Saturday 22 March 2025
Saturday, Second Week of Lent
Antiphons and Readings on p.239 of Daily Missal
First Reading: Micah 7:14-15, 18-20
Responsorial Psalm: Psalm 103:1-2.3-4.9-10.11-12 (R. 8a)
R/. The Lord is compassionate and gracious.
Bless the Lord, O my soul,
and all within me, his holy name.
Bless the Lord, O my soul,
and never forget all his benefits.
It is the Lord who forgives all your sins,
who heals every one of your ills,
who redeems your life from the grave,
who crowns you with mercy and compassion.
He will not always find fault;
nor persist in his anger forever.
He does not treat us according to our sins,
nor repay us according to our faults.
For as the heavens are high above the earth,
so strong his mercy for those who fear him.
As far as the east is from the west,
so far from us does he remove our transgressions.
R/.
Gospel: Luke 15:1-3, 11-32
At that time:
The tax collectors and sinners
were all drawing near to hear Jesus
And the Pharisees and the scribes murmured, saying,
“This man receives sinners and eats with them.”
So, he told them this parable:
And he said, “There was a man who had two sons;
and the younger of them said to his father,
‘Father, give me the share of property that falls to me.’
And he divided his living between them.
Not many days later,
the younger son gathered all he had
and took his journey into a far country,
and there he squandered his property in loose living.
And when he had spent everything,
a great famine arose in that country, and he began to be in want.
So, he went and joined himself
to one of the citizens of that country,
who sent him into his fields to feed swine.
And he would gladly have fed on the pods that the swine ate;
and no one gave him anything.
But when he came to himself, he said,
‘How many of my father’s hired servants
have bread enough and to spare,
but I perish here with hunger!
I will arise and go to my father, and I will say to him,
“Father, I have sinned against heaven and before you;
I am no longer worthy to be called your son;
treat me as one of your hired servants.”’
And he arose and came to his father
But while he was yet at a distance,
his father saw him and had compassion,
and ran and embraced him and kissed him.
And the son said to him, ‘Father,
I have sinned against heaven and before you;
I am no longer worthy to be called your son.’
But the father said to his servants,
Bring quickly the best robe, and put it on him;
and put a ring on his hand, and shoes on his feet;
and bring the fatted calf and kill it,
and let us eat and make merry;
for this my son was dead, and is alive again;
he was lost, and is found.’
And they began to make merry.
“Now his elder son was in the field;
and as he came and drew near to the house,
he heard music and dancing
And he called one of the servants and asked what this meant.
And he said to him,
‘Your brother has come,
and your father has killed the fatted calf,
because he has received him safe and sound.’
But he was angry and refused to go in.
His father came out and entreated him,
but he answered his father,
‘Behold, these many years I have served you,
and I never disobeyed your command;
yet you never gave me a kid,
that I might mak
