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Editorial > Editorial Archive  Buenos Aires, Sunday, November 26, 2006
Christ the KingChurch Liturgy celebrates the Liturgic Year's last week with the Solemnity of Jesus Christ, King of the Universe, or Christ the King as it is generally known. During the next week Advent Time starts and we will be beginning a new Liturgical Year. Jesus indentified Himself with the poorest, thus His kingship is in them although it is hard for us seeing a “king” who is forgotten in his disease, in the loneliness of a nursing home or a hospital, or in those children who are forced to beg or to “work” cleaning windshields in order to survive. Fortunately there are places where these “kings” in the manner of Jesus are accompanied and have recovered this dignity, as is the case of many Homes, the “Little Cottolengos”, the Homes of the Felices los Niños Foundation, and many others. There, in these places among many hearts showing solidarity we realize there are many people who understood what Jesus' “kingship” truly means, this kingship which fights for a world ruled by love, justice, truth, and peace. Let us be part with our deeds of this true Universal Kingship of Jesus.Church Liturgy celebrates the Liturgic Year's last week with the Solemnity of Jesus Christ, King of the Universe, or Christ the King as it is generally known. During the next week Advent Time starts and we will be beginning a new Liturgical Year. This celebration of the Solemnity of Christ the King makes us reflect on this “kingship” of Jesus, understood in a different ways as the condition of kings which rule or have ruled nations, or as the “royalty” of our time. It may even be contradictory, since Jesus' condition of “being a King” starts at the cross, in His suffering, His personal dedication, His “sacrifice” as the Lamb of God. On principle it is not a celebration of “triumph” but rather of “defeat”, at least if we think of His death on the Cross, but of course this defeat is quickly turned into victory, not only because of His resurrection, His “triumph” but because here He shows his greatest gesture as a “king” in His devotion “for love”, because His true kingship starts from love, from this love which gives sense to life, and it is here that He shows His kingship, which is synonimous to love, dedication, sacrifice and service. There's no doubt thinking of a king who has identified with the poor, the suffering, who seems to show Himself “weak” is hard for our mentality, but of course when being asked “if he is the king of the Jews” (John 18, 33-36) Jesus Himself told Pontius Pilate that “My kingdom is not of this world”, meaning that His kingship is of a spiritual kind. Jesus indentified Himself with the poorest, thus His kingship is in them although it is hard for us seeing a “king” who is forgotten in his disease, in the loneliness of a nursing home or a hospital, or in those children who are forced to beg or to “work” cleaning windshields in order to survive. It is hard for us imagining a “king” who sleeps in a public square covered with newspapers or cardboard, or someone distressed due to unemployment who does not know how he will feed his family, or someone who is rejected because of his condition, race, culture or religion. It is hard to look at a disabled person as a “king” when he or she is forgotten, forsaken, or when a child or youth must live on the street or far from his family in order to get some education so he can achieve a little of that dignity to which all human beings are entitled. Fortunately there are places where these “kings” in the manner of Jesus are accompanied and have recovered this dignity, as is the case of many Homes, the “Little Cottolengos”, the Homes of the Felices los Niños Foundation, and many others. There, in these places among many hearts showing solidarity we realize there are many people who understood what Jesus' “kingship” truly means, this kingship which fights for a world ruled by love, justice, truth, and peace. Let us be part with our deeds of this true Universal Kingship of Jesus.
Father Oscar Pezzarini together with Fr. Leonardo Abregú makes us reflect on Saturdays from 8 to 12 AM (GMT-03:00)with "VENTANA A LA VIDA", the Don Orione radio program he conducts on FM PROVIDENCIA, 90.3 MHz together with some residents of the Claypole Cottolengo (Raúl Romero, María Laura Andrada, Alberto Zoroch, Américo Torres), with the production of Roberto Beluzzo and Ignacio Cavalli as technical operator. You can also listen to FM PROVIDENCIA by clicking here.
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