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Oscar Romero Biography

Óscar Arnulfo Romero y Galdámez (15 August 1917 – 24 March 1980) was a prelate of the Catholic Church in El Salvador, who served as the fourth Archbishop of San Salvador. He spoke out against poverty, social injustice, assassinations, and torture. In 1980, Romero was assassinated while offering Mass in the chapel of the Hospital of Divine Providence. Though no one was ever convicted for the crime, investigations by the UN-created Truth Commission for El Salvador concluded that extreme-right wing politician and death squad leader Roberto D'Aubuisson had given the order.

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God is not satisfied with appearance. God wants the garment of justice. God wants his Christians dressed in love.

Christian, Justice, Catholic, God, Garment, Christians

When we struggle for human rights, for freedom, for dignity, when we feel that it is a ministry of the church to concern itself for those who are hungry, for those who have no schools, for those who are deprived, we are not departing from God's promise. He comes to free us from sin, and the church knows that sin's consequences are all such injustices and abuses. The church knows it is saving the world when it undertakes to speak also of such things.

Christian, Consequences, Departing, Inspiration, Sin, Struggle

The absolute desire of 'having more' encourages the selfishness that destroys communal bonds among the children of God. It does so because the idolatry of riches prevents the majority from sharing the goods that the Creator has made for all, and in the all-possessing minority it produces an exaggerated pleasure in these goods.

Absolute, Children, Communal, Creator, Environmental, Selfishness

We may never see the end results, but that is the difference between the master builder and the worker.

Differences, May, Ends, Worker, Builder, Master

I will not tire of declaring that if we really want an effective end to violence we must remove the violence that lies at the root of all violence: structural violence, social injustice, exclusion of citizens from the management of the country, repression. All this is what constitutes the primal cause, from which the rest flows naturally.

Country, Lying, Roots, Naturally, Lies, Effective

We must overturn so many idols, the idol of self first of all, so that we can be humble, and only from our humility can learn to be redeemers, can learn to work together in the way the world really needs.

Humble, Humility, Self, Needs, Way, Idols

Let us not tire of preaching love; it is the force that will overcome the world.

Overcome, Overcoming, Tire, World

We cannot do everything, and there is a sense of liberation in realizing that.

Everything, Liberation, Realizing, Sense

No prayer fully expresses our faith.

Expresses, Faith, Fully, Prayer

The ones who have a voice must speak for those who are voiceless.

Speak, Voice, Voiceless

I am bound, as a pastor, by divine command to give my life for those whom I love, and that is all Salvadoreans, even those who are going to kill me.

Command, Divine, Giving, Love, Pastor, Salvadoreans

You know that the air and water are being polluted, as is everything we touch and live with, and we go on corrupting the nature that we need. We don't realize we have a commitment to God to take care of nature. To cut down a tree, to waste water when there is so much lack of it, to let buses poison our atmosphere with those noxious fumes from their exhausts, to burn rubbish haphazardly-all that concerns our alliance with God.

Commitment, Cutting, Air, Realize, Concerns, Waste

That is the hope that inspires Christians. We know that every effort to better society, especially when injustice and sin are so ingrained, is an effort that God blesses, that God wants, that God demands of us.

Christian, Demands, Effort, Inspire, Inspires, Society

There are many things that can only be seen through eyes that have cried

Eye, Cried, Through The Eyes, Eyes, Things

We suffer with those who have disappeared, those who have had to flee their homes, and those who have been tortured.

Catholicism, Flee, Home, Homes, Suffer, Suffering

A Christian's authenticity is show in difficult hours it is in difficult hours that the church grows in authenticity. Blest be God for this difficult hour in our archdiocese. Let us be worthy of it.

Authenticity, Christian, Church, Hour, Let, Show

Those who surrender to the service of the poor through love of Christ, will live like the grains of wheat that dies. It only apparently dies. If it were not to die, it would remain a solitary grain. The harvest comes because of the grain that dies. We know that every effort to improve society, above all when society is so full of injustice and sin, is an effort that God blesses; that God wants; that God demands of us.

Christ, Demand, Effort, Solitary, Wheat

Our responsibility as Christians makes us tremble.

Christian, Christians, Responsibility, Tremble

That we may give our body and our blood over to suffering and pain, like Christ - not for Self, but to give harvests of peace and justice to our People.

Blood, Justice, Pain, Self

If some day they take the radio station away from us, if they close down our newspaper, if they don’t let us speak, if they kill all the priests and the bishop too, and you are left, a people without priests, each one of you must be God’s microphone, each one of you must be a messenger, a prophet. The church will always exist as long as there is one baptized person. And that one baptized person who is left in the world is responsible before the world for holding aloft the banner of the Lord’s truth and of his divine justice.

Church, Divine Justice, Down, Holding, Long, People

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