Sermon

  Now that I have been ordained for a couple of years, I have found that I am amassing a small but credible library of sermons to glance through to see if there were any previously under-developed or unexplored facet of the readings which might improve my preaching. And as this is the Patronal feast of our parish—The Last Sunday after Pentecost, the Advent of Christ the King Sunday (although really, it’s confusing to me to have your “patronal feast day” honor the Son—perhaps this is our Filial Feast day…)

    And so I was looking over my previous sermons on Christ the King Sunday, and I realized that I can be found to preach about the cultural impairments that prevent we, as Americans, from truly understanding the consequences of not just a Total Monarchy, but the Absolute Monarchy of Christ. We have to borrow experiences from Game of Thrones the latest PBS mini-series depicting the Tudor dynasty to even begin to comprehend what an absolute monarchy would mean in our lives. After all, if we are proclaiming Christ’s Kingdom…we are also proclaiming our desire to live under the rule of a King, the perfect King in Christ.