Comments for Christ the King at http://www.thecatholicthing.org , comment 1 to 5 out of 5 comments http://www.thecatholicthing.org Tue, 21 May 2013 18:36:28 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.3 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2012/christ-the-king.html#comment-14595 I have always found it paradoxical how we Catholics readily affirm the Kingship of Our Lord Jesus Christ, in abstract, so to say... We celebrate His Kingship as a Feast, we agree among ourselves that He is indeed King, but if we enter His house - the Church it seems that all knowledge of His Kingship has disappeared. In Church we talk to each other before Mass or after it as though He doesn't exist there.. i.e. as though we are in a hall or public meeting spot. I suggest that if we all implement, even to a small extent, some kind of daily acknowledgement of His Kingship, it will no longer be an abstract idea, remembered only on or near the last Sunday of the liturgical year, but it will benefit us greatly, making us true subjects of THE KING. - Alfred Wed, 28 Nov 2012 16:05:51 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2012/christ-the-king.html#comment-14568 A paradox that escapes the attention of contemporary "thinkers" is that freedom consists of alignment with good, love and truth. Behavior is thus constrained (one may not act counter to good, love and truth as one is able to know them), whereas "choice" between an infinite array of equalities (behavior is not constrained other than by preference) is actually slavery – oppression by the dictatorship of relativism. It can be simply illustrated. Put a hardened addict in front of the addicting substance (anything from money/power to sweets with drugs and sex firmly within the spectrum of idols) and say, "Choose!" The individual is free to choose, but the choice is not free. The choice is compelled by the lash of addiction. The paradox is complete. Freedom or slavery? That is the choice. - Other Joe Mon, 26 Nov 2012 08:49:37 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2012/christ-the-king.html#comment-14553 Father, GREAT READ - Jack,CT Sun, 25 Nov 2012 16:54:40 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2012/christ-the-king.html#comment-14548 An excellent a timely piece, Fr. Bramwell. Christ and Truth. This could not be more clear than in John 8:42 -47 which begins: Jesus therefore said to them "If God were your Father you would surely love me..The father from whom you are is the devil..He was a murderer from the beginning, and has not stood in the truth because there is no truth in him..and ends: He who is of God hears the words of God. The reason why you do not hear is that you are not of God." So much of the last fifty years in the Church and the political world today could have been obviated if this Gospel had been broadcast from the rooftops every day. - Manfred Sun, 25 Nov 2012 10:07:37 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2012/christ-the-king.html#comment-14544 For the kingdom, the power and the glory are yours now and for ever! - Randall Sun, 25 Nov 2012 08:11:20 +0100