Friends, welcome to Word on Fire Catholic Ministries.

Word on Fire is an apostolate dedicated to the mission of evangelization,

using media both old and new to share the faith on every continent

and to facilitate an encounter with Christ and His Church.

The efforts of Word on Fire engage the culture and bring the

transformative power of God's Word where it is most needed. Today, we invite you to join Bishop

Robert Barron as he preaches the gospel and shares the warmth and light of Christ with each one of us.

Peace be with you.

Friends, we come to the end of the liturgical year,

this feast of Christ, the king.

Think of this now as this great stately procession

we've been following all during the year.

At the very end of it comes the king.

So we close the church year with a meditation upon the kingly reign or

rule of Christ. Now, I've said it before, we have a hard time with kings. I get it. You know,

we in the kind of modern liberal West. We like democratic policies. Our country emerged out of a

great rebellion against the king. So we struggle a bit

with the imagery of king, but we should get over that as kind of a modern hang-up, because kingship

is a really basic biblical idea. Go right back to the beginning of the Bible. So you have Adam and Eve in the

garden. Adam is the first priest, I've often said. He's giving right praise to God. And from that

right praise comes the order and beauty of the garden. He's also, though, meant to be a king.

That means someone who will reign over the garden, maintain its beauty,

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