Saint Ambrose, Bishop and Doctor

1“Be consoled, be consoled, O my people!” says your God. 2Speak to the heart of Jerusalem, and call out to her! For her malice has reached its end. Her iniquity has been forgiven. She has received double for all her sins from the hand of the Lord. 3The voice of one crying out in the desert: “Prepare the way of the Lord! Make straight the paths of our God, in a solitary place. 4Every valley will be exalted, and every mountain and hill will be brought low. And the crooked will be straightened, and the uneven will become level ways. 5And the glory of the Lord will be revealed. And all flesh together will see that the mouth of the Lord has spoken.” 6The voice of one saying, “Cry out!” And I said, “What should I cry out?” “All flesh is grass, and all its glory is like the flower of the field. 7The grass has dried up, and the flower has fallen. For the Spirit of the Lord has blown over it. Truly, the people are like grass. 8The grass has dried up, and the flower has fallen. But the Word of our Lord remains for eternity.” 9You who evangelize Zion, climb a high mountain! You who evangelize Jerusalem, lift up your voice with strength! Lift it up! Do not be afraid! Say to the cities of Judah: “Behold, your God!” 10Behold, the Lord God will arrive in strength, and his arm will rule. Behold, his reward is with him, and his work is before him. 11He will pasture his flock like a shepherd. He will gather together the lambs with his arm, and he will lift them up to his bosom, and he himself will carry the very young.

1A Canticle of David himself, when the house was built after the captivity. Sing to the Lord a new song. Sing to the Lord, all the earth.

2Sing to the Lord and bless his name. Announce his salvation from day to day.

3Announce his glory among the Gentiles, his miracles among all peoples.

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10Say among the Gentiles: The Lord has reigned. For he has even corrected the whole world, which will not be shaken. He will judge the peoples with fairness.

11Let the heavens rejoice, and let the earth exult; let the sea and all its fullness be moved.

12The fields and all the things that are in them will be glad. Then all the trees of the forest will rejoice

13before the face of the Lord: for he arrives. For he arrives to judge the earth. He will judge the whole world with fairness and the peoples with his truth.

12How does it seem to you? If someone has one hundred sheep, and if one of them has gone astray, should he not leave behind the ninety-nine in the mountains, and go out to seek what has gone astray? 13And if he should happen to find it: Amen I say to you, that he has more joy over that one, than over the ninety-nine which did not go astray. 14Even so, it is not the will before your Father, who is in heaven, that one of these little ones should be lost.