{"id":8900,"date":"2025-11-23T16:15:00","date_gmt":"2025-11-23T20:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fatherboniface.org\/wordpresshome\/?p=8900"},"modified":"2025-11-23T16:48:49","modified_gmt":"2025-11-23T20:48:49","slug":"solemnity-of-christ-the-king","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fatherboniface.org\/wordpresshome\/spiritual-practices\/solemnity-of-christ-the-king\/","title":{"rendered":"Solemnity of Christ the King"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fatherboniface.org\/wordpresshome\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/nov18-king2.jpg?ssl=1\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"526\" height=\"526\" data-attachment-id=\"7183\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.fatherboniface.org\/wordpresshome\/spiritual-practices\/christ-the-king-sunday\/attachment\/nov18-king2\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fatherboniface.org\/wordpresshome\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/nov18-king2.jpg?fit=526%2C526&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"526,526\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"nov18-king2\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fatherboniface.org\/wordpresshome\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/nov18-king2.jpg?fit=526%2C526&amp;ssl=1\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fatherboniface.org\/wordpresshome\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/nov18-king2.jpg?resize=526%2C526&amp;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7183\" style=\"width:840px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fatherboniface.org\/wordpresshome\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/nov18-king2.jpg?w=526&amp;ssl=1 526w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fatherboniface.org\/wordpresshome\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/nov18-king2.jpg?resize=300%2C300&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fatherboniface.org\/wordpresshome\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/nov18-king2.jpg?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 526px) 100vw, 526px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\"><strong>The coming of the kingdom of God, says our Lord and Saviour, does not admit of observation, and there will be no-one to say \u201cLook here! Look there!\u201d For the kingdom of God is within us and in our hearts. And so it is beyond doubt that whoever prays for the coming of the kingdom of God within himself is praying rightly, praying for the kingdom to dawn in him, bear fruit and reach perfection.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\"><strong>For God reigns in every saint, and every saint obeys God\u2019s spiritual laws \u2014 God, who dwells in him just as he dwells in any well-ordered city. The Father is present in him and in his soul Christ reigns alongside the Father, as it is said: We will come to him and make our dwelling with him.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\"><strong>Therefore, as we continue to move forward without ceasing, the kingdom of God within us will reach its perfection in us .. For this reason let us pray without ceasing, our souls filled by a desire made divine by the Word himself.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\"><strong>From a Discourse of Origen<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The coming of the kingdom of God, says our Lord and Saviour, does not admit of observation, and there will be no-one to say \u201cLook here! Look there!\u201d For the kingdom of God is within us and in our hearts. And so it is beyond doubt that whoever prays for the coming of the kingdom [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[44,15,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-saints-and-blesseds","category-spiritual-practices","category-spiritual-reflections"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7bfMR-2jy","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5584,"url":"https:\/\/www.fatherboniface.org\/wordpresshome\/spiritual-practices\/jesus-our-king-and-lord\/","url_meta":{"origin":8900,"position":0},"title":"Jesus our King and Lord","author":"monks4christ","date":"November 25, 2023","format":false,"excerpt":"The coming of the kingdom of God, says our Lord and Saviour, does not admit of observation, and there will be no-one to say \u201cLook here! 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