Christ the King - 34 Sunday C
Thomas O’Loughlin
Introduction to the Celebration
Way back in January we
began the year by celebrating the Baptism of Jesus when a voice was heard
calling him ‘the beloved Son’. During the year we have greeted Jesus under all
the views of him we find in the gospels. Now today, at the end of the year, we
greet him with the all-embracing title: Jesus Christ, Universal King.
The Christ is the one
who will gather us all together at the end of time, the one who will judge the
living and the dead, and then present his kingdom to the Father. In our
pilgrimage of faith that kingdom of justice, truth, and peace is to be our
beacon, and Christ our guide. But before we join Christ in his banquet, we must
ask pardon for the times when we followed other paths and other ways, when we
listened to false prophets of greed and materialism, and for when we have
failed to work for the coming of the kingdom.
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