24 Nov 2024-Christ The King Mass-Part 1

This video captures the Christ The King Special Mass that was held at the St.Martin De Porres Catholic Church in Qwa-Qwa, Free State Province on Sunday, 24 November 2024. The history of the Christ The King Special Mass dates back to the year of our Lord 325, which was when the First Ecumenical Council took place in the city of Nicea in Asia Minor. During that Council, the dogma regarding Christ’s divinity was defined to counteract the Arian heresy: “Christ is God, light from light, true God from true God”. 1600 years later, in 1925, Pope Pius XI proclaimed that the best way to defeat injustice was by acknowledging the kingship of Christ. “For people are instructed in the truths of faith, and brought to appreciate the inner joys of religion far more effectually by the annual celebration of our sacred mysteries than by any official pronouncement of the teaching of the Church. Such pronouncements usually reach only a few and the more learned among the faithful; feasts reach them all; the former speak but once, the latter speak every year - in fact, forever. The church's teaching affects the mind primarily; her feasts affect both mind and heart, and have a salutary effect upon the whole of man's nature” (Encyclical Quas primas, 11 December 1925). The original date this feast was celebrated was the Sunday prior to All Saints Day (the last Sunday of October). But with the liturgical reform of 1969, it was moved to the last Sunday of the liturgical year, thus highlighting that Jesus Christ, the King, is the destination of our earthly pilgrimage. (Source : https://www.vaticannews.va/en/liturgi... ). The video also captures children partaking of the holy communion for the first time - the First Holy Communion is considered one of the most important occasions in a Roman Catholic persons life.