16 March 2021, Tuesday
FIRST READING
I saw the water that gushed out of the Temple: all those it touched were saved
Reading from the book of the prophet Ezekiel (47, 1-9.12)
In those days, during a vision received from the Lord, the man brought me back to the entrance of the House, and behold, under the threshold of the House water was gushing towards the east, since the facade of the House was on the east side.
The water was coming down from under the right side of the House, south of the altar. The man took me out the north door and walked me around the outside, to the east door, and again the water was flowing on the right side. The man went eastward, a line in his hand, and he measured a distance of a thousand cubits; then he made me cross the water: I was up to my ankles. He measured another thousand cubits and made me cross the water: I was up to my knees. He measured another thousand cubits and took me across: I was up to my kidneys. He measured a thousand more: it was a torrent that I could not cross; the water had swelled, it would have been necessary to swim: it was an impassable torrent. So he said to me: "Have you seen, son of man? Then he led me back to the edge of the stream. When he brought me back
He said to me: “This water flows towards the region of the East, it goes down into the Jordan Valley, and flows into the Dead Sea, whose waters it cleanses. In any place where the torrent arrives, all the animals will be able to live and flourish. The fish will be very abundant, for this water cleanses everything it enters, and life appears wherever the torrent arrives. At the edge of the torrent, on both banks, all kinds of fruit trees will grow; their foliage will not wither and their fruit will not fail. Each month they will bear new fruit, for this water comes from the sanctuary. The fruits will be food, and the leaves will be medicine. "
The Word of the Lord.
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