Each Sunday we must seek the light of the Word to guide us and at the same time reflect on the realities that surround us, seeing them in the light of the Word —St Oscar Romero, 3rd Sunday of Lent (A), 1978 #StOscarRomero
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 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 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
