“A true opium of the people is a belief in nothingness after death - the huge solace of thinking that for our betrayals, greed, cowardice, murders we are not going to be judged.” ― Czeslaw Milosz The Feast of Christ the King was proclaimed by St. Piux XI in response to the rise of nationalism before and after the First World War. The bloody, cruel and brutal events of the 20th century would prove him prescient. What happens when government has no fear of judgment. In John's Gospel, Jesus is tried by Rome, a government: "So Pilate said to him, "Then you are a king?" Jesus answered, "You say I am a king. For this I was born and for this I came into the world, to testify to the truth. Everyone who belongs to the truth listens to my voice." John 18 Readings for Christ the King: https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/112121.cfm Art: Medallion with Christ from an Icon Frame ca. 1100 Byzantine This medallion of Christ is from a group of twelve that once surrounded an icon of the archangel Gabriel. The medallions may have been sent as a gift from the Byzantine court to the neighboring Christian state of Georgia. Music: Arthur's Dream by Nutmeg is licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike License.