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Today's feast is known as Christ the King. If Jesus truly is King, why doesn't he make His authority felt? In the midst of the suffering and chaos of this world, when we carry our own crosses, we can doubt that Jesus is still in control. We can wonder, "Is the Christian Universe really the best depiction of reality?"

The Gospel today speaks of a prediction that Jesus makes about the destruction of the temple. It was if someone was able to predict the destruction of the twin towers all the way back in 1971. When the destruction of the temple did occur approximately forty years after Jesus' death, it was yet another sign of His authenticity.

As the leaves begin to fall and we draw closer to winter, the readings of the Church remind us of our own mortality. In the Book of Maccabees, written just a few years before the coming of Jesus, we hear of a new hope dawning in the hearts of the persecuted Jews of that age: resurrection.