"Christ the King": A Sonnet ~ The Imaginative Conservative

"Christ the King": A Sonnet ~ The Imaginative Conservative

We come now to a feast of Ends and Beginnings! This Sunday is the last Sunday in the cycle of the Christian year, which ends with the feast of Christ the King, and the following Sunday we begin our journey through time to eternity once more, with the first Sunday of Advent. We might expect the Feast of Christ the King to end the year with climactic images of Christ enthroned in Glory, seated high above all rule and authority, one before whom eve…

Christ the King, exalted by the Cross

Readings: • 1 Sam 5:1-3 • Ps 122:1-2, 3-4, 4-5 • Col 1:12-20 • Lk 23:35-43 “Eighty and six years have I served Him, and He never did me any injury: how then can I [...]

Christ the King, and the Church’s Eschatological Trial

‘When the Son of Man comes in his glory, and all the angels with him, then he will sit on the throne of his glory’ (Mt. 25:31). ⧾ On this, the last Sunday of the liturgical year, we celebrate the great Feast of Christ the Universal King and contemplate Him as both the Good Shepherd and the Lord of history. All the nations will be gathered before him, and he will separate people one from another as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats (M…