Thursday, March 8, 2018

LENTEN MOMENT



A reminder from a modern day prophet - Oscar Romero

“We have never preached violence,
except the violence of love,
which left Christ nailed to a cross,
the violence that we must each do to ourselves
to overcome our selfishness
and such cruel inequalities among us.
The violence we preach is not the violence of the sword,
the violence of hatred.
It is the violence of love,
of brotherhood,
the violence that wills to beat weapons
into sickles for work.”
– Archbishop Oscar Romero San Salvador, El Salvador


He stood with the poor and disenfranchised people of El Salvador in their struggle against oppression and injustice. After years of speaking and acting on behalf of the people, the "powers" of control had enough and assassinated him as he said mass.

More on him here - http://www.catholicsocialteaching.org.uk/themes/community-participation/stories/oscar-romero-option-poor/





No comments: