“What is the result of such an estrangement from the Holy Church? It is the same as the result of the prodigal son’s leaving his parents’ house. Light‑minded youths very quickly waste their excellent energies and talents of soul and body, ruining for time and eternity all the good they have done. Meanwhile, there appears ‘a mighty famine in that land’: emptiness and dissatisfaction — the inevitable result of wild pleasures.”
(St John of San Francisco, Homily on the Prodigal Son)