Today we celebrate the Feast of Christ the King.
Our Blessed Lord stated, “For this I was born and for this I came into the world, to testify to the truth. Everyone who belongs to the truth listens to my voice.”
Truth is something which is under attack in our modern day society. We have our truth and others have their truth. All that we need to do is respect one another and not push our truth upon another. This is a spirit of relativism which is not compatible with our faith.
From the Gospel of Saint Luke we are told, “Do you think that I have come to establish peace on the earth? No, I tell you, but rather division.”
The source of this division is truth. We have many different opinions and interests, but at the end of the day Christ is the answer to all that we seek. As His states in Sacred Scripture, “I am the way, the truth, and the life.” Therefore, we will not find truth if we live a life which keeps Christ far from our midst.
This Feast of Christ the King was established by Pope Pius XI in 1925 to remind the world of its continued need for Christ. As the first world war came to its end there grew a desire to establish a society that was free of the influence of religion over the state. It is this feast that reminds us that this is impossible and that we will always be in need of the truth that Christ alone can bring.
This feast reminds us that we need God at the center of society. We cannot continue to move away from Him for He must be the very basis of all that we do. If we continue to move away from God everything that we do has nothing to be based upon. It should be no secret that we are living in an age of atheism where we want a society which is free of the influence of religion. The state makes laws, but should do all things in union with God and His will for us. God cannot be divorced from our society.
It is this truth which is being proclaimed to us through the celebration of this Feast of Christ the King. He is the King that we must invite into our life in order that we may come to be transformed in His midst. Whenever we encounter Him we come to encounter the truth that sets us free from sin and death. Let us desire to encounter this truth at all times as we continue to order our life and society upon Him.
Long live Christ the King!
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