Feast of Christ the King Homily Year A
1st Reading – Ezekiel 34:11-12, 15-17 11 Thus says the Lord GOD: I myself will look after and tend my sheep.
1st Reading – Ezekiel 34:11-12, 15-17 11 Thus says the Lord GOD: I myself will look after and tend my sheep.
1st Reading – Proverbs 31:10-13, 19-20, 30-31 10 Who shall find a strong woman? Far away, and from the furthest parts, is her price.
1st Reading – Wisdom 6:12-16 12 Wisdom is pure and never fades away, and is easily seen by those who love her and found by those who seek her.
1st Reading – Malachi 1:14B-2:2B, 8-10 14B I am a great King, says the Lord of hosts, and my name is dreadful among the Gentiles. 1 And now, O priests, this command is to you.
1st Reading – Exodus 22:20-26 Thus says the LORD: 20 “You shall not harass the newcomer, nor shall you afflict him. For you yourselves were once newcomers in the land of Egypt.
1st Reading – Isaiah 45:1, 4-6 1 Thus says the Lord to my anointed Cyrus, whose right hand I hold, so that I may subjugate the nations before his face, and I may turn the backs of kings, and I may open the doors before him, and so that the gates will not be shut.
1st Reading – Isaiah 25:6-10A 6 The Lord of hosts will cause all the peoples on this mountain to feast on fatness, to feast on wine, a fatness full of marrow, a purified wine.
1st Reading – Isaiah 5:1-7 1 I will sing to my beloved the canticle of my paternal cousin, about his vineyard. A vineyard was made for my beloved, at the horn in the son of oil.
1st Reading – Ezekiel 18:25-28 Thus says the LORD: 25 You say, “The way of the Lord is not fair.’ Therefore, listen, O house of Israel. How could it be that my way is not fair? And is it not instead your ways that are perverse?
1st Reading – Isaiah 55:6-9 6 Seek the Lord, while he is able to be found. Call upon him, while he is near.