Holy Martyrs of God, Pray for Us

[KatherineS]

Archbishop Oscar Romero was martyred on this day, March 24, in 1980 while celebrating Mass.

Even when they call us mad, when they call us subversives and communists and all the epithets they put on us, we know we only preach the subversive witness of the Beatitudes, which have turned everything upside down.
-Archbishop Oscar Romero
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May his prayers grant us a measure of his love, his courage, and his life.
Oscar Romero, pray for us.

 

[Imitatio Dei]

The Prayer of Archbishop Oscar Romero:

It helps, now and then, to step back and take a long view.
The kingdom is not only beyond our efforts,
it is even beyond our vision.
We accomplish in our lifetime only a tiny fraction
of the magnificent enterprise that is God's work.
Nothing we do is complete, which is a way of saying
that the kingdom always lies beyond us.
No statement says all that could be said.
No prayer fully expresses our faith.
No confession brings perfection.
No pastoral visit brings wholeness.
No program accomplishes the church's mission.
No set of goals and objectives includes everything.
This is what we are about.
We plant the seeds that one day will grow.
We water seeds already planted,
knowing that they hold future promise.
We lay foundations that will need further development.
We provide yeast that produces far beyond our capabilities.
We cannot do everything, and there is a sense of liberation
in realizing that. This enables us to do something,
and to do it very well. It may be incomplete,
but it is a beginning, a step along the way,
an opportunity for the Lord's grace to enter and do the rest.
We may never see the end results, but that is the difference
between the master builder and the worker.
We are workers, not master builders; ministers, not messiahs.
We are prophets of a future not our own.
Amen.
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[Eucharisted]

Holy martyrs, pray for us!

 

[Br. Xavier]

I just watched watched a movie about that bishop. I probably would have shed a few tears if it wasn't in such a public setting.

 

[Rhamiel]

great post

 

[Thekla]

President Funes said he was seeking forgiveness on behalf of the State





El Salvador's President Mauricio Funes has issued an official apology for the murder of Archbishop Oscar Romero by a right-wing death squad 30 years ago.


BBC News - Official El Salvador apology for Oscar Romero's murder