To help you better welcome our King at Christmas, here is a prayer by a Scotist Franciscan theologian, Père Chrysostome, O.F.M. The prayer was granted a plenary indulgence by the Supreme Apostolic Penitentiary in 1923, and we have used it for years as part of our annual Novena to Christ the King. Père Chrysostome was a great defender of the Absolute Primacy of Christ, and his work is referenced in much of the literature on the subject. Please make this commendation, offering, and pledge to His Royal Highness, Jesus Christ the King your own this Advent and Christmas:
English: O Christ Jesus, I acknowledge Thee to be the king of the universe; all that hath been made is created for Thee. Exercise over me all Thy sovereign rights. I hereby renew the promises of my baptism, renouncing Satan and all his works and pomps, and I engage myself to lead henceforth a truly Christian life. And in an especial manner do I undertake to bring about the triumph of the rights of God and Thy Church, so far as in me lies. Divine Heart of Jesus, I offer Thee my poor actions to obtain the acknowledgment by every heart of Thy sacred kingly power. In such wise may the kingdom of Thy peace be firmly established throughout all the earth. Amen.
Latin: Domine Jesu Christe, te confiteor Regem universalem. Omnia, quae facta sunt, pro te sunt creata. Omnia iura tua exerce in me. Renovo vota Baptismi abrenuntians satanae eiusque pompis et operibus et promitto me victurum ut bonum Christianum. Ac potissimum me obligo operari quantum in me est, ut triumphent Dei iura tuaeque Ecclesiae. Divinum Cor Jesu, offero tibi actiones meas tenues ad obtinendum, ut corda omnia agnoscant tuam sacram Regalitatem et ita tuae pacis regnum stabiliatur in toto terrarum orbe. Amen.
