Daily Mass Gospel Reflection- Christ Our King

Word on Fire Ministry ^ | 11.20.22 | Bishop Robert Barron

[MurphsLaw]

Luke 23:35-43

Friends, today we celebrate the feast of Christ the King.
This day reminds us what the Christian thing is all about:
that Jesus really is the King, the Lord of our lives.
It affirms that we belong utterly to him; that we can say,
with St. Paul, “It is no longer I who live but Christ who lives in me.”

If we say anything else,
we are horsing around with Christianity and not really living it.
If we pay lip service to Jesus but do not submit completely to him,
we are fooling around and not treating him as the King of our lives.
If we let him into one or two rooms of the house and not every room,
he isn’t our King.

Jesus is our Dominus, our Lord—or we are missing the point.

[MurphsLaw]

+++The rulers sneered at Jesus and said,
"He saved others, let him save himself
if he is the chosen one,
the Christ of God."
Even the soldiers jeered at him.
As they approached to offer him wine
they called out,
"If you are King of the Jews, save yourself."
Above him there was an inscription that read,
"This is the King of the Jews."

Now one of the criminals hanging
there reviled Jesus, saying,
"Are you not the Christ?
Save yourself and us."
The other, however, rebuking him,
said in reply,
"Have you no fear of God,
for you are subject to the same condemnation?
And indeed, we have been condemned justly,
for the sentence we received
corresponds to our crimes,
but this man has done nothing criminal."
Then he said,
"Jesus, remember me when you come
into your kingdom."
He replied to him,
"Amen, I say to you,
today you will be with me in Paradise."+++