Solemnity of Christ the King
Theme: Real leadership entails suffering service 25-11-12
1st Reading Daniel 7:13-14 the one most venerable!
2nd Reading Revelation 1:5-8 the Almighty Alpha and Omega!
Gospel John 18:33-37 are you the King of the Jews?
The two Kingdoms Jesus showed by suffering on earth he overcame death to reign triumphant in heaven!
Saint John in his statement of Passion explains that Kingship of Jesus is not that of an earthly king or a politician.
He never tells us Jesus is King.
Till the painful description of passion he speaks repeatedly about his kingship.
All these last few 33 Sundays we have been following Jesus in his various activities as our Master, as our savior, as our leader, as our healer, as our teacher, as our brother, as the one who calls us to serve him in suffering.
Whenever people misunderstood him and tried to make him king he always escaped from their midst.
He was a natural leader during his life time.
People followed him out of curiosity, wanted to hear him when he spoke because he spoke with authority.
It could happen only if one is sensitive to the reality one is used to. Jesus was such..
Last function of service is the one which we will try to meditate on this wonderful feast of our Leader, who came to call sinners, to bring healing, to restore, and be a motivating factor to all of us.
He has told us again and again we will have to suffer to reach our goal heaven. So we must willingly live our lives as Christians.
When the universal church celebrates the great feast of Christ our King today we proclaim him as our king.
We solemnly proclaim his kingdom in the prayer we so very personally recite everyday may be hundreds of times.
This prayer has the module of asking God to bring his kingdom.
Why are we saying this prayer?
Though Jesus so very insistently tells us he is not the king in the sense the humans have a sense of kingship.
His kingdom is not of this world.
We so naturally seeks in the our Father to send his Kingdom.
It is father’s Kingdom.
Then who is this King Jesus our master?
He is the rightful owner, the prince who has completed the mission given to him by his father.
He went and lived the humblest of reality.
Human condition of want, hunger, even the sense of sin but not the sin itself.
Though he was God he took upon himself the conditions of man.
Except sin he became every thing to every one every where.
That is why his kingdom is endless.
Because he has over come the earthly power by becoming obedient unto death and won over and rose to be reigning as triumphant.
The first two reading speak the glory of Jesus second advent.
The word Glory is often used in the Old Testament, for the light filled splendor of God’s presence.
Because when Jesus tells Philip in the gospel, “to have seen me is to have seen the Father”, though people could not recognize him, he always said “my kingdom is not of this world”
In Jesus kingdom he does not call us servants, but friends, companion, family members. What an honor!!!!
Wishing you all happy feast of the feast of the Solemnity of Christ the King!!!
Yours ever in the divine word,
Fr. Juze Vaz svd
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