Dear brothers and sisters, we celebrate the solemnity of Our Lord Jesus Christ, King of the Universe. It is not only a feast of Our Lord Jesus Christ, but equally the feast of all Christians, because by the virtue of our Baptism, we are priest, prophet and Kings. The feast of Christ the king is thus a good moment to reflect the meaning of our kingship. Our Kingship must reflect the kingship of Christ. The gospel of today presents the kingship of Christ, not as a kingship of external domination nor of destruction or revenge as was being expected by those at the foot of the Cross. The gospel presents to us four group of people during the crucifixion of Jesus Christ: the crowd, the leaders, the soldiers and the two thieves. The Gospel tells us that the people stayed before the cross, watching Jesus. Watching means observing if the man who performed a lot of miracles, that called himself Son of God would get angry or provoked or fight back. That’s why the other three group impatiently started provoking to see his reaction. The leaders jeered at him saying “He saved others, the said, let him save himself if he is Christ of God, the Chosen One”, the soldiers mocked him saying “if you are the king of the Jews, save yourself” and lastly one of the Criminals said “Are you not the Christ? Save yourself and us as well”. The question we should ask ourselves is, if I was hanging on the cross in the place of Jesus, with all the power he had and the provocations coming from people you are saving, what could you or I had done? It happens in our life today, we are sometimes provoked to do evil in many ways, by different people, our family, our wife, husband, children, friends. What is usually our reaction as Christian in such situations? Jesus had all the power but decided to remain faithful to God and to his mission to save humanity. This is where the kingship of Christ comes from, faithful to God and to the mission entrusted to him no matter the evil traps. As Christians, as king we need to remain faithful in doing good, in being good no matter the temptation the world present to us to do evil. We are not good because others are good to us but because Christ has been good to us. Our goodness doesn’t depend on others but on our identity as Christians. Through us, people find unity, joy, peace, and love. This is what we see in the first reading, with the Kingship of David. 

In the first reading, we see how through David, all the tribes of Israel united, (the Northern and the Southern Kingdom). This becomes a prefiguration of Christ in which everything is united in him. Through Christ, all of us become sons and daughter of God. As sant Paul say there is no more 

Jew, Pagan, European or American, African or Asian, but Christ. As Christian we become a new creation, the holy saints of God. As saint Paul says in the Second reading, God wanted that all perfection to be found in him and all reconciled through him and for him, everything in heaven and everything on earth, when he made peace by his death on the cross. By death on the cross, we become a new creation that promotes peace, unity, love, justice. It is not an easy journey but being in church today is sign we are ready to become bearers of this message through our way of living. As the psalmist says, “I rejoice when I heard them say, let us go to God’s house”. Being in his house, let us ask God to give us the grace to become Christians in all seasons.