The Holy Father recalled that the royalty of Christ is “beyond human parameters” and that Christ the King is “above all sovereigns, ” the Pope said during the Sunday Angelus from the Apostolic Palace of the Vatican on 21 November, Sunday as the Catholic Church celebrates the Solemnity of Christ the Catholic Church King of the Universe.
In his teaching of him, the Pontiff reflected on the image of Jesus before Pilate “while the crowd shouts for him to be sentenced to death.” “The fact is that the royalty of Jesus is very different from the worldly. ‘My kingdom,’ he says to Pilate, ‘is not of this world.’
Christ the King “does not come to dominate, but to serve.” Christ “does not come with the signs of power, but with the power of the signs. He has not put on valuable insignia, but he is naked on the cross. And it is precisely in the inscription placed on the cross that Jesus is defined as ‘king’. His royalty of him is truly beyond human parameters! We could say that he is not a king like the others, but rather that he is a King for others ” the Holy Father said.