Let us be today's Christians. Let us not take fright at the boldness of today's church. With Christ's light let us illuminate even the most hideous caverns of the human person: torture, jail, plunder, want, chronic illness. The oppressed must be saved, not with a revolutionary salvation, in mere human fashion, but with the holy revolution of the Son of Man, who dies on the cross to cleanse God's image, which is soiled in today's humanity, a humanity so enslaved, so selfish, so sinful.
Oscar RomeroA church that doesn't provoke any crises, a gospel that doesn't unsettle, a word of God that doesn't get under anyoneโs skin, a word of God that doesn't touch the real sin of the society in which it is being proclaimedโโโโwhat gospel is that?
Oscar RomeroIf some day they take the radio station away from us, if they close down our newspaper, if they donโt let us speak, if they kill all the priests and the bishop too, and you are left, a people without priests, each one of you must be Godโs microphone, each one of you must be a messenger, a prophet. The church will always exist as long as there is one baptized person. And that one baptized person who is left in the world is responsible before the world for holding aloft the banner of the Lordโs truth and of his divine justice.
Oscar Romero