The late Archbishop of San...
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The late Archbishop of San Salvador, Oscar Romero, concerning the church and its mission once wrote:
"Receive the Holy Spirit."
Christ himself explains: "As my father sent me, I send you."
He means that the church is born with this breath of
his and the mission that the church will bear to the world for all times will be that of Christ dead and risen.
The church celebrates its liturgy and preaches its word only for this: to save from sin,
to save from slaveries,
to overthrow idolatries,
to proclaim the one God who loves us.
That will be the church's difficult mission, and it knows that in fulfilling that mission, which earned for Christ a cross and humiliations, it
will have to be ready also not to betray that message
and, if necessary, to suffer martyrdom like him -- suffer the cross, humiliation, persecution. April 22, 1979
(The Church is All of You, James R. Brockman, Winston Press, 1984, p. 77.) -- Angus
"Receive the Holy Spirit."
Christ himself explains: "As my father sent me, I send you."
He means that the church is born with this breath of
his and the mission that the church will bear to the world for all times will be that of Christ dead and risen.
The church celebrates its liturgy and preaches its word only for this: to save from sin,
to save from slaveries,
to overthrow idolatries,
to proclaim the one God who loves us.
That will be the church's difficult mission, and it knows that in fulfilling that mission, which earned for Christ a cross and humiliations, it
will have to be ready also not to betray that message
and, if necessary, to suffer martyrdom like him -- suffer the cross, humiliation, persecution. April 22, 1979
(The Church is All of You, James R. Brockman, Winston Press, 1984, p. 77.) -- Angus
