Sunday, February 23 : Book of Ezekiel 37,1-10.

The hand of the LORD came upon me, and he brought me out by the spirit of the LORD and set me down in the middle of a valley; it was full of bones.
He led me all round them; there were very many lying in the valley, and they were very dry.
He said to me, ‘Mortal, can these bones live?’ I answered, ‘O Lord GOD, you know.’
Then he said to me, ‘Prophesy to these bones, and say to them: O dry bones, hear the word of the LORD.
Thus says the Lord GOD to these bones: I will cause breath to enter you, and you shall live.
I will lay sinews on you, and will cause flesh to come upon you, and cover you with skin, and put breath in you, and you shall live; and you shall know that I am the LORD.’
So I prophesied as I had been commanded; and as I prophesied, suddenly there was a noise, a rattling, and the bones came together, bone to its bone.
I looked, and there were sinews on them, and flesh had come upon them, and skin had covered them; but there was no breath in them.
Then he said to me, ‘Prophesy to the breath, prophesy, mortal, and say to the breath: Thus says the Lord GOD: Come from the four winds, O breath, and breathe upon these slain, that they may live.’
I prophesied as he commanded me, and the breath came into them, and they lived, and stood on their feet, a vast multitude.

maronite readings – rosary,team