Christ our King

Solemnity of

Our Lord Jesus Christ

the King

 

The Lamb who was slain is worthy to receive strength and divinity, wisdom

and power and honor:  to Him be glory and power for ever.  Rev 5:12; 1:6

 

 

The Feast of Our Lord Jesus Christ the King celebrates the all-embracing authority of Christ as King and Lord of the cosmos.  It is celebrated on the final Sunday of Ordinary Time, the Sunday before Advent.

"Man is composed of body and soul, and he needs these external festivities so that the sacred rites, in all their beauty and variety, may stimulate him to drink more deeply of the fountain of God's teaching, that he may make it a part of himself, and use it with profit for his spiritual life. " ~ Excerpt: Quas Primas, Pope Pius XI

 

 

 

"The Lord comes in the Eucharist

to divest us of our selfishness,

our fixations which exclude others,

to make us a single body, a single

kingdom of peace in a divided world."

 

Pope Benedict XVI

Oct. 26, 2011, Homily

 

 

The Lord is King! lift up your voice,

O earth and all you heav’ns rejoice;

From world to world the joy shall ring,

“The Lord Omnipotent is King!”

He reigns! you saints, exalt your strains;

Your God is King, your Savior reigns;

And He is at the Father’s side,

The Man of love, the Crucified!

One Lord, one empire all secures;

He reigns, and life and death are yours:

Through earth and heav’n one song shall ring:

“The Lord Omnipotent is King!”