How COVID mandates, lockdowns go contrary to Christ the King
Summary
The Feast of Christ the King was established in 1925 by Pope Pius XI to commemorate Christ's kingship over the hearts of all Christians and indeed over all men. But over the last 60 years, the idea that Christ should be treated as king over society and the civil laws, and that all civil laws should conform to his laws, has been progressively forgotten. In fact, in a sense, this collective kind of amnesia has led to a change in the meaning of the feast.
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Of all the feast days in the Church, very few speak to the time we are living in like the Feast of Christ the King,
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This feast was established in 1925 by Pope Pius XI.
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But you'd only know that if you actually checked out the original intent of the feast
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and not the distorted version which is in vogue today.
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Let's begin, as we always do, with the sign of the cross.
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In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost. Amen.
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So, Pius XI established this feast with his encyclical Quas Primus
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to commemorate Christ's kingship over the hearts of all Christians and indeed over all men.
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It was also over every state, nation, and society, or every organization of people.
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But over the last 60 years or so, this, what people call the social kingship of Christ,
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the idea that Christ should be treated as king over society and the civil laws,
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and that all the civil laws, in fact, should conform to his laws,
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In fact, in a sense, this collective kind of amnesia has led to a change in the meaning of the feast.
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let's see what Pope Pius wanted us to learn about Christ the king in the first place.
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but also because he has bought us with his own blood.
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And it's in both of these senses that he's our king.
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He's our king over each person, each family, each gathering of people.
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Now, we all know that Christ must be king of our hearts,
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but if we all must recognize him as king as individuals,
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how could we not still have that duty when we are gathered as a nation,
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but at the bare minimum, it means that Christ's kingly dignity demands
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that the state should take account of the commandments of God
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and of Christian principles, both in making laws,
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and administering justice, and also in education.
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And those are, by the way, that's a quote from the encyclical.
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The state is sovereign, of course, in its own proper sphere,
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but it's obliged to operate within the bounds of Christ's own kingship.
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So, Christ himself told us when he spoke to Pilate that he was a king,
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and this teaching goes back to the very beginning of the Church.
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When Pope Leo XIII was facing similar problems decades before,
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he wrote in his encyclical Temezi, and I quote,
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The world has heard enough of the so-called rights of man.
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Let it hear something of the rights of God, end quote.
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The silence about the rights of God represented a betrayal of Christ the King.
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and at the same time provide an excellent remedy for the plague,
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The plague he spoke of was the phenomenon in which men had thrust,
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thrust Jesus Christ and his holy law out of their lives, end quote.
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there was always the temptation for Christians to go along,
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to accommodate themselves to the hostile powers and pluralistic societies.
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was not just an encyclical or pronouncement from the true doctrine.
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that such pronouncements usually reach only a few,
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For people are instructed in the truths of our faith,
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and brought to appreciate the inner joys of religion,
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and far more effectively by the annual celebration of our sacred mysteries, end quote.
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So, what he says speaks beautifully to the importance of the Mass,
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The Church's teaching affects the mind primarily.
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and have a salutary effect upon the whole of man's nature.
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may stimulate him to drink more deeply of the fountain of God's teaching,
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and use it with profit for his spiritual life, end quote.
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as the various revolutionary governments seemed to falter,
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or at least were limited behind the Iron Curtain.
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the doctrine behind this feast has been neglected.
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and taken a place among kind of false religions,