MEMORIAL OF ST CHARLES LWANGA & CO MARTYRS.
You are greatly mistaken.
THE GOODNEWS:
"Some Sadducees, who say there is no resurrection, came to Jesus and put this question to him, saying,
“Teacher, Moses wrote for us, If someone’s brother dies, leaving a wife but no child, his brother must take the wife and raise up descendants for his brother.
"Now there were seven brothers.
The first married a woman and died, leaving no descendants.
So the second brother married her and died, leaving no descendants, and the third likewise.
And the seven left no descendants.
"Last of all the woman also died.
At the resurrection when they arise whose wife will she be? For all seven had been married to her.”
"Jesus said to them, “Are you not misled because you do not know the Scriptures or the power of God?
When they rise from the dead, they neither marry nor are given in marriage, but they are like the angels in heaven.
"As for the dead being raised, have you not read in the Book of Moses, in the passage about the bush, how God told him,
I am the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob?
"He is not God of the dead but of the living. You are greatly misled.” (Mark 12: 18 - 27).
Wednesday 9th June 2026 in the 9th Week in Ordinary Time is the Memorial of St Charles Lwanga and Companion Martyrs.
(+1886 - 1887).
On the feast of Ascension 1886, the powerful but corrupt King Mwanga of Uganda mercilessly killed Charles Lwanga and 14 teenage companions who resisted resolutely his homosexual advances.
Eight of the companions were killed later.
The blood of martyrs is the seed of Christianity, wrote the African erudite theologian, Tertulian.
Martyrdom is the greatest testimony/witness to the faith. The Greek word martyr actually means witness. The testimony of the absolute love of Jesus for us is that He gave His life to prove it.
What is most impressive about the martyrs of Uganda is that all of them were teenagers and Catechumens. Technically, they were not yet Christians since they had not received Baptism. Yet they chose to die for the faith they had come to love.
Do you believe in the Resurrection of the dead? This is the subject of today's Gospel.
Our God is not "God of the dead but of the living."
We Catholics believe in the Communion of the Saints.
The saints are very alive.
The Blessed Virgin Mary has made many apparitions to many people in different countries. For example: Lourdes, Fatima, Guadalupe, etc.
St Joseph has also made apparitions.
Numerous saints have appeared to people. All these appearances have been carefully examined by the Holy Church. Some have been approved. Others rejected.
Even if we cannot see the saints or angels, we can touch them with our prayers. They touch us with their answers to our prayers. This is real.
Think of St Anthony of Padua, Patron Saint of lost items.
St Joseph, Patron Saint of a Happy Death.
God is a living God of a living people.
All things are possible for God. All things are easy for God.
I trust in the Lord with all my heart. I lean not on my own understanding, experience, knowledge, perception or ideas. In everything I do, I acknowledge God and He promises to direct my path.
SACRED HEART NOVENA 2026 STARTS TODAY JUNE 3 TO JUNE 11. SOLEMNITY OF THE SACRED HEART OF JESUS - FRIDAY JUNE 12.
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June is the month of honoring the Sacred Heart of Jesus.
The Church honors the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus every June.
"Our Lord Jesus Christ has made it known to me that the chief design of this devotion is to turn souls to His love, which is the ultimate purpose of their existence. He is a secure refuge against the divine justice."
— St. Margaret Mary Alacoque (Apostle of the Sacred Heart of Jesus Devotion).
Consider the immense sorrow of the Savior as He displays His wounded humanity.
The purpose of today’s meditation is to move your soul from being a mere bystander into becoming an active comforter of Christ.
Jesus desires your personal affection; He seeks your specific acts of love today to make amends for the coldness of the world.
Divine Providence has kept you alive for this precise hour: to stand in the breach, offering a heart of deep gratitude where others offer only rejection.
Your professional duties, your patience in traffic, your endurance of daily fatigue—when offered as reparation—take on an immense, supernatural weight that consoles the Heart of God.
Most loving Jesus, I offer my day to make reparation for the ingratitude shown to Your Sacred Heart in the Tabernacle.
Read of the abundant promises made to people who honor the Sacred Heart of Jesus especially in June and in the First Fridays of every month.
For Prayers and Prayer intentions click the link below.
