Jesus is the King (Fr. Robert Barron)

  This is the King of the Jews.  

   In an absolutely delicious bit of irony, Pontius Pilate, the Roman governor, places over the cross the declaration, in the three major languages of the time, that Jesus is the King, effectively de-throning Caesar and becoming, despite himself, the first great evangelist. 

   The cross of Jesus Christ...was meant to affirm the powers of the world, the powers of sin and death, as a challenge to those powers.  

   It’s our declaration that death and violence do not have the last word:  Jesus does.

                                                            --Fr. Robert Barron, April 3, 2015 

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