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Vestment: RedSs. Caroli Lwanga et sociorum, martyrum
Ss. Caroli Lwanga et sociorum, martyrum
Saint Charles Lwanga and his twenty-one youthful companions were young African catechumens and pages in the royal court of Buganda who were martyred between 1885 and 1887 under King Mwanga II for refusing to renounce Christ or commit immoral acts. They went to the pyre at Namugongo singing hymns of praise to Almighty God. Canonised in 1964, Saint Charles is the patron of African Catholic youth and Catholic Action.
In whom also we are called by lot, being predestinated according to the purpose of him who worketh all things according to the counsel of his will. That we may be unto the praise of his glory, we who before hoped in Christ: In whom you also, after you had heard the word of truth (the gospel of your salvation); in whom also believing, you were sealed with the holy Spirit of promise, who is the pledge of our inheritance.
R. Blessed the people the Lord has chosen to be his own.
Rejoice in the Lord, O ye just: praise becometh the upright. Give praise to the Lord on the harp; sing to him with the psaltery, the instrument of ten strings.
R. Blessed the people the Lord has chosen to be his own.
For the word of the Lord is right, and all his works are done with faithfulness. He loveth mercy and judgment; the earth is full of the mercy of the Lord.
R. Blessed the people the Lord has chosen to be his own.
At that time, when great multitudes stood about Jesus, so that they trod one upon another, he began to say to his disciples: Beware ye of the leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy. For there is nothing covered, that shall not be revealed: nor hidden, that shall not be known.
And I say to you, my friends: Be not afraid of them that kill the body, and after that have no more that they can do. Are not five sparrows sold for two farthings, and not one of them is forgotten before God? Yea, the very hairs of your head are all numbered. Fear not therefore: you are of more value than many sparrows.
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