The John-Henry Westen Show - Here's what 'Christ is King' REALLY means

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00:00:21.320 this weekend is the feast of christ the king wait stop i know most of you are thinking john henry

00:00:35.800 you're like a month early it's the end of november and so it's on the last day of sunday

00:00:42.000 before advent right well so it might surprise you to learn that this weekend is actually the

00:00:48.980 original date of this great modern feast of christ the king which has been established or was

00:00:55.840 established in 1925 this feast its movement from this weekend to the end of the liturgical year

00:01:05.100 and what the feast itself has come to mean today all tells us so much about the current state of

00:01:12.680 the church in the world it's like a key to understanding what's going on in the church

00:01:16.420 in this video i'm going to tell you the original meaning of the feast of christ the king and why

00:01:22.400 the pope established it in the first place what happened to it in the 1960s and how this fundamentally

00:01:28.500 changed the meaning of the feast and how these changes have affected the faith of catholics

00:01:34.700 throughout the world sounds big for a feast that still has less than 100 years behind it well by

00:01:41.880 the end of this video you're going to be shocked at what has happened stick around you're not going

00:01:47.760 to want to miss this pope pius 11 said men must look for the peace of christ in the kingdom of christ

00:01:56.040 and he urged that the faithful give public honor to christ the king so that individuals and states

00:02:01.240 would submit once more to the rule of their savior and that is why life site news is raising up the

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00:02:22.100 is going to give you a real insight of how we got to where we are and perhaps the road back to where

00:02:29.540 we need to be in the church so let's begin as you always do with the sign of the cross in the name of

00:02:34.420 the father and of the son and of the holy ghost amen in the 1920s the world was a different place

00:02:43.680 a whole generation of europe's men had been slaughtered in the trenches of the first world war

00:02:50.860 formerly catholic countries were marching towards secularism and even atheism for example in mexico and

00:02:57.680 portugal openly masonic governments were in control and more or less persecuting the church

00:03:03.660 in mexico it was a persecution unto blood in the cristero war in portugal we all know about the

00:03:11.220 freemason mayor persecuting the three children of fatima threatening to put them in a pot of boiling oil

00:03:17.160 in the weimar republic of germany all sorts of immorality and decadence was being openly promoted 0.85

00:03:23.660 to a truly horrifying degree the similarities with our own day are quite remarkable in russia

00:03:32.980 the communist revolution was spreading itself and no one knew how far that might go it was in this

00:03:39.980 climate 99 years ago in 1925 that pope pious the 11th established the feast of christ the king he told

00:03:51.480 the world that all these great evils had come because men had and i quote thrust jesus christ and his holy

00:03:59.720 law out of their lives end quote both in the private sphere and in society as a whole specifically he

00:04:07.760 said that this had happened because society had secularized and naturalized itself so what does that

00:04:16.200 mean even many catholics had come to treat the church as simply one religion among others even if it

00:04:24.460 happened to be the true one the idea that the church as the church of christ and not just a religion has

00:04:31.540 rights which civil society is obliged to respect was being forgotten more and more some of the less

00:04:40.520 hostile forces were happy to let the church exist but definitely not as the state religion the idea

00:04:49.380 that there was no salvation outside the church was also being quietly forgotten and replaced with nicer

00:04:56.220 views but when the church pope pius said is put on the same level as false religions the inevitable

00:05:05.280 result is indifferentism and the idea that all religions are a path to arrive at god pope pius said that

00:05:14.220 indifferentism inevitably leads to the subjection of the church to the state and to an agnostic or

00:05:20.680 atheist state which holds that it can dispense with god altogether that's why a few decades earlier pope 0.84

00:05:27.080 leo the 13th had actually called religious liberty the idea that the state and individuals are free to

00:05:33.780 profess any or no religion and to treat all religions equally is quote legal apostasy from god end quote

00:05:42.700 now it might sound surprising to some today but pope pius was extremely clear that he set up

00:05:48.880 the feast of christ the king specifically to address those problems which are only worse in our day and

00:05:55.760 he wanted to remedy those problems this feast the feast of christ the king was supposedly to remedy

00:06:02.140 these evils by reminding mankind that christ is king if you celebrate the feast of christ the king

00:06:12.120 at the end of november the chances are you've heard a lot about how christ is the king of our hearts

00:06:18.620 and how he will fully manifest his kingship at the end of time both of which are of course true

00:06:25.420 but there's something missing here something big is missing jesus christ is king as god and as man

00:06:34.040 he is king as man because he has shed his precious blood for us and ransomed us from the devil and from sin

00:06:42.100 he is the king not just of the faithful but of or even of the baptized he is king over all humanity

00:06:52.040 whether humanity wants him or not as he is king over every individual person he's also king over every

00:07:00.020 group of society that means he's the king over our families our societies but most especially the king

00:07:07.300 of our nations nations and governments therefore have a duty to recognize his kingship and to offer

00:07:14.580 him the proper homage due to their king and as he is god this proper homage is adoration or worship

00:07:21.640 pious the 11th taught that explicitly when he said that quote not only private individuals but also

00:07:30.280 rulers and princes are bound to give public honor and obedience to christ end quote this is found most

00:07:37.360 perfectly in the offering of holy mass he didn't mean that rulers and princes are bound to honor christ

00:07:43.640 as individuals but rather as the representatives of the state and christ has a right to this homage

00:07:50.120 some people talk of god as if god is so much bigger than us and so we have no need to be concerned about

00:07:58.280 giving him what is his due but no as pope leo the 13th said that putting his religion on the same level

00:08:08.840 as false religions is legal apostasy from god and working against this is what pious the 11th feast of christ the 0.94

00:08:19.040 king is all about another really important part of this doctrine of christ is king is king or the

00:08:26.120 kingship of christ relates to the laws of a nation pious the 11th taught that in quote christ's kingly

00:08:33.480 dignity demands that the state should take account of the commandments of god and of christian principles

00:08:40.660 both in making laws and in administering justice and also in education it means that

00:08:48.880 the catholic religion should be established as the state religion that the church should be free to

00:08:55.140 carry out her mission and that the laws of the nation should be christian not in the sense of

00:09:00.960 punishing eating meat on friday with death or anything but in the sense that all laws should be

00:09:07.800 in accordance with right reason and natural law and don't go against any aspect of divine law or

00:09:14.920 revelation this phrase christ is king has become very popular today but i can't help wondering if

00:09:21.360 those who are using it saying it as a slogan really realize what it is that they are saying

00:09:27.060 let's be honest a catholic confessional state and having a problem with so-called religious liberty

00:09:33.700 these are what christendom and christ the king actually means christ is king now and must reign

00:09:40.840 as saint paul says you don't have to take my word for it that is the original doctrine of christ's

00:09:47.740 kingship you can go look it up in quas primas the encyclical but i'll tell you somewhere that you'll

00:09:55.500 actually find it hard to find you'll struggle to find this doctrine expressed with any kind of clarity

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00:10:33.920 they didn't just move the date they actually changed a whole lot of the prayers readings and variable

00:10:43.060 parts of the mass and these changes convey a radically different emphasis to what you'll find in the

00:10:49.380 encyclical quas primus the theology books and the original mass texts even the new date shifts the

00:10:58.120 emphasis originally the feast was placed on the last sunday of october which is necessarily the last

00:11:04.840 sunday before all saints this date was explained by writers at the time as conveying christ reigning in

00:11:12.000 all his saints and his elect christ is king and that is he is king now and must reign over society and all

00:11:21.620 nations what about the new date the last sunday of the liturgical year has been associated with

00:11:28.560 the end of the world for a very long time on its own moving the feast to that date might not be such

00:11:36.180 a big deal however it's not on its own it's part of a broader set of changes which tell a different

00:11:43.720 doctrine one that allows christ to be king for sure but only at the end of time there was always

00:11:50.840 something about the end of the world associated with the feast of christ the king but it's now

00:11:56.780 become the main feature and the meaning of the of the feast let's take a look at these changes

00:12:03.440 the original first reading is all about the present reality and what has already been accomplished that

00:12:11.940 christ is now the head of the body of the church and he has already transferred us into his kingdom

00:12:18.080 the original gospel presents christ declaring his kingship before pilate crowned with thorns and

00:12:24.760 showing what kind of king he really is you might get that very same gospel reading depending on the

00:12:31.220 year but the general sense of the readings following the change is that they are pointing to the future

00:12:38.520 or to eternity christ will seek out his sheep in the future and judge the faithful in the future

00:12:44.920 there is no denial of anything here it would of course be too obvious to deny the facts after all

00:12:52.200 it's part of an overall general shift of emphasis with a lot of plausible deniability in the old office

00:12:58.320 of matins the office of readings and in the divine office every priest was presented with extracts from

00:13:05.700 the encyclical quas primas and these extracts ended with the following statement of doctrine and i quote

00:13:13.640 it would be a grave error on the other hand to say that christ has no authority whatever in civil affairs

00:13:19.880 since by virtue of the absolute empire over all creatures committed to him by the father

00:13:25.780 all things are in his power it then goes on to say that combating this error is the very purpose

00:13:33.940 of the feast itself and all that is gone on the new date of the feast the new office of readings

00:13:39.640 as only some reflections about the importance of christ reigning over our souls such a reign is no

00:13:46.400 doubt supremely and eternally important for each one of us but it's a different emphasis to what pious

00:13:53.220 the 11th and the original feast wanted nonetheless most stunningly the changed feast had an official

00:14:02.380 hymn for the use in the divine office which wonderfully expressed the doctrine which we've been discussing

00:14:09.360 here here's what it said the wicked protest wail and cry christ jesus reign they would deny

00:14:18.420 rejoice we at thy glorious name thou highest king we do proclaim let nations leaders lift thy name and

00:14:27.760 give thee public praise may judges teachers do the same our laws arts embrace thy ways may kings submit

00:14:37.240 and brightly shine in pledging all to thee and to thy scepter sweet and mild submit we as a little child

00:14:47.920 shall i tell you what happened to those verses they're gone they're deleted they're just cancelled

00:14:53.580 the hymn actually remains in the official latin for vespers with all the other verses but with these

00:14:59.960 verses deleted it's stunning when you actually see it for yourself so why is this important most

00:15:08.280 catholics are taught primarily not through encyclicals but through the sermons at mass and the mass itself

00:15:14.500 each sunday that's precisely why pious the 11th didn't just release an encyclical but established a feast

00:15:23.080 in that encyclical he said and i quote people are instructed in the truths of the faith and brought

00:15:29.700 to appreciate the inner joys of religion far more effectually by the annual celebration of our sacred

00:15:37.140 mysteries than by any official pronouncement of the teaching of the church such pronouncements

00:15:42.920 usually reach only a few and the more learned among the faithful feasts reach them all and the former

00:15:50.920 speak but once and the latter speak every year in fact forever he continues the church's teaching

00:15:58.120 affects the mind primarily her feasts affect both mind and heart and have a salutary effect upon the

00:16:07.040 whole of man's nature he continues again man is composed of body and soul and he needs these external

00:16:14.480 festivities so that the sacred rites in all their beauty and variety may stimulate him to drink more

00:16:22.440 deeply of the fountain of god's teaching that he may make it a part of himself and use it with profit for

00:16:30.740 his spiritual life we can see evidence of all this in the catastrophic distortion in understanding of christ's

00:16:38.740 kingship following these liturgical changes it is abundantly no surprise that christ's kingship has been reduced to his

00:16:48.260 kingship over our hearts or to a future in eternity even though that is exactly not what the encyclical intended in the

00:16:58.740 but it's also hard to avoid concluding that these changes were deliberate calculated to remove christ from

00:17:06.840 his this public sphere and to play his own embarrassing claims you know these these kind of

00:17:13.560 in claims over society civil society which is so rejected today but in the encyclical pious the 11th teaches that

00:17:21.280 christ will ultimately not tolerate being pushed aside and uncrowned as king and that judgment

00:17:28.680 pious says quote christ who has been cast out of public life despised neglected and ignored

00:17:36.780 will most severely avenge these insults end quote this vengeance has already started and it's been going on

00:17:47.640 for a long time if no one is out there defending christ's rights and the liberty of the church if they're

00:17:55.120 actually doing the opposite how can we be surprised if the state steps into the place left behind and it

00:18:03.880 starts interfering with the life of the church and suppressing her activities does anyone remember the

00:18:10.960 covid lockdowns when the government presumed to suppress all public worship it's been said that we can't say

00:18:18.180 christ is king if we don't let him reign or if we try to change the nature of his kingship we'd be making

00:18:25.160 him into a figurehead and putting the real authority on somewhere else but to say it again christ who has

00:18:33.060 been cast out of public life despised neglected and ignored will most severely avenge these insults end quote

00:18:40.840 so the next time any of us use christ is king let's know what it really means and let's really mean it

00:18:51.100 for life site news this is john henry weston may god bless you

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The John-Henry Westen Show - October 24, 2024

Here's what 'Christ is King' REALLY means

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