{"id":22173,"date":"2021-06-03T05:36:48","date_gmt":"2021-06-03T09:36:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/?p=22173"},"modified":"2021-06-03T08:21:40","modified_gmt":"2021-06-03T12:21:40","slug":"loving-with-all-weve-got-9th-thursday-i-june-3-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/loving-with-all-weve-got-9th-thursday-i-june-3-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"Loving With All We&#8217;ve Got, 9th Thursday (I), June 3, 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fr. Roger J. Landry<br \/>\nSacred Heart Convent of the Sisters of Life, New York, NY<br \/>\nThursday of the Ninth Week in Ordinary Time, Year I<br \/>\nMemorial of St. Charles Lwanga and Companions<br \/>\nJune\u00a03, 2021<br \/>\n1 Tob 6:10-11.7:1.9-17.8:4-9, Ps 128, Mk 12:28-34<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>To listen to a recording of this morning\u2019s homily, please click below:\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-22173-2\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/secure\/catholicpreaching\/6.3.21_Homily_1.mp3?_=2\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/secure\/catholicpreaching\/6.3.21_Homily_1.mp3\">https:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/secure\/catholicpreaching\/6.3.21_Homily_1.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>The following points were attempted in the homily:\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Over the last three days all of the major groups of Jewish society had come to Jesus to test him, and even trap him, with tough questions. On Tuesday, the strict Pharisees and lax Herodians conspired to try to trip Jesus up on the question of whether it was lawful to pay the census tax. Yesterday, the elitist Sadducees came to get him on the question of the Resurrection of the dead. Today the last of the major groups, the Scribes, came up to him to ask him which was the greatest of all the commandments. After Jesus\u2019 answer today, St. Mark tells us, \u201cNo one dared to ask him any more questions.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>We\u2019ve heard the answer to today\u2019s question so many times that its difficulty is not always obvious. There were 613 commandments in the Old Covenant. To ask which of them was the greatest was required not only great familiarity with all of Sacred Scripture \u2014 something that the scribes had and very few others had \u2014 but also great synthesis to discover what in the Old Covenant had the greatest weight of all. As we see throughout the Gospels, the Scribes, Pharisees and many others didn\u2019t have a great sense of the hierarchy of truths, about prioritizing what was most important of all. They often focused far more on how they\u2019d wash their hands, pots and jugs than how to love their neighbor, straining out gnats, to use Jesus\u2019 image that we\u2019ll be hearing about in the next few weeks beginning Monday with the Sermon on the Mount, than avoiding swallowing camels. Jesus, however, answered the question about the most important thing we need to do and then offered a second, which is allied to it, in such a way that the scribe who had asked the question was truly impressed. For us, today, we need to ponder Jesus\u2019 response and what that means in our life.<\/li>\n<li>The first and the greatest commandment, Jesus said, is to \u201clove the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your mind and with all your strength.\u201d It was to love the Lord not only with part of ourselves, but all of ourselves. So often we can think everything is fine if, basically, we love the Lord with \u201cmost\u201d of our heart, with \u201csome of our mind,\u201d with a \u201clittle of our strength,\u201d and with the \u201cmajority of our soul.\u201d But Jesus wants everything. And deserves everything. But how can Jesus command us to love? Can anyone be compelled to love or forced to love from the outside? Isn\u2019t that inconsistent with what love is? It would be impossible to command to love if love were just a feeling, because we can\u2019t be commanded to feel something. But love is fundamentally a choice, it\u2019s an act of willing, it\u2019s something in which our freedom is engaged. Jesus can command us to love God with all we are because God gives us himself to help us precisely to love to that degree. He commands and at the same time makes fulfilling the command possible. Pope Benedict took up this question in his beautiful encyclical <em>Deus Caritas Est, <\/em>saying, \u201clove can be \u2018commanded\u2019 because it has first been given.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>And to keep that commandment to love God with all we are, we need to let that love overflow into two other forms of love, the authentic love of ourselves and the love of our neighbor as we authentically love ourselves. If we love God and God loves us, then we must love ourselves as God loves us, helped of course by God\u2019s own love. Jesus insists in his Last Supper discourse that the Father loves us and that he himself loves us just as the Father loves him. This truth must sink deeply. And as we begin to love ourselves and will\u00a0obviously the best for ourselves, we begin to love our neighbor and want their good with the heart of God, because God himself loves him or her and we share his love. Love of God, love of ourselves, and love of neighbor are, therefore, all similar because they\u2019re all basically interconnected.<\/li>\n<li>How do we learn to love God, ourselves and others with all our mind, heart, soul and strength? The great analogy to the agapic love of God is the truly holy erotic love between a husband and a wife. We see a glimpse of that in the first reading today in the love of Tobias and Sarah on the night of their wedding. I often give this passage to couples during their marriage preparation and ask them to pray it with similar faith as they prepare to become one flesh for the first time on their wedding night and I\u2019ve been pleased at how many of them have told me afterward that they continue to pray it regularly before they go to bed together. After praising and thanking God for the gift of marriage in his plan, Tobias prays, \u201cNow, Lord, you know that I take this wife of mine not because of lust but for a noble purpose. Call down your mercy on me and on her and allow us to live together to a happy old age.\u201d Tobias was not approaching Sarah out of lust, with a desire of the flesh, with a desire to use her for pleasure, to take from her what would satisfy him, but for a noble purpose, accepting her within the love of God and joining with her to fulfill the noble purpose of their lives, their faith, and their marriage. He asked God to pour down on them his merciful love (<em>hesed<\/em>) so that they would be capable of this love, this noble purpose, for many years. He was loving her in God with all the heart, mind, soul and strength he could muster, and Sarah was reciprocating that love. As St. John Paul II used to remind us, authentic human love is an analogy of the type of covenant of love God wants to have with us.\u00a0In true eros among the pure in heart, loving with all we\u2019ve got\u00a0is very easy. We all see it, or have experienced it, when we genuinely fall in and remain in love with another. We love with our mind, thinking about the other constantly. We love with our strength, willing to do anything to help the other heroically when the other needs it. We love with our soul, wanting the best for the other\u2019s soul. And we love with all our heart, pouring out\u00a0great affection. Both the love of friendship (<em>philia<\/em>) and authentically Christian love (<em>agape<\/em>) both needs to be affectionate, coming from the heart. Our chastity helps us to love from the heart purely, because we love others with the reverent affection with which we love God. And the Holy Spirit to whom we turn in a special way during these days after Pentecost helps us to unite \u201cignis\u201d with \u201ccaritas,\u201d as we sing in the\u00a0<em>Veni Creator,\u00a0<\/em>to combine fire and charity, so that our love is truly from the heart.<\/li>\n<li>Today the Church celebrates the feast of those whose loved God and others with all their heart, mind, soul and strength. Jesus said no one has any greater love than to lay down his life for his friends and the 22 Ugandan martyrs \u2014 who all died between the ages of 14 to 25, from a few days to a few years from the time the love of God and flame of faith was first ignited in them by conversion and baptism \u2014 laid down their lives in faithful friendship toward God and toward each other. Their story, as Saint Paul VI said at their canonization in 1964, is every bit as moving as that of the heroic martyrs of the early Church, because they were martyrs soon after having becoming Christians. When the White Fathers arrived in Buganda, the southern part of what is now Uganda, in 1879, they found the local King Mtesa hospitable to outside influence in the hope of improving his personal and national situation. Mtesa had already welcomed in Anglican missionaries a few years earlier. Because he liked the Christian teaching on the afterlife, he even allowed the missionaries to evangelize the members of his court.\u00a0One of his young pages was Mkasa Balikuddembe, who rose in prominence at the palace after he courageously saved Prince Mwanga\u2019s life by capturing and killing with his bare hands a venomous snake threatening him. For 3 years, Mkasa received a very thorough catechumenate at the palace from the White Fathers before being baptized in 1882 with the name of Joseph.\u00a0After the White Fathers needed to go into exile for a couple of years because the dying king feared outside influences, Joseph Mkasa became the de facto catechist for the converts and hundreds of catechumens. When the priests returned after Mtesa\u2019s death in 1884, they saw that Joseph Mkasa had helped the new converts bring family members to the Lord, renounce slavery, polygamy and other practices against the Gospel, and dedicate themselves heroically to serving those in need.\u00a0Once Prince Mwanga had succeeded his father, Joseph Mkasa became his majordomo, the top assistant in charge of the king\u2019s palace and court. To be head of the pages, Joseph appointed a young catechumen, Lwanga.\u00a0What both men soon discovered, however, was that King Mwanga was homosexually-attracted to the teenage boys and solicitous to have them brought into his private company. Through various means, Joseph and Lwanga successfully and repeatedly conspired to thwart the king\u2019s designs, but the king grew increasingly frustrated.\u00a0After King Mwanga had had an Anglican missionary bishop murdered, Joseph went into his presence and reproved him for the murder as well as for his perverse attraction to the boys in his service. Even though it was technically the majordomo\u2019s traditional responsibility to correct the king, Mwanga would have nothing of it. His anger boiled against Joseph and his fellow Christians whom he knew were training the boys to resist his advances. Under the pretext of Joseph\u2019s disloyalty for putting the commands of another king, \u201cThe God of the Christians,\u201d over his own, King Mwanga sentenced him to be burned alive.\u00a0To the executioner who was having trouble carrying out his orders against the majordomo, Joseph said, \u201cA Christian who gives his life for God has no reason to fear death. Tell Mwanga that he has condemned me unjustly, but I forgive him with all my heart.\u201d After that, the executioner took it upon himself to behead Joseph and burn his body rather than have him burned alive.\u00a0The day of Joseph\u2019s martyrdom, Lwanga and the other catechumens among the pages were baptized. King Mwanga had made it known that he was intending to put to death all the Christians in his court and they wanted to make sure that they were baptized by water and the Holy Spirit before they were baptized in blood. Lwanga took the Christian name Charles.\u00a0Several months later, after the king returned from a fishing trip and saw one of the routine objects of his sordid desire receiving catechetical instruction, he summoned the catechist, St. Denis Ssebuggwawo, put a spear through his chest and then had his executioners hack him to pieces. The following day, the king, fuming, assembled all the pages and demanded that they make a choice, between God and him, between prayer and the predator, between life and death.\u00a0\u201cLet all those who do not pray stay here by my side,\u201d he said, waving to his right, and \u201cthose who pray\u201d he told to stand by the fence at his left. Charles Lwanga and a group of 26 Christian pages, 16 Catholics and 10 Anglicans, headed toward the fence. He asked them whether they intended to remain Christians. \u201cUntil death!,\u201d they replied. \u201cThen put them to death!,\u201d Mwanga responded, sentencing them to be burnt alive in Namugongo, a village 37 miles away.\u00a0They began the death march, which they turned into a religious procession with hymns, prayers and expressions of joy. This was in the sharpest contracted to the brutality of their \u201cchaperones,\u201d who beat them so fiercely that three of them died along the way. Once in Namugongo, they were forced to watch for days as the pyre awaiting them grew and became increasingly intense.\u00a0The executioners decided to kill Charles Lwanga first, in the hope that after his death, others might abandon the faith. To increase his sufferings, he was placed in a reed mat and fire was set first to his feet first so that these would be charred to the bone before the flames would reach the other parts of his body. In the midst of his suffering, Charles said to his executioner, \u201cYou are burning me, but it is as if you are pouring water over my body,\u201d a reference to the sweet solace of his baptism, the foretaste of his imminent new birth.\u00a0After he was dead, the others remained steadfast and entered the pyre. One young page said to a priest present who was mourning the death of so many young Christians, \u201cWhy be sad? What I suffer now is little compared with the eternal happiness you have taught me to look forward to!\u201d They died on June 3, which was fittingly Ascension Thursday.\u00a0It\u2019s no surprise that, on the foundation of their heroic faith, the Church has continued to grow in Uganda. Even though Christianity was less than a decade old in their kingdom, they had already gotten what it was about, and they were willing to die rather than to sin, to be killed rather than to allow sinful predation to happen to the young and innocent, to be burned alive rather than to betray the faith in the least in order to keep their lives. They were loving God with all their mind, heart, soul and strength and were loving neighbor enough to risk their lives to protect them from sordid lust.<\/li>\n<li>We can ponder all of Jesus&#8217; teachings on love within a Eucharistic key. At the beginning of the Last Supper, St. John tells us that Jesus, \u201chaving loved those who were his own in the world, loved them to the end.\u201d He loved us, literally, to the \u201cextreme,\u201d to the limits of his human heart, mind, soul and strength. He places his own love within us so that, united with Him, we might love the Father as He loves the Father, so that we might love ourselves as he loves us, so that in tandem with him we might love our neighbors by Jesus\u2019 own standard. He can command us to love God, ourselves and others because He himself loves with us from within us by this Holy Communion. And there\u2019s also a nuptial dimension to this love. The early Christians, once Christianity was legalized and they could build houses of worship, used to cover the altars in the ancient basilicas with baldachins or canopies much like the famous one over the main altar in the Basilica of St. Peter. This canopy symbolized the <em>chuppah, <\/em>the canopy under which a Jewish husband and wife would exchange their consent and then, a year or two later when they would begin their spousal cohabitation after the husband had earned the money for their eight day celebration and joint living together, they would consummate their marriage under the same <em>chuppah, <\/em>which was a sign of doing both and everything in their marriage under the shadow of God\u2019s merciful and loving blessing. Such a baldachin was placed over the altars to symbolize that the altar was meant to be the marriage bed of the union between Christ the Bridegroom and his Bride the Church. What happens on a marriage bed? The bride takes the body of her husband within her, they become one flesh, and are capacitated by God to \u201cmake love\u201d and \u201cbear fruit\u201d that can be named and baptized. What happens on the altar, the marriage bed where the union between Christ and the Church is consummated? We, the Bride of the Church, take within ourselves the Body and Blood of Bridegroom, we become one flesh with him, and are made capable of bearing fruit with him from that loving union. We\u2019re made capable of loving God, ourselves and others, with all our mind, heart, soul and strength. This is the <em>res mirabilis, <\/em>the mind-blowing reality, that the Church in some parts of the world celebrates today on Corpus Christi, a <em>pauper servus et humilis, <\/em>a poor and humble servant, <em>manducat Dominum, <\/em>not only eats the Lord but becomes one flesh in a spousal covenant with Him. In the\u00a0<em>Lauda Sion Salvatorem\u00a0<\/em>Sequence written likewise by St. Thomas, we pray, \u201c<em>Quantum potes, tantum aude,\u201d\u00a0<\/em>\u201cDare to do all you can\u201d in praising God for this gift, because all of it will fall short. And in the words of St. Thomas\u2019\u00a0<em>Adoro Te Devote,\u00a0<\/em>in response to Jesus\u2019 loving us to the extreme, we pray, \u201c<em>Fac me tibi semper magis credere, in te spem habere,\u00a0te\u00a0diligere,\u201d\u00a0<\/em><i>\u00a0<\/i>\u201cMake me more and more believe in you, hope in you and love you!\u201d<i>\u00a0<\/i><\/li>\n<li>Today we come to receive him not with lust, not for our own needs and desires, but for a noble purpose, the purpose of our fruitful, loving union with him in this world and forever. And like Tobias and Sarah on their wedding night, we praise and thank God, we beg him to shower on us his mercy, and we say, \u201cAmen! Amen!\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>The readings for today\u2019s Mass were:\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"bibleReadingsWrapper\">\n<h4>Reading 1\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.usccb.org\/bible\/tobit\/6:10\">TB 6:10-11; 7:1BCDE, 9-17; 8:4-9A<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"poetry\">When the angel Raphael and Tobiah had entered Media<br \/>\nand were getting close to Ecbatana,<br \/>\nRaphael said to the boy,<br \/>\n\u201cTobiah, my brother!\u201d<br \/>\nHe replied: \u201cHere I am!\u201d<br \/>\nHe said: \u201cTonight we must stay with Raguel, who is a relative of yours.<br \/>\nHe has a daughter named Sarah.\u201d<br \/>\nSo he brought him to the house of Raguel,<br \/>\nwhom they found seated by his courtyard gate.<br \/>\nThey greeted him first.<br \/>\nHe said to them, \u201cGreetings to you too, brothers!<br \/>\nGood health to you, and welcome!\u201d<br \/>\nAnd he brought them into his home.<br \/>\nRaguel slaughtered a ram from the flock<br \/>\nand gave them a cordial reception.<br \/>\nWhen they had bathed and reclined to eat, Tobiah said to Raphael,<br \/>\n\u201cBrother Azariah, ask Raguel to let me marry<br \/>\nmy kinswoman Sarah.\u201d<br \/>\nRaguel overheard the words; so he said to the boy:<br \/>\n\u201cEat and drink and be merry tonight,<br \/>\nfor no man is more entitled<br \/>\nto marry my daughter Sarah than you, brother.<br \/>\nBesides, not even I have the right to give her to anyone but you,<br \/>\nbecause you are my closest relative.<br \/>\nBut I will explain the situation to you very frankly.<br \/>\nI have given her in marriage to seven men,<br \/>\nall of whom were kinsmen of ours,<br \/>\nand all died on the very night they approached her.<br \/>\nBut now, son, eat and drink.<br \/>\nI am sure the Lord will look after you both.\u201d<br \/>\nTobiah answered,<br \/>\n\u201cI will eat or drink nothing until you set aside what belongs to me.\u201d<br \/>\nRaguel said to him: \u201cI will do it.<br \/>\nShe is yours according to the decree of the Book of Moses.<br \/>\nYour marriage to her has been decided in heaven!<br \/>\nTake your kinswoman;<br \/>\nfrom now on you are her love, and she is your beloved.<br \/>\nShe is yours today and ever after.<br \/>\nAnd tonight, son, may the Lord of heaven prosper you both.<br \/>\nMay he grant you mercy and peace.\u201d<br \/>\nThen Raguel called his daughter Sarah, and she came to him.<br \/>\nHe took her by the hand and gave her to Tobiah with the words:<br \/>\n\u201cTake her according to the law.<br \/>\nAccording to the decree written in the Book of Moses<br \/>\nshe is your wife.<br \/>\nTake her and bring her back safely to your father.<br \/>\nAnd may the God of heaven grant both of you peace and prosperity.\u201d<br \/>\nRaguel then called Sarah\u2019s mother and told her to bring a scroll,<br \/>\nso that he might draw up a marriage contract<br \/>\nstating that he gave Sarah to Tobiah as his wife<br \/>\naccording to the decree of the Mosaic law.<br \/>\nHer mother brought the scroll,<br \/>\nand Raguel drew up the contract, to which they affixed their seals.<br \/>\nAfterward they began to eat and drink.<br \/>\nLater Raguel called his wife Edna and said,<br \/>\n\u201cMy love, prepare the other bedroom and bring the girl there.\u201d<br \/>\nShe went and made the bed in the room, as she was told,<br \/>\nand brought the girl there.<br \/>\nAfter she had cried over her, she wiped away the tears and said:<br \/>\n\u201cBe brave, my daughter.<br \/>\nMay the Lord grant you joy in place of your grief.<br \/>\nCourage, my daughter.\u201d<br \/>\nThen she left.When the girl\u2019s parents left the bedroom<br \/>\nand closed the door behind them,<br \/>\nTobiah arose from bed and said to his wife,<br \/>\n\u201cMy love, get up.<br \/>\nLet us pray and beg our Lord to have mercy on us<br \/>\nand to grant us deliverance.\u201d<br \/>\nShe got up, and they started to pray<br \/>\nand beg that deliverance might be theirs.<br \/>\nAnd they began to say:<br \/>\n\u201cBlessed are you, O God of our fathers,<br \/>\npraised be your name forever and ever.<br \/>\nLet the heavens and all your creation<br \/>\npraise you forever.<br \/>\nYou made Adam and you gave him his wife Eve<br \/>\nto be his help and support;<br \/>\nand from these two the human race descended.<br \/>\nYou said, \u2018It is not good for the man to be alone;<br \/>\nlet us make him a partner like himself.\u2019<br \/>\nNow, Lord, you know that I take this wife of mine<br \/>\nnot because of lust,<br \/>\nbut for a noble purpose.<br \/>\nCall down your mercy on me and on her,<br \/>\nand allow us to live together to a happy old age.\u201d<\/div>\n<div class=\"poetry\">They said together, \u201cAmen, amen,\u201d and went to bed for the night.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"bibleReadingsWrapper\">\n<h4>Responsorial Psalm\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.usccb.org\/bible\/psalms\/128:1\">PS 128:1-2, 3, 4-5<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"poetry\">R. (see 1a)\u00a0Blessed are those who fear the Lord.<br \/>\nBlessed are you who fear the LORD,<br \/>\nwho walk in his ways!<br \/>\nFor you shall eat the fruit of your handiwork;<br \/>\nBlessed shall you be, and favored.<br \/>\nR.\u00a0Blessed are those who fear the Lord.<br \/>\nYour wife shall be like a fruitful vine<br \/>\nin the recesses of your home;<br \/>\nYour children like olive plants<br \/>\naround your table.<br \/>\nR.\u00a0Blessed are those who fear the Lord.<br \/>\nBehold, thus is the man blessed<br \/>\nwho fears the LORD.<br \/>\nThe LORD bless you from Zion:<br \/>\nmay you see the prosperity of Jerusalem<br \/>\nall the days of your life.<br \/>\nR.\u00a0Blessed are those who fear the Lord.<\/p>\n<h4>Alleluia\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.usccb.org\/bible\/2timothy\/1:10\">SEE 2 TM 1:10<\/a><\/h4>\n<p>R.\u00a0Alleluia, alleluia.<br \/>\nOur Savior Jesus Christ has destroyed death<br \/>\nand brought life to light to through the Gospel.<br \/>\nR.\u00a0Alleluia, alleluia.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"bibleReadingsWrapper\">\n<h4>Gospel\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.usccb.org\/bible\/mark\/12:28\">MK 12:28-34<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"poetry\">One of the scribes came to Jesus and asked him,<br \/>\n\u201cWhich is the first of all the commandments?\u201d<br \/>\nJesus replied, \u201cThe first is this:<br \/>\n<em>Hear, O Israel!<br \/>\nThe Lord our God is Lord alone!<br \/>\nYou shall love the Lord your God with all your heart,<br \/>\nwith all your soul, with all your mind,<br \/>\nand with all your strength.<\/em><br \/>\nThe second is this:<br \/>\n<em>You shall love your neighbor as yourself.<\/em><br \/>\nThere is no other commandment greater than these.\u201d<br \/>\nThe scribe said to him, \u201cWell said, teacher.<br \/>\nYou are right in saying,<br \/>\n<em>He is One and there is no other than he.<\/em><br \/>\nAnd\u00a0<em>to love him with all your heart,<br \/>\nwith all your understanding,<br \/>\nwith all your strength,<\/em><br \/>\nand\u00a0<em>to love your neighbor as yourself<\/em><br \/>\nis worth more than all burnt offerings and sacrifices.\u201d<br \/>\nAnd when Jesus saw that he answered with understanding,<br \/>\nhe said to him, \u201cYou are not far from the Kingdom of God.\u201d<br \/>\nAnd no one dared to ask him any more questions.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/st-charles-lwanga-companions-w740x549.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-22178\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/st-charles-lwanga-companions-w740x549.jpg?resize=300%2C223&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"223\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_2984\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-22173-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/secure\/catholicpreaching\/6.3.21_Homily_1.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/secure\/catholicpreaching\/6.3.21_Homily_1.mp3\">https:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/secure\/catholicpreaching\/6.3.21_Homily_1.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"https:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/secure\/catholicpreaching\/6.3.21_Homily_1.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/?powerpress_pinw=22173-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/secure\/catholicpreaching\/6.3.21_Homily_1.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"6.3.21_Homily_1.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fr. 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