23 November 2025
Last Sunday after Pentecost:Christ the King
Proper 29 Year C RCL Track Two
The Collect
Almighty and everlasting God, whose will it is to restore all things in your well-beloved Son, the King of kings and Lord of lords: Mercifully grant that the peoples of the earth, divided and enslaved by sin, may be freed and brought together under his most gracious rule; who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen.
"Who's in charge here?" was the title and closing line of a science-fiction story I read in an oversize Ace paperback we bought in a drugstore in Chico, California, sometime in the last century. As I recall, in that story it was clear no one was in charge: just an urban wasteland, desultory and desolate, trash and stray dogs and stray survivors wandering about. A world without God, for sure.
In the Lord of the Rings, toward the end, Sam looks up at the sky and realizes that behind the brooding clouds the stars are still shining, and would. There was good beyond the reach of evil and it would prevail.
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