Sunday, November 22, 2026

WDTPRS: Novus Ordo – Solemnity of Christ the King – An example of the core difference between the new rite and the traditional

Omnipotens sempiterne Deus, qui in dilecto Filio tuo, universorum Rege, omnia instaurare voluisti, concede propitius, ut tota creatura, a servitute liberata, tuae maiestati deserviat ac te sine fine collaudet.

Yesterday was the Novus Feast of Christ the King, the last Sunday of the liturgical year. In the Vetus Ordo, Christ the King is celebrated on the last Sunday of October. The feast was originally instituted to underscore that Christ is not just going to be King of the Universe after His Second Coming. He is also King NOW, of…

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Under the Standard of Christ the King

This coming Sunday, the last of October, is the Feast of Christ the King in the Church’s 1962 calendar. In the Novus Ordo it is the last Sunday of the liturgical year before Advent begins. The shift of calendar locations reveals a wholly different view of the feast.

WDTPRS: Christ the King (1962 Missale Romanum)

In the post-Conciliar, Novus Ordo calendar, the Solemnity of Christ the King is the last Sunday of the liturgical year, just before Advent begins. In the traditional Roman calendar it falls on the last Sunday of October. The feast was established by Pope Pius XI in 1925, as Pius Parsch says in The Church’s Year of Grace, to “renew in…

WDTPRS: Christ the King (1962 Missale Romanum)

In the post-Conciliar, Novus Ordo calendar, the Solemnity of Christ the King is the last Sunday of the liturgical year, just before Advent begins. In the traditional Roman calendar it falls on the last Sunday of October. The feast was established by Pope Pius XI in 1925, as Pius Parsch says in The Church’s Year of Grace, to “renew in…

WDTPRS: Christ the King (1962MR) – “no hugs and fluffy lambs”

Each year Holy Church presents to us the history of salvation, from Creation to the Lord’s Coming (His First and also His Final Coming). At this time of year, as we move in the Northern Hemisphere into the darkness of autumn and winter, as we head toward the end of the liturgical year, we more and more in the Church’s…

PODCAzT 134: Christ the King, the Collect, and a listener’s question

Here is a little offering about the Collect for the Solemnity of Christ the King, as it is today in the post-Conciliar, Ordinary Form, calendar. I use some material I wrote for the best Catholic weekly in the UK, The Catholic Herald, for which I write a column that continues some of my many years of work for The Wanderer…

PRAYERCAzT REMINDER: Christ the King (1962MR)

For those priests who may be called on tomorrow to sing the Mass for the Feast of Christ the King (the Last Sunday in October in the older, traditional Roman Calendar), there is a PRAYERCAzT available.

WDTPRS: Christ the King (1962 Missale Romanum)

From my weekly column in The Wanderer: What Does the Prayer Really Say? Last Sunday in October – Christ the King (1962 Missale Romanum) Each year Holy Church presents to us the history of salvation, from Creation to the Lord’s Coming (His First and also His Final Coming). At this time of year, as we move in the Northern Hemisphere…

PODCAzT 74: A hymn to Christ the King dissected – before and after Vatican II; a proclamation; “Seize the Day” in Scots

A change of pace today, between the last Sunday of the liturgical year and the first Sunday of Advent! I dissect a hymn in the Liturgy of the Hours for the Solemnity of Christ the King in the newer, post-Conciliar Liturgia Horarum, the Liturgy of the Hours. Changes were made to the focus of this feast. The date was changed…

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