There are two prodigal sons in this parable. One has alienated himself from his father by trying to satisfy his passions. The other distanced himself from his father and his brother by indulging in anger and envy.
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Category: Ars Praedicandi
Ars Praedicandi: Ed Foley’s Homily on the Sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time
…But if you think that crowd of award winners was criticized how much more the crowd that Jesus chose as his base: the lepers, prostitutes, tax collectors, and Samaritans. His valentines, his palentines, even more so, his “egalentines” – equal in dignity.
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Ars Praedicandi: Ed Foley’s Homily on the Fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time
I have never watched a Super Bowl game in my life…Sports…often devolves into a blame-game.
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Ars Praedicandi: Ed Foley on The Baptism of the Lord
Jesus’ healing, ministry and love is particular, is personal, is passionate about the individual in front of him, the one lost sheep, the one adulterous woman, the one divorced Samaritan
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Ars Praedicandi: Ed Foley on the Second Sunday of Advent
Road construction is violent loud, chaotic and expensive. Today’s word, this advent season, announces an even more chaotic construction project one of global, even cosmic proportions…
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Ars Praedicandi: Ed Foley on the First Sunday of Advent
…in these days such apocalyptic readings remind us that humanity has upturned God’s created order that in our violence and greed we have allowed the aboriginal chaos to return that in our racism and xenophobia
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Ars Praedicandi: Ed Foley on Christ the King
How do we speak truth, especially to power while maintaining the Jesus demeanor and not resorting to rhetorical, or political or even physical violence?
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Ars Praedicandi: St. Oscar Romero, pray for us.
This Sunday’s canonization of Oscar Romero provided a lens through which to view the radical call to discipleship that Jesus issues to the rich man—and to all of us—in today’s Gospel.
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Ars Praedicandi: Twenty-Sixth Sunday in Difficult Times
…and so we eschew the cup and reach for the ax…and while we often attempt to wield it toward another – another individual, another tribe – we so often end up axing our own…
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Ars Praedicandi: Ed Foley on Speaking the Truth
…every and any church that colludes in secret keeping they … we are responsible.
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