A reading from the Book of the Prophet Ezekiel 43:1-7ab
The angel led me to the gate which faces the east, and there I saw the glory of the God of Israel coming from the east.
The angel led me to the gate which faces the east, and there I saw the glory of the God of Israel coming from the east.
When the Pharisees heard that Jesus had silenced the Sadducees, they gathered together, and one of them, a scholar of the law, tested him by asking, “Teacher, which commandment in the law is the greatest?” He said to him, “You shall love the Lord, your God, with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.
The hand of the Lord came upon me, and he led me out in the Spirit of the Lord and set me in the center of the plain, which was now filled with bones.
Jesus again in reply spoke to the chief priests and the elders of the people in parables saying, “The Kingdom of heaven may be likened to a king who gave a wedding feast for his son.
Thus says the Lord: I will prove the holiness of my great name, profaned among the nations, in whose midst you have profaned it.
Jesus told his disciples this parable: “The Kingdom of heaven is like a landowner who went out at dawn to hire laborers for his vineyard.
The word of the Lord came to me: Son of man, prophesy against the shepherds of Israel, in these words prophesy to them: Thus says the Lord God: Woe to the shepherds of Israel who have been pasturing themselves!
