24 Sun C / 150913 / at the end a feast!

Again: Jesus was quite attractive... sinners were all seeking his company...
Again: the pious pharisees and the learnt scribes are complaining:
     "something is wrong with this Profet JoN" ...   Lk 15.1-32
The complains: He welcomes sinners, he invites them, he cares for them,
                           he has time for them, he has a word for them...
                           it looks like: he is really interested in them...
The answer: Yes! it's true... Jesus is very engaged with sinners... until today ! ?

Lk gives us 3 parables to explain the behaviour of Jesus... to defend him...
to tell us: that Jesus is right (and to tell this to all pastoral-workers of today).
the lost sheep...    the lost drachma...     the lost son...

The reasons for Jesu' behaviour: in his view:  SINNERS ARE LOST PEOPLE.
They have lost a situation, a chance, a fortune... but more exactly: they have lost
"to do the right thing": to build up the Kingdom of God! They have lost: to care for
others; they are selfish. They have lost to know what is good for them and for the common-good; worse: they lost the power to do good!
WHAT SINNERS NEED: a) empathy and mercy; b) somebody who is looking after them; c) they have to be challenged: to make a turn (repentance); d) they have to
get the experience: to be invited into the Community (not to be excluded);
e) sure they need an understandable good exemple; f) maybe they need a training
in doing right...   g) and most of all: they need to know / to see: "as we turn to the right path, there will be great joy" - a special feast!
IF you turn, repent, convert, goes back on the right track...   this is good for you!
for everybody! and most good for the whole Community!
SUCH AN EXPERIENCE IS JESUS

Today: Every Christian Community has surely a strategy to "deliver us (sinners) from evil". Ask your Parish-priest !
If he is to busy with his 99 believers...  if he has lost view and hope for sinners...
if he has no strategy to convert sinners...  if he feels it's too much hard and delicate work..   he needs holiday; a sabbat-year; a pastoral-training a la 2013;
and a modern meditation about "seculare Christianity":
Jesus has shown an alternative.