“I’ll see your ‘Wakanda!’ and raise you a ‘KATONDA!'” The Feast of St Charles Lwanga, Martyr – A saint we can all take pride in!

St Charles Lwanga

“Katonda!”

This year today is in the Vetus Ordo calendar Ember Friday in the Octave of Penance.  However, it is also the Feast of St. Charles Lwanga.    That said, because of the decree Cum sanctissima we can now celebrate St. Lwanga using the 1962 on days when it is not some feast that would outweigh it.

Here is what I posted on St. Charles in the past.

If you don’t know this saint, be sure to read it.  It is powerful.


As “Pride” month continues…

Today is the feast of St. Charles Lwanga and companions, murder victims and martyrs of homosexual depravity.

Today we might also contemplate the various ways in which the State is encroaches in our lives in this regard and tries to force us to do things that are repugnant to nature and to God’s laws.

Today we should especially ask God to forgive and convert all those who in any way have contributed to or succumbed to any aspect of what is rightly called toxic “gender theory” and called demonic, due to its origin.

More on that HERE and HERE and HERE.

Today is the feast day of a saint, who died as a martyr especially because he resisted a sodomite king, who was furious that he and many children wouldn’t have homosexual sex with him.

St. Charles Lwanga and many other martyrs died between 1885 and 1887 in Uganda. They were beatified in 1920 and canonized by Pope Paul VI in 1964.

In 1879 the White Fathers were working successfully as missionaries in Uganda.  They were, at first well received by King Mutesa.

Then there came a new pharaoh, as it were.

Mutesa died and his son, Mwanga, took over.  He was a ritual pedophile.

Charles Lwanga, a 25 year old man who was a catechist, forcefully protected boys in his charge from the king’s sodomite advances.

The king had murdered an Anglican Bishop and tried to get his page, who was protected by Joseph Mukasa, later beheaded for his trouble.  On the night of the martyrdom of Joseph Mukasa, Lwanga and other pages sought out the White Fathers for baptism. Some 100 catechumens were baptized.

A few months later, King Mwanga ordered all the pages to be questioned to find out if they were being catechized.  15 Christians 13 and 25 identified themselves.  When the King asked them if they were willing to keep their faith, They answered in unison, “Until death!”

They were bound together and force marched for 2 days to Namugongo where they were to be burned at the stake.  On the way, Matthias Kalemba, one of the eldest boys, exclaimed, “God will rescue me. But you will not see how he does it, because he will take my soul and leave you only my body.”  He was cut to pieces and left him by the road.

When they reached Nanugongo, they were kept tied together for seven days while the executioners prepared the wood for the fire.

On 3 June 1886 (that year the Feast of the Ascension… therefore a Thursday), Charles Lwanga was separated from the others and burned at the stake. The executioners burnt his feet until only the charred stumps remained.  He survived.  His tormentors promised that they would let him go if he renounced his Faith. Charles refused saying, “You are burning me, but it is as if you are pouring water over my body.”  They set him on fire.

As flames engulfed him he said in a loud voice, “Katonda! – My God!”

“Katonda!”  … Better than “Wakanda!”

His companions were also burned together the same day. They prayed and sang hymns.

Charles Lwanga and companions died for their Faith and because they resisted the intrinsically evil of homosexual sex.

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Charles Lwanga, pray for us!

Katonda!

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Thanks to the Great Roman™.  Here are a couple of shots of the canonization ceremony for St. Charles and companions…. during Vatican II.

Quite self-referential and maybe even neo-Pelagian, I’d say.

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6 Comments

  1. Cornelius says:

    It is surely no mere coincidence that this Saint – martyred for his rejection of homosex – was given June 3 as his feast day – in the same month declared “pride month” by the practitioners of this depravity.

    The Bishops and Pope in 1962 could not have dreamt, in their wildest nightmares, that a month would be dedicated to this abomination by secular powers.

    God is in control, but He also gives his creatures a long leash and there is no small number that are running wild on it. Eventually though that leash be drawn taut and then we shall see . . . . St. Lwanga, ora pro nobis!

  2. RichR says:

    After reading this, I then went to the (horrible, yet soon-to-be-defunct) ICEL translation of the Liturgy of the Hours. The short narrative for St. Charles Lwanga says he and the other martyrs were put to death “because they would not accede to the king’s unreasonable demands”. Unreasonable. It sounds like the king was having an intellectual dispute with St. Charles.

    The original Latin says: “eo quod impudicis desideriis regis acquiescere noluerunt.” A better translation of “impudicis desideriis” would be “shameless/unchaste desires”.

    When translators are this vague it kills religious fervor and obscures truth.

  3. Fr. Ó Buaidhe says:

    I read somewhere that the Mass of canonisation was the last Solemn Papal Mass (i.e. with Tiara and Precious Tiara) celebrated in the traditional rite.

  4. kurtmasur says:

    Technically speaking, the TLM is THE Mass of Vatican II.

  5. PostCatholic says:

    There was cautionary tale about a tyrannical authority figures who were predatory toward their adolescent assistants told during Vatican II? Huh.

    [What is your point?]

  6. Danteewoo says:

    “Charles Lwanga, a 25-year-old man who was a catechist, forcefully protected boys in his charge from the king’s sodomite advances.” Would that many bishops had forcefully protected boys from the sodomite advances of abusive priests.

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