In the beautiful fifteenth chapter of St. Luke’s Gospel we hear Jesus telling parables about God. In imagery that is common to his day and yet somehow startling, Jesus tells three stories which show us that God is intensely interested in finding lost souls. Two of these occur immediately before the story which we have…

The story of the Prodigal son is one of the best known of all the stories in the Gospels. It is easy to see why, since it connects immediately to each one of us in a way that is instantly self authenticating. Has any one of us not felt like the Prodigal? The common response…