Homily for the Friday in the Seventh Week of Eastertide (Feast of Saint Charles Lwanga and Companions), delivered at Our Lady Star of the Sea Church, Gladstone, Qld.
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Thank you to Yr3 from St John the Baptist Primary School, for the liturgy you prepared, and for your presence and gifts.

"King Agrippa and Bernice arrived in Caesarea and paid their respects to Festus. Their visit lasted several days, and Festus put Paul’s case before the king. ‘There is a man here’ he said ‘whom Felix left behind in custody, and while I was in Jerusalem the chief priests and elders of the Jews laid information against him, demanding his condemnation...'" (cf. Acts 35:13-21).

"The Lord has set his thrown in heaven." (cf. Ps 103).

"Peter was upset that he asked him the third time, ‘Do you love me?’ and said, ‘Lord, you know everything; you know I love you.’ Jesus said to him, ‘Feed my sheep... follow me.'" (cf. Jn 21:15-19).

Artwork: Christ's Charge to Peter by Raphael, (c. 1515).