Prodigal Son Cross

Product Description

The Prodigal Son cross is a touching, solid bronze depiction of the Father embracing his child and makes a wonderful Christian gift. This wall cross reminds us of God’s never-failing, all-embracing love.

The Prodigal Son Cross makes a perfect gift for those in need of a message of God’s forgiving love. It’s also appropriate for those going to Confession (the Sacrament of Reconciliation) for the first time as well as a “welcome back!” gift for those returning to their families or to their Church, perhaps after a long time away. This cross offers consolation and encouragement, unity and peace.

A Solid Bronze Cross in Three Sizes

This solid bronze cross is available in three sizes: small (k28a 2.56 x 1.57 inches), or medium (k28m – 4 x .35 inches) and large (k28g – 7.9 x 6.3 inches) and has an eyelet for hanging or for use as a pectoral cross for ministers and pastors. This cross was designed and cast by a master bronze-smith of world renown in Germany.

A Sign of Mercy, Reconciliation and Forgiveness

This cross is a powerful symbol of the healing and transforming power of love expressed as forgiveness, mercy, reconciliation and acceptance. The wonderful biblical image of the patient, long-suffering father reunited with his prodigal son is depicted here (Luke 15:11-32). Too often we forget that the God of the Christian faith is most essentially the God of mercy and forgiveness. In his homily on March 17, 2013, Pope Francis gently chided us: The Lord never tires of forgiving us. Never! We, we are the ones who tire of asking for forgiveness! This solid bronze cross reminds all of us never to tire of asking for forgiveness when we need to, and never to tire of forgiving others when they need us to.

Luke 15:11-32

Then Jesus said: “A certain man had two sons. And the younger of them said to his father, ‘Father, give me the portion of goods that falls to me.’ So he divided to them his livelihood. And not many days after, the younger son gathered all together, journeyed to a far country, and there wasted his possessions with prodigal living. But when he had spent all, there arose a severe famine in that land, and he began to be in want. Then he went and joined himself to a citizen of that country, and he sent him into his fields to feed swine. And he would gladly have filled his stomach with the pods that the swine ate, and no one gave him anything.

“But when he came to himself, he said, ‘How many of my father’s hired servants have bread enough and to spare, and I perish with hunger! I will arise and go to my father, and will say to him, “Father, I have sinned against heaven and before you, and I am no longer worthy to be called your son. Make me like one of your hired servants.”’

“And he arose and came to his father. But when he was still a great way off, his father saw him and had compassion, and ran and fell on his neck and kissed him. And the son said to him, ‘Father, I have sinned against heaven and in your sight, and am no longer worthy to be called your son.’

“But the father said to his servants, ‘Bring out the best robe and put it on him, and put a ring on his hand and sandals on his feet. And bring the fatted calf here and kill it, and let us eat and be merry; for this my son was dead and is alive again; he was lost and is found.’ And they began to be merry.

“Now his older son was in the field. And as he came and drew near to the house, he heard music and dancing. So he called one of the servants and asked what these things meant. And he said to him, ‘Your brother has come, and because he has received him safe and sound, your father has killed the fatted calf.’

“But he was angry and would not go in. Therefore his father came out and pleaded with him. So he answered and said to his father, ‘Lo, these many years I have been serving you; I never transgressed your commandment at any time; and yet you never gave me a young goat, that I might make merry with my friends. But as soon as this son of yours came, who has devoured your livelihood with harlots, you killed the fatted calf for him.’

“And he said to him, ‘Son, you are always with me, and all that I have is yours. It was right that we should make merry and be glad, for your brother was dead and is alive again, and was lost and is found.’”

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