COMING HOME 

AFTER SIN

Quote for Today  November 30, 2012

"There is in repentance this beautiful mystery - that we may fly fastest home on broken wing."

William L. Sullivan, Epigrams and Criticisms in Miniature, 1936

Comments:

Read Luke 15: 11-32 in the light of the above quote.

Would the older brother gladly come into the house to greet his lost brother if he had been there years earlier?

Do more people leave God - and/or Church - because of their own personal sins or the sins of those in the Church - or sins [never called sins] but perceived decisions they feel God committed against them?

Is Advent - the preparation time for Christmas - seen by some people as a time to come home - to God - to Christ - to Church? The Catholic Church  promotes Advent and Lent as a good time to catch a confession in a local church.

Here in this diocese many parishes offer Reconciliation - Penance - Confession services during Advent. The theme of "Coming Home" can be found in the announcements about this practice from the pulpit. 

Check out the quote above in light of all this. Amen.