Solemnity of Christ the King Year B.
SECOND READING
Revelation 1:5—8
Revelation 1:5—8
GOSPEL
John 18:33b—37
John 18:33b—37
THEME: A GENTLE KING.
When we were growing up, when I was still in the secondary school.
Our Parish (when we were still in our mother parish) encouraged us to be going
for joint prayer. Each station should bring out a day in a week when they go to
one of the Block Rosary centres in their station. It should continue to rotate
among the centres. It will help to strengthen the centres in the station. I was
the president of my own centre. One day when we were going for the joint
prayer, during Akatakpa masquerade’s festival, we met one of them on the way.
The children I was with wanted to run but I calmed them down. The Akatakpa ran
towards us to scare me so that he will scatter us and beat those he can. I
continued telling those kids not to move that nothing will happen. When it came
closer enough and noticed that we were not moved, it turned and went to another
direction. The next day, the boy in the masquerade came to me and asked me what
gave me that courage as young as I was then. I told him, as a leader I had to,
had it been I moved, what would have been the fate of those kids? In other to
rule, you have to show your subject that you can protect them from prevailing
dangers. Why the story? It is not that it is equal to whom Jesus is to us and
what he did for us but just to show how he supports us in all our hard times. Continue Reading......................