Church of Jesus Christ of the Universe

By Mauro

24.11.2024

(translated audio)

Our Lord Jesus Christ, King of the Universe

Dn 7: 13-14; Ps 92; Rev 1: 5-8; Jn 18: 33-37

Today we celebrate the Solemnity of Jesus Christ, King of the Universe, in connection with tomorrow’s Solemnity of Mary Most Holy, Mother and Queen of the Universe; we celebrate them together.

It is the beginning of the year, but in what sense? It is the beginning of the year because it should be in a solemn way, a solemnity, that passage through which we make Jesus Christ King of our universe, of my universe. His being King of all nations, King of the Universe, happens to the extent that we make Him King of ourselves, then his kingship expands. It is not that He becomes King of all nations by force. And why is He King? Because He is priest. His kingship comes from the fact that He is High Priest; his kingship comes from the fact that He offered his life for his people, for those who want Him to be King, He offered his life for those.

We know of Alpha Centauri that there is also a king on Alpha Centauri, Aris, high priest and king of Alpha Centauri. Kingship for us is always linked to priesthood, linked to the offering of life: you reign because you serve, you reign because you offer yourself, you reign because you pay for others, not because you dominate. Jesus does not dominate.

So, at the beginning, if we want to choose Christ the King, Mary the Queen, we have to see within us everything that is not subject to this kingship and hand it over, because He will never take it by force for any of us either; He asks our permission, we have to give him our consent, our yes, and then the process begins.

Let us get ready.

I beg You, O Mother, help us to see what we think to have handed over from within us, where we think to have no kings, but if we allow You instead to penetrate with your light, with your motherly love, we will probably still find some kings. Within us we desire to be completely united with Christ, to be his subjects, his children, but we always run the risk of holding something in our hands, maybe even to please You. And what we believe to be your will we make our king. Help us in all these subtle passages, O Mother, because the big things, I think I can say for this people, we have seen, we have delivered them, but these subtle ones are perhaps more dangerous than the others and they block us.

So let us remain in silence for a moment, and let our thoughts be silent too, so that we can really look within us.

 

The question Jesus asks Pilate when he says to Him: “You are king, king of the Jews”, “Are you saying this of your own accord or did someone tell you?” is a question we can also ask ourselves. Today we celebrate a feast: Jesus the King, Mary the Queen. Are we saying this because we have decided so, understood so, or because someone told us so? Because you have come to this church, because… we celebrate Jesus the King, but… is He the King for you? This is not trivial! Choosing Christ the King and Mary the Queen is only possible when we know what we want… because if we choose them we can no longer turn back; if we make them King and Queen we have put our hand to the plough and can no longer turn back.^[1] If we do it only by hearsay, it is as if we have not done it. We say: “Well then, let us go to a feast.” We can also go to the Feast of Unity – we eat well, we sing – it is the same stuff. To choose means that we know what we want, we want Him as King, because we know Him at least a little bit, because at least a little bit we have felt within ourselves what his kingdom is, that it is not of this world; because we have learnt what the King of Peace brings. We must feel ourselves at least attracted by Him if we want to choose Him as King. We cannot just do it out of obedience, otherwise we will for sure abandon Him sooner or later.

I explain it in my own way: we have to decide whether to be truly Christians or whether it is enough to be baptised. Baptised are many in my opinion, Christians few, very few. Christians in the sense that they have chosen Christ, that they want to live for Christ, with Christ and in Christ, that they have chosen Him as King and have given their lives to Him. The fact that both Jesus and Mary can reign and that we therefore have all the advantages of their rule over us is only possible if we accept them, and accepting them means accepting their love. We cannot choose them and accept them just because we know they are powerful, even if we do not fully believe in them. Look, there are those who do so. Indeed, they often test Mary Most Holy and even Jesus: “If you exist, give me a miracle”, like those under the Cross^[2]. I do not speak of that kind of faith, I speak of that faith by which I know that He exists, but I want to know Him more, and then I can also ask this question, but to know Him better, not to get a testimony, a proof.

If we accept the love of Jesus and Mary, the first step that happens is that they generate us, they generate children of God, but to do so, these children must have chosen God and Jesus and Mary as Kings. These are obligatory steps. They cannot reign over those who do not choose. They cannot reign – the Gospel says so – over those who are divided into two worlds. There cannot be God and mammon, it is either one or the other^[3]. We cannot be divided; we are not meant to be. Either we choose God, or, even if we do not say openly: “I have chosen another”, we have made our decision, even if we do not say so. I do not say we chose evil, no, but if we do not fully choose God, we have chosen evil, because that is the spirit of this world. Christ came to Earth precisely for this, He returned in his second coming to accentuate this and then, at his glorious return, He must put an end between those who chose Him and who chose the world. There is nothing in between, there must be nothing; now there is so much in between. The majority of people is in between, but in the end there will be nothing.

The first step – I will go on quickly otherwise I will be talking for hours – to choose Christ the King, is to choose Mary as Mother. Why? Because only Mary now, in this time, with the power of the spirit of this world, can set off within us those processes that lead us to desire Christ the King. But first we must choose Her as Mother, because She does not reign if we do not first choose Her as Mother. She does not want to be Queen. To be Queen is the consequence of the fact that She is Mother, as Jesus is King in the consequence of the fact that He is priest and offered himself. The same applies for Mary. She is Mother and remains Mother for eternity. She is a Mother and She leads us as a Mother. We choose Mary, Mary leads us to Jesus with all the passages She will make us do, She points Him out to us as the Redeemer, She points Him out to us as salvation, as freedom, and in all those passages then He becomes King. But in the end what is it that triumphs? Always Life!

Jesus says to Pilate: “I am King, but I am not of this world.” But He also says: “I have come for this, to be King.” Do you understand that with these words redemption and his kingship travel together? So, baptism is not enough to have redemption, we must come to say in our life: “Christ is King”. “I have come for this”, He says, “to be King”. It is clear that He was not interested in being king of Judea: King of souls, King of men and women, King of life. If He had been interested in Judea, He would have created another one.

Even for us choosing Jesus Christ as King and Mary as Queen – and not in a romantic way – means not being of this world. We cannot tell Jesus Christ to reign in us if we are of this world (I speak of our inner world). We cannot have an inner world that takes away all our energies and want Christ the King, because He is not of this world and neither should we be. Following his way means choosing his kingdom, it means experiencing that infinite love, it means living as children of God. It means that the centre of our life becomes discovering our kingship, because to the extent that we develop our priesthood – we have heard that He has acquired a people of priests, and that is what we all are – that priesthood leads us to be king. From baptism we are prophets, priests and kings, but these characteristics are all connected in the dimension of our offering to Him, of our participation with Him. We cannot live a parallel life and have a king living another life.

I am not wrong when I say that many want Jesus as King, but few choose Him. Why? Because they do not want to leave the kingdom of this world. Because to the extent that they draw near to Him – and they desire Him, I have met many of them – but here there is that step that unfortunately many see as the step of losing something instead of understanding that it is a step of gaining, because therein lies the difference. Remember that rich young man: “What must I do to inherit …?” “The commandments.” “I have already respected them.” “He looked at him and loved him.” “What do I lack?” “Sell everything and follow me.” He became sad^[4]. This is a passage that happens to so many, because that “sell everything” undermines our confidence, makes us afraid. But Jesus was obliged to say that sentence, because for that young man that “everything” was his king, those certainties were his king. Jesus had to challenge that king, two kings could not stand, Jesus and another, and so it is for each of us.

I think that until the last day of my life – I speak for me, you will all be better – I will have a few kings, and Jesus will gradually challenge them on my way. It will not be done all at once. It is a fantasy to say: I have converted. I wish! I have started to, but it lasts all our life to throw down kings and put on Jesus, ever more subtle, ever deeper. But I can testify or must testify that this is the path to resurrection and freedom, not loss. When someone tells me “Ah, I have left everything” and feels great, but what did this person leave behind? She or he left the junk to take the gold and even brags. To me it seems this person had better shut up. I mean thank God that He called us and gave us the strength to answer, because if He did not give us the strength we would not answer. This is a truth. That means, with the decision to have Christ the King begins a journey, a journey that leads us to overcome everything within us, everything that is not king; this journey is called that journey of death and resurrection, dying to oneself and rising again in Christ. Jesus did it once, of course, we have to do this process continuously, several times a day: dying to oneself and rising again. This resurrection is Christ the King, Mary the Queen.

This path needs all those things we know: prayer, the Eucharist, communion and… help… First of all, every day to say yes to God, always starting from Him. These are all things you already know. All that is needed to arrive at Christ the King, and it always starts from a desire, because to meet Christ, as I always say, is to marry Him and you cannot marry a woman if you do not desire her. It is not enough to say: “I love her”, first you desire her, then you love her, you get to know her, you love her more and more, and so it is with Christ. And He at that point must become even more than that woman you have chosen – if you are married – because “He who loves father and mother, sons, daughters more than me…”^[5]. It is a path, but if we waited until we had that love to begin it, we would never begin; initially it starts with a desire and then it grows.

On that path then there are some passages that I have to say even though I have always said them: remaining faithful, because there will be some tough moments, yes. To remain faithful is to always “love Jesus more than anything”, because continually in certain passages of the painful ones, which are the most beautiful – there is nothing more beautiful – He comes to tell you: “Do you love me more than these?” How many times have I told you that He brought Peter to weep: “Lord, You know that I love You.” “Do you love me more…?” three times He asked him, then Peter started to weep and said, “You know everything, You decide.” And Jesus will always take us there, always. “Do you love me more than life? Do you love me even in this pain? Do you love me in this trial? Do you believe that I am there? Or do you want me to intervene with the usual miracle? Do you trust me? Do you want to go through this ordeal with me, that you will see after the miracle, the real one, where I will have freed you? If I now perform the miracle for you, you remain what you are, you are healed but not resurrected.” That is different, it is better to resurrect than to heal, because then the healing comes as a consequence.

If we remain faithful, He completes the redemption within us, and what is that redemption? A new person, a free person, a risen person. This is the meaning of the feast of Christ the King. It is the beginning of the liturgical year because the following should happen: today I wish to begin this journey, and then we go. And should we renew it every year? Yes, I would even do it more than once a year. Every once in a while, a reset and starting again, because we are fragile creatures. Whether we want to or not we always find it easier to choose what we should not choose. This is normal. Even then, I do not throw myself into the abyss, but I choose Jesus.

If we manage that then we reach the top, which we would like to reach immediately: “I will give you a new heart, I will put a new spirit within you.”^[6] All of us would like to have it from the beginning so that we can live peacefully and blissfully all the way through our passage on Earth to Paradise. Instead, He only gives the new heart and the new spirit to us when He is truly the King, when we have nothing left, when we say to Him: “Look, I do not even have any more tears to cry, I have nothing left”, then He gives us the new heart and the new spirit and we begin to Live.

Happy Solemnity to all and I invite you to begin! Do not be frightened and say, “But I am fifty…” Begin, even if you are fifty years old. Begin, even those who are not so young, no? (there are some), start! As long as your eyes are open, you can do it!

Welcome through us, through our priesthood, through our limitations, all souls similar to us, with the same faults, but who wish to walk forward; even those who do not know how to forgive and who today can receive this grace through our offering, our prayer. And those who wish to be baptised, I baptise you with the name “Mary” and “Joseph”, in the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit. In the name of the Most Holy Trinity I absolve you of your sins, I imprint upon you the seal of the Holy Spirit and I give you the Sign of the Triumph of the Immaculate Heart of Mary. I unite you to the Church of Jesus Christ of the Universe. I command you Satan, Lucifer, all your demons, arch-demons, false prophets, antichrists, I command your spirit, your thought, your anger, your seduction, I command you to reveal yourself for what you are before all: you are the false one, you are the nullity, you are the one who has chosen death. Let all who receive something from you know that their time is over, for yours is over. Recall all the curses you have cast upon the children of God, recall that dictatorship which through esotericism dominates the world, enslaves it through occultism, through the Masons, the Illuminati. All together you do not regret having chosen Lucifer but continue to want him, go with him into the stench of sulphur, in the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit.

God, our Father, who has nourished us with the Bread of immortal life, grant that we may joyfully obey Christ, King of the Universe, to live without end with Him in his glorious kingdom, the new creation. He lives and reigns for ever and ever.

The Lord be with you.

And may God’s blessing, today his kingship, which brings his love and grace together with forgiveness, Life and resurrection, descend throughout the Universe, descend upon all men and women of good will but crushed under so many kings, descend to bring a strength that will give everyone the courage to begin the journey of making the Lord Jesus Christ, King of their lives. May He descend upon the poorest, the most desperate, those in the most difficult situations, at war, in prison, sick. Descend upon those who are losing hope, descend upon those who are losing faith, and restore Life, restore the courage to dare something together with Jesus, in the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit.

^[1] See Lk 9, 62

^[2] See Mt 27, 39-44

^[3] See Mt 6, 24

^[4] See Mt 19, 16-22

^[5] See Mt 10, 37

^[6] See Ez 36, 26