Sentences with phrase «prodigal elder son»
In the pilot episode, the prodigal elder son Nate (Peter Krause) returns home for the holidays to the shattering news of his father's death.
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The father of the prodigal invites his elder son to join his celebration just as others in the Bible seek a lost sheep or a lost coin.
That is certainly true of this story, which explicitly incorporates the Prodigal Son parable on several levels, not only the relation of the fathers to their lost sons, but Kumalo as an elder brother who hates his younger brother, John, a pProdigal Son parable on several levels, not only the relation of the fathers to their lost sons, but Kumalo as an elder brother who hates his younger brother, John, a prodigalprodigal.
The father expects even the elder son to rejoice at the prodigal's return; God expects all men (even the Pharisees) to rejoice at Jesus» mission to the lost.
Henri Nouwen wrote that it is very hard to stop being the prodigal son without turning into the elder brother.
Adam, have you heard the parable of the prodigal son and the elder brother?
When the traditionalists, who believe in the Gospel, can loyally recognise themselves in the elder son ofthe parable, they will humbly rejoin the prodigals in sharing the Sacrifice of Mercy in the renewed Roman Rite.
In his indispensable book The Return of the Prodigal Son, Henri Nouwen boldly invites us to imagine ourselves not just in the place of the younger son, and then the elder one, but also in the place of the fathSon, Henri Nouwen boldly invites us to imagine ourselves not just in the place of the younger son, and then the elder one, but also in the place of the fathson, and then the elder one, but also in the place of the father.