by Greg Beben | Nov 22, 2025 | Meditations
We begin this final week of the Church’s Liturgical Year with the great celebration of Jesus Christ, King of the Universe. In our time we are not very familiar with kings. We think of them as something from the past, or at most as figureheads to perform public...
by Greg Beben | Nov 23, 2024 | Meditations
Webster’s dictionary defines “king” as “a male monarch of a major territorial unit, especially one whose position is hereditary and who rules for life.” People all over the world today understand this meaning very well, and the people in Jesus’ time understood it in...
by Greg Beben | Nov 25, 2023 | Meditations
On this last Sunday of the Church’s Liturgical Year, we celebrate Jesus Christ as the King of the Universe. We get a sense of the awesome fullness of his reign from today’s second reading, where St. Paul tells us that Christ must reign “until he has put all his...
by Greg Beben | Nov 19, 2022 | Meditations
The liturgical year draws to a close most fittingly with the celebration of Jesus Christ as King of the Universe. It is the Church’s way of acknowledging God’s “plan for the fullness of times, to sum up all things in Christ, in Heaven and on earth” (Eph 1:10). Today’s...
by Greg Beben | Nov 20, 2021 | Meditations
To understand the feast we are celebrating today, the Solemnity of Our Lord Jesus Christ, King of the Universe, we need to recall the fundamental responsibility of a king. It is the duty of a king to govern his people, to ensure the justice, the safety, the peace, and...
