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In today's reading from the
prophet Ezekiel, God tells his people that a day is coming when He
Himself will shepherd his people. He will seek out the lost sheep and
rescue them from the ends of the earth. He will pasture them and bring
them to rest.
In Paul's second letter we are informed that in the end Jesus will reign
over every sovereignty and every authority and power. Lastly He will
destroy death. When everything is subjected to Him, then the Son himself
will also be subjected to the one who subjected everything to Him, so
that God may be all in all.
How is this transformation
going to take place? Jesus tells us in today's gospel selection from
Matthew that it will be in a most hidden way. Christ's quiet revolution
is already under way in our day and age starting in the hearts of those
who believe in Him. Certain secret signs can be detected in the way they
feed the hungry, welcome the stranger, clothe the naked, visit the ill
and imprisoned, witness to the young, comfort the sorrowful, and work
for peace. In countless, almost imperceptible ways Christ is building
worldwide armies of men and women willing to live and to die, when need
be, for his cause.
In the midst of the
totalitarianism and nationalism spreading across Europe in 1925, Pope
Pius XI instituted a special feast of the kingship of our Lord Jesus
Christ. We need this feast today as much as it was needed back then. Let
us "open wide the doors of our hearts to Christ" and affirm that Jesus
Christ truly is our Lord and King. |
