Today is Christ the King Sunday, the last Sunday of the Christian liturgical calendar. The First Sunday of Advent next week will begin a new liturgical year. The Post-Nicean church father Cyril of Alexandria wrote that Christ "has dominion over all creatures, a dominion not seized by violence nor usurped, but his by essence and by nature. His kingship is founded upon the hypostatic union [the union of his divine and human natures]. From this it follows not only that Christ is to be adored by angels and men, but that to him as man angels and men are subject, and must recognize his empire; by reason of the hypostatic union Christ has power over all creatures" (from Wikipedia). Although the theological ideas are ancient, the holiday itself was only instituted in 1925, by Pope Pius XI. Several Protestant churches now commemorate the day as well.
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