That is a feast of Christ the King introduced on 11 December 1925 by Pope Pius XI, with the encyclical Quas primas, "with the primary objective of consolidating "... an effective remedy to the plague, which pervades the human society. The plague of our age is the so-called secularism, with its mistakes and its wicked ... incentives." It is, however, a feast that should lead us to develop a serious reflection on the mystery which we celebrate on November 21 : The Mystery of the Kingship of Christ.
will be a day of celebration, in which we come to recognize and proclaim Jesus King of the universe, king of everything and everyone ... Yet the Gospel passage that the Church will propose (Lk 23, 35-43) seems to be leading in the opposite direction, in an absolutely unexpected and unusual for a king, that of His Passion and Crucifixion .
We will cheer for a King profoundly different from the classic stereotypes of what the canons of the world have always proposed: He is not on a majestic throne, but on a cross, not wearing clothes of exquisite luxury, but is publicly stripped of his clothes, not wearing a golden crown encrusted with precious stones, but on His head has been mercilessly stuck a crown of thorns in my hands does not take a scepter because his hands were brutally nailed to the wood of a cross is surrounded by a crowd of courtiers and servants, but by people angry, which humiliates him, scourge him, Insult him, mocked him, spit on them.
So what kind of king is this? Certainly not one of the many kings that history has given us, is not "a king": He is the King, the King of kings, is the world's Redeemer, the King of the new humanity. If it is true that the Gospel leads us to look at a King sui generis, which chose the cross as a throne, is also true that there are two ways of looking at the crucifix Re: what is the soldiers, the leaders of the people and one of the criminals hanging there, but there is also that of the other criminal, the good thief.
The first, in fact, fully follow the logic of the world: for them a king, be one, must dominate, must prevail, he must assert himself by crushing his opponent, and cause it: "If you are the king of the Jews, save yourself! If you are the Son of God, come down from the cross and believe in you!" For them, if Jesus does not prove portentous to manifest in a glaring and its power, is nothing but a failure, a braggart, an impotent by vacuous purposes.
Jesus as God and the Second Person of the Holy Trinity, he could do: he could express his divinity in a manner astounding, but chooses to accomplish the Father's plan, decides to show how great God's mercy , because your love is boundless! The Evangelist Luke, however, also shows us another way of looking at the crucifix, and that's what the good thief: "Jesus remember me when you come into your kingdom."
He is so confident that He who is dying next to him is a true King and will soon enter into His kingdom, to ask to be accepted too, showing a great faith, crystalline. The Good Thief speaks as if he had been present at the interview previously elapsed between Jesus and Pilate, in which the question "Are you the King of the Jews?" Jesus replied, "My kingdom is not of this world: if my kingdom were of this world, my servants would be fighting to keep me from being handed over to the Jews, but my kingdom is not from here ".
all'implorazione And the good thief, Jesus replied:" Verily I say unto thee, Today thou shalt be with me in Paradise ", which no king is able to provide this? Only the King of kings has the power to promise heaven! The other, at most, can bestow honors, ephemeral satisfactions and earthly riches, He gives eternal life through the cross, the man discovers God, He is merciful, and pure love, and grace He died for me to live.
May Mary help us to understand this and understand that the actual program is just what every Christian to follow Jesus, the only Way, Truth and Life, to possess the kingdom he promised and given.
JESUS \u200b\u200b'CHRIST
the Lion of Judah
the Lamb of God
our Lord
THE KING OF KINGS
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