Archbishop Romero Trust

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

This is the mission entrusted to the Church, a difficult mission: to uproot sins from history, to uproot sins from politics, to uproot sins from the economy, to uproot sins from wherever they are —St Oscar Romero, Baptism of the Lord, 1978 #StOscarRomero

I don’t know how to distinguish between good and bad people. You are all children of God, and the Lord loves you all —St Oscar Romero, Baptism of the Lord, 1978 #StOscarRomero

We want to create in people’s consciousness a feeling of being a people, not just a crowd —St Oscar Romero, Baptism of the Lord, 1978 #StOscarRomero

Rather than a voice lost amid the tumult of distortion, confusion, and manipulation of the news, the Church wants to be the voice of those who have no voice —St Oscar Romero, Baptism of the Lord, 1978 #StOscarRomero

The Solemnity of the Epiphany with Archbishop-Designate Hicks Most Rev. Ronald A. Hicks, Archbishop-designate of New York and Bishop of Joliet, reflects on the Feast of the Epiphany and the journey of the Magi, who encountered Christ and “returned home by…

Archbishop-elect Hicks spent several years ministering in El Salvador. Here he reflects on that experience in the light of today’s celebration of the Epiphany

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For God there are no distinctions. All are his children, members of the same body whose head is his Son made man, and all are heirs to happiness on earth and to hope for life beyond history —St Oscar Romero, Epiphany 1978 #StOscarRomero

The citizen of heaven must first be a good citizen on earth. Those who want to take part in the promises of eternity must collaborate with God in justice and peace and love in this kingdom of earth —St Oscar Romero, Epiphany 1978 #StOscarRomero

The Church has always placed before people a message of peace, but this message has received greater emphasis during these times when peace has been so compromised by violence —St Oscar Romero, Christmas Season 1978 #StOscarRomero

Peace is the calm and generous contribution of all for the good of all.
Peace is dynamic; peace is generous. Peace is a right and a duty that makes us all feel that we have a place in this beautiful family —St Oscar Romero, Christmas Season 1978 #StOscarRomero

Peace is not the absence of war; peace is not fear of repression; peace is not a balance of two powers based on terror. Peace is the fruit of justice; peace is the flower of love and justice in society —St Oscar Romero, Christmas Season 1978 #StOscarRomero

This is what the whole Christian community should be, a place where different political options converge —St Oscar Romero, Holy Family, 1979 #StOscarRomero

Christmas is the mystery of God visiting humankind, but God doesn't just come for a visit and then return home. No, he comes to stay —St Oscar Romero, Holy Family, 1978 #StOscarRomero

The whole of the Christmas mystery, which extends from Christmas Eve until the Sunday after Epiphany, is summed up in this reality: God enters history and reveals himself to humankind —St Oscar Romero, Holy Family, 1979 #StOscarRomero

The family: the domestic Church of Christ —St Oscar Romero, Holy Family, 1979 #StOscarRomero

Since God becomes incarnate in the family, the family should be an epiphany revealing that God is alive in the world —St Oscar Romero, Holy Family, 1979 #StOscarRomero

Christ is in the smallness of that little child; he is in the restlessness of youth; he is in the holy preoccupations of that father and that mother; he is in the venerable old age of that grandma or granddad —St Oscar Romero, Holy Family, 1978 #StOscarRomero

In the midst of my poverty and misery, in the midst of my
oppression and captivity, I must never forget that I am the exact imprint, the image of God —St Oscar Romero, Christmas Day 1977 #StOscarRomero

Christ’s birth signifies that God is walking with humans in history; we are not alone on our journey... God is already in the midst of humanity, building a kingdom of justice and love and peace —St Oscar Romero, Christmas Eve 1977 #StOscarRomero

All of us, without being aware of it, are God’s instruments —St Oscar Romero, Christmas Eve 1977 #StOscarRomero

Let our hearts be open like a cradle so that Christ can be born in each soul tonight and from there flood every heart with light —St Oscar Romero, Christmas Eve 1977 #StOscarRomero