{"id":31688,"date":"2014-11-23T22:21:31","date_gmt":"2014-11-24T02:21:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/?p=31688"},"modified":"2014-11-23T22:23:21","modified_gmt":"2014-11-24T02:23:21","slug":"christ-the-king-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2014\/11\/christ-the-king-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Christ the King"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Christ-the-King-the-Least-of-these.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-31689 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Christ-the-King-the-Least-of-these-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Christ the King (the Least of these)\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Christ-the-King-the-Least-of-these-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Christ-the-King-the-Least-of-these.jpg 403w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Today in the Ordinary Form of the Roman Rite is the Solemn Feast of &#8220;Christ the King&#8221; (the Extraordinary Form observed feast a month ago). I cam across this rather interesting and provocative image for the Christ the King with the question: &#8220;Christ the Least of These&#8221;? Of course, Matthew 25 is the judgement we all face.<\/p>\n<p>Some reduce the person of Jesus and His kingship with being &#8220;impressed&#8221; in favor of being &#8220;transformed.&#8221; Actually, I prefer the theological datum of being transfigured. Christ the King is reason enough to be impressed but His work as king is a service to all with a preference for the humble because He Himself was made low in the Incarnation.<\/p>\n<p>What comes to mind is the pious story of St Martin of Tours with his encounter with a beggar who was none other than Jesus. What comes to mind all the ways in which we Catholics live the Faith with a similar gaze Christ had for hungry, the thirsty, the lonely, the imprisoned, the sorrowful and ignorant.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today in the Ordinary Form of the Roman Rite is the Solemn Feast of &#8220;Christ the King&#8221; (the Extraordinary Form observed feast a month ago). I cam across this rather interesting and provocative image for the Christ the King with the question: &#8220;Christ the Least of These&#8221;? Of course, Matthew 25 is the judgement we &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2014\/11\/christ-the-king-3\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Christ the King<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[2239],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31688"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31688"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31688\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31692,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31688\/revisions\/31692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}