Today I’m preaching at Grace Montrose, on Making Injustice Visible, a theme of Archbishop Oscar Romero, who was assassinated 33 years ago this coming Sunday, for simply preaching about the injustices he saw. The word has power. He was gunned down while saying mass at a local hospital.
A few years ago I was with Bishop Medardo Gomez at Resurrection Lutheran Church in San Salvador. Bishop Gomez was confirmed by Father Romero.
Afterwards, we went to the final resting place of Archbishop Romero, in the basement of the metropolitan cathedral.
Blessed be all who hear Christ’s call to shed light on the darkness of this world, and in particular, those who pay the ultimate price with their lives.
March 21, 2013 at 10:36 am
From your site, as we approach March 24th, I thought you might enjoy seeing a music video that we just produced on Oscar Romero. It is part of a new CD release. The singer is a deacon, Michael Glen Bell, and the film maker is Owen Thomas. The Project is the subject of a wonderful article in Canada’s Catholic Register http://www.catholicregister.org/arts/movie-news/item/15749-video-brings-awful-memories-flooding-back
Go to TheMartyrsProject.com to view the video. Feel free to use it on your site, review the album or video, or blog about The Project. If you do, let us know so we can put a link on ours. If you are interested in a story on The Project, please get back to us. We are located in Indianapolis. You can follow us on Twitter @martyrsproject.
March 21, 2013 at 11:30 am
Thank you for posting this. It made me cry. Sigh.