Friends,
We celebrate our very last weekend of the liturgical year this weekend with the Solemnity of Christ the King. We recognize that Christ indeed is the king of our lives and our hearts. But we all need to consider the kind of Kingship he models for us. As we look historically at kings many were despots, still many more were so distant from the common man that their reality was nothing like the people they ruled over. Power was at the very center of the life of a King. Jesus, however is not like the kings that we imagine from history. Jesus was a servant king and at the center of his kingship was service. He creates a new model for us to view the idea of kingship.
At our baptism each of us were baptized as “Priests, Prophets, and Kings” and we would do well in our understanding of this to take to heart the kind of king Jesus was. We are called to exercise our own kingship by baptism in the same manner. You and I are called to be servant leaders who lay down our own lives in service to others. What a noble message for Jesus to leave us with on this last Sunday of the liturgical year. He urges us now to follow him in being servant leaders and to feed the poor, welcome the stranger, cloth the naked, care for the sick, visit the prisoner… to Love our neighbor as ourselves.
God Bless and Stay Safe,
Fr Mark
