He was on his way to Russia to see Rembrandt's painting "The Return of the Prodigal Son"when illness took his life. He had written a book that bore that title four years earlier. Henry Nouwen ...

Francis went on to speak about the depiction of the episode by Dutch painter Rembrandt (pictured), who “beautifully depicted the return of the prodigal son.” The “young man’s head is ...

Using Rembrandt’s oil painting “Return of the Prodigal Son” as a source of inspiration for his April 16 catechesis, the Holy Father said God’s love is like that of a father who goes out in ...

In the relationship with God, we have precisely this experience.' Using Rembrandt’s oil painting “Return of the Prodigal Son” as a source of inspiration for his April 16, 2025, catechesis ...

The pope praised Rembrandt's 17th-century painting, "The Return of the Prodigal Son," for how the painter depicted the young man with a shorn head, "like that of a penitent," but also like a child ...

Using Rembrandt’s oil painting “Return of the Prodigal Son” as a source of inspiration for his April 16 catechesis, the Holy Father said God’s love is like that of a father who goes out in search of ...

The pope praised Rembrandt’s 17th-century painting, “The Return of the Prodigal Son,” for how the painter depicted the young man with a shorn head, “like that of a penitent,” but also like a child, ...

Using Rembrandt’s painting “Return of the Prodigal Son” as inspiration, the Holy Father said God’s love is like that of a father who goes out in search of his lost children.

"Only those who truly love us can free us from this false view of love," he wrote. The pope praised Rembrandt's 17th-century painting, "The Return of the Prodigal Son," for how the painter depicted ...

It puts its head on your knees and gazes at you as if you were a Rembrandt painting ... but suddenly saw something I’d missed in 20 years of preaching about the prodigal son. The father let him go.

“The Return of the Prodigal Son,” by Rembrandt (1606-1669), Dutch. Reconciliation is also at the heart of the story Jesus tells in today’s Gospel. The story of the prodigal son is the story of Israel ...

(Wikimedia Commons) For the four days from Ash Wednesday through Saturday, she considers repentance (Japanese painter Hokusai’s “The Great Wave,” 1831); forgiveness (“The Return of the Prodigal Son,” ...