THE FEAST OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST, KING OF THE UNIVERSE.
by VP
Posted on Sunday October 27, 2024 at 01:00AM in Tradition
Prayer
to Christ the King
O
CHRIST, JESUS, I acknowledge Thee as Universal King. For Thee all creatures
have been made. Do Thou exercise over
me all the rights that Thou hast.
Renew my Baptismal Vows,
I renounce Satan, with all his works and
pomps, and I promise to live as a good
Catholic: Especially, do I pledge myself, by all
the
means in my power, to bring about the triumph of the rights
of God and of Thy Church.
Divine
Heart of Jesus, I offer Thee all my poor actions to obtain that all hearts may
recognize Thy Sacred Royalty, and that thus the reign of Thy Peace may be established throughout the entire world.
Amen.
ENCYCLICAL OF POPE PIUS XI ON THE FEAST OF CHRIST THE KING: Quas Primas
4. If We ordain that the whole Catholic world shall revere Christ as King, We shall minister to the need of the present day, and at the same time provide an excellent remedy for the plague which now infects society. We refer to the plague of anti-clericalism, its errors and impious activities. This evil spirit, as you are well aware, Venerable Brethren, has not come into being in one day; it has long lurked beneath the surface. The empire of Christ over all nations was rejected. The right which the Church has from Christ himself, to teach mankind, to make laws, to govern peoples in all that pertains to their eternal salvation, that right was denied. Then gradually the religion of Christ came to be likened to false religions and to be placed ignominiously on the same level with them. It was then put under the power of the state and tolerated more or less at the whim of princes and rulers. Some men went even further, and wished to set up in the place of God's religion a natural religion consisting in some instinctive affection of the heart. There were even some nations who thought they could dispense with God, and that their religion should consist in impiety and the neglect of God. The rebellion of individuals and states against the authority of Christ has produced deplorable consequences. We lamented these in the Encyclical Ubi arcano; we lament them today: the seeds of discord sown far and wide; those bitter enmities and rivalries between nations, which still hinder so much the cause of peace; that insatiable greed which is so often hidden under a pretense of public spirit and patriotism, and gives rise to so many private quarrels; a blind and immoderate selfishness, making men seek nothing but their own comfort and advantage, and measure everything by these; no peace in the home, because men have forgotten or neglect their duty; the unity and stability of the family undermined; society in a word, shaken to its foundations and on the way to ruin.