Collect · Oct 25, 2015 · SESSIUNCULA
WDTPRS: Christ the King (1962 Missale Romanum)
Novus OrdoChrist the King — Nov 22, 2026, Nov 21, 2027, Nov 26, 2028
Fr. Z’s literal rendering
Almighty eternal God, who desired to renew all things in Your beloved Son, the King of the universe, graciously grant that the whole of creation, having been freed from servitude, may zealously serve Your majesty and praise You greatly without end.
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…