Luke 15:30 (WEB)
But when this your son came, who has devoured your living with prostitutes, you killed the fattened calf for him.’
Catechism · 3
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” — Catechism footnote: Lk 15:11-32.
The Seven Petitions
“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.” — Catechism footnote: Cf. Lk 15:11-32, 18:13.
Jesus and Israel
“He went so far as to hint that by sharing the table of sinners he was admitting them to the messianic banquet.” — Catechism footnote: Cf. Lk 15:1-2, 22-32.
Fathers and councils · 31
Jerome
“…in celebrating the mystery whereby He represented His passion, orin proving the reality of His body is nowhere described as ministering to His appetite;who tells of purple-clad Dives in hell for his feasting, and says that poor Lazarus for his abstinence was in Abraham’s bosom; who, when we fast,bids us anoint…” — editor's note: S. Luke xv. 19–31.
Read the whole comment“I am the prodigal son who although I have squandered all the portion entrusted to me by my father, have not yet bowed the knee in submission to him; not yet have I commenced to put away from me the allurements of my former excesses.” — editor's note: Luke xv. 11–32.
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Augustine of Hippo
“Of which sort is that concerning the two sons of one man, the elder who tarried with his father, and the younger who went into a far country, which is narrated so much at length.” — editor's note: Luke xv. 11–32
Read the whole comment“A kind Father when Thou gavest, and kinder still when he returned destitute!” — editor's note: Luke xv. 11–32.
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Tertullian
“That prodigal son also the father’s patience receives, and clothes, and feeds, and makes excuses for, in the presence of the angry brother’s impatience.” — editor's note: Luke xv. 11–32.
Read the whole comment“That most gentle father, likewise, I will not pass over in silence, who calls his prodigal son home, and willingly receives him repentant after his indigence, slays his best fatted calf, and graces his joy with a banquet.” — editor's note: Luke xv. 11–32.
Read the whole comment“All chap. xv. after the 10th verse, in which is contained the parable of the prodigal son, he eliminated from his Gospel.” — the author cites it
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Catena Aurea on Luke
- BedeCatena Aurea on Luke
While the Scribes and Pharisees were murmuring about His receiving sinners, our Saviour put three parables to them successively. In the two first He hints at the joy He has with the angels in the salvation of…
Read the whole comment - Augustine of HippoCatena Aurea on Luke
The elder son is the people of Israel, not indeed gone into a distant country, yet not in the house, but in the field, that is, in the paternal wealth of the Law and the Prophets, choosing to work earthly things. But…
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But the younger son, that is the Gentile people, is envied by Israel as the elder brother, the privilege of his father’s blessing. Which the Jews did because Christ sat down to meat with the Gentiles, as it follows;…
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He is angry even also now, and still is unwilling to enter. When then the fulness of the Gentiles shall have come in, His father will go out at the fit time that all Israel also may be saved, as it follows, therefore…
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The Jew requires a kid, the Christian a lamb, and therefore is Barabbas released to them, to us a lamb is sacrificed. Which thing also is seen in the kid, because the Jews have lost the ancient rite of sacrifice. Or…
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But I do not see the object of this interpretation, for it is very absurd for him to whom it is afterwards said, Thou art ever with me, to have wished for this from his father, i. e. to believe in Antichrist. Nor…
Read the whole comment - JeromeCatena Aurea on Luke
Or he says, Thou never gavest me a kid, that is, no blood of prophet or priest has delivered us from the Roman power.
Read the whole comment - Ambrose of MilanCatena Aurea on Luke
Now the shameless son is like to the Pharisee justifying himself. Because he had kept the law in the letter, he wickedly accused his brother for having wasted his father’s substance with harlots. For it follows, But…
Read the whole comment - Augustine of HippoCatena Aurea on Luke
The harlots are the superstitions of the Gentiles, with whom he wastes his substance, who having left the true marriage of the true God, goes a whoring: after evil spirits from foul desire.
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Now in that which he says, Thou hast killed for him the fatted calf, he confesses that Christ has come, but envy has no wish to be saved.
Read the whole comment - Augustine of HippoCatena Aurea on Luke
But the father does not rebuke him as a liar, but commending his stedfastness with him invites him to the perfection of a better and happier rejoicing. Hence it follows, But he said to him, Son, thou art ever with me.
Read the whole comment - JeromeCatena Aurea on Luke
Or after having said, “This is boasting, not truth,” the father does not agree with him, but restrains him in another way, saying, Thou art with me, by the law under which thou art bound; not as though he had not…
Read the whole comment - Ambrose of MilanCatena Aurea on Luke
But the kind father was still desirous to save him, saying, Thou art ever with me, either as a Jew in the law, or as the righteous man in communion with Him.
Read the whole comment - Augustine of HippoCatena Aurea on Luke
But what means he that he adds, And all that I have is thine, as if they were not his brother’s also? But it is thus that all things are looked at by perfect and immortal children, that each is the possession of all,…
Read the whole comment - Ambrose of MilanCatena Aurea on Luke
For if he ceases to envy, he will feel all things to be his, either as the Jew possessing the sacraments of the Old Testament, or as a baptized person those of the New also.
Read the whole comment - Theophylact of OhridCatena Aurea on Luke
Or to take the whole differently; the character of the son who seems to complain is put for all those who are offended at the sudden advances and salvation of the perfect, as David introduces one who took offence at…
Read the whole comment - Titus of BostraCatena Aurea on Luke
The elder son then as a husbandman was engaged in husbandry, digging not the land, but the field of the soul, and planting trees of salvation, that is to say, the virtues.
Read the whole comment - Theophylact of OhridCatena Aurea on Luke
Or he was in the field, that is, in the world, pampering his own flesh, that he might be filled with bread, and sowing in tears that he might reap in joy, but when he found what was being done, he was unwilling to…
Read the whole comment - John ChrysostomCatena Aurea on Luke
But it is asked, whether one who grieves at the prosperity of others is affected by the passion of envy. We must answer, that no Saint grieves at such things; but rather looks upon the good things of others as his…
Read the whole comment - Theophylact of OhridCatena Aurea on Luke
Or by this parable our Lord reproves the will of the Pharisees, whom according to the argument he terms just, as if to say, Let it be that you are truly just, having transgressed none of the commandments, must we…
Read the whole comment - JeromeCatena Aurea on Luke
Or, in another way, all justice in comparison of the justice of God is injustice. Therefore Paul says, Who shall deliver me from the body of this death? (Rom. 7:24.) and hence were the Apostles moved with anger at…
Read the whole comment - Cyril of AlexandriaCatena Aurea on Luke
Which we also ourselves sometimes feel; for some live a most excellent and perfect life, another off time even in his old age is converted to God, or perhaps when just about to close his last day, through God’s mercy…
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The son then says to the father, For nothing I left a life of sorrow, ever harassed by sinners who were my enemies, and never hast thou for my sake ordered a kid to be slain, (that is, a sinner who persecuted me,)…
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Or else, This brother is described so as to be said to come from the farm, that is, engaged in worldly occupations, so ignorant of the things of the Spirit of God, as at last to complain that a kid had never been…
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Cross-references · 6
Cited together in Jerome on Luke 15:25–32 (4) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Augustine of Hippo on Luke 15:25–32 (2) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Theophylact of Ohrid on Luke 15:25–32 (4) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Augustine of Hippo on Luke 15:25–32 (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Augustine of Hippo on Luke 15:25–32 (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Jerome on Luke 15:25–32 (4) (Catena Aurea).