United with the Prodigal Son
- FATHER TADEUSZ DAJCZER
The Chosen People discovered in their own weakness the true mystery of God.
If you experience your weakness, then you are called by God to throw yourself into His merciful arms. You experience the desert in your life so that you will turn toward the One who is Mercy Himself.
Experiencing the desert will help you to discover the need for God, and to know that you are completely dependent on Him. During this time, when you go through very difficult hours of discouragement, temptation, and darkness, you will better understand your own helplessness and powerlessness. When you discover the truth about yourself and ask God for forgiveness, you will find, just as the Prodigal Son did, great tenderness in the Father and His extreme joy upon your return. You will be able to look into His eyes full of love. In forgiving you, God will, at the same time, bring about humility within you.
The desert is not a dwelling place; it is only a path, a road on which one comes to know the merciful love of God. Everyone who seeks God must pass through it since the experience of the desert is closely related to the deepening of our faith in His mercy.
A desert experience is a time when a person becomes formed according to the rule that only what is difficult and gives resistance molds a person. The love of God, which is then born in you, should finally become communion with God.
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Acknowledgement
Father Tadeusz Dajczer. "United with the Prodigal Son." The Gift of Faith, 3rd edition (Ventura, Ca: In the Arms of Mary Foundation, 2012): 145.
Copyright © 2011 Leszek Jan Pliszka. Published 2012 by In the Arms of Mary Foundation. Reprinted here by permission of In the Arms of Mary Foundation. All rights reserved.
The Author
Fr. Tadeusz Dajczer (†2009) was ordained to the Priesthood in 1955 in Warsaw, Poland. In the life of Fr. Dajczer, a decisive moment took place during his confession with St. Padre Pio. St. Padre Pio asked his penitent, with astonishment and great force, why he did not want to go toward God to the end. For Fr. Dajczer it was a shocking experience and at the same time, the beginning of a search for sanctity both for himself and for his penitents. He is the author of The Mystery of Faith: Meditations on the Eucharist, and The Gift of Faith, which has been translated into 26 languages. He is the co-founder of the Families of Nazareth Movement, which is currently present in 40 countries.
