In today's Gospel, Luke 19-28, Jesus is on the way to Jerusalem where He will be put to death. His disciples are expecting Him to establish His Kingdom, become King, and expell the Romans, giving Israel back its nation. He tells a parable of a "nobleman [who] went off to a distant country to obtain the kingdsip for himself and then to return....His fellow citizens, however, despised him and sent a delegation after him to announce, 'We do not want this man to be out king.'"
Jesus is addressing this parable to us, to our world, to those persos who, in fact, do not want Jesus to be our King as is obvious in many ways. The U.S. has banned prayer from our schools, want "in God we trust" taken off our currency, demand that sacred feast honoring Christ, our King, referred to as "holidays," and forbade, in some instances, any display of religious symbols. There are myriad of ways in which the world is screaming: "We do not want Christ as our King. Crucify Him. Crucify Him. We have no king but "Caesar" (compare Jn. 19:15).
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