The Solemnity of Christ the King (Rebroadcast)

St. Josemaria Institute Podcast

St. Josemaria Institute

St. Josemaria Escriva, Opus Dei, Christianity, Spirituality, Catholic, Meditation, Religion & Spirituality, Christian, Gospel

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🗓️ 22 November 2020

⏱️ 24 minutes

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The Solemnity of Christ the King is a day to celebrate and remember that "Christ, true God and true man, lives and reigns. He is the Lord of the universe. Everything that lives is kept in existence only through him" (Christ is Passing By, no. 180). On this feast we also end the liturgical year and begin to prepare for Advent and Christmas. In this podcast, Msgr. Fred Dolan reflects on St. Josemaria's approach to the spiritual life in which we must be open and willing to begin again. At the s...

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0:00.0	In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, amen.
0:06.1	My Lord and my God, I firmly believe that you are here, that you see me, that you hear me.
0:13.6	I adore you with profound reverence.
0:17.4	I ask your pardon for my sins and the grace to make this time of prayer fruitful.
0:23.6	My Immaculate Mother, St. Joseph, my Father and Lord, my guardian angel, intercede for me.
0:32.6	During these final weeks of the liturgical year,
0:40.3	our Lord has been helping us to accelerate into the finish.
0:46.3	And now we finally reach that moment the culmination in this this feast of Christ the King.
0:59.5	Thank goodness for these liturgical seasons.
1:03.8	Here we are finishing up this entire year, this liturgical year, and a week from now
1:10.6	entering into a brand new year.
1:13.6	We need these seasons.
1:16.6	Our mother, the church, understands this.
1:20.6	It is really hard to imagine how drab and flat the year would be.
1:26.6	If we did not have this ebb and flow of the times of the year
1:31.0	marked out by the liturgy.
1:37.5	This feast, the solemnity of Christ the king, is the crowning feast of the year.
1:45.4	You could say that it propels us into the new liturgical year.
1:52.6	As St. Hasimria often reminded us,
1:56.7	we can't just fall into the next season. Rather, we have to take advantage of this, this cyclical
2:09.0	turn of events, in order to begin again with renewed spirit, with a desire for genuine renewal.
2:20.7	That is why during this time of prayer we can ask the Lord for this great sense,
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