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The Feast of Christ the King | 1962 Missal | Traditional Latin Mass Readings | 10/25/2026 · Vox Liturgica

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  Vox Liturgica: The propers of the day according to the 1962 Roman Missal. The feast of Christ the King, October 25 in the year of our Lord 2026. Of this feast, Dom Gaspar Lefevre writes, In his encyclical of 12/11/1925 his holiness Pius XI denounced the great modern heresy of laicism. It refuses to recognize the rights of God and his Christ over persons and peoples and organizes the lives of individuals, families, and of society itself as though God did not exist. This laicism ruins society because in the place of the love of God and one's neighbor it substitutes pride and egoism.
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  It begets jealousy between individuals, hatred between classes, and rivalry between nations. The world denies Christ because it ignores his royal prerogatives. It must be instructed on this subject. Now a yearly feast can attain this end more effectively than the weightiest documents issued by ecclesiastical authority. The Holy Father has instituted this new feast to be a public, social, and official declaration of the royal rights of Jesus as God the Creator, as the word incarnate, and as redeemer.
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  This feast makes these rights to be known and recognized in a way most suitable to man and to society by the sublimest acts of religion particularly by holy mass. In fact, the end of the holy sacrifice is the acknowledgment of God's complete dominion over us and our complete dependence on him. And this act is accomplished not only on Calvary but also through the royal priesthood of Jesus which never ceases in his kingdom which is heaven. The great reality of Christianity is not a corpse hanging from a cross but the risen Christ reigning in all the glory of his triumph in the midst of his elect who are his conquest. And that is why the mass begins with the finest vision of the apocalypse where the lamb of God is acclaimed by angels and saints.
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  The Holy Father has expressed his wish that this feast should be celebrated towards the end of the liturgical year on the last Sunday of October as the consummation of all the mysteries by which Jesus has established his royal powers and nearly on the eve of all saints where he already realizes them in part in being the king of kings and the crown of all saints until he shall be the crown of all those on earth whom he saves especially by the mass. It is indeed principally by the Eucharist which is both a sacrifice and a sacrament that Christ now in glory assures the results of the victorious sacrifice of Calvary by taking possession of souls through the application of the merits of his passion and thereby unites them as members to their head. The end of the Eucharist says the Catechism of the Council of Trent is to form one sole mystic body of all the faithful and so to draw them in the cult which Christ, King Adorer, as priest and victim rendered in a bloody manner on the cross and now renders in an unbloody manner on the stone altar of our churches and on the golden altar in heaven to Christ king adored as son of God and to his father to whom he offers these souls.
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  In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost. Amen. The Introit. Worthy is the lamb who was slain to receive power and divinity and wisdom and strength and honor. To him be glory and empire through endless ages.
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  Give to the King thy judgment, O God, and to the King's Son thy justice. Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost, as it was in the beginning is now and will be through all ages of ages. Amen. Worthy is the Lamb who was slain to receive power and divinity, and wisdom, and strength, and honor. To him be glory and empire through endless ages.
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  The Collect, let us pray. Almighty and everlasting God, who in thy beloved Son, the King of the whole world, hast willed to restore all things, mercifully grant that all the families of nations, now kept apart by the wound of sin, may be brought under the sweet yoke of his rule, who liveth and reigneth with thee in the unity of the Holy Ghost, God through all ages of ages. Amen. Lesson from the letter of St. Paul the Apostle to the Colossians.
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  Brethren, we give thanks to God the Father who has qualified us to share in the inheritance of the saints in light. He has delivered us from the dominion of darkness and transferred us to the kingdom of his beloved Son in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins. He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation. For in him all things were created in heaven and on earth visible and invisible. Whether thrones or dominions or principalities or authorities All things were created through him and for him.
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  He is before all things, and in him all things hold together. He is the head of the body, the church. He is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead that in everything he might be preeminent. For in him all the fullness of God was pleased to dwell, and through him to reconcile to himself all things whether on earth or in heaven making peace through the blood of his cross. The gradual.
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  His dominion will reach from sea to sea, from the great river to the ends of the earth. All the kings of the earth shall adore him. All nations serve him. Alleluia. Alleluia.
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  His power is an everlasting power that shall not be taken away and his kingdom that shall not be destroyed. Alleluia. A continuation of the holy gospel according to Matthew. At that time, Pilate said to Jesus, are you the king of the Jews? Jesus answered, did you say this of your own accord, or did others say it to you about me?
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  Pilate answered, am I a Jew? Your own nation and the chief priests have handed you over to me. What have you done? Jesus answered, my kingship is not of this world. If my kingship were of this world my servants would fight that I might not be handed over to the Jews.
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  But my kingship is not from here. Pilate said to him, So you are a king. Jesus answered, You say that I am a king, for this I was born, and for this I have come into the world to bear witness to the truth. Every one who is of the truth hears my voice. The offertory, ask thy will of me and thou shalt have the nations for thy patrimony, the very ends of the world for thy domain.
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  The secret. O Lord, we offer thee the victim of man's redemption. Grant we beseech thee that Jesus Christ, thy Son our Lord, whom we are emulating in this sacrifice, may himself bestow on all nations the gifts of unity and peace, who liveth and reigneth with thee in the unity of the Holy Ghost, God through all ages of ages. Amen. The preface of the kingship of our Lord Jesus Christ.
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  Worthy it is and fitting, right and for our salvation, that we should at all times and in all places give thanks unto thee, O Holy Lord, Father Almighty, everlasting God, who didst anoint thy only begotten Son, Jesus Christ our Lord, with the oil of gladness to be a priest for ever and King of the whole world, so that by offering himself as an unblemished victim upon the altar of the cross, he might perform the sacrificial rite of man's redemption, and subduing all creation to his sway he might deliver to thy boundless sovereignty a universal and eternal kingdom, a kingdom of truth and life, of holiness and grace, a kingdom of justice, love, and peace. Therefore with angels and archangels, thrones and dominions, and all the warriors of the heavenly army, we day by day exalt without end with one voice saying, Holy, holy, holy, Lord God of hosts, the heavens and the earth are full of thy glory. Hosanna in the highest. Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord. Hosanna in the highest.
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  The communion. The Lord sits enthroned as king forever. The Lord will give his people his own blessing of peace. The post communion. Let us pray.
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  We have received the food of immortality and beg, O Lord, that we who are proud to fight under the banner of Christ our King may reign with him forever in his realm above who liveth and reigneth with thee in the unity of the Holy Ghost, God forever and ever. Amen. In the name of the father, and of the son, and of the holy ghost. Amen. Thanks be to God.