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 countless  graces  on  you;  and  how  have  you  repaid  Him? Have you always  listened  to  His  Voice,  and  kept  His  Commandments? Have you  not,  on  the  contrary,  offended  Him  every  day  of  your life? Be sorry  for  your  ingratitude,  and  try  to  excite  in  yourself  a greater  love  for  Jesus. Say this  prayer:  “Kindle  in  me  the  fire  of Thy  love.”

N the  same  occasion  Jesus  proposed  the  following  parable to the  Jews:  “A  certain  man  had  two  sons. And the  younger of them  said:  ‘Father,  give  me  the  portion  of  substance  that  falleth to me.’ The  father  did  so. Not many  days  after,  the  younger son, gathering  all  his  property,  went  abroad  into  a far  country , and there  he  spent  his  substance  in  riotous  living.

“After he  had  spent  all,  there  came  a mighty  famine  in  that country, and  he  began  to  be  in  want. Then he  went  and  joined himself to  one  of  the  citizens  of  that  country,  who  sent  him  into his farm  to  feed  swine. Here he  would  fain  have  filled  his  belly with the  husks  the  swine  did  eat.