Church of the Advent of Christ the King

We believe that Jesus has come as one of us, he will come again in glory, and he is still with us. God does not use a calendar or a watch. Christ has come, Christ is risen, Christ will come again, and it is all happening at once. God does not live in time. God is eternal.

But in idolizing the past we keep the present locked in amber, always yearning for something different in the opposite direction of where God is calling us. The Good News for a human condition inclined to idolize the past and sentimentalize the present is that once the Israelites reached their promise to Abraham, the promise didn't stop.

Every time we utter a prayer, every time we sing a hymn, every time we repeat the Eucharistic Prayer, every time we reach out to those in need, we are sustaining the Vigil of the Church. Every baptized disciple of Christ is a minister of the Vigil.

There is this moment when I hold the chalice up and I see myself reflected back in it. In this cup that represents both a memorial of Christ’s death and a foretaste of the Heavenly kin-dom. And I am reminded that in all our grief and all our hopes, Christ is right there with us.

ou are made in the very Image of the Divine. God created humans and proclaimed God’s work “very good.” You are made in goodness and for goodness and are constantly being called back to that goodness. We are called to live in harmony with every other Imago Dei. Walk gently through this world now, for we are all bearers of the Divine.