Sunday, March 30, is the Fourth Sunday of Lent. Mass readings: 1 Samuel 16:1b, 6-7, 10-13a; Psalm 23:1-3a, 3b-4, 5, 6; Ephesians 5:8-14; John 9:1-41 or John 9:1, 6-9, 13-17, 34-38.

“Prodigal” means wasteful ... the father calls for a time of celebration. The older son, caring for his father’s property and unaware of his brother’s return, struggled to make sense ...

What took him so long? The story of the Prodigal Son raises the question. Life does not deliver on the young man’s dreams. He is envious of “the pods on which the swine fed,” and still he ...

On the Fourth Sunday of Lent, we heard the Parable of the Prodigal Son. Father Paul Sayaha commented on the lavish father of the parable. This father was loving and ...