Homily by S. Ambrose, Bishop, Bk. 7 on Luke Ch. 16
NOTICE that the divine patrimony is given to those that ask it. Neither think the father to blame in giving it to his younger son. For there is no weakness of age in the kingdom of God, nor does faith decline with years. And he who asked considered himself worthy to receive. Would that he had never gone away from his father, then had he never known the drawback of his age. Then leaving his father's house, he took his journey into a far country, and began to be in want. It is well said that he wasted his patrimony, he who withdrew from the Church.
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