HONORING OSCAR ARNULFO ROMERO DAY: ¨...we are all made of sand and teeter on sand foundations looking for solid love... which is more like air than we know...¨ Margaret+

¨A devotee participates in an event to commemorate the death of Archbishop Oscar Arnulfo Romero in San Salvador March 19, 2011. Romero was murdered by a hired sniper while celebrating mass at the Divina Providencia cancer hospital on March 24, 1980...¨ read more  HERE

Libya. Egypt. Wisconsin. Indiana. California. Gaza--Palestine. Japan. Desperate violence... love built of sand....

¨...we are all made of sand and teeter on sand foundations looking for solid love... which is more like air than we know....¨
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¨When the church decries revolutionary violence, it cannot forget that institutionalized violence also exists, and that the desperate violence of oppressed persons is not overcome with one-sided laws, with weapons, or with superior force. Instead, as the Pope says, revolutionary violence must be prevented by courageous self-sacrifice, by giving up many comforts. As long as there is no greater justice among us, there will always be outbreaks of revolution. The church does not approve or justify bloody revolution and cries of hatred. But neither can it condemn them while it sees no attempt to remove the causes that produce that ailment in our society. This is the church’s stand, one that makes it suffer terrible conflicts, but one that also makes it feel faithful to God’s justice and to the gospel of Jesus Christ.¨ --Romero, February 12, 1978

·  Thanks to Margaret+
·  Thanks to Leave It Lay Where Jesus Flang It, sidebar
·  Thanks to Reuters, El Salvador
·  Thanks to Bishop Oscar Romero