At this point in the Church’s year in 1978, Archbishop Romero was in Rome, visiting Vatican officials, and meeting with Pope Paul VI. In 2018, Pope Paul VI and Archbishop Romero were canonised alongside each other by Pope Francis.

Difficulties are the touchstone for revealing the fine gold of true men and women, of true Christians —St Oscar Romero, Corpus Christi 1978 #StOscarRomero

If Christians are nourished by communion in the Eucharist and their faith tells them that they are united to the life of Christ, how can they worship the idol of money, or power, or their own ego? —St Oscar Romero, Corpus Christi 1978 #StOscarRomero

We should not come to Mass because of some custom or out of curiosity, but we should be motivated to come each Sunday in order to encounter this great mystery of the presence of the Lord —St Oscar Romero, Corpus Christi 1978 #StOscarRomero

We who are from different countries, different races, and different categories are like those grains of wheat — gathered together in our faith, moulded by love and hope, united by Christ in the Eucharist —St Oscar Romero, Corpus Christi 1978 #StOscarRomero

When we feel that we are better than others, we should not become proud because everything proceeds from God —St Oscar Romero, Trinity Sunday 1978 #StOscarRomero

Only when we see the God of our Lord Jesus Christ illuminating our dawns, our seas, and our volcanoes will we understand that God has created a world out of love to give to his children —St Oscar Romero, Trinity Sunday 1978 #StOscarRomero

God is not a solitary being; God is three; God is family; God is communion; God is love shared among three Persons: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit —St Oscar Romero, Trinity Sunday 1978 #StOscarRomero

The divinising of money and the idolatry of power create false idols which take the place of the true God —St Oscar Romero, Trinity Sunday 1978 #StOscarRomero

True worship of God must be worship that incarnates the awe, the love, the adoration, the faith in absolute transcendence and in the historical moment we are now living —St Oscar Romero, Trinity Sunday 1978 #StOscarRomero

The Church will remain beautiful, perennially young, and attractive in every century only as long as she is faithful to the Spirit that floods her, only as she reflects that Spirit through her very life —St Oscar Romero, Pentecost 1978 #StOscarRomero

Let us be true apostles who go forth from this modern cenacle of Pentecost and bear witness to our Christian faith and hope —St Oscar Romero, Pentecost 1978 #StOscarRomero

The Church will remain beautiful, perennially young, and attractive in every century only as long as she is faithful to the Spirit that floods her, only as she reflects that Spirit through her very life —St Oscar Romero, Pentecost 1978 #StOscarRomero

Youthfulness is often found even in older people who keep renewing their faith —St Oscar Romero, Pentecost 1978 #StOscarRomero

The media of social communication..., as creators of public opinion, are often manipulated by materialist interests and are used to maintain an punjust state of affairs through falsehood and confusion —St Oscar Romero, Ascension 1978 #StOscarRomero

Christ lives now in every hamlet, in every town, in every family where there is a heart that has placed its trust in him, where there is an afflicted soul who hopes the hour of pain will pass —St Oscar Romero, Ascension 1978 #StOscarRomero

Let us love one another and build a society founded on peace and grounded in justice, the society that God desires —St Oscar Romero, Ascension 1978 #StOscarRomero

Not everything in the newspapers, not everything in the movies or on television, not everything that is heard on radio is true. Often it is just the opposite, a lie —St Oscar Romero, Ascension 1978 #StOscarRomero

By their labour, human workers imitate God the Worker, and thus they are perfecting creation and transforming the world —St Oscar Romero, 6th Sunday of Easter (A), 1978 #StOscarRomero

I will never grow weary of preaching love —St Oscar Romero, 6th Sunday of Easter (A), 1978 #StOscarRomero

How beautiful it is to see that each person is the image of God —St Oscar Romero, 6th Sunday of Easter (A), 1978 #StOscarRomero

The true force of Christianity: love —St Oscar Romero, 6th Sunday of Easter (A), 1978 #StOscarRomero

Christians who do not experience the force of the Gospel in earthly realities are what we call disincarnate, dislocated Christians —St Oscar Romero, 6th Sunday of Easter (A), 1978 #StOscarRomero

Division in the Church always begins with some form of selfishness or materialism —St Oscar Romero, 5th Sunday of Easter (A) 1978 #StOscarRomero

The bishop should be the most humble servant of the community because Christ told his apostles, the first bishops, ‘Let the greatest among you be as the youngest’ (Mark 9.35) —St Oscar Romero, 5th Sunday of Easter (A) 1978 #StOscarRomero

Blessed are those who are aware, even in the midst of these dark hours of our history, that Christ lives! —St Oscar Romero, 5th Sunday of Easter (A) 1978 #StOscarRomero

What the Catholic schools are doing is making people aware that true education has to be a reflection of the Gospel —St Oscar Romero, 5th Sunday of Easter (A) 1978 #StOscarRomero

If you have love even for those who offend you, then you are a Christian —St Oscar Romero, 5th Sunday of Easter (A) 1978 #StOscarRomero

The Church is not some building made of concrete or adobe or any other material. The material temple is nothing more than the sign of a tent that travels about and gets set up wherever the pilgrim people happen to go —St Oscar Romero, 4th Sunday of Easter (A), 1978 #StOscarRomero

It is the Gospel which inspires the Church to help those in need and to speak out on behalf of their just demands —St Oscar Romero, 4th Sunday of Easter (A), 1978 #StOscarRomero

I urge you this morning to awaken in your hearts the magnanimity and joy of those who hope for everything —St Oscar Romero, 4th Sunday of Easter (A), 1978 #StOscarRomero

A Church that does not provoke crisis, a Gospel that does not disturb, a word of God that does not rankle, a word of God that does not touch the concrete sin of the society in which it is being proclaimed—what kind of Gospel is that? —#StOscarRomero, 4th Sunday of Easter (A) 1978

Even in the Church there is sin and defect because she is still not the Church triumphant of heaven. She is the Church still being built among sinful, envious, stingy people, as all of us are —St Oscar Romero, 3rd Sunday of Easter (A), 1978 #StOscarRomero

What we preach is the peace that is built solidly upon a foundation of justice and love. That is why we say that the peace we preach is the peace of Christ —St Oscar Romero, 3rd Sunday of Easter (A), 1978 #StOscarRomero

During this time of Easter I encourage you to spend time reading the Acts of the Apostles... see in the book of Acts an inspiration of what Church life should be for our time —St Oscar Romero, 3rd Sunday of Easter (A), 1978 #StOscarRomero

My aim, as far as lies within our Church's power, is to bring about justice and truth and to give voice to those who are not heard —St Oscar Romero, 3rd Sunday of Easter (A), 1978 #StOscarRomero

Love is shown in deeds and not just in good intentions. Today we have a wonderful opportunity to identify with those who are suffering, those who are homeless, those who have no food — and help them —St Oscar Romero, 2nd Sunday of Easter (A), 1978 #StOscarRomero

With the excuse of not getting involved in politics, people stand with their arms crossed and do good only when it is easy or when doing good brings them glory and prestige —St Oscar Romero, 2nd Sunday of Easter (A), 1978 #StOscarRomero

It is not enough to wear a clerical garb or say ‘I am a Catholic’ to be approved by God. What is needed above all is charity, love of neighbour —St Oscar Romero, 2nd Sunday of Easter (A), 1978 #StOscarRomero

Serving means sacrificing yourself —St Oscar Romero, 2nd Sunday of Easter (A), 1978 #StOscarRomero

True peace is achieved only by the fruit of justice —St Oscar Romero, 2nd Sunday of Easter (A), 1978 #StOscarRomero

Since Christ, the Son of God, has died for all people, there is no distinction among human beings. There is no reason for religious, political, or social divisions —St Oscar Romero, Easter Sunday 1978 #StOscarRomero

Since Christ, the Son of God, has died for all people, there is nor distinction among human beings. There is no reason for religious, political, or social divisions —St Oscar Romero, Easter Sunday 1978 #StOscarRomero

Those who put their faith in the Risen One & work for a more just world; those who protest against the injustices of the present system, against the wrongfulness of humans exploiting humans — these alone are authentic Christians —St Oscar Romero, Easter Sunday 1978 #StOscarRomero

Tonight Christ invites us to unite all our own sufferings to his passion and cross so that they may be divinised, being illuminated with the light and filled with the hope of Easter —St Oscar Romero, Easter Vigil 1978 #StOscarRomero

This is the night of hope, the night of Easter, the night of the empty tomb! —St Oscar Romero, Easter Vigil 1978 #StOscarRomero

A Church that does not feel as her own the anguish, the distress, and the suffering of the people cannot be the authentic Church of the Redemption —St Oscar Romero, Good Friday 1978 #StOscarRomero

If Christ is the representative of all the people in their pain and humiliation, then we must expose the suffering of our people who themselves are nailed to a cross —St Oscar Romero, Good Friday 1978 #StOscarRomero

As Christians we know that paradise must be reflected also on this earth. We must work for the establishment of a kingdom of heaven where we feel we are truly brothers & sisters, where our relationships are more human, more equal, less oppressive, less miserable —#StOscarRomero

In all of history no one has ever encountered a love that was so — how to say it? — so crazy, so exaggerated: giving to the point of being crucified on a cross —St Oscar Romero, Mass of the Lord’s Supper, 1978 #StOscarRomero