- Prayer and Worship - Beliefs and Teachings - Issues and Action
- Catholic Giving - About USCCB Nathan’s Parable.* 1The LORD
sent Nathan to David, and when he came to him, he said: “Tell me
how you judge this case: In a certain town there were two men,
one rich, the other poor.a 2The rich man had flocks and herds in
great numbers. 3But the poor man had nothing at all except one
little ewe lamb that he had bought. He nourished her, and she
grew up with him and his children. Of what little he had she
ate; from his own cup she drank; in his bosom she slept; she was
like a daughter to him. 4Now, a visitor came to the rich man,
but he spared his own flocks and herds to prepare a meal for the
traveler who had come to him: he took the poor man’s ewe lamb
and prepared it for the one who had come to him.” 5David grew
very angry with that man and said to Nathan: “As the LORD lives,
the man who has done this deserves death! 6He shall make
fourfold restitution* for the lamb because he has done this and
was unsparing.”b