Guardian Angels

5Be ever more peaceful in soul, O people of God, the memorial of Israel. 6You have been sold to the nations, not into destruction, but because of this, in resentment, you provoked God to wrath, and so you have been delivered to adversity. 7For you have exasperated him who made you, the eternal God, by sacrificing to evil spirits, and not to God. 8For you have forgotten God, who nurtured you, and you have saddened Jerusalem, your nurse. 9For she saw the wrath of God approaching you, and she said, “Listen, region of Zion, for God has brought upon me great sorrow. 10For I have seen the captivity of my people, my sons and daughters, which the Eternal has led over them. 11For I nurtured them with joy, but I sent them away with weeping and sorrow. 12Let no one rejoice over me, a widow and a desolation, for I am forsaken by many because of the sins of my sons, because they strayed from the law of God.

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27Be ever more peaceful in soul, sons, and call out to the Lord, for you will be remembered by him who led you away. 28For as much as you thought to go astray from God, ten times as much again he will require of you when converting. 29For he who led you into evil, he himself will again lead you to eternal happiness with your salvation.”

33Let the poor see and rejoice. Seek God, and your soul will live.

34For the Lord has heard the poor, and he has not despised his prisoners.

35Let the heavens and the earth praise him: the sea, and everything that crawls in it.

36For God will save Zion, and the cities of Judah will be built up. And they will dwell there, and they will acquire it by inheritance.

37And the offspring of his servants will possess it; and those who love his name will dwell in it.

1In that hour, the disciples drew near to Jesus, saying, “Whom do you consider to be greater in the kingdom of heaven?” 2And Jesus, calling to himself a little child, placed him in their midst. 3And he said: “Amen I say to you, unless you change and become like little children, you shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven. 4Therefore, whoever will have humbled himself like this little child, such a one is greater in the kingdom of heaven. 5And whoever shall accept one such little child in my name, accepts me.

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10See to it that you do not despise even one of these little ones. For I say to you, that their Angels in heaven continually look upon the face of my Father, who is in heaven.