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Solemnity of Our Lord Jesus Christ, King of the Universe Once there was an execution of three men by the Gestapo in front of thousands of spectators in a Nazi concentration camp. The three were mounted onto the chairs, and when the nooses were placed on their necks, two of them shouted, “Long live freedom!” while the third, a child, simply, kept silent.
The same may be said of Kingship. In our common understanding, a reigning king is always associated with absolute authority and power. A ruling king who acts like a slave, is treated as a slave, who is in fact a slave, that is something beyond imagination. But that is precisely who Jesus is: a servant-king. It is therefore understandable that, in today’s Gospel, the Jews could not believe in the kingship of Christ. If anything, He was, in their perception, exactly the opposite.
But Jesus’ kingship can be perceived only by those who have faith. Only one who has faith can see the kingship of Jesus in powerlessness, weakness, pain, and suffering. And precisely because He is a king, a crucified king, Luke is subtly suggesting that rather than trying to understand the kingship of Jesus in terms of what we know from kings who ruled in history, we must understand what it really means to be a king in terms of the kingship of Jesus.
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