Feast of Christ the King

This article describes the Feast of Christ the King. For the title of Christ, see Christ the King. This article discusses the title of Jesus Christ Christ the King.

The Feast of Christ the King (properly the Solemnity of Christ the King in the Roman Catholic Church) is a last holy Sunday in the western liturgical calendar, celebrated by the Roman Catholic Church and by many Protestants. Christ is the English term for the Greek ( Khristós) meaning "the anointed " King of Kings is a lofty title that has been used by several monarchies (usually empires in the informal sense of great powers throughout history and in many cases the literal title A Solemnity of the Roman Catholic Church is a principal Holy day in the Liturgical calendar, usually commemorating an event in the life of Jesus The liturgical year, also known as the Christian year, consists of the cycle of liturgical seasons in Christian churches which determines when

1 Origin and History in the Roman Catholic Church
2 Observance in other Churches
3 References
4 See also

Origin and History in the Roman Catholic Church

On 11 December 1925, towards the end of that Holy Year, Pope Pius XI instituted this liturgical celebration as a feast ranked as a Double of the First Class ^[1] with his encyclical Quas Primas. Events 359 - Honoratus, the first known Prefect of the City of Constantinople, takes office Year 1925 ( MCMXXV) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. The concept of the Jubilee is a special year of remission of Sins and universal pardon Pope Pius XI ( Latin: Pius PP XI; Italian: Pio XI; May 31 1857 &ndash February 10 1939) born A liturgy is the customary public worship done by a specific religious group according to their particular traditions An encyclical was originally a circular letter sent to all the churches of a particular area in the ancient Christian church Quas Primas (In the first was an Encyclical of Pope Pius XI. Promulgated on December 11, 1925, it introduced the Feast of Christ ^[2]

The title of the feast was "D. N. Jesu Christi Regis" (Our Lord Jesus Christ the King), and the date was "the last Sunday of the month of October - the Sunday, that is, which immediately precedes the Feast of All Saints". For the British girl group see All Saints (band. All Saints' Day (also called All Hallows or Hallowmas) often ^[3]

In Pope John XXIII's 1960 revision of the Calendar, the date and title remained the same and, in the new simpler ranking of feasts, it was classified as a feast of the first class. Pope John (numberingBlessed This article lists the feast days of the General Roman Calendar as it was in 1962 following the reforms of Pope John XXIII introduced with his Motu proprio ''Rubricarum

In 1969, Pope Paul VI gave the celebration a new title: "D. Pope N. Iesu Christi universorum Regis" (Our Lord Jesus Christ King of All). He also gave it a new date: the last Sunday in the liturgical year, before a new year begins with the First Sunday in Advent, the earliest date for which is 27 November. Advent (from the Latin word la ''adventus'' meaning "coming" is a season of the Christian church, the period of expectant waiting and preparation for the Events 1095 - Pope Urban II declares the First Crusade at the Council of Clermont Through this choice of date "the eschatological importance of this Sunday is made clearer". Eschatology (from the Greek, Eschatos meaning "last" and -logy meaning "the study of" is a part of Theology ^[4] He assigned to it the highest rank, that of "Solemnity". ^[5]

As happens with all Sundays whose liturgies are replaced by those of important feasts,^[6] the prayers of the Sunday on which the celebration of Christ the King falls are used on the ferias (weekdays) of the following week. This article incorporates information from the Catholic Encyclopedia of 1917 The Sunday liturgy is thus not totally omitted.

Observance in other Churches

Those churches also that use the Revised Common Lectionary observe Christ the King Sunday (titled Reign of Christ Sunday by some) as the last Sunday of the liturgical year, in agreement with the 1969 Roman Catholic date revision. The Revised Common Lectionary is a Lectionary of readings or Pericopes from the Bible for use in Christian Worship making provision for the Liturgical year These churches include most major Anglican and mainline Protestant groups, including the Church of England and the Episcopal Church, the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America and other Lutheran bodies, the United Methodist Church and other Methodist bodies, the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), the United Church of Christ, and the Moravian Church. Anglicanism is a tradition of Christian faith Churches in this tradition either have historical connections to the Church of England or have similar beliefs for other uses see Mainline (disambiguation The mainline (also sometimes called Mainstream) or mainline Protestant denominations Protestantism refers to the forms of Christian faith and practice that originated in the 16th century Protestant Reformation. The Church of England is the officially established Christian church in England, the Mother Church of the worldwide Anglican The Episcopal Church is the official name of the Province of the Anglican Communion in the United States. The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America ( ELCA) is a mainline Protestant denomination headquartered in Chicago Illinois. The United Methodist Church is the largest Methodist denomination and the second largest Protestant denomination in the United States. The Presbyterian Church (USA or PC (USA is a mainline Protestant Christian denomination in the United States. The United Church of Christ ( UCC) is a mainline Protestant Christian denomination principally in the United States, This page is about the Moravian Church globally For information about the church in a particular geographic area use the links at Organisation below

References

^ See General Roman Calendar as in 1954
^ English translation of the encyclical Quas Primas
^ Encyclical Quas Primas, 28
^ Calendarium Romanum (Libreria Editrice Vaticana, 1969), p. The following is a list of the feast days of the General Roman Calendar as it was in 1954. 63
^ motu proprio Mysterii Paschalis
^ Examples are Pentecost and Trinity Sunday. Trinity Sunday is the first Sunday after Pentecost in the Western Christian liturgical calendar, and the Sunday of Pentecost in Eastern Indeed before the reform of Pope Pius X most Sundays gave way to any feast that had the rank of Double, and these were the majority (Missale Romanum, published by Pustet, 1862)

Contents

Origin and History in the Roman Catholic Church

Observance in other Churches

References

See also