VERSE 6: LOST:

lost son and a lost elder

brother
 VERSE 15, 16
TO FEED SWINE (PIGS)

THE YOUNGER
BROTHER/SON
HAS SUNK TO
THE DEPTHS OF
ENGAGING IN
GENTILE WAYS.
 VERSE 17- 19
COMING TO HIS
SENSES/ NANG
KANYANG MABATID ANG
KANYANG
PAGKAKAMALI. HE
THOUGHT; HOW MANY
OF MY FATHERS HIRED
WORKERS HAVE MORE
THAN ENOUGH FOOD
TO EAT, BUT HERE AM I,
 VERSE 17- 19
DYING FROM
HUNGER. 18 I SHALL
GET UP AND GO TO
MY FATHER AND I
SHALL SAY TO HIM,
FATHER, I HAVE
SINNED AGAINST
HEAVEN AND
AGAINST YOU,
 VERSE 17- 19
19 I NO LONGER
DESERVE TO BE
CALLED YOUR
SON; TREAT ME
AS YOU WOULD
TREAT ONE OF
YOUR HIRED
WORKERS.
 ALL THESE ARE
STIRRINGS WITHIN
THE PERSON OF A
REPENTANT SON.
VERSE 20 RAN:
THIS IS AN
UNDIGNIFIED
BEHAVIOR FOR AN
ELDERLY ORIENTAL
GENTLEMAN
GOD, EVEN IF HE
WOULD LOOK FOOLISH
IN SEEKING US OUT, HE
WOULD NOT CARE, AS
LONG AS HE CAN SAVE
US.
17 VERSE 22- 23,
THE FATHERS
FORGIVENESS OF
HIS SON WHO
HAS BECOME
GENTILE IS ACTED
OUT.
VERSES 25- 32:
THIS IS OFTEN
IGNORED BUT AN
INTEGRAL PART OF
THE TWO- SON
PARABLE AND
ADDRESS THE ISSUE
OF SELF-
RIGHTEOUSNESS.
VERSES 25- 32:
IN OUR EFFORT TO
BECOME RIGHTEOUS
(MATUWID)
IRONICALLY,
WE BECOME
SELF-RIGHTEOUS
(TINGIN SA SARILI AY
MATUWID PERO
HINDI).
LESSON:
 THE CHALLENGE OF THIS
PARABLE IS ENHANCED BY
ITS OPEN ENDING; WILL
RIGHTEOUS PEOPLE ENTER
THE BANQUET HALL TO
MAKE MERRY WITH SINNERS
AND THE GOD WHO
DELIGHTS IN THEIR
COMPANY?
REMEMBER: THE SINNER
WHO IS SORRY FOR HIS
SINS, IS CLOSER TO GOD
THAN THE JUST MAN
WHO BOASTS OF HIS
GOOD WORKS.
ST. PADRE PIO