The Commemoration of the life of Oscar Romero, Archbishop of San Salvador, martyred for the sake of justice, 1980

                                                                     Confession of sin 

  We have not loved You with our whole heart

  we have not loved our neighbors as ourselves

"give us such a view of your work that we may commit the future to you, confident that what we do in your Name will, in your time, grow and flourish to our glory"                                 

Archbishop Romero was saying mass 

on the evening of March 24, 1980,

and was just about to elevate the 

bread and wine at the Offertory 

when he was shot through the heart. 

He was the first bishop to be killed

at the altar since Thomas Becket 

in the twelfth century: "Who will 
rid me of this meddlesome priest?"  

May we have faith to be as 

meddlesome in our own day. 

Behold  Be strengthened  Be changed