The Feast of Christ the King was established by Pope Pius XI in 1925 as an answer to secularism. This feast is intended to proclaim in a striking and effective manner Christ’s royalty over individuals, families, society, governments, and nations.
Today, on this solemnity of Our Lord Jesus Christ, the King of the Universe, we are to examine what it means to us to have a king and to actually submit ourselves to a ruler in humility.
Catholics are called to give total loyalty to the King, to kneel before Him in adoration and continually give themselves to Him. And Jesus’ mission is to reign as king over all. In the end, “every knee should bow, in heaven and earth and under the earth, and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father” (Phil 2:10-11).
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