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11/23/2023

A reflection upon the kingship of Christ, Mt 25:31-46

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00:00 This Sunday, the Church celebrates the Solemnity of Christ the King.

00:07 What is that mystery all about?

00:09 To understand it, just think about when you have a problem.

00:14 What happens?

00:15 Three things.

00:17 We're aware of our need, we experience our powerlessness in front of our need, and we're

00:23 sad.

00:24 And Christ the King's kingship is ordered to changing all of our weakness and our inability.

00:35 He wants to raise us up and bless our life with a new chance and a new power that's found

00:43 only in him.

00:45 He has authority where we experience total need.

00:50 That is one of the first things that we hear Jesus say in the Gospel, which begins to reveal

00:55 his kingship to us.

00:56 He says, "Come to me, all you who are weary, and find life burdensome, and I will refresh

01:02 you."

01:03 He's saying, yes, there is need in life, there's suffering, but that doesn't define your life,

01:08 that's not who you are.

01:10 Those things happen for a purpose to lead you to me, who knows and understands and has

01:17 a great tenderness towards our needs to turn them from an experience of neediness and of

01:26 trouble into an experience of great hope.

01:30 And then secondly, our powerlessness is completely overturned in Christ the King, who is filled

01:40 with a power meant for us.

01:42 What's the difference between a tyrant and a king?

01:46 They both have power, but a tyrant uses all of his power for himself.

01:53 A king is a person who cares.

01:57 He wants to share the power he has for those who are entrusted to him as his subjects.

02:04 Someone who really understood this was the leper, who when he saw Jesus coming, acknowledged

02:10 him as king by saying, "If you will to do so, you can make me clean."

02:16 No matter how much he was suffering in his misery and affliction, he saw in Jesus something

02:22 special, something exceptional, something royal.

02:25 He saw the kingship of Jesus and he cried out to him, and Jesus loved the fact that

02:31 this man trusted him and immediately purified and healed his life with the power that he

02:38 had as a king.

02:40 And when our problem is solved, we feel not only relief, we feel a tremendous joy.

02:46 And Christ the King wants our life to be defined by that joy that we find when we live with

02:53 him as worthy subjects of his kingship.

02:59 As one spiritual writer, St. Albert the Great says, "The more we know our misery, the more

03:06 we behold Christ's majesty."

03:08 So let's let Christ be our king.

03:12 No matter what we're going through, his kingship will come with a power and a grace to overturn

03:19 everything that is sad and dark into a joy and a hope that is found only in Jesus.

03:26 Amen.

03:27 Amen.

03:28 [Silence]

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