Reading 1, Micah 7:14-15, 18-20

¹⁴ With shepherd's crook lead your people to pasture, the flock that is your heritage, living confined in a forest with meadow land all round. Let them graze in Bashan and Gilead as in the days of old!

¹⁵ As in the days when you came out of Egypt, grant us to see wonders!

¹⁸ What god can compare with you for pardoning guilt and for overlooking crime? He does not harbour anger for ever, since he delights in showing faithful love.

¹⁹ Once more have pity on us, tread down our faults; throw all our sins to the bottom of the sea.

²⁰ Grant Jacob your faithfulness, and Abraham your faithful love, as you swore to our ancestors from the days of long ago.

Responsorial Psalm, Psalms 103:1-2, 3-4, 9-10, 11-12

¹ [Of David] Bless Yahweh, my soul, from the depths of my being, his holy name;

² bless Yahweh, my soul, never forget all his acts of kindness.

³ He forgives all your offences, cures all your diseases,

⁴ he redeems your life from the abyss, crowns you with faithful love and tenderness;

⁹ his indignation does not last for ever, nor his resentment remain for all time;

¹⁰ he does not treat us as our sins deserve, nor repay us as befits our offences.

¹¹ As the height of heaven above earth, so strong is his faithful love for those who fear him.

¹² As the distance of east from west, so far from us does he put our faults.

Gospel, Luke 15:1-3, 11-32

¹ The tax collectors and sinners, however, were all crowding round to listen to him,

² and the Pharisees and scribes complained saying, 'This man welcomes sinners and eats with them.'

³ So he told them this parable:

¹¹ Then he said, 'There was a man who had two sons.

¹² The younger one said to his father, "Father, let me have the share of the estate that will come to me." So the father divided the property between them.

¹³ A few days later, the younger son got together everything he had and left for a distant country where he squandered his money on a life of debauchery.

¹⁴ 'When he had spent it all, that country experienced a severe famine, and now he began to feel the pinch;

¹⁵ so he hired himself out to one of the local inhabitants who put him on his farm to feed the pigs.

¹⁶ And he would willingly have filled himself with the husks the pigs were eating but no one would let him have them.

¹⁷ Then he came to his senses and said, "How many of my father's hired men have all the food they want and more, and here am I dying of hunger!

¹⁸ I will leave this place and go to my father and say: Father, I have sinned against heaven and against you;

¹⁹ I no longer deserve to be called your son; treat me as one of your hired men."

²⁰ So he left the place and went back to his father. 'While he was still a long way off, his father saw him and was moved with pity. He ran to the boy, clasped him in his arms and kissed him.

²¹ Then his son said, "Father, I have sinned against heaven and against you. I no longer deserve to be called your son."

²² But the father said to his servants, "Quick! Bring out the best robe and put it on him; put a ring on his finger and sandals on his feet.

²³ Bring the calf we have been fattening, and kill it; we will celebrate by having a feast,

²⁴ because this son of mine was dead and has come back to life; he was lost and is found." And they began to celebrate.

²⁵ 'Now the elder son was out in the fields, and on his way back, as he drew near the house, he could hear music and dancing.

²⁶ Calling one of the servants he asked what it was all about.

²⁷ The servant told him, "Your brother has come, and your father has killed the calf we had been fattening because he has got him back safe and sound."

²⁸ He was angry then and refused to go in, and his father came out and began to urge him to come in;

²⁹ but he retorted to his father, "All these years I have slaved for you and never once disobeyed any orders of yours, yet you never offered me so much as a kid for me to celebrate with my friends.

³⁰ But, for this son of yours, when he comes back after swallowing up your property -- he and his loose women -- you kill the calf we had been fattening."

³¹ 'The father said, "My son, you are with me always and all I have is yours.

³² But it was only right we should celebrate and rejoice, because your brother here was dead and has come to life; he was lost and is found." '

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