I really think all guys should get pumped up about this feast.
The readings are from2 Sam. 5:1-3
In those days, all the tribes of Israel came to David in Hebron and said:
“Here we are, your bone and your flesh.
In days past, when Saul was our king,
it was you who led the Israelites out and brought them back.
And the LORD said to you,
‘You shall shepherd my people Israel
and shall be commander of Israel.'”
When all the elders of Israel came to David in Hebron,
King David made an agreement with them there before the LORD,
and they anointed him king of Israel.
We move into Colossians 1:12-20
He is the image of the invisible God,
the firstborn of all creation.
For in him were created all things in heaven and on earth,
the visible and the invisible,
whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers;
all things were created through him and for him.
He is before all things,
and in him all things hold together.
He is the head of the body, the church.
He is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead,
that in all things he himself might be preeminent.
For in him all the fullness was pleased to dwell,
and through him to reconcile all things for him,
making peace by the blood of his cross
through him, whether those on earth or those in heaven.
It a service to remember that our Lord will return in power and glory. Sorry I don’t believe that Christ is going to be dressed up as a 16th century silk rope with female appearances 
Catholicism has Orthodoxy beat when it comes to Icongraphy with respect to Christ sacrifice on the Cross, but Orthodoxy has Catholicism beat when it comes to Christ the King.
Christ Pantocrator at the second coming will come as we say in the creed “to judge the living and the dead”.
With the married and single males either sitting back or missing in action on Sundays, it’s an easier draw to get them in the pews when we focus on what has been traditionally know as male qualities. Strength, courage, self-sacrifice, justice and merciful victor. Granted most of us don’t live up to those qualities, but how can our boys grasp it if it’s not demonstrated some times in the liturgy.
Perhaps it’s just a guy thing.
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Until the image of Christ as returning judge as well as victorious King is also given the place it used to have I am afraid this won’t sell all that well with guys.
Men need the idea that Jesus is not only coming back as “merciful victor” but as angry judge, just like the Bible says.
We have had far too much of “Gentle Jesus, Meek and Mild” and even images of Him as King have been namby pamby.
I agree though that there is something wonderful about the Pantokrator theme in Orthodoxy.
Maybe this is why they aren’t having the same degree of problem with men as we are in the west…
Christ Crucified has less currency with a culture whose highest ideal is satisfaction of lust, which has entirely lost the idea of sacrifice. This is not the fault of the ideal itself, God knows…
But judgment is coming.
I thought Anthony Esolen did a great commentary on this feast. I’ve been savoring it all week:
http://merecomments.typepad.com/merecomments/2007/11/christ-jesus-vi.html .