This Thursday, June 5, 2025

We will have Holy Mass in the chapel,

celebrated by Fr. Jim DiPerri


Invite a friend

We meet weekly at Sacred Heart Church Chapel of the Divine Mercy Parish

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Every weekday, the Men of Divine Mercy posts the new Saint of the Day from 


Franciscan Media on our website. 


Today's Saint of the Day

Saint Charles Lwanga and Companions


June 3, 2025


Franciscan Media

Image: Stained glass of Saint Charles Lwanga | photo by Rachel Strohm

 

Saint Charles Lwanga and Companions

 

Saint of the Day for June 3

(d. between November 15, 1885 – January 27, 1887)

Saint Charles Lwanga and Companions’ Story

 

One of 22 Ugandan martyrs, Charles Lwanga is the patron of youth and Catholic action in most of tropical Africa. He protected his fellow pages, aged 13 to 30, from the sexual demands of the Bagandan ruler, Mwanga, and encouraged and instructed them in the Catholic faith during their imprisonment for refusing the ruler’s demands.

 

Charles first learned of Christ’s teachings from two retainers in the court of Chief Mawulugungu. While a catechumen, he entered the royal household as assistant to Joseph Mukaso, head of the court pages.

 

On the night of Mukaso’s martyrdom for encouraging the African youths to resist Mwanga, Charles requested and received baptism. Imprisoned with his friends, Charles’ courage and belief in God inspired them to remain chaste and faithful.

 

For his own unwillingness to submit to the immoral acts and his efforts to safeguard the faith of his friends, Charles was burned to death at Namugongo on June 3, 1886, by Mwanga’s order.

 

When Pope Paul VI canonized these 22 martyrs on October 18, 1964, he also made reference to the Anglican pages martyred for the same reason.


Jesus raised his eyes to heaven and said,

“Father, the hour has come.

Give glory to your son, so that your son may glorify you,

just as you gave him authority over all people,

so that your son may give eternal life to all you gave him.

Now this is eternal life,

that they should know you, the only true God,

and the one whom you sent, Jesus Christ.

I glorified you on earth

by accomplishing the work that you gave me to do.

Now glorify me, Father, with you,

with the glory that I had with you before the world began.

“I revealed your name to those whom you gave me out of the world.

They belonged to you, and you gave them to me,

and they have kept your word.

Now they know that everything you gave me is from you,

because the words you gave to me I have given to them,

and they accepted them and truly understood that I came from you,

and they have believed that you sent me.

I pray for them.

I do not pray for the world but for the ones you have given me,

because they are yours, and everything of mine is yours

and everything of yours is mine,

and I have been glorified in them.

And now I will no longer be in the world,

but they are in the world, while I am coming to you.”


Men of Divine Mercy Calendar

June/Jule 2025

SAVE THE DATE

All the Men's Conference Talks For You


We are thrilled to deliver all of the the talks from the Boston Catholic Men's Conference, March 22, 2025


Deacon Larry Oney

https://youtu.be/_odsdvFrEoA


Jim Wahlberg

https://youtu.be/gnXxgclCiic


Fr. Larry Richards

https://youtu.be/jmN7ei6JlsM


Dan Donaldson

https://youtu.be/sSoNELOTVfw


Chris Stefanick

https://youtu.be/soAv0RAnLqM


Mother Olga of the Sacred Heart

https://youtu.be/KHcadtuE7zk


Archbishop Richard Henning's Homily

https://youtu.be/MlS_DuEH05M


Enjoy a few pictures in this slide show from the

Boston Catholic Men's Conference 2025


Photos by Aaron Joseph

A few pictures from the Boston Catholic Men's Conference 2025

Men of Divine Mercy Website

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Boston Catholic Men's Conference is presented by Men of Divine Mercy Prayer Group and sponsored by The Flatley Foundation


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