Defenders of Christ the King

Jesus Christ is King! The idea that God’s authority to rule the earth as King should be denied is an absolute absurdity, a blasphemous insult to our benevolent and just God. Christ is King of all the earth. Yet He was rejected even by His own. He was crucified on Calvary’s hill while His Blessed Mother stood at the foot of the Cross in the most profound sorrow. But although the Gospel has been preached for two thousand years, the real Jesus Christ is scarcely known, and His Kingship is denied by the world. But as He said in answer to Pontius Pilate:

“Thou sayest it; I am a king. This is why I was born, and why I have come into the world, to bear witness to the truth. Everyone who is of the truth hears my voice” (Jn.18:37b).

But Christ the King needs your help. There is another who would be king. And in this world he is very powerful. He is the Adversary, the devil, who enslaved the human race through the sin of Adam and Eve. St. Paul affirms that he was already at work in Apostolic times:

“For the mystery of iniquity is already at work; provided only that he who is at present restraining it, does still restrain, until he is gotten out of the way. And then the wicked one will be revealed, whom the Lord Jesus will slay with the breath of his mouth and will destroy with the brightness of his coming. And his coming (i.e. the Antichrist) is according to the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders, and with all wicked deception to those who are perishing” (2Thess.7-10a).

“Deception” is the word that characterizes this world at the present time. It is opposed to Our Lord, Who is Truth! The devil is “the father of lies” (Jn.8:44), so don’t be deceived! If you drive truth out of the world, there is no place for Christ the King, or for His Church. His advice to us – “Be wise as serpents and guileless as doves” (Mt.10:16). Understand what is going on! Pray to the Holy Ghost for discernment! Do not associate with evildoers! Be guileless – that is, honest and truthful, lacking deceit! Let no lie escape your lips! Live by the truth, and the truth will set you free! The devil is defeated by those who live by the truth.

Msgr. George Dillon, speaking in Edinburgh, Scotland, in the year 1884, underlined the role played by the “supreme Directory” underlying Freemasonry and other related organizations:

“The truth is that every secret society is framed and adapted to make men the enemies of God and of his Church, and to subvert faith; and there is not one, no matter on what pretext it may be founded, which does not fall under the management of a supreme Directory governing all the secret societies on earth. The one aim of this directory is to uproot Christianity, and the Christian social order as well as the Church from the world – in fact, to eradicate the name of Christ and the very Christian idea from the minds and the hearts of men” (Msgr. George F. Dillon, D.D., The War of Antichrist with the Church, Lectures, Edinburgh, 1884).

This explains why our Faith and our Church are now under vicious attack, and there is no safe place anywhere in the world. Few understand or want to believe the nature and the extent of the crisis we are facing. Even the little children are being victimized. You might be shocked into action if you did some real research into the matter. Surely there must be some good people out there, but as for those predators at the Disney studios and other places who make those apparently cute and innocent movies and programs for the children, they deserve to be cast into the lowest pits of Hell. Consider this frightful condemnation from the mouth of our Savior:

“But whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in me to sin, it were better for him to have a great millstone hung around his neck, and to be drowned in the depths of the sea” (Mt.18:6).

We must do something about this, you and I! If not, who? “While nations insult the beloved name of our Redeemer,” says Pope Pius XI, “by suppressing all mention of it in their conferences and parliaments, we must all the more loudly proclaim His kingly dignity and power, all the more universally affirm His rights…”

This we must do! We are “Soldiers of Christ”! We soldiers dare not lay down our arms, since it is now our turn to “all the more loudly proclaim His kingly dignity and power, all the more universally affirm His rights…” Our weapons are Catholic Truth, Our Holy Mass and Sacraments, and our Rosaries, following our Commander, The Blessed Virgin Mary, with St. Michael the Archangel and the heavenly armies of angels:

“Therefore take up the armor of God,” says St. Paul, “that you may be able to resist in the evil day, and stand in all things perfect. Stand, therefore, having girded your loins with truth, and having put on the breastplate of justice, and having your feet shod with the readiness of the gospel of peace, in all things taking up the shield of faith, with which you may be able to quench all the fiery darts of the most wicked one. And take unto you the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the spirit, that is, the word of God” (Eph.6:13-17).

We must be brave like the Cristeros in Mexico in the 1920’s and 30’s. We follow Jesus Christ, King of Kings and Lord of Lords, and our most holy Mother and Queen, Mary Immaculate, herself “powerful as an army arrayed for battle” (Cant.6:10).  

And the Lord, of course, will have the last word:

“He who is throned in heaven laughs; the Lord derides them. Then in anger he speaks to them in his wrath: ‘I myself have set up my king on Sion, my holy mountain.’ I will proclaim the decree of the Lord: the Lord said to me, ‘You are my Son; this day I have begotten you. Ask of me and I will give you the nations for an inheritance and the ends of the earth for your possession. You shall rule them with an iron rod; you shall shatter them like an earthen dish’” (Ps.2:4-9).

Yes! Viva Cristo Rey! Long live Christ the King!

God's Blessings,

Fr. Campbell