What woman, having ten pieces of silver, if she loses one piece, does
not light a candle, sweep the house, and seek diligently until she
finds it? And when she has found it, she calls her friends and her
neighbors together, saying, Rejoice with me. I have found the piece
that was lost. I say to you, there is joy in the presence of the
angels of God over one sinner that repents.
And He said, A man had two sons. The younger of them said to his
father, Father, give me the portion of my inheritance. The father gave
him his portion and the younger son journeyed into a far country.
After he spent everything on riotous living and had nothing left,
there arose a mighty famine in that land. He began to be in want and
the only work he could get was feeding swine in a countryman's field.
And he would fain have filled his belly with the husks that the swine
ate because he had nothing to eat.
When he came to his senses, he said, How many of my father's hired
servants have bread enough and to spare, and I perish with hunger! I
will arise and go to my father, and will say to him, Father, I have
sinned against heaven, and before thee. I am no longer worthy to be
called thy son; but make me one of thy hired servants.
He arose and went to his father. But when he was yet a great way off,
his father saw him and had compassion.
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