Christ Jesus Victor

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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.

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Donald R. McClarey

Cradle Catholic. Active in the pro-life movement since 1973. Father of three, one in Heaven, and happily married for 43 years. Small town lawyer and amateur historian. Former president of the board of directors of the local crisis pregnancy center for a decade.
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Rich Leonardi
Rich Leonardi
Sunday, April 12, AD 2009 9:32pm

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

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Dale Price
Dale Price
Monday, April 13, AD 2009 8:47am

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.

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