11/20/16: Solemnity of Our Lord Jesus Christ, King of the Universe: A Most Unlikely King!

In today's Gospel passage, a most unlikely image of our king appears: not one who has everything that we spend so much time and energy striving for--heath, weath, power, popularity, pleasure--but one who dies in poverty and embarrassment. Yet a thief who is crucified next him sees in him his Lord and King. And so have men and women across the centuries, including the 14 year-old newly canonized St. Jose Sanchez del Rio, who, right before being executed, shouted, "Viva Cristo Rey!" "Long live, Christ the King!"

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