Archbishop Romero Trust

Wherever there is an honest heart that seeks God sincerely, there is true religion —St Oscar Romero, 3rd Sunday of Lent (A), 1978 #StOscarRomero

There will be peace only when human rights are respected. Among these is the natural right to participate in politics and government... to work with our God-given gifts for the common good of the nation —St Oscar Romero, 3rd Sunday of Lent (A), 1978 #StOscarRomero

We can sometimes seek the kingdom of God proposed by Satan rather than the kingdom of God announced by the transfigured Son of God —St Oscar Romero, 2nd Sunday of Lent (A), 1978 #StOscarRomero

The one who preaches... is nothing but a humble echo of the divine voice that guides us, Christ the teacher —St Oscar Romero, 2nd Sunday of Lent (A), 1978 #StOscarRomero

Each of us must allow the Gospel to shed light on our hopes, our plans, our disillusionments, our failures. We need this light of the word of God so that we may always live with faith and hope —St Oscar Romero, 2nd Sunday of Lent (A), 1978 #StOscarRomero

Faith means throwing ourselves into God’s arms. Faith means believing what God says even though it seems impossible —St Oscar Romero, 2nd Sunday of Lent (A), 1978 #StOscarRomero

Let us be very careful during this Lent and take time to examine our Christian life, our family relationships, our respect for God’s law, and our obedience to the Gospel —St Oscar Romero, 2nd Sunday of Lent (A), 1978 #StOscarRomero

Our love of Christ ought to make us feel the needs of our suffering sisters and brothers as our own —St Oscar Romero, 1st Sunday of Lent (A), 1978 #StOscarRomero

The Gospel becomes incarnate when we experience and respond to people's needs —St Oscar Romero, 1st Sunday of Lent (A), 1978 #StOscarRomero

One month until this year’s Romero Season. Talks by Todd Walatka from @notredame.bsky.social in Canterbury, Durham, Leeds and London. Full info on our website. Join us! #StOscarRomero

Salvadoran math teacher marvels at opportunity to read at NY archbishop's installation Mass Ronald Hicks said, " 'I need you to do this,' " said Samuel Jiménez. "And that's why I'm here."

Salvadoran math teacher marvels at opportunity to read at NY archbishop's installation Mass www.ncronline.org/news/salvado...

During this season of Lent, the Church calls us to penance and to interior renewal of our souls, our hearts, and our lives —St Oscar Romero, February 1978 #StOscarRomero

This Wednesday is Ash Wednesday, the beginning of the great spiritual retreat of the Church called Lent —St Oscar Romero, February 1978 #StOscarRomero

People shine brightest when they are the Lord’s light, when they make their work a way of serving humanity, when they are lamps that are consumed as they give out light —St Oscar Romero, 5th Sunday in Ordinary Time (A), 1978 #StOscarRomero

How can the Church not be pained by a civilisation of selfishness, cruel inequalities where the poor, the hungry, the naked, the homeless must exist as if they were not persons, were not our brothers & sisters! —St Oscar Romero, 5 Sunday in Ordinary Time (A), 1978 #StOscarRomero

The guarantee of my prayer is very simple: how do I treat the poor?
Because that is where God is —St Oscar Romero, 5th Sunday in Ordinary Time (A), 1978 #StOscarRomero

What we do to the poor, we do also to God. The way we look at them is the way we look at God —St Oscar Romero, 5th Sunday in Ordinary Time (A), 1978 #StOscarRomero

Respect for every person, even the most poor and indigent person, is respectful devotion to our God; it is almost a form of adoring our God —St Oscar Romero, 5th Sunday in Ordinary Time (A), 1978 #StOscarRomero

Profound and courageous change is urgently needed so that we don’t end up weeping later because we failed to act in time, perhaps because of selfishness —St Oscar Romero, 5th Sunday in Ordinary Time (A), 1978 #StOscarRomero

Friends in El Salvador treasure their bond with 'Padre Ron,' NYC's next archbishop Staff and the young people who found a home and a family at Nuestros Pequeños Hermanos have kept their ties with Archbishop-elect Ronald Hicks, who once lived and worked with them in tiny Texistepeque...

Friends in El Salvador treasure their bond with 'Padre Ron,' NYC's next archbishop www.ncronline.org/news/friends...

This is what the Church is: a communion in which the merits, joys, and sufferings of each Christian redound to the good of all Christians —St Oscar Romero, 4th Sunday in Ordinary Time (A), 1978 #StOscarRomero

If those structures are not adequate to achieve the common good, then there is an obligation to change them because human beings are not made to serve structures; rather, structures must serve the human person —St Oscar Romero, 4th Sunday in Ordinary Time (A), 1978 #StOscarRomero

The Beatitudes subvert what the world believes in; they sow the seed of a transformation we will not see finished until the kingdom of heaven, the goal Christ points out as the infinite horizon, becomes reality —St Oscar Romero, 4th Sunday in Ordinary Time (A) 1978 #StOscarRomero

Humans are not made for vengeance, for hatred, for violence, but for reconciliation, for love, for forgiveness —St Oscar Romero, 4th Sunday in Ordinary Time (A), 1978 #StOscarRomero

Students should not believe the news simply because it appears in print. They should know how to analyse a new law that is enacted and be critical of their times and their surroundings —St Oscar Romero, 3rd Sunday in Ordinary Time (A), 1978 #StOscarRomero

Let us form in the heart of the child and the young person the lofty ideal of loving and preparing to serve and give to others —St Oscar Romero, 3rd Sunday in Ordinary Time (A), 1978 #StOscarRomero

Education should open people to dialogue so that differences between generations and social classes do not become barriers that divide us but rather elements that mutually enrich us —St Oscar Romero, 3rd Sunday in Ordinary Time (A), 1978 #StOscarRomero

Teachers, parents, and students should form a model community of love, collaboration, and mutual correction —St Oscar Romero, 3rd Sunday in Ordinary Time (A), 1978 #StOscarRomero

All children and young people should become aware of their human dignity. They should have a sense of community and realise that no one can live all alone like a snail; their lives should be open to others —St Oscar Romero, 3rd Sunday in Ordinary Time (A), 1978 #StOscarRomero

My enemies are listening to me because I speak to them words of love —St Oscar Romero, Baptism of the Lord, 1978 #StOscarRomero