The younger son asked his father for his inheritance and left home, wasting his money until he was left with nothing. In a famine, he worked for a citizen but wished he could eat pig food. He decided to return home and apologize. When his father saw him returning, he embraced him. The father celebrated the son's return with a feast, but the elder son was angry that his brother was celebrated after wasting his inheritance. The father explained they celebrated because the lost son had returned.

1. There was once a man who had two sons.

2. The younger one said to him: Father
give me my share of the property now.

3. So the man divided his property
between his two sons. After a few days
the younger son sold his part of the
property and left home with his money.

4. He went to a country far away……….

5. Where he wasted his money in
reckless living.

11. He spent everything he had.

12. Then a severe famine spread over
that country and he was left
without a thing.

13. So he went to work for one of the citizens of
that country. He wished he could fill himself
with the bean pods the pigs ate. But no one
gave him any thing to eat. At last he came
to his senses.

14. Father I have
sinned against
God and against
you….
I will get up and go to my Father and say,
Father, I have sinned against God and against
you.. I am no longer fit to be called your son.
Treat me as one of your hired workers. So he
got up and started back to his Father.

15. He was still a long way
from home when his Father
saw him.

16. He was filled with pity.

17. And he ran.

20. Threw his arms
around his son and
kissed him

21. The son said , Father, I have sinned
against God and against you,

22. I am no longer fit to be called your son.
But the father called the servants…..
Hurry,

23. Bring the best robe and put it
on him. Put a ring on his
finger……. And shoes on his

24. Then go and get a
feast ready. For the
son of mine is dead,
but now he is alive .
He was lost, but now
he has been found.

25. And so the feasting began.

27. In the meantime the elder son was out in the field. On his way
back when he came close , he heard the music and dancing. So
he called one of the servants and asked him: What’s going on?
The servant answered “Your brother has come back home , and
your father has started to feast because he got him back safe
and sound. The elder brother was so angry that he would not
go into the house.

28. So his father came out and begged him
to come in.

29. But he answered his father: Look , all these years I have worked for you
like a slave, and I have never disobeyed your orders. What have you given
me? Not even a goat for me to have a feast with my friends.! But this son
of yours wasted all of your property and when he comes back home you
have a feast for him.

30. The father answered :My son , you are always here with
me, and everything I have is yours. But we had to
celebrate and be happy because your brother was dead,

31. And now he is alive

33. He was lost but now has been found.

34. The Gospel of the Lord . Praise to you Lord Jesus
Christ