{"id":110033,"date":"2025-11-23T06:38:50","date_gmt":"2025-11-23T14:38:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/amateurmonk\/?p=110033"},"modified":"2025-11-23T06:38:56","modified_gmt":"2025-11-23T14:38:56","slug":"christus-vincit-christus-regnat-christus-imperat-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/amateurmonk\/christus-vincit-christus-regnat-christus-imperat-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Christus Vincit! Christus Regnat! Christus Imperat!"},"content":{"rendered":"
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T<\/span>his weekend we celebrate the great feast of Christ the King<\/a>. Traditionally, here at Pistachio House, we have had our “Franksgiving<\/a>” feast on this weekend. This was Francine’s favourite holiday, as she embodied the Benedictine charism of hospitality. She loved gathering family and friends and cooking for them. We did our best without her and in her memory yesterday. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was hard. We kept an empty chair for her.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is right and just that we celebrate God’s bounty and God’s blessings in our lives. But today, on the Feast of Christ the King, it is perhaps better that we read about the nature of Christ’s kingship, and to what He calls us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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W<\/span>hen the Son of man comes in his glory<\/em>, and all the angels with him, then he will sit on his glorious throne. Before him will be gathered all the nations, and he will separate them one from another as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats, and he will place the sheep at his right hand, but the goats at the left.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then the King will say to those at his right hand, \u2018Come, O blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world; for I was hungry and you gave me food, I was thirsty and you gave me drink, I was a stranger and you welcomed me, I was naked and you clothed me, I was sick and you visited me, I was in prison and you came to me.\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then the righteous will answer him, \u2018Lord, when did we see thee hungry and feed thee, or thirsty and give thee drink? And when did we see thee a stranger and welcome thee, or naked and clothe thee? And when did we see thee sick or in prison and visit thee?\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And the King will answer them, \u2018Truly, I say to you, as you did it to one of the least of these my brethren, you did it to me.\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then he will say to those at his left hand, \u2018Depart from me, you cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels; for I was hungry and you gave me no food, I was thirsty and you gave me no drink, I was a stranger and you did not welcome me, naked and you did not clothe me, sick and in prison and you did not visit me.\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then they also will answer, \u2018Lord, when did we see thee hungry or thirsty or a stranger or naked or sick or in prison, and did not minister to thee?\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then he will answer them, \u2018Truly, I say to you, as you did it not to one of the least of these, you did it not to me.\u2019 And they will go away into eternal punishment, but the righteous into eternal life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

(Matthew 25:31-46<\/a>)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n

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The Schola of Saint Odo of Cluny practices Christus Vincit<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n