Thanks to the various contributors for their challenging the "easy way out" usual interpretation of this parable. There is so much more food for thought in it.
Mercy trumphs justice, which is just as well for we mere mortals who speak of 'unconditional love' and do not understand that unconditional means un conditional.
We need to be careful not to place c
Why did the Holy Father resign? Perhaps when he noticed he wasn't holy, and that some ordinary people - laity - might well be. Prayer is said to be a search for the truth, and now he's set his mind on
"MY GOD,MY GOD,WHY HAVE YOU ABANDONED ME ?" http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/religion/9906265/Like-Jesus-on-the-cross-the-gay-community-know-what-it-is-to-be-abandoned.html
I fully endorse what the ACP has said. If there is not radical reform following the election of our new Pope, I can only see more and more people and youth distancing themselves from the institutional
Jesus never completed the parable. Whether the elder son entered the house? He was worried as he wanted to share his property again. In fact the elder boy abused the father calling his father 'you". I
Your lovely wife was, is, a wise, compassionate and loving woman, Brian - bringing God's love to this world. Still she seeks to do it through you.
The 'Church' needs to stop doing what's it's done s
Thank you, Brian. A truly Christian statement by the spouse of a true Christian. A perceptive, and moving, commentary on 'The Lost Boy' (Prodigal Son). Apt for
It is to the credit of many of our gay fellow Church members that they have continued to be faithful to a Church which sends out so many contradictory messages about them on so many levels. I do not k
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10th March 2013. Fourth Sunday of Lent
March 10 2013Thanks to the various contributors for their challenging the "easy way out" usual interpretation of this parable. There is so much more food for thought in it.
10th March 2013. Fourth Sunday of Lent
March 10 2013Mercy trumphs justice, which is just as well for we mere mortals who speak of 'unconditional love' and do not understand that unconditional means un conditional. We need to be careful not to place c
ACP Leadership Team lists three hopes for a New Pope
March 7 2013Why did the Holy Father resign? Perhaps when he noticed he wasn't holy, and that some ordinary people - laity - might well be. Prayer is said to be a search for the truth, and now he's set his mind on
10th March 2013. Fourth Sunday of Lent
March 10 2013Another angle in The Prodigal Father - A Postmodern Homily by Desmond Ryan http://www.thinkingfaith.org/articles/20100312_1.htm
Church should accept gay people as they are
March 7 2013"MY GOD,MY GOD,WHY HAVE YOU ABANDONED ME ?" http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/religion/9906265/Like-Jesus-on-the-cross-the-gay-community-know-what-it-is-to-be-abandoned.html
ACP Leadership Team lists three hopes for a New Pope
March 7 2013I fully endorse what the ACP has said. If there is not radical reform following the election of our new Pope, I can only see more and more people and youth distancing themselves from the institutional
10th March 2013. Fourth Sunday of Lent
March 10 2013Jesus never completed the parable. Whether the elder son entered the house? He was worried as he wanted to share his property again. In fact the elder boy abused the father calling his father 'you". I
Church should accept gay people as they are
March 7 2013Your lovely wife was, is, a wise, compassionate and loving woman, Brian - bringing God's love to this world. Still she seeks to do it through you. The 'Church' needs to stop doing what's it's done s
Church should accept gay people as they are
March 7 2013Thank you, Brian. A truly Christian statement by the spouse of a true Christian. A perceptive, and moving, commentary on 'The Lost Boy' (Prodigal Son). Apt for
Church should accept gay people as they are
March 7 2013It is to the credit of many of our gay fellow Church members that they have continued to be faithful to a Church which sends out so many contradictory messages about them on so many levels. I do not k
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