Lectio Divina: For the Last Week of Ordinary Time

Please read slowly and reflectively.

Slowly count to five at the end of each line.

A READING FROM THE BOOK OF EZEKIEL (FIRST READER ONLY)

THUS SAYS THE LORD GOD:/

I MYSELF WILL LOOK AFTER AND TEND MY SHEEP./

I WILL RESCUE THEM FROM EVERY PLACE WHERE THEY WERE SCATTERED/

WHEN IT WAS CLOUDY AND DARK./

I WILL GIVE THEM REST./

THE LOST I WILL SEEK OUT,/

THE STRAYED I WILL BRING BACK,/

THE INJURED I WILL BIND UP./

THE SICK I WILL HEAL,

BUT THE SLEEK AND THE STRONG I WILL DESTROY./