Friends, welcome to Word on Fire Catholic Ministries.

Word on Fire is an apostolate dedicated to the mission of evangelization,

using media both old and new to share the faith on every continent

and to facilitate an encounter with Christ and His Church.

The efforts of Word on Fire engage the culture and bring the transformative

power of God's word where it is most needed. Today, we invite you to join Bishop Robert Barron

as he preaches the gospel and shares the warmth and light of Christ with each one of us.

Please speak with you. Friends, we come to the final weekend of the liturgical year, which means it's time to celebrate the Feast of Christ the King.

And I know every time I come to this feast, you face a certain dilemma because, you know, we don't like kings. Our country was formed in a rebellion against a king.

You say, well, look, I'm not a king.

I don't know anyone's a king.

And so I say, Christ is king.

All right, I guess, but what's it have to do with me, right?

Well, actually, if we understand this properly, it has everything to do with us.

Can I ask you maybe just for a moment

to bracket the explicitly political side of kingship? And think of it this way. A king is someone

who orders things towards an end. Think here of like an orchestra conductor. He's got all

the players and all the instruments in front of him.

He's not making a sound himself, but he's ordering all these things toward the end of producing, you know, Beethoven's Fifth Symphony or something.

Think of a general of an army.

He doesn't himself fire a shot, but he's coordinating all of the elements of the army

to achieve the great end of victory in battle. Think of the father of a family who is trying to order

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