The Feast of Christ
the King is the final Sunday in the liturgical calendar. In the Gospel today,
Pilate is concerned with what type of King Jesus is and what kind of Kingdom he
is talking about? To understand what type of kingship Jesus is talking about we
need to lay aside a lot of the cultural baggage that we have about Kings and
Kingdoms. There are no palaces, no pomp and ceremony involved here. Jesus’
Kingdom is concerned with justice for the weak and the oppressed.
At our baptism we were
each anointed as ‘priest, prophet and king’ and therefore we share in this
kingship that Pilate is wondering about. We are called to show the world that
Jesus’s followers are concerned with love and service of others; that Jesus’
Kingdom is built on a different kind of foundation. With so much brokenness in
the world we are called to transformative
service. There are no shortage of causes: the refugee crisis; homelessness;
climate justice…
At the end of this month, world leaders gather in Paris at ‘COP21’ to try
to come to a universal agreement on addressing climate change. We pray that the
‘Kings’ and ‘Presidents’ of this world take strong action to protect our
planet. “We pray for the representatives of the nations
meeting in Paris, and in every government everywhere—and all business leaders
and consumers—that we will see nature as a magnificent book in which God speaks
to us and grants us a glimpse of his infinite beauty and goodness. (LS
12)” #pray4cop21
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