He has a name written on his cloak and on his thigh, “King of kings and Lord of lords.” (Revelation 19:16) They will fight with the Lamb, but the Lamb will conquer them, for he is Lord of lords and ...

Each year the ornaments, greenery, and tinsel make an earlier appearance. One laments the distortion of autumn and Thanksgiving under the ever-growing Christmas hegemony. Still, another commonly ...

Prayer of Christ, FEAST OF THE, occurs on the Tuesday after Septuagesima (double major). Its object is to commemorate the prolonged prayer which Christ offered in Gethsemane in our behalf in ...

Today the Catholic Church celebrates the Solemnity of Our Lord Jesus Christ, King of the Universe. Commonly called “Christ the King,” the holy day has an important lesson for Christian believers.

Christ "is the image of the invisible God." That idea has inspired thousands of representations of Jesus of decidedly wide-ranging degrees of artistic quality. One of the oldest images we have is a ...

From prayer groups to bus bookings and new banners, parishes are building momentum for the 22 November procession.

(RNS) — Christ the King offers both a hopeful and a sobering reminder to Christians, whose loyalty to Jesus becomes subordinated to political ideology. (RNS) — Lost in the shorter, busier, cooler days ...

Transfiguration of Christ, FEAST OF, August 6, double second class, celebrated to commemorate the manifestation of the Divine glory recorded by St. Matthew (xvii). In 1456 Callixtus III extended the ...

The Gospel for this Sunday, the feast of Christ the King, is taken from John’s Passion narrative: Jesus before Pontius Pilate. Jesus’ kingdom is not of this world; he is not a king in political terms.

Christ's kingship is the opposite of what anyone expected, and that's exactly why His example is so critical. Christ’s kingship is the opposite of what anyone expected, and that’s exactly why His ...

If any man be devout and loves God, Let him enjoy this fair and radiant triumphal feast! If any man be a wise servant, Let him rejoicing enter into the joy of his Lord. And you who have disregarded ...

The Feast of Christ the King closes the Church’s liturgical year this Sunday. But do we think enough about what ‘Christ the King’ means? And if we do, are we sure this is a feast we still want to ...