We can sometimes seek the kingdom of God proposed by Satan rather than the kingdom of God announced by the transfigured Son of God —St Oscar Romero, 2nd Sunday of Lent (A), 1978 #StOscarRomero

The one who preaches... is nothing but a humble echo of the divine voice that guides us, Christ the teacher —St Oscar Romero, 2nd Sunday of Lent (A), 1978 #StOscarRomero

Each of us must allow the Gospel to shed light on our hopes, our plans, our disillusionments, our failures. We need this light of the word of God so that we may always live with faith and hope —St Oscar Romero, 2nd Sunday of Lent (A), 1978 #StOscarRomero

Faith means throwing ourselves into God’s arms. Faith means believing what God says even though it seems impossible —St Oscar Romero, 2nd Sunday of Lent (A), 1978 #StOscarRomero

Let us be very careful during this Lent and take time to examine our Christian life, our family relationships, our respect for God’s law, and our obedience to the Gospel —St Oscar Romero, 2nd Sunday of Lent (A), 1978 #StOscarRomero

Our love of Christ ought to make us feel the needs of our suffering sisters and brothers as our own —St Oscar Romero, 1st Sunday of Lent (A), 1978 #StOscarRomero

The Gospel becomes incarnate when we experience and respond to people's needs —St Oscar Romero, 1st Sunday of Lent (A), 1978 #StOscarRomero

One month until this year’s Romero Season. Talks by Todd Walatka from @notredame.bsky.social in Canterbury, Durham, Leeds and London. Full info on our website. Join us! #StOscarRomero

Salvadoran math teacher marvels at opportunity to read at NY archbishop's installation Mass www.ncronline.org/news/salvado...

During this season of Lent, the Church calls us to penance and to interior renewal of our souls, our hearts, and our lives —St Oscar Romero, February 1978 #StOscarRomero

This Wednesday is Ash Wednesday, the beginning of the great spiritual retreat of the Church called Lent —St Oscar Romero, February 1978 #StOscarRomero

People shine brightest when they are the Lord’s light, when they make their work a way of serving humanity, when they are lamps that are consumed as they give out light —St Oscar Romero, 5th Sunday in Ordinary Time (A), 1978 #StOscarRomero

How can the Church not be pained by a civilisation of selfishness, cruel inequalities where the poor, the hungry, the naked, the homeless must exist as if they were not persons, were not our brothers & sisters! —St Oscar Romero, 5 Sunday in Ordinary Time (A), 1978 #StOscarRomero

The guarantee of my prayer is very simple: how do I treat the poor? Because that is where God is —St Oscar Romero, 5th Sunday in Ordinary Time (A), 1978 #StOscarRomero

What we do to the poor, we do also to God. The way we look at them is the way we look at God —St Oscar Romero, 5th Sunday in Ordinary Time (A), 1978 #StOscarRomero

Respect for every person, even the most poor and indigent person, is respectful devotion to our God; it is almost a form of adoring our God —St Oscar Romero, 5th Sunday in Ordinary Time (A), 1978 #StOscarRomero

Profound and courageous change is urgently needed so that we don’t end up weeping later because we failed to act in time, perhaps because of selfishness —St Oscar Romero, 5th Sunday in Ordinary Time (A), 1978 #StOscarRomero

Friends in El Salvador treasure their bond with 'Padre Ron,' NYC's next archbishop www.ncronline.org/news/friends...

This is what the Church is: a communion in which the merits, joys, and sufferings of each Christian redound to the good of all Christians —St Oscar Romero, 4th Sunday in Ordinary Time (A), 1978 #StOscarRomero

If those structures are not adequate to achieve the common good, then there is an obligation to change them because human beings are not made to serve structures; rather, structures must serve the human person —St Oscar Romero, 4th Sunday in Ordinary Time (A), 1978 #StOscarRomero

The Beatitudes subvert what the world believes in; they sow the seed of a transformation we will not see finished until the kingdom of heaven, the goal Christ points out as the infinite horizon, becomes reality —St Oscar Romero, 4th Sunday in Ordinary Time (A) 1978 #StOscarRomero

Humans are not made for vengeance, for hatred, for violence, but for reconciliation, for love, for forgiveness —St Oscar Romero, 4th Sunday in Ordinary Time (A), 1978 #StOscarRomero

Students should not believe the news simply because it appears in print. They should know how to analyse a new law that is enacted and be critical of their times and their surroundings —St Oscar Romero, 3rd Sunday in Ordinary Time (A), 1978 #StOscarRomero

Let us form in the heart of the child and the young person the lofty ideal of loving and preparing to serve and give to others —St Oscar Romero, 3rd Sunday in Ordinary Time (A), 1978 #StOscarRomero

Education should open people to dialogue so that differences between generations and social classes do not become barriers that divide us but rather elements that mutually enrich us —St Oscar Romero, 3rd Sunday in Ordinary Time (A), 1978 #StOscarRomero

Teachers, parents, and students should form a model community of love, collaboration, and mutual correction —St Oscar Romero, 3rd Sunday in Ordinary Time (A), 1978 #StOscarRomero

All children and young people should become aware of their human dignity. They should have a sense of community and realise that no one can live all alone like a snail; their lives should be open to others —St Oscar Romero, 3rd Sunday in Ordinary Time (A), 1978 #StOscarRomero

My enemies are listening to me because I speak to them words of love —St Oscar Romero, Baptism of the Lord, 1978 #StOscarRomero

This is the mission entrusted to the Church, a difficult mission: to uproot sins from history, to uproot sins from politics, to uproot sins from the economy, to uproot sins from wherever they are —St Oscar Romero, Baptism of the Lord, 1978 #StOscarRomero

I don’t know how to distinguish between good and bad people. You are all children of God, and the Lord loves you all —St Oscar Romero, Baptism of the Lord, 1978 #StOscarRomero

We want to create in people’s consciousness a feeling of being a people, not just a crowd —St Oscar Romero, Baptism of the Lord, 1978 #StOscarRomero

Rather than a voice lost amid the tumult of distortion, confusion, and manipulation of the news, the Church wants to be the voice of those who have no voice —St Oscar Romero, Baptism of the Lord, 1978 #StOscarRomero

Archbishop-elect Hicks spent several years ministering in El Salvador. Here he reflects on that experience in the light of today’s celebration of the Epiphany m.youtube.com/watch?pp=4gc...

For God there are no distinctions. All are his children, members of the same body whose head is his Son made man, and all are heirs to happiness on earth and to hope for life beyond history —St Oscar Romero, Epiphany 1978 #StOscarRomero

The citizen of heaven must first be a good citizen on earth. Those who want to take part in the promises of eternity must collaborate with God in justice and peace and love in this kingdom of earth —St Oscar Romero, Epiphany 1978 #StOscarRomero

The Church has always placed before people a message of peace, but this message has received greater emphasis during these times when peace has been so compromised by violence —St Oscar Romero, Christmas Season 1978 #StOscarRomero

Peace is the calm and generous contribution of all for the good of all. Peace is dynamic; peace is generous. Peace is a right and a duty that makes us all feel that we have a place in this beautiful family —St Oscar Romero, Christmas Season 1978 #StOscarRomero

Peace is not the absence of war; peace is not fear of repression; peace is not a balance of two powers based on terror. Peace is the fruit of justice; peace is the flower of love and justice in society —St Oscar Romero, Christmas Season 1978 #StOscarRomero

This is what the whole Christian community should be, a place where different political options converge —St Oscar Romero, Holy Family, 1979 #StOscarRomero

Christmas is the mystery of God visiting humankind, but God doesn't just come for a visit and then return home. No, he comes to stay —St Oscar Romero, Holy Family, 1978 #StOscarRomero

The whole of the Christmas mystery, which extends from Christmas Eve until the Sunday after Epiphany, is summed up in this reality: God enters history and reveals himself to humankind —St Oscar Romero, Holy Family, 1979 #StOscarRomero

The family: the domestic Church of Christ —St Oscar Romero, Holy Family, 1979 #StOscarRomero

Since God becomes incarnate in the family, the family should be an epiphany revealing that God is alive in the world —St Oscar Romero, Holy Family, 1979 #StOscarRomero

Christ is in the smallness of that little child; he is in the restlessness of youth; he is in the holy preoccupations of that father and that mother; he is in the venerable old age of that grandma or granddad —St Oscar Romero, Holy Family, 1978 #StOscarRomero

In the midst of my poverty and misery, in the midst of my oppression and captivity, I must never forget that I am the exact imprint, the image of God —St Oscar Romero, Christmas Day 1977 #StOscarRomero

Christ’s birth signifies that God is walking with humans in history; we are not alone on our journey... God is already in the midst of humanity, building a kingdom of justice and love and peace —St Oscar Romero, Christmas Eve 1977 #StOscarRomero

All of us, without being aware of it, are God’s instruments —St Oscar Romero, Christmas Eve 1977 #StOscarRomero

Let our hearts be open like a cradle so that Christ can be born in each soul tonight and from there flood every heart with light —St Oscar Romero, Christmas Eve 1977 #StOscarRomero

When we feel that the Church's ministry means showing concern for those who are hungry, those who have no school, or those who suffer exclusion, we are not departing from God’s promise —St Oscar Romero, 4th Sunday of Advent (A), 1977 #StOscarRomero

As we get closer to Christmas, the readings of the word speak to us about God’s nearness, and they should fill us with great hope —St Oscar Romero, 4th Sunday of Advent (A), 1977 #StOscarRomero