“Think of that youngest son who was in the Father’s house, he was loved; and yet he wants his share of the inheritance; and he leaves, he spends everything, he reaches the lowest level, very far from the Father; and when he has hit rock bottom, he feels nostalgia for the warmth of his father’s house and returns. And the father? Had He forgotten the Son? No never”.
The Father, Pope Francis highlighted, “is there, he sees him from afar, he was waiting for him every day, every moment: he has always been in his heart as a son, even when he had abandoned him, even when he had squandered his entire patrimony, it is say their freedom.”
“The Father, with patience and love, with hope and mercy, had not stopped thinking about him for a moment, and as soon as he saw him, still far away, he ran to meet him and embraced him with tenderness, the tenderness of God, without a word. of reproach: He has returned. And this is the joy of the father.”