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Homily Christ the King 2020 the 1995 Movie First Knight Is a Story In Homily Christ the King 2020 The 1995 movie First Knight is a story in the tradition of King Arthur and Camelot. Sean Connery played King Arthur, who after many wars, has established a kingdom of justice and peace. King Arthur established the Knights of the Round Table to rules as a brotherhood based in a life of service. Camelot and the Round table are an ideal society that will promote the common good so that all inhabitants may have what they need and live in peace. The Leaders are servant leaders that rule in a way to promote the good of all. King Arthur, now that he has achieved peace in the realm, wishes to marry and be happy. So, he marries Lady Guinevere the queen of Lyonesse. Of course, no kingdom is ideal. Lancelot, played by Richard Gere, is a renegade and wanderer, skilled at the sword. King Arthur brings him into the Round Table after he saves Lady Guinevere from evil Malagant. Malagant used to be part of the Round Table and was replaced by Lancelot, and new seeks revenge against Arthur. To add to the intrigue, Lancelot falls in love with Guinevere, Arthur’s wife. Uh oh! So much for the ideal peaceful kingdom! Christ’s Kingdom Today we celebrate Christ the King. The Church on earth and in heaven is Christ’s Kingdom. What kind of kingdom is Christ’s Kingdom? Now Camelot is a kingdom of great ideals: justice, peace, brotherhood, service, servant leaders, common good. Christ’s kingdom also has these ideals: justice, peace, brother and sisterhood, service, servant leaders and the common good. Christ’s kingdom is based on the Gospel, which has a series of rules based on the common good. We have the golden rule: “do unto others as you would have them do unto you” from Matthew 7:12. We have the Ten Commandments which can be summarized in the two great commandments: Love God with all your heart, mind, soul and strength and love your neighbor as yourself. Jesus goes further and says there is no greater love than to lay down one’s life for one’s friends. Christ’s Kingdom is based in a ruler that is both Lord and Creator of the universe. 1 Christ’s kingdom has a ruler that is the Good shepherd, who loves his sheep so much, that he died to save us. We are expected to imitate this kind of love. Christ’s Kingdom is a community that gives proper praise and worship to the Father, Son and Spirit. Christ’s Kingdom honors those who imitate Christ by virtuous lives and calls them saints. Like, Camelot, Christ’s kingdom is ideal but also has troubles. Sin causes humankind to not always live in justice and peace and brotherhood. And leaders do not always live to serve the common good. There are Lancelots and Malagants as well as Gueniveres and Arthurs in Christ’s kingdom. Probably one of the best virtues of Christ’s Kingdom is forgiveness and mercy. In Christ’s Kingdom, even the renegade and adulterer or those lost in the pursuit of revenge and all the other ways we get led astray and hurt each other – all are able to reconcile and be forgiven if they repent and ask for mercy. Our Kingdom Camelot and the Church in Heaven and Earth are two examples of Kingdoms. What king of kingdom is our kingdom? I was recently watching a movie where the Dad said to his son, “Son, you are the prince. Yeah, you are the prince, but I am the king. Don’t forget it!” By our baptism we were anointed Priest, prophet and King. Yes, King! We are indeed Kings and Queens of our castles -- or at least our condos. We are princes and princesses in our local realm. By what values do we govern our households and lives? What do we prioritize? Do we imitate Christ and try to be people of virtue, like the saints? Do we seek to uphold God’s commands, like the golden rule, the 10 commandments? Do we seek justice and peace and the common good? Or are we like Lancelot, who agrees to be part of the Round Table, but he was really lusting after Guinevere? In our leadership roles or just the organizing of our own lives, do we seek to serve the common good like Arthur or do we seek revenge like Malagant? 2 As I mentioned, today we celebrate Christ the King. To make this a reality in our “kingdom” we must seek to make Christ our ruler. We must seek to prioritize what is important to him. “Seek First the Kingdom of God and his righteousness, all Kingdom these things will be given you besides.” Matthew 6:33. We can certainly work to be successful, have a nice house and car. We can put many hours into studies and education and preparing for a career. We can excel at and learn all those valuable lessons sports and activities teach us like teamwork, how to be a good loser and a humble winner. We can go on vacations (eventually after COVID) and enjoy various types of leisure. We can do all these things in good conscience, if we first recognize what kind of kingdom we are striving to lead and the values by which we make decisions. If we make Christ our King and seek what is important in his kingdom first, like living a life of service and being willing to forgive, then we are making our little kingdom be part of Christ’s Kingdom. Today is a great reflection and decision day. Today we choose to surrender our Kingship, so that Jesus can be our king. We take on his values as our values: Love God above everything else and serve our neighbor. We also inherit his forgiveness and the keys to the kingdom in Heaven. Today let us declare to the world – Christ is my King! Amen. 3 .
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