First Reading: Ezek 34:11 – 12, 15 – 17 | Second Reading: 1 Cor  15:20 – 26, 28 | Gospel: Mt 25:31 -46

The Solemnity of Our Lord Jesus Christ, King of the Universe was instituted by Pope Pius XI in 1925, the sixteenth centenary of the Council of Nicaea at which the doctrine of the consubstantiality of Christ with the Father was defined. Its eschatological character was confirmed by its move, in the calendar reforms of the Second Vatican Council, to the final Sunday of the liturgical year.