The Solemnity of Christ the King
“Jesus of Nazareth. . . .is so intrinsically king that the title ‘King’ has actually become his name. By calling ourselves Christians, we label ourselves as followers of the king. . . God did not intend Israel to have a kingdom. The kingdom was a result of Israel’s rebellion against God. . . The law was to be Israel’s king, and, through the law, God himself. . . God yielded to Israel’s obstinacy and so devised a new kind of kingship for them. The King is Jesus; in him God entered humanity and espoused it to himself. This is the usual form of the divine activity in relation to mankind. God does not have a fixed plan that he must carry out; on the contrary, he has many different ways of finding man and even of turning his wrong ways into right ways. . . The feast of Christ the King is therefore not a feast of those who are subjugated, but a feast of those who know that they are in the hands of the one who writes straight on crooked lines.” -Pope Benedict XVI
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