The Feast of Christ the King concludes the liturgical season of the year known as Ordinary Time; the time stretching from Pentecost to the season of Advent; our season of hope and expectation for Christ’s coming again. The celebration of Christ’s lordship exalted by God to rule over all…not just the whole universe but our hearts as well…looks back both to Ascension, Easter, Transfiguration and ahead to Christmas. Christ himself spoke of this kingship, this sovereignty in the Gospel according to St. Matthew (28:18): “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me.” And the Early Church patriarch St. Cyril of Alexandria wrote in the 5th century: “Christ has dominion over all creatures…by essence and by nature…consubstantial with the Father, has all things in common with him, and therefore has necessarily supreme and absolute dominion over all things created.” Ironically, in spite of Christ’s own words, and those of the Early Church Fathers, the Feast of Christ the King did not enter the liturgical calendar until the mid-1920’s; and with it a special focus on the implications it made on the faithful. Ironic perhaps but never more appropriate and of consequence to us given the buffeting of