Christ the King Year B
Taken from Twelve Months of Sundays Year B
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Christ the King
Daniel 7.9-10, 13-14
Revelation 1.4b-8
John 18.33b-37
The ‘Feast of Christ the King’ was invented by Pius XI in 1925. Only in 1970 was it moved from October to the last Sunday before Advent. It slid into Anglicanism very recently, introducing three muddles.
First, the proper feast of Christ the King is Ascension. Any suggestion that Christ only becomes King at the end of a long post-Ascension process is unwarranted.
Second, the idea that ‘the kingdom of God’ denotes either a purely future reality, or the reality which the saints presently enjoy in heaven (as some liturgies now say), is likewise way off the mark, radically distorting the Bible’s kingdom- language...
Taken from Twelve Months of Sundays Year B by N T Wright