CẢM NGHIỆM SỐNG LC - CHRISTOPHER -CN4MC-C
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Mo NguyenCẢM NGHIỆM SỐNG LỜI CHÚA: ĐỨA CON HOANG ĐÀNG TRỞ VỂ
FOURTH SUNDAY OF LENT – YEAR C
27 MARCH 2022
BREAKING OPEN THE WORD
GRACIOUSNESS AND MERCY (Luke 15:1-3, 11-32)
After many years in the desert journeying towards the land of promise, it must have been difficult for the people of Israel to comprehend that they had finally arrived. A new stage in their lives was beginning and it was fitting to rejoice and remember what God had done by celebrating the Passover. The God who had nourished them in the desert would no longer provide manna: it was no longer necessary since now they had their own land which had been provided by God’s graciousness. For Paul, God’s graciousness and mercy were nowhere more apparent than in the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus. In the second letter to the Corinthians, much of chapters two to six are taken up by Paul sharing his understanding and experience of apostolic life with them. There had been considerable friction between Paul and the community and this, no doubt, had called Paul to reflect on the sort of reconciliation and harmony for which he longed and worked. Misunderstood and hurt, Paul looks to the heart of the gospel message, a message of a new creation through forgiveness. As Jesus has reconciled us to God by his own death, so we are called to be reconciled to one another.
The call of reconciliation and graciousness is continued in today’s Gospel. The timeless beauty of the parable of the loving father and his own sons calls us to look to our own hearts. Are we ready to forgive and be forgiven? Will we share in the new creation that Jesus died to bring us?
CHRISTOPHER MONAGHAN CP
Đứa con hoang đàng - Người cha nhân hậu, một dụ ngôn:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aBo6Eg8iLLo