These reflections are a result of more than 40 years of ministry as a Roman Catholic priest. Most of these years I spent in the Diocese of Charlotte which covers Western North Carolina. Now I am retired, and live in Medellín, Colombia where I continue to serve as a priest in the Archdiocese of Medellín.

Friday, Week XIX, Ordinary Time

Yet I will remember the covenant I made with you when you were a girl, and I will set up an everlasting covenant with you, that you may remember and be covered with confusion, and that you may be utterly silenced for shame when I pardon you for all you have done, says the Lord GOD. (Ez 16:1-15, 60, 63)
https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/081624.cfm
In the middle of the Exile, after they had lost everything, the prophet Ezekiel still holds out the promise of pardon and the hope of an everlasting covenant.