Sentences with phrase «prodigals see the father»
If we prodigals see the father running in our direction with open arms, we should know in our souls that this as an event so unexpected, so undeserved, so out of joint with all that life should bring us, that we fall down in awe before this joyful mystery.
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In friendship with Jesus Christ, we come to know the face of the merciful Father, for whoever experiences the Son's power to forgive sins sees the merciful Father, who welcomes home the prodigals and reclothes them with the garments of integrity.
Although it originated from the context of the Jewish Temple Cultus (see Chart I, 1 above) the term can also be used as a symbol for the story of the Prodigal Son if it is broken up into its constituent parts: At - One - Ment: the state of being at one with the father.
The Prodigal has sinned against his father, and the father — not a feudal lord but an honest - to - goodness father — sees the returning son, penitent and ashamed, coming home from the far country.