First Reading
Ezekiel 37:21-28
Read this as the first big movement of the day. Notice what God is doing, who is speaking, and what part of the story or teaching should stay with you.
21And you shall say to them: Thus says the Lord God: Look, I will take the children of Israel from the midst of the nations whither they are gone: and I will gather them on every side, and will bring them to their own land.
22And I will make them one nation in the land on the mountains of Israel, and one king shall be king over them all: and they shall no more be two nations, neither shall they be divided any more into two kingdoms.
23Nor shall they be defiled any more with their idols, nor with their abominations, nor with all their sins: and I will save them out of all the places in which they have sinned, and I will cleanse them: and they shall be my people, and I will be their God.
24And my servant David shall be king over them, and they shall have one shepherd: they shall walk in my judgments, and shall keep my commands, and shall do them.
25And they shall dwell in the land which I gave to my servant Jacob, in which your fathers dwelt, and they shall dwell in it, they and their children, and their children's children, forever: and David my servant shall be their leader forever.
26And I will make a covenant of peace with them, it shall be an eternal covenant with them$1 and I will establish them, and will multiply them, and will set my sanctuary in the midst of them forever.
27And my tabernacle shall be with them: and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.
28And the nations shall know that I am the Lord the sanctifier of Israel, when my sanctuary shall be in the midst of them forever.