Something for the weekend. To Jesus Christ, Our Sovereign King. The hymn was written by a German-American priest, Father Martin Hellriegel, in 1941, specifically to rebut the claims of the Third Reich with the eternal message of Christ. Here is a great essay with the story behind the hymn. I find this comforting. Evil often has its hour in the sun, to strut and parade, but, inevitably, Christ is always the final victor.
For more information on Fr. Hellriegel, you can read the excerpt from the United States Catholic Catechism for Adults that I included with the following post:
http://richleonardi.blogspot.com/2009/02/martin-loved-liturgy.html
Excellent post–I had no idea about the explicitly anti-Nazi intent of the song.
May God raise up a thousand more like Fr. Hellriegel.