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Slide 1:OSCAR ARNULFO ROMERO
1917 - 1980
Slide 2:“There are moments in life when one catches a fleeting glimpse of God at work in the world … the man we all knew as ‘Monseñor’ provided such a glimpse.”
Julian Filochowski
Slide 13:“We must not seek the child Jesus in the pretty figures of our Christmas cribs. We must seek him among the undernourished children who have gone to bed at night with nothing to eat … among the newsboys who will sleep covered with newspapers in doorways.”
Romero, 1979
Slide 18:“When the Church hears the cry of the oppressed it cannot but denounce the social structures that give rise to and perpetuate the misery from which the cry arises.”
Romero, 1978
Slide 24:“The Church would betray its own love for God and its fidelity to the Gospel if it stopped being a defender of the rights of the poor.”
Romero, 1978.
Slide 27:“Brothers, you are from the same people; you kill your fellow peasant … no soldier is obliged to obey an order that is contrary to the will of God.”
Romero, 1980
Slide 37:“Christ invites us not to fear persecution because, believe me, brothers and sisters, the one who is committed to the poor must run the same fate as the poor, and in El Salvador we know what the fate of the poor signifies: to disappear, be tortured, to be held captive -- and to be found dead.”
Romero, 1980
Slide 40:“In the name of God then, in the name of the suffering people I ask you, I beg you, I command you in the name of God: stop the repression.”
Romero, 1980
Slide 42:On March 24th 1980 Archbishop Oscar Romero was assassinated while celebrating Mass in a small hospital chapel.
Slide 48:“If God accepts the sacrifice of my life, may my death be for the freedom of my people … A bishop will die, but the Church of God, which is the people, will never perish.”
Romero, 1980.
Slide 53:“Let my blood be a seed of freedom and the sign that hope will soon be reality."
Romero, 1980
Slide 59:“I do not believe in death without resurrection. If they kill me, I shall arise in the Salvadoran people.”
Romero, 1980
Slide 66:This is what the Lord asks of you, only this: that you act justly, that you love tenderly, that you walk humbly with your God.
Micah 6:8
Slide 67:We offer grateful thanks to Equipo Maiz, the Canonisation Office of the Archdiocese of San Salvador and the Centro Monseñor Romero, who have provided images for this PowerPoint presentation.
Slide 68:Romero PowerPoint
Designed and produced by Sarah Dumpleton (2007)
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