Christ the King Sunday Year B
In the game of chess, the king piece sometimes can be seen as the pieces with the least tactics. However, it is the one piece that cannot be captured. Either you are in check or check mate. The entire strategy of the game hinges on his role. The game can exist if only the king is.
Kingdom is owned by the king, but republic is owned by the people. It is the king that sets the terms of the kinsdom.
In 1925 Pius the XI established this feast to overcome the communist mindset that everything belonged to everyone and to overthrow the authorities. God is a king!
A king is not like a buddy; king makes demands and not always that we may like. Whether you like a ruler or not does not change the reality that they are there and that they enforce a rule.
As God, he holds the supreme act of jurisdiction and power, because he created everything. However, Jesus also won the right to be our king by dying for us and winning us by his merit.
Jesus is the truest witness to truth. He is the truth but also has witnessed in the fullest and most complete way: not only in justice but also in Love. He is the first resurrected about many brothers, many others born of the same life as him. His love is the only and ultimate cause of him redeeming us. Love is what makes him the truest witness as well. Love had the power to transform darkness to light, death into life, humans into God’s children.
We are to look to Him always. As a king forming a kingdom, he has made us priests for his God: all are to participate in his sanctity and his priesthood. What is his rule? His rule is love. We reject him as king in our lives and conduct by rejecting his mercy and by not turning to his greatest attribute
We must fight for the kingdom. In his kingdom, he assigned that sin is to be faced with mercy, when we rebel against this command, we are given what we want.
His kingdom does not belong to this world but it can be incorporated into things of this world.
Only in God can we have divine life. Give him our hearts so that he may rule. It is God in our lives in our soul that determines if we are holy, good or not.
St. Josemaria Escriva preached the theology of the donkey. The donkey: does not put on aires or appearance. It can be the most stubborn, but it was upon this animal that Jesus chose to sit and set up his first and truest throne. It is upon our stubborn hearts that Jesus wants to set his throne of mercy. But even the rebellious will be his throne.