In this week's edition of There's More in the Gospel than Meets the Eye, Jill
Bevilacqua and Seàn-Patrick Lovett bring us readings and reflections for the Twenty-fourth
Sunday of the Year. Listen:
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15:1-10
Tax collectors and sinners were all drawing near to listen to Jesus, but
the Pharisees and scribes began to complain, saying, “This man welcomes sinners
and eats with them.” So to them he addressed this parable. “What man among
you having a hundred sheep and losing one of them would not leave the ninety-nine
in the desert and go after the lost one until he finds it? And when he does
find it, he sets it on his shoulders with great joy and, upon his arrival home, he
calls together his friends and neighbors and says to them, ‘Rejoice with me because
I have found my lost sheep.’ I tell you, in just the same way there will be
more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents than over ninety-nine righteous
people who have no need of repentance.
“Or what woman having ten coins and
losing one would not light a lamp and sweep the house, searching carefully until
she finds it? And when she does find it, she calls together her friends and
neighbors and says to them, ‘Rejoice with me because I have found the coin that
I lost.’ In just the same way, I tell you, there will be rejoicing among the
angels of God over one sinner who repents.”