The Kingdom of Christ in Souls
Christ must reign in our hearts, and all within us must be subject to Him. Since the day of Christ's triumph, He gloriously lives and reigns in God, in the bosom of the Father: Vivit et regent Deus. Christ only lives where He reigns, and He lives in us in the same degree as He reigns in our soul. He is King as He is High priest. When Pilate asked Him if He was a King, Our Lord answered Him: Tu dicis quit rex sum ego. "I am, but my kingdom is not of this world." "The kingdom of God is within you"; Regnum Dei intra vos est.The Father wills to glorify Christ, because Christ is His Son, because He humbled Himself; the Father wills that every knee should bend at the name of Jesus; in heaven, upon earth, in hell; all, too, in each one of us; will , intelligence, imagination, energies.
This dominion of Christ must, day by day, be further extended in our souls, it is that that we ask of God; Adveniat regnum tuum! Oh! may it come, Lord, that day when truly, Thou wilt reign in us by Thy Christ!
This dominion of Christ must, day by day, be further extended in our souls, it is that that we ask of God; Adveniat regnum tuum! Oh! may it come, Lord, that day when truly, Thou wilt reign in us by Thy Christ!
Christ in His Mysteries
D. Columba Marmion, p. 295
