Dóminus iudex noster, Dóminus légifer noster: Dóminus Rex noster, ipse salvábit nos.
The Lord is our judge, the Lord is our lawgiver: the Lord is our King, He will save us.
This is the Fourth Antiphon of First and Second Vespers of the Feast of Jesus Christ, King of the Universe.
I find it to be a manful, succinct encapsulation of reality. Perhaps a little license with emphatic capitalization would be opportune.
He WILL save us.
And remember, He is King of All by Divine Right, because He is The Creator, but He is also King of All by Conquest via His Incarnation as True Man. And that Conquest occurred at the instant of His Incarnation in the womb of the Blessed Virgin Mary. So even as an Infant, nay even as a Single Celled Zygote, He was and is truly the Sovereign King of the Universe BY CONQUEST.
And that includes maybe above all else the land that is referred to today as “Israel”. Do you know when there will be “peace in the Middle-East”? When the world acknowledges that “Israel” today, and for the last 1991 years since Our Lord’s Passion, Death and Resurrection, means exactly ONE thing: The One, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church. Period. Anything founded by a group of militant atheists AT BEST claiming divine right by a deity that they openly confess that they don’t believe in AT BEST and despise at worst, is a bad, bad joke and abomination. The Holy Land is OURS. WE are the everlasting Israel. WE are the one and only path to peace. Anything less than full acknowledgement of the Universal Kingship and Dominion of Jesus Christ is a lie. From the river to the sea, and everywhere else in the entire physical universe.
Ecce ancilla Domini.
King of the Universe by Right and by Conquest in the womb. He WILL save us.
King of the Universe by Right and by Conquest as an infant. He WILL save us.
King of the Universe by Right and by Conquest on the Cross. He WILL save us.
King of the Universe by Right and by Conquest now and forever. He WILL save us