OSCAR ROMERO EVENING
MARCH 2015
We held a Justice and Peace event to celebrate life of Archbishop Oscar Romero, thirty five years after he was killed while saying Mass and two months to the day of his beatification in San Salvador. The evening started with a sung prayer on a theme dear to Romero’s heart.
Our grateful thanks go to guest speaker Margaret Lillis for a powerful account of the social role of CAFOD in El Salvador. Margaret set in context the courage and sacrifice as Romero stood against oppression under the fiercest pressure and ultimately at the cost of his own life
It was heartening to see how Romero’s personal tragedy lives on in a spirit of solidarity and endurance. The talk made Romero’s legacy relevant today and showed why his beatification means so much to Christians all around the world, serving as an inspiration to live our faith with active support for dignity and justice and echoing his own words that Peace is generosity, it is right and it is duty.
