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for the one who gave everything to feed you.

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The Lord be with you.

A reading from the Holy Gospel according to Luke.

Chapter 1 verses 39 through 56. Mary said out,

and traveled to the hill country and haste to a town of Judah,

where she entered the house of Zechariah and greeted Elizabeth.

When Elizabeth heard Mary's greeting, the infant leaped in her womb,

and Elizabeth, filled with the Holy Spirit, cried out in a loud voice and said,

Blessed are you among women, and blessed is the fruit of your womb.

And how does this happen to me that the mother of my Lord should come to me?

For at the moment the sound of your greeting reached my ears,

the infant and my womb leaped for joy.

Blessed are you who believed that what was spoken to you by the Lord would be fulfilled.

And Mary said,

My soul proclaims the greatness of the Lord.

My spirit rejoices in God, my Savior, for he has looked upon his lowly servant.

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