For the Sunday of the Prodigal Son, we offer the short sermon To the Indolent Soul, which encourages the sinner to refrain from giving up and despairing. Like the prodigal, we are to return to our Father, who has no desire to send anyone to eternal punishment.
Click here to read the sermon To the Indolent Soul
Image from the digital repository of the Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana (Plut.6.23 f. 141v)
Saint Ephrem the Syrian 