Homily for the 11th Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year A, 14 June 2026
Exodus 19:2–6; Romans 5:6–11; Matthew 9:36–10:8
H O M I L Y
The account we have read in the first reading takes place barely three months after the people of Israel had left Egypt and arrived at the foot of Mount Sinai, where the encounter between Moses and God was to take place. Moses sets out to climb up to God, and God calls to him from the top of the mountain. The message received, however, is not for Moses alone; it is for the whole people with whom God wishes to make a Covenant and to whom he entrusts a collective mission: ‘You shall be for me a kingdom of priests, a holy nation’.