St. Juliana Falconieri Parish Home

As I learned in priesT – school (with the “t” pronounced obviously), chapter 15 of St. Luke’s Gospel is his “Lost and Found Department.” Lost and found go together with joy and rejoice. These notions tie the whole section together. Three stories of things lost-–a strayed sheep, a vanished coin, a runaway son. And something links the three. In each one, the person suffering the loss reacts in a really crazy way, with joy and rejoicing. Yes, despite all the sentiment that’s piled up around him, even the father of the prodigal son is soft in the head. Most who hear of the prodigal will remark: “Let a kid pull off a trick like that without punishment, you’re looking at certain prison time down the road, mark my words.”