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 “But entering  into  himself,  he  said:  ‘How  many  hired  servants in  my  father’s  house  have  plenty  of  bread,  and  I here  perish with hunger! I will arise  and  will  go  to  my  father,  and  will  say to him: Father,  I have  sinned  against  heaven  and  before  thee ; I am not  now  worthy  to  be  called  thy  son;  make  me  as  one of thy  hired  servants!’  Then  he  rose  up  and  went  to  his father.

“When he  was  yet  a great  way  off,  his  father  saw  him and was moved  with  compassion,  and  ran  to  him  and  fell  on  his  neck and kissed  him. But the  son  said: ‘Father,  I have  sinned  against heaven and  before  thee;  I am  not  now  worthy  to  be  called  thy son.’ And  the  father  said  to  his  servants:  ‘Bring  forth  quickly the first  robe  and  put  it  on  him,  and  put  a ring  on  his  hand, and shoes  on  his  feet. And bring  hither  the  fatted  calf  and  kill