Happy Solemnity of Lord Jesus Christ, King of the Universe {with FREE Printable Liturgical Year Binder Page}

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Happy  Solemnity of Lord Jesus Christ, King of the Universe and last Sunday of the liturgical year. I pray it was a year of spiritual growth for you and that you are readying for a beautiful new liturgical year as we begin the Advent season next week.

As usual, I cannot believe how quickly the past 12 months have sped by and how much I had hoped to be, do, and grow as compared to what I actually was, did, and grew...

Thankfully, I know our Lord offers amazing grace and mercy and so, although I am very much a work in progress, there is hope!  

I pray that if you, like me, feel less than prepared for Advent, you can rest in hope and simply work to prepare yourself and your home for the coming of our Lord.

I also pray that even though this is a time when each of us, of course, looks interiorally to take stock of how we grew spiritually over the past year and how we might enter into the new liturgical year seeking further sanctification, that we each might also look outwardly to see how we might serve others, modeling ourselves after our Lord, the servant king.

There are so many ways to serve and gift others... May we each make a choice to do so in tiny and tremendous ways.

One tiny way I am choosing to do so is by sharing forward a recent babystep I took toward revamping my liturgical year binders - a Solemnity of the Lord Jesus Christ, King of the Universe Liturgical Year binder printable.

• The first page of the printable is what I am actually putting in my binder.

• The next is one with more blank lines for you to customize if you'd like to print the page for your own binder.

• The final page is a prayer for the day.

My desire is to create free printable binder pages like this for the entire liturgical year eventually, and as I complete them, to share them as a help and inspiration for you to live the liturgical year in your own domestic church.

If doing so would be a blessing to you, please let me know. Also, let me know what you like and don't like about the design, so I might tweak them accordingly.

May your day be rich in hope and service!

Act of Dedication of the Human Race to Jesus Christ, King

A partial indulgence is granted to the faithful, who piously recite the Act of Dedication of the Human Race to Jesus Christ King. A plenary indulgence is granted, if it is recited publicly on the feast of our Lord Jesus Christ, King. 
Most sweet Jesus, Redeemer of the human race, look down upon us humbly prostrate before you. We are yours, and yours we wish to be; but to be more surely united with you, behold each one of us freely consecrates himself today to your Most Sacred Heart. 

Many indeed have never known you; many, too, despising your precepts, have rejected you. Have mercy on them all, most merciful Jesus, and draw them to your Sacred Heart. 

Be King, O Lord, not only of the faithful who have never forsaken you, but also of the prodigal children who have abandoned you; grant that they may quickly return to their Father's house, lest they die of wretchedness and hunger. 

Be King of those who are deceived by erroneous opinions, or whom discord keeps aloof, and call them back to the harbor of truth and the unity of faith, so that soon there may be but one flock and one Shepherd. 

Grant, O Lord, to your Church assurance of freedom and immunity from harm; give tranquility of order to all nations; make the earth resound from pole to pole with one cry: Praise to the divine Heart that wrought our salvation; to it be glory and honor for ever. Amen.

Prayer Source: Enchiridion of Indulgences, June 29, 1968