[One] great task of the Church is to proclaim, The kingdom of God is at hand. The Church is an announcing, proclaiming, evangelizing organism. What we proclaim is that, in Jesus Christ, a whole new way of ordering things has appeared, that God, in Christ, is drawing all things to himself. The great ordering principles of the world—money, fame, power, sex, pleasure—are overthrown. A new King has come, a new way of organizing life. Love, inclusion, compassion, nonviolence, forgiveness, especially of enemies—this is now the way sanctioned by God.
--Bishop Robert Barron,
Gospel Reflection,
September 30, 2022
Image source: C. B. Chambers, Christ the King, restored, https://www.catholictothemax.com/catholic-art/christ-the-king-by-chambers-restored-gold-framed-art/
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