March 30 - Sunday of the 4th Week of Lent, Year C
(Jos.5:9a,10-12; Ps.34:2-7,9; 2Cor.5:17-21; Lk.15:1-3,11-32) "Today I have removed the reproach of Egypt from you." As the Israelites now realize their redemption from slavery in Egypt as they step into the Promised Land, so the prodigal son comes to his own redemption, his own release from slavery as a hired hand in a foreign land, as he returns to his father's house. Yes, as the Israelites "ate of the produce of the land" for the first time after the feast of Passover, so the prodigal son feasts on the "fattened calf" slaughtered for him by his merciful father. And the redemption of both is…
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