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...
by Greg Beben | Nov 21, 2020 | Meditations
It may not be so easy for people in modern western societies to understand what it means to be a king and how that relates to Jesus. Where democratic values are dominant, the idea of kingship can look bad, like an oppressive totalitarian government. However, even in...
