of them there is a potential. That a person who failed is a person who has made a mistake, not a wrong person. That a person who has also done unspeakable things of this world, perhaps because of it can take the momentum, having hit the bottom, to jump up in sublimity.
God knows us and sees us with eyes that we have not. We do not have these eyes. We do not look at others with God's eyes if a lost child. This son was brutalized by life. Become a monster meeting, but would see his son. However, would the lost son. What God sees in us? What do you see God in every man? Its image, print, buried under rubbish, lost in the steep parts, I do not know that regions. What matters is who you are. Who are ninety-nine is not enough for God God God it takes one hundred. For this woman not enough nine times. It takes all ten. This is the zeal of God This is the zeal of God's spirit will not lose someone so "Okay, but what we can lose, what we can do without." It is never true. You can not treat anyone well. No one can ever be declared permanently lost. Why look for this woman. Search for he knows it's there. For God so loved us? Why did the Lord Jesus Christ died on the cross for us? Because we knew that there was something that matched and even in the most dramatic issued mercy towards us because of our potential law according to his wisdom and not according to our survey. We many times have we resigned ourselves. We have lost data, we are resigned to a breach in a meanness ugliness because we said: "So much in me there is beauty. I do not see the beauty. " is hidden but there. Every man you can always convert every person can be found. And there is joy over one sinner who converts. There is joy in heaven for a child of God if you had fifteen children and one died says: "Okay so there I have fourteen!". No. That means that his whole life stops there in mourning this tragic. God has overall ratios. To him we are always essential. We are looking for the sheep. We are looking for with this word, even with the liturgy of this Sunday. Let's find by God Of course, if a sheep bleating, the pastor is the first. Let's get to bleat. Let's ask for help. Let us believe that the pastor is looking for.
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