[Sermon preached by the Father Rector, in S. Clements Church, on the Feast of Christ the King, 1935.]
While the Feast of Christ the King is one of recent origin, yet it commends itself to the devotion of all Christian people. Other feasts of the Church Kalendar are more or less coloured by doctrine, and so hinder unity of observance. But all who call themselves Christians, whether they know Christ as God, or as the best man that ever lived, are ready to acknowledge him as King, and worship him as Lord. We are all grieved by the unhappy divisions that separate Christians, and know that the coming of Christ’s Kingdom on earth is hindered by the differences that divide us into Protestant and Catholic. So such a Feast as this, where all can meet, should be welcomed, and made the occasion for Christians everywhere to acknowledge the sovereignty of Jesus in their lives, and to pledge themselves to extend his reign upon the earth. (more…)
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