The Feast of Christ the King
“Thus says the Lord God: Behold, I, I myself will search for my sheep and will seek them out.”
This depiction of Cristo Ray (Christ the King) from the contemporary Columbian artist Fernando Jaramillo seems especially well-suited to represent the Kingship of Christ 2020. Christ is unambiguously the center of focus an attention, and yet, the surrounding chaos is so full that he is almost receding off into oblivion. He stands above the chaos, and the chaos swirls around him, and all of the pieces seem to have something to do with him — some kind of geometric or thematic or spatial relationship — but there’s simply so much going on it’s hard to take it all in.
When all things are subjected to him, then the Son himself will also be subjected to him who put all things in subjection under him, that God may be all in all.
— The Apostle Paul (1st Corinthians 15:28)
Last Sunday of Ordinary Time
Texts for the Feast
Prayer
Almighty and everlasting God, whose will it is to restore all things in your well-beloved Son, the King of kings and Lord of lords: Mercifully grant that the peoples of the earth, divided and enslaved by sin, may be freed and brought together under his most gracious rule; who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen.
Crown Him with Many Crowns, sung at Westminster Abbey the 50th Anniversary of the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II in 2003.
