Editor’s note: This speech was delivered by Dr. Peter Chojnowski on Sunday, October 25 to commemorate the Feast of Christ the King at a Catholic Land Movement event. It has been lightly edited from its original format. “All power on heaven and earth has been given to me by My Father.” These words from the Gospel of St. Matthew were spoken by Our Lord Jesus Christ to His Apostles after His Resurrection and before His Ascension into Heaven. These words are the basis for our celebration of the great Feast of Christ the King today. In Quas Primas, the encyclical Pius XI published in 1925 — the year before the great uprising of the Cristeros Army in Mexico — we see the establishment of this great feast penetrate the deepest roots of Our Lord Jesus Christ’s claim to having Kingship over the entire world. Quoting St. Cyril of Alexandria, Pope Pius XI states that “Christ has dominion over all creatures, a dominion not seized by violence or usurped, but his by essence and by nature.” He goes on to explain that:

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