24th Sunday in Ordinary Time (Year C) - Luke 15: 1-32

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🗓️ 10 September 2022

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Luke 15: 1-32 - 'There will be rejoicing in Heaven over one repentant sinner.'

Catechism of the Catholic Church Paragraphs:

- 545 (In 'The Proclamation of the Kingdom of God') - Jesus invites sinners to the table of the kingdom: “I came not to call the righteous, but sinners.” He invites them to that conversion without which one cannot enter the kingdom, but shows them in word and deed his Father’s boundless mercy for them and the vast “joy in heaven over one sinner who repents.” The supreme proof of his love will be the sacrifice of his own life “for the forgiveness of sins.”

- 2839 (in 'The Seven Petitions') - But though we are clothed with the baptismal garment, we do not cease to sin, to turn away from God. Now, in this new petition, we return to him like the prodigal son and, like the tax collector, recognize that we are sinners before him (abbreviated)

- 1700 (in 'The Dignity of the Human Person') - With the help of grace they grow in virtue (article 7), avoid sin, and if they sin they entrust themselves as did the prodigal son to the mercy of our Father in heaven (article 8). In this way they attain to the perfection of charity (abbreviated)

- 1439 (in 'The Many Forms of Penance in the Christian Life') - The process of conversion and repentance was described by Jesus in the parable of the prodigal son, the center of which is the merciful father: The fascination of illusory freedom, the abandonment of the father's house; the extreme misery in which the son finds himself after squandering his fortune; his deep humiliation at finding himself obliged to feed swine, and still worse, at wanting to feed on the husks the pigs ate; his reflection on all he has lost; his repentance and decision to declare himself guilty before his father; the journey back; the father's generous welcome; the father's joy - all these are characteristic of the process of conversion. the beautiful robe, the ring, and the festive banquet are symbols of that new life - pure worthy, and joyful - of anyone who returns to God and to the bosom of his family, which is the Church. Only the heart of Christ Who knows the depths of his Father's love could reveal to us the abyss of his mercy in so simple and beautiful a way.

- 1423 (in 'What is this Sacrament called?') - It is called the sacrament of conversion because it makes sacramentally present Jesus' call to conversion, the first step in returning to the Father from whom one has strayed by sin (abbreviated)

- 2795 (in 'Who Art in Heaven') - The symbol of the heavens refers us back to the mystery of the covenant we are living when we pray to our Father. He is in heaven, his dwelling place; the Father's house is our homeland. Sin has exiled us from the land of the covenant, but conversion of heart enables us to return to the Father, to heaven (abbreviated).

- 1468 (in 'The Effects of the Sacrament of Reconciliation') - Indeed the sacrament of Reconciliation with God brings about a true "spiritual resurrection," restoration of the dignity and blessings of the life of the children of God, of which the most precious is friendship with God (abbreviated).

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0:00.0	Hi everyone. Welcome back to the podcast where we're all about helping you understand the gospel reading from today's mass.
0:17.4	Today we have a really long reading. This is probably one of the longest readings in the entire
0:22.4	lectionary, so we're going to get straight into it today. Luke chapter 15 versus 1 to 32. So I'll read
0:30.0	out this entire text. The tax collectors and the sinners were all seeking the company of
0:35.7	Jesus to hear what he had to say, and the
0:38.3	Pharisees and the scribes complained.
0:41.9	They said, this man welcomed sinners and eats with them.
0:46.8	So he spoke this parable to them.
0:49.7	What man among you with a hundred sheep losing one would not leave the 99 in the wilderness and go after the missing one till he found it and when he found it would he not joyfully take it on his shoulders and then when he got home call together his friends and neighbors rejoice with me he say, I have found my sheep that was lost.
1:13.2	In the same way I tell you, there will be more rejoicing in heaven over one repentant
1:18.4	sinner than over 99 virtuous men who have no need of repentance.
1:25.4	Or again, what woman with ten drachmas would not, if she lost one, light a lamp and
1:31.4	sweep out the house and search thoroughly till she found it? And then, when she had found it,
1:37.9	call together her friends and neighbours. Rejoice with me, she would say, I have found the drachma I lost in the same way i tell you there is rejoicing among the angels of god over one repentant sinner he also said a man had two sons the younger said to his father father let me have the share of the estate that would come to me.
2:02.6	So the father divided the property between them. A few days later, the youngest son got together
2:08.7	everything he had and left for a distant country where he squandered his money on a life of
2:14.6	debauchery. When he had spent it all, that country experienced a severe
2:20.4	famine, and now he began to feel the pinch, so he hired himself out to one of the local inhabitants
2:26.6	who put him on his farm to feed the pigs. And he would willingly have filled his belly with the
2:32.8	husks the pigs were eating, but no one offered him anything.
2:37.2	Then he came to his senses and said,
2:39.7	How many of my father's paid servants have more food than they want, and here am I dying of hunger?
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