I’m at that awkward moment in the year where I have to carry two diaries around with me, but only for one more week because my diary corresponds with the church’s year rather than the calendar year.
This Sunday is the last of the current liturgical year before we start again with Advent. The annual cycle of the Church’s year now ends this Sunday with the Feast of Christ the King.
The year which began last Advent with the hope of the coming Messiah ends with the proclamation of his sovereignty over all creation. Jesus is not a king in an earthly sense, as he says to Pilate in John’s Gospel, ‘My kingdom is not from this world’.
In Greek, he is ‘Christ Pantocrator’, ‘ruler of all’ who sits in glory at the right hand of God. Christ’s Kingdom is both among us and yet beyond us; now and not yet. And the reign of God that we long for is a kingdom of truth and life, justice, love, and peace.
– Rev Liz
