December 22:
O King of the nations, and their desire, the cornerstone making both one: Come and save the human race, which you fashioned from clay.
Ephesians 2:14 and Isaiah 9:6
Jesus was coy about his kingship during his life on earth. Rejecting every connection with worldly power, Jesus had nothing to say about kings or governments. Render to Caesar and leave me out of it (paraphrasing). So the title "King" seems like a bit of a downgrade for Jesus. But his kingship is beyond anything that we can imagine. It is universal and eternal.
For me the key word here is "desire." What is our deepest desire? Jesuits repeatedly ask themselves this question and they do so because the answer is so astonishing. Our deepest desire is for the one who made us and, as the antiphon suggests, that one desires us as desperately and as deeply.
So let's remind God - and ourselves - that God made us from clay and that we belong together.
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