Posted on 11/23/2008 9:04:14 AM PST by tcg
As we progress through liturgical time we are invited to experience the great events of faith. Through our readings and liturgical prayer, we are invited during this last week of the year to reflect on the “last things”- death, judgment, heaven and hell. We do so in order to change, to be converted, and thus to enter more fully into the Divine plan. The Western Church year ends. On the great Feast of Christ the King we celebrate the full and final triumph and return of the One through whom the entire universe was created; in whom it is being “recreated” and by whom it will be completely reconstituted and handed back to the Father at the “end” of all time.
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