Sunday Of The Prodigal Son - ASimpleSinner’s Big Feast

Today in the Byzantine Catholic Churches (that aren’t using the Julian calendar!) is the Sunday of the Prodigal Son. I treat this rather like a feast day - I very much am that prodigal son.
Most sermons I hear focus on the “leading man” - the Prodigal Son… And that is certainly not a bad thing. But realize that at times we will be called to be the welcoming father, at other times we should be prepared to be the admonished jealous son.

If you are away from home, go home!
If you are home, know how blessed you are!
If you see someone coming home, run out to greet them and be generous!

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3 Responses to “Sunday Of The Prodigal Son - ASimpleSinner’s Big Feast”

  1. rengal Says:
    January 21, 2008 at 9:06 pm

    Nicely stated — I was thinking about that yesterday at Liturgy, too.

  2. Ebeth Says:
    January 22, 2008 at 2:22 am

    Perspective, it’s very different in each side of the fence. No matter which role, they have their trials.

    In the Roman liturgy, we read John 1:29-34 how John the Baptist knew Jesus as the one sent after him who ranks ahead of him.

    Completely ignorant here, the Greek and Roman calendars are not the same?

  3. A Simple Sinner Says:
    January 22, 2008 at 6:09 am

    ebeth,

    No, they are not. There is a different lectionary cycle for Byzantine and Latin Churches as well as for Chaldeans, Maronites and the other oriental churches.

    In the Latin church there is a further division between communities that use the 3 year lectionary cycle, and communities that use the pre-conciliar one-year cycle.

    In the Greek Churh there is an additional division between those that use the modified Julian calendar and the old Julian calendar which (for now) is 14 days behind the Gregorian caledendar.

    This next sunday you could attend 7 different parishes and here seven different readings, one-year Latin, three-year latin, revised Julian Greek, old Julian Greek, Chaldean, Maronite, Armenidan, Syro-malabar, Coptic.

    Every few years we are all in sync celebrating Easter on the same day… but there will be variations in which readings are heard.

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