Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The Return of the Prodigal Son (1773) by Pompeo Batoni. The Parable of the Prodigal Son (also known as the parable of the Two Brothers, Lost Son, Loving Father, or of the Forgiving Father; Greek: Παραβολή του Ασώτου Υιού, romanized: Parabolē tou Asōtou Huiou) [1] [2] is one of the parables of Jesus in the Bible, appearing in Luke 15:11–32.
The story of the Prodigal Son is told in Luke 15:11-32. The story begins with an unnamed son (the "Prodigal Son") asking his father for his inheritance. After receiving his inheritance, the son travelled to a distant country where he spent all of his money recklessly. After a famine took place in that country he found himself desperately poor.
God, the Father of mercies, through the death and resurrection of his Son has reconciled the world to himself and sent the Holy Spirit among us for the forgiveness of sins. Through the ministry of the Church may God give you pardon and peace. And I absolve you from your sins in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. [40]
L'enfant prodigue (The Prodigal Son), a 1884 cantata by Debussy; The Prodigal Son, a 1929 ballet by George Balanchine The Prodigal Son, music for the ballet by Prokofiev; The Prodigal Son, a 1938 ballet by David Lichine; The Prodigal Son a 1945 opera by Frederick Jacobi; The Prodigal Son (Den förlorade sonen), a 1957 ballet suite by Hugo Alfvén
Barnard and his assistants toiled for nearly eight years on the twenty-seven figures in the sculpture groups. [7] One of the first sculptures completed was The Prodigal Son—in 1904, while his assistants were modeling the twice-life-size version of it in clay, Barnard was pointing and carving the reduced-size version in marble. [1]
The second act contains the story of the older brother, who tells of his own righteousness and his disgust at what his younger brother did. When his brother returned home, he watched in horror at how his father welcomed back his son, going so far as to even throw a party for him, even though he had never given his elder (and more upright in standing) son a party.
The Prodigal Son is an oratorio by Arthur Sullivan with text taken from the parable of the same name in the Gospel of Luke. It features chorus with soprano , contralto , tenor and bass solos. It premiered in Worcester Cathedral on 10 September 1869 as part of the Three Choirs Festival .
The poem Tears of the Prodigal Son draws on the well-known biblical Parable of the Prodigal Son found in Luke 15:11–32, the basis of which forms a story on a father forgiving his son's spendthriftness and greed, after the son comes back home remorseful of his actions. Gundulić adapts and heavily elaborates the original storyline, but still ...