Today’s solemnity of Christ the King invites us to celebrate a King who embraced humanity with compassion and love, neither rejecting nor excluding anyone. It is challenging, because our secular world encourages individualism. As people of the body of Christ, we are called to selfless love in communion with one another. Jesus does not distinguish between rich and poor, between sick and healthy, between victim and criminal. Jesus loves all of them, all of us, unconditionally. If we are to be true followers of Jesus, He calls us to be prepared to do the same: to love unconditionally, the loveable and the unloveable. Jesus’ example teaches us to reach out in love – even when it can seem difficult or intolerable to do so. For when we embrace our fellow human beings we also embrace Christ, as He says, “in so far as you did this to one of the least of these brothers [or sisters] of mine, you did it to me.â€