Ezekiel 37:21-28 / John 11:45-56
Human beings have this basic need to belong.
It is a basic human need to belong to a family or to a community, or to a homeland or a country.
It is in this belonging that we find our identity and origins.
In the 1st reading, the Lord God says this: I shall gather them together from everywhere and bring them home to their own soil.
The people of God had been unfaithful to the Lord and so their enemies conquered them and sent them into exile and dispersed them.
They had lost their identity and their origins, and they were forgetting about the God who chose them to be His people.
But God is faithful and He forgives His people their sins.
He brings them home so that they can recover their identity and origins and be His people again.
When we sin, we stray and deviate and we lose our way.
We also will lose our sense of belonging, our identity and our origins.
Let us hear the call of the Lord God to come back to Him.
Let us turn back to the Lord, so that we can turn our hearts and minds to heaven, our eternal home.