CHRIST THE KING

Sunday is the last Sunday of the church's liturgical year. It is a feast that celebrates the reign of the King whose kingdom we have been proclaiming all these ordinary Sundays: "Christ, yesterday and today, the beginning and the end ..." Next Sunday we will enter into the first Sunday of the new church year. In combination with the Feasts of All Souls and All Saints, this feast makes the statement that we make each Sunday at the conclusion of the Eucharistic Prayer. It is through Him and in Him and with Him in union with the Holy Spirit that all glory and honor belongs to our God forever and ever. Amen. As we conclude the year we once more affirm in faith that Jesus, the King of glory and the Lord of all, will come again and will rule to the ends of the earth. As we begin the new year of waiting for his return we make a commitment to once again work for the establishment of the kingdom that has been proclaimed in our midst.