Christ the King Parish Kampala

18/02/2026

Pictorial: Ash Wednesday 18.02.2026

15/02/2026

Ash Wednesday Mass Schedule 18.02.2026

02/02/2026

Join us to pray for the soul of one of our long-time Parishioners. Eternal rest grant unto him, O Lord,
and let perpetual light shine upon him.May his soul and the the souls of all the faithful departed, through the mercy of God, rest in peace. Amen.
Amen

29/01/2026

Come to Me, all you who labor and are heavily burdened, and I will give you rest. Mt.11:28

21/01/2026

The Church celebrates the Memorial of St. Agnes (c. 304).

Saint Agnes is also known as Agnes of Rome, Ines, Ines del Campo, and Ynez. The name “Agnes” is similar to the Latin word agnus, which means “lamb”. For this reason depictions of Saint Agnes often include a lamb. The name actually comes from a Greek word which means “chaste, pure, sacred”.

When the Diocletian persecution was at its height, and when priests as well as laymen were apostatizing from the faith, Agnes, a girl of twelve, freely chose to die for Christ.

Agnes is one of the “virgin martyrs” of the church of Rome. She is one of seven women, in addition to the Blessed Virgin Mary, who are mentioned in the Roman Canon of the Mass (Eucharistic Prayer I). Saints Felicity, Perpetua, Agatha, Lucy, Cecilia, and Anastasia are the other six.

Agnes is a patron saint of chastity, gardeners, girls, Girl Scouts, engaged couples and victims of r**e.

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13/01/2026

Please take note.

13/01/2026

*“A NEW TEACHING” - Mark 1:21-28*

_First Week of the Year – Tuesday 13.1.2026_

Jesus begins His campaign as He went into the Synagogue and begun to teach. People were completely astonished at the way he taught, for he taught them like one who had personal authority, and not as the scribes did.

The Gospel passage for today is the first account of exorcism, of Jesus driving out a devil, in St. Mark’s Gospel – the first victory over the powers of evil. If Jesus’ words had amazed the people in the Synagogue, his deeds left them thunderstruck. In the Synagogue there was a man in the grip of an unclean spirit. He created a disturbance and Jesus healed him. “What have you to do with us, Jesus of Nazareth? Have you come to destroy us? Saying, “Be quiet! Come out of the man” And with a loud voice the devil came out of the man. The gospel goes to say that all were amazed and began to ask one another. “What does this mean? A completely new teaching in spirit of authority. He gives orders to unclean spirits and they obey. And so Jesus’ reputation for teaching with authority spread throughout the country side, confirmed by His authority over evil spirits.

Too often we consider ourselves Christians when the going is easy, when Christ’s teaching agrees with our easy way of life, when it doesn’t disturb our complacency. But when His teaching is hard, we tend to overlook it. We fail to recognise the supreme divine authority which Jesus speaks in the Gospels. When He speaks about love, justice, the poor, about giving a coat to our neighbour who has none if we have two, we hold back. We apply different values. We fail to act as Christians. We are unwilling to sacrifice out comfort in order to live by the authority of Christ’s Gospel.

*We pray that we love Jesus’ teaching because He teaches with divine authority.*

Rev. Fr. Fredrick Kiwanuka
*@ Christ the King Parish, Kampala*

12/01/2026

“GOOD NEWS” - Mark 1:14-20
First Week of the Year - Monday 12.1.2026

As we begin the Ordinary time of the Church Year, we read Marks’s Gospel first. It is the shortest and most concise. Our passage opens just as Jesus comes out of the desert and begins His public life. He proclaims that the reign of God is at hand and urges us to repent and believe the good news.
Good News? Where is the good news? All that one seems to see in the news media is bad news: Wars, bombings, terrorism, riots, abductions and such like. Is there no good news to be reported? Jesus came to bring good news. That is what the very word “Gospel” means in old English. When Jesus was born it was announced as “Tidings of great joy” After His resurrection those who wrote about Him, His life, death and resurrection called it gospel or simply “Good News”
What is this good news that Jesus brings? Is it hope of great wealth and prosperity? What is this reign of God that Jesus says is at hand? It is a promise of love, a promise of forgiveness, of healing and new life. Jesus came to bring the love of the father to His children on earth. He showed this love in all His works, in his healings, His forgiveness, His compassion for the crowds.

How should we respond to that good news? Do TV, social media, daily newspapers? All this including secular magazines and novels take up so much of our time that we have none left for the good news, God’s own Word? Jesus says, “Reform your lives” Get your priorities straight. Look around, see the good news. Become aware of God’s love, share it with others. Be a messenger of the good news. Then you will see that the reign of God is already in our midst.
“Believe in the good news” that is Jesus’s call to all of us. He calls us to take Him at His Word, to believe that God so loves the world that he will make any sacrifice to bring us back to himself, to believe that what sounds too good to be true is really true.

Rev. Fr. Fredrick Kiwanuka
@ Christ the King Parish, Kampala

06/01/2026

“ GOD IS LOVE” 1 John 4:7-10
Tuesday after the Epiphany
Love has its origin in God. It is from the God who is love that all love takes its source. “Human love is a reflection of something in the divine nature itself.
We are never nearer to God than when we love.
The real Christian “practices being God”. He who dwells in love dwells in God. Man is made in the image and likeness of God (Gn1:26). God is love and, therefore, to be like God and be what he was meant to be, man must also love.
God is love – is the greatest single statement about God in the whole Bible. It is amazing how many doors that single statement unlocks and how many questions it answers.

Sometimes we are bound to wonder why God created this world. The disobedience and lack of response in men is a continual grief to him. Why should He create a world which was to bring Him nothing but trouble? The answer is that creation was essential to His very nature. If God is love. He cannot exist in lonely isolation, Love must have someone to love and someone to love it. Unless love is a free response, it is not love.
Had God been only law, he could have created a world in which men moved like automata (robots) having no more choice than a machine. But if God had made men like that there would have been no possibility of a personal relationship between Him and them. If God had been only law and justice, He would simply have left men to the consequences of their sins. The moral law would operate, the soul that sinned would die. But the very fact God is love meant that He had to seek and save that which is lost. He had to find a remedy for sin.

If God were simply creator, men might live their brief span and die forever. But the fact that God is love makes it certain that the chances and changes of life have not the last word and that His love will readjust the balance of this life. Jesus is the bringer of life. God sent Him that through Him we might have life. Jesus gives a man an object for which to live, He gives him strength by which he lives, gives him peace in which to live. Living with Christ turns mere existence into fullness of life.
Jesus is the restorer of lost relationship with God. God sent Him to be the atoning sacrifice for sin.
Rev. Fr. Fredrick Kiwanuka
@ Christ the King Parish, Kampala

04/01/2026

A special Celebration of the Epiphany organised by the Neocatechuminal Way Communities of CTK today, 3:00pm @ Cardinal Wamala Hall.

31/12/2025

Blessed New Year - 2026

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