From today’s Old Testament reading, from Ezekiel: ‘Yet I will remember my covenant with you in the days of your youth, and I will establish with you an everlasting covenant’.

We know this ‘everlasting covenant’ to be that which Our Lord Himself established, through His Blood. As St Luke tells us: ‘He took a cup, and when he had given thanks he said, “Take this, and divide it among yourselves; for I tell you that from now on I shall not drink of the fruit of the vine until the kingdom of God comes.” And he took bread, and when he had given thanks he broke it and gave it to them, saying, “This is my body which is given for you. Do this in remembrance of me.” And likewise the cup after supper, saying, “This cup which is poured out for you is the new covenant in my blood’.

This covenant is our eternal joy and our salvation; may God bless you in it, and shower His blessings upon you this day.