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there is a point where everything comes to an end

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& if we're to have any hope, that's where we need a king to reign   TheGospel of The Lord! Today is our celebration of the reign of Christ; today is Christ the King Saturday/Sunday! Today is not merely a celebration of the fact that Christ is king, though. No, today is much more important than celebrating any old king; today is a celebration of the kind of king Jesus is. And so it is on this auspicious occasion, celebrating the kind of king Jesus is, that we also celebrate the end of the church-year... Next week we will begin Advent and start the church-year all over again. So as we celebrate the end of the church-year, Christ the King Saturday/Sunday, we should pause... We should pause because the church-year is not an arbitrary thing. The church year is a way of keeping time to invite each one of us into the divine drama of salvation history, a way to see our story in light of God's. The church-year is a way to infuse all of our days with meaning, with a sens...