Our Lady of Loreto

13For I am the Lord your God. I take you by your hand, and I say to you: Do not be afraid. I have helped you. 14Fear not, O worm of Jacob, you who are dead within Israel. I have helped you, says the Lord, your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel. 15I have established you like a new threshing cart, having serrated blades. You will thresh the mountains and crush them. And you will turn the hills into chaff. 16You will winnow them, and the wind will blow them away, and the whirlwind will scatter them. And you shall exult in the Lord; you shall rejoice in the Holy One of Israel. 17The indigent and the poor are seeking water, but there is none. Their tongue has been dried up by thirst. I, the Lord, will heed them. I, the God of Israel, will not abandon them. 18I will open rivers in the high hills, and fountains in the midst of the plains. I will turn the desert into pools of water, and the impassable land into streams of water. 19I will plant the cedar in a deserted place, with the thorn, and the myrtle, and the olive tree. In the desert, I will plant the pine, and the elm, and the box tree together, 20so that they may see and know, acknowledge and understand, together, that the hand of the Lord has accomplished this, and that the Holy One of Israel has created it.

1The Praise of David himself. I will extol you, O God, my king. And I will bless your name, in this time and forever and ever.

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9The Lord is sweet to all things, and his compassion is upon all his works.

10O Lord, may all your works confess to you, and let your holy ones bless you.

11They will speak of the glory of your kingdom, and they will declare your power,

12so as to make known to the sons of men your power and the glory of your magnificent kingdom.

13Your kingdom is a kingdom for all ages, and your dominion is with all, from generation to generation. The Lord is faithful in all his words and holy in all his works.

11Amen I say to you, among those born of women, there has arisen no one greater than John the Baptist. Yet the least in the kingdom of heaven is greater than he. 12But from the days of John the Baptist, even until now, the kingdom of heaven has endured violence, and the violent carry it away. 13For all the prophets and the law prophesied, even until John. 14And if you are willing to accept it, he is the Elijah, who is to come. 15Whoever has ears to hear, let him hear.