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Writer's pictureMaria Knox

THE SOLEMNITY OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST, KING OF THE UNIVERSE. NOVEMBER 24, 2024



Gospel Jn 18:33b-37

Pilate said to Jesus," Are you the King of the Jews?" 

Jesus answered, "Do you say this on your own or have others told you about me?" 

Pilate answered, "I am not a Jew, am I? Your own nation and the chief priests handed you over to me. What have you done?" 

Jesus answered, "My kingdom does not belong to this world. If my kingdom did belong to this world, my attendants would be fighting to keep me from being handed over to the Jews. But as it is, my kingdom is not here." 

So Pilate said to him, "Then you are a king?" 

Jesus answered, "You say I am a king. For this I was born and for this I came into the world, to testify to the truth. Everyone who belongs to the truth listens to my voice."


REFLECTION

"You say I am a king. For this I was born and for this I came into the world, to testify to the truth. Everyone who belongs to the truth listens to my voice."


From today's Gospel, the immediate verse that follows reads: "Pilate said to him, “What is truth?'" (Jn 18:38 )


We, like Pilate, many times ask "what is truth?" Society tells us that truth is whatever we make of it. That we can create our own truth, our own reality. But we have to remember that we are not god, and this is not Heaven.


Saint Alphonsus tells us that: "MY LORD Jesus Christ, Who because of Your love for men remain night and day in the Blessed Sacrament, full of pity and of love, awaiting, calling and welcoming all who come to visit You." *

With the hustle and bustle of the upcoming holidays we are going to be caught in a whirlwind of activities that will not stop until after New Years. Let's try to slow down and spend some time with Jesus who awaits us in the Tabernacle.


That way we might be able to keep our eyes on Jesus, who Himself tells us: "I am the way and the truth and the life." (Jn 14:6), and we don't go searching for the truth where it doesn't exist.


God bless y'all!


*Visits to the Blessed Sacrament, by Saint Alphonsus Liguori


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