We dream for him to reign (Fr. Fernando Torres)

With the celebration of this day a liturgical cycle ends.
It is not only the days that pass, but it is a story that is born;
of the encounter with Christ and the Good News of him.
It is not only the Mysteries that we celebrate but it updates them;
in each Christian who makes Christ the center of his life. 

The Mystery of Christ becomes present in our lives.
to sanctify the moments, the days and the weeks,
to actualize the Mystery of him in our pilgrim life,
to experience the encounter with eternal love
that makes us disciples, witnesses and friends of his Kingdom. 

On this day we celebrate Christ the King of the Universe:
our faith professes that He is the center of the Church.
We work so that it reigns in each soul and in each family. 
we dream for him to reign in every town on earth,
and may it fill the lives of those who suffer and cry out for justice. 

We remember the Holy Gospel about the Eternal Judgment
to discover Christ in the needy of the world,
to live the mandate of his love through service,
to contemplate our life and that of our world:
that he responds to his love, with brotherhood and charity. 

We ask Christ to dwell in our world,
where justice has been lost and peace is longed for,
where war and power fight brotherhood,
where buying and selling denigrate humanity,
and where we have all forgotten that you will call us. 

To be the blessed ones who reign for eternity,
to be the unfortunates who die in solitude,
to receive reward for loving the suffering Christ,
to understand that the pain of man and the world,
they are the call to change our present and our happiness 

We ask on this feast that the Kingdom of God come to us
with his peace and his justice, with his love and his truth.
May he bless all peoples in your holy unity,
so that our praise to Christ the King may be heard in heaven
and may your holy Mother be the intercessor of all humanity. 

Amen. 

--Father Fernando Torres, Diocese of Raleigh, N. Carolina

Celebration of Christ King of the Universe 

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