Even in the Church there is sin and defect because she is still not the Church triumphant of heaven. She is the Church still being built among sinful, envious, stingy people, as all of us are —St Oscar Romero, 3rd Sunday of Easter (A), 1978 #StOscarRomero
What we preach is the peace that is built solidly upon a foundation of justice and love. That is why we say that the peace we preach is the peace of Christ —St Oscar Romero, 3rd Sunday of Easter (A), 1978 #StOscarRomero
During this time of Easter I encourage you to spend time reading the Acts of the Apostles... see in the book of Acts an inspiration of what
Church life should be for our time —St Oscar Romero, 3rd Sunday of Easter (A), 1978 #StOscarRomero
My aim, as far as lies within our Church's power, is to bring about justice and truth and to give voice to those who are not heard —St Oscar Romero, 3rd Sunday of Easter (A), 1978 #StOscarRomero
Love is shown in deeds and not just in good intentions. Today we have a wonderful opportunity to identify with those who are suffering, those who are homeless, those who have no food — and help them —St Oscar Romero, 2nd Sunday of Easter (A), 1978 #StOscarRomero
With the excuse of not getting involved in politics, people stand with their arms crossed and do good only when it is easy or when doing good brings them glory and prestige —St Oscar Romero, 2nd Sunday of Easter (A), 1978 #StOscarRomero
It is not enough to wear a clerical garb or say ‘I am a Catholic’ to be approved by God. What is needed above all is charity, love of neighbour —St Oscar Romero, 2nd Sunday of Easter (A), 1978 #StOscarRomero
True peace is achieved only by the fruit of justice —St Oscar Romero, 2nd Sunday of Easter (A), 1978 #StOscarRomero
Since Christ, the Son of God, has died for all people, there is no distinction among human beings. There is no reason for religious, political, or social divisions —St Oscar Romero, Easter Sunday 1978 #StOscarRomero
Since Christ, the Son of God, has died for all people, there is nor
distinction among human beings. There is no reason for religious, political, or social divisions —St Oscar Romero, Easter Sunday 1978 #StOscarRomero
Those who put their faith in the Risen One & work for a more just world; those who protest against the injustices of the present system, against the wrongfulness of humans exploiting humans — these alone are authentic Christians —St Oscar Romero, Easter Sunday 1978 #StOscarRomero
Tonight Christ invites us to unite all our own sufferings to his passion and cross so that they may be divinised, being illuminated with the light and filled with the hope of Easter —St Oscar Romero, Easter Vigil 1978 #StOscarRomero
This is the night of hope, the night of Easter, the night of the empty tomb! —St Oscar Romero, Easter Vigil 1978 #StOscarRomero
A Church that does not feel as her own the anguish, the distress, and the suffering of the people cannot be the authentic Church of the Redemption —St Oscar Romero, Good Friday 1978 #StOscarRomero
If Christ is the representative of all the people in their pain and humiliation, then we must expose the suffering of our people who themselves are nailed to a cross —St Oscar Romero, Good Friday 1978 #StOscarRomero
In all of history no one has ever encountered a love that was so — how to say it? — so crazy, so exaggerated: giving to the point of being crucified on a cross —St Oscar Romero, Mass of the Lord’s Supper, 1978 #StOscarRomero
We can celebrate Passover with Christ only if we love, only if we forgive, only if we know how to exercise the greatest power that God has placed within our hearts: the power of love —St Oscar Romero, Mass of the Lord’s Supper, 1978 #StOscarRomero
The greatest disease of our world today is not knowing how to love.
Everything is selfishness. Everything is exploitation of human beings. Everything is cruelty and torture. Everything is violence and repression —St Oscar Romero, Mass of the Lord’s Supper, 1978 #StOscarRomero
Holy Week invites you to take your suffering and give it a sense of
redemption; accept the cross; embrace it as Christ did; do not be passive, but with love build a civilisation of freedom and love —St Oscar Romero, Palm Sunday (A), 1978 #StOscarRomero
Death does not matter when behind death there is a realm of freedom, love, equality, and happiness —St Oscar Romero, Palm Sunday (A), 1978 #StOscarRomero
Wherever people are celebrating Palm Sunday—I know through the radio we are celebrating it in many towns and villages—there Christ is entering Jerusalem as he did twenty centuries ago, in the reality of our Church’s liturgy —St Oscar Romero, Palm Sunday (A), 1978 #StOscarRomero
I invite you at this solemn entrance into Holy Week, not to live these days as remembrance of the past, but to experience them with the hope, anguish, projects, and with failures of our world and our nation as they are today —St Oscar Romero, Palm Sunday (A), 1978 #StOscarRomero
Feed your spirit, as we mark the Season For Nonviolence & remember Oscar Romero!
Tuesday, March 24, @ 6:30 pm
Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic Church
3722 S 58TH ST
Milwaukee, WI 53220
#ResistAuthoritarianism
#NonviolentResistance #JusticeForImmigrants #StOscarRomero #Milwaukee
#SeasonForNonviolence
On this day in 1980, whilst celebrating Mass in the small hospital chapel where Archbishop Romero lived, a lone marksman shot & killed him. Let us keep alive Romero’s memory, inspired by him & his deep love for Christ & the people he walked alongside #StOscarRomero pray for us
In the name of God and in the name of this suffering people, whose laments rise up each day more tumultuously toward heaven, I beg you, I beseech you, I order you in the name of God: stop the repression! —St Oscar Romero, 5th Sunday of Lent (C), 1980 #StOscarRomero
I ask you, my dear brothers and sisters in politics, not to manipulate the Church so that she will say what you want her to say. Rather, announce what the Church is teaching, for she has no vested interests —St Oscar Romero, 5th Sunday of Lent (C), 1980 #StOscarRomero
There is no sin that cannot be forgiven, and there is no enmity that cannot be reconciled when there is conversion and sincere return to the Lord. That is the message of Lent! —St Oscar Romero, 5th Sunday of Lent (C), 1980 #StOscarRomero
No one should take it amiss that we illuminate our social, political, and economic realities by the light of the divine word read in our Mass because if we did not do so, we would not really be Christian —St Oscar Romero, 5th Sunday of Lent (C), 1980 #StOscarRomero
The Church must be society’s critical conscience, and she must form the Christian conscience of believers and work for the cause of justice and peace —St Oscar Romero, 4th Sunday of Lent (A),1978 #StOscarRomero
