As we celebrate the last major feast day of our 2022 Liturgical Year, Christ the King, we say “goodbye” to another Church year. In a way, it’s like the last week of a calendar year where we have New Year’s Eve to say goodbye to one year and look forward to the next calendar year. But with the Church year calendar, we still have a few more days left of Ordinary time before the year concludes with the morning Mass next Saturday. At the Vigil Mass on Saturday evening next week, we bring out the Advent candles and welcome in a new Church and Liturgical Year. (Consider this your reminder to dig out your Advent candles!). Another year has passed us by, and we are preparing for what the future brings.
We also celebrate Thanksgiving this week. What do you find yourselves thankful for this year? Your family? Your health? Your faith? The calendar year 2022 has continued to bring challenges to all of us with Covid and other health issues still in the background, with high inflation, a war that is dragging on in Ukraine and many other things. Sometimes it seems hard to see beyond these things. Yet our faith in Christ the King and what He promises to all of us helps us to have a firm foundation and not let the problems of the world weigh us down. Remember to give thanks to God for what you have been given as we celebrate this upcoming holiday. Feel free to join us and give thanks at the 9:15 a.m. Mass this Thursday.