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Playa El Espino.

San Miguel, El Salvador

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Pharrell Williams- Happy El Salvador Edition!

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Playa El Cuco in El Salvador 

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You are more than welcome here :)

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Anniversary of the Martyrdom of Archbishop Oscar Romero:

I am sharing this post from Fr. James Martin SJ who reminds us that today is the anniversary of the martyrdom of Archbishop Oscar Romero, who was killed on March 24, 1980, while celebrating Mass in a small chapel in a hospital named “La Divina Providencia.” Below is an audio recording of the powerful sermon made by Archbishop Romero the day before his martyrdom where he makes an impassioned plea for an end to the violence in El Salvador. Here is the English translation of that sermon.

I would like to make a special appeal to the men of the army, and specifically to the ranks of the National Guard, the police and the military. Brothers, you come from our own people. You are killing your own brother peasants when any human order to kill must be subordinate to the law of God which says, “Thou shalt not kill.” No soldier is obliged to obey an order contrary to the law of God. No one has to obey an immoral law. It is high time you recovered your consciences and obeyed your consciences rather than a sinful order. The church, the defender of the rights of God, of the law of God, of human dignity, of the person, cannot remain silent before such an abomination. We want the government to face the fact that reforms are valueless if they are to be carried out at the cost of so much blood. In the name of God, in the name of this suffering people whose cries rise to heaven more loudly each day, I implore you, I beg you, I order you in the name of God: stop the repression.

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Above an entrance to Westminster Abbey, Martin Luther King, Jr., Oscar Romero and Dietrich Bonhoeffer, among others.

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Raimunda Cañénguez, 77 years old, walks home in San Antonio Abad, San Salvador, after buying a broom. At her side she carries a backpack with the image of Archbishop Oscar Arnulfo Romero. When asked the meaning of Romero for her, she said: “God sent him, and his wisdom, to help the poor. With the light of the gospel of Romero, our life makes sense, we cease being deceived.”

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Archbishop Romero was assassinated while giving mass on March 24, 1980.

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“It helps, now and then, to step back and take the long view. The Kingdom is not only beyond our efforts: it is beyond our vision. We accomplish in our lifetime only a tiny fraction of the magnificent enterprise that is the Lord’s work. Nothing we do is complete, which is another way of saying that the Kingdom always lies beyond us. No sermon says all that should be said. No prayer fully expresses our faith. No confession brings perfection. No pastoral visit brings wholeness. No program accomplishes the Church’s mission. No set of goals and objectives includes everything. That is what we are about. We plant the seeds that one day will grow. We water seeds already planted knowing they hold future promise. We lay foundations that will need further development. We provide yeast that affects far beyond our capabilities. We cannot do everything and there is a sense of liberation in realizing that. This enables us to do something, and to do it very, very well. It may be incomplete, but it is a beginning, a step along the way, an opportunity for the Lord’s grace to enter and do the rest. We may never see the end results, but that is the difference between the Master Builder and the worker. We are workers, not master builders; ministers, not messiahs. We are prophets of a future that is not our own.”

Archbishop Oscar Romero (via avoicewithinthewilderness) Salvadorans today, including diaspora, we are those seeds. (via salvadorans)

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The last night, March 22, Enrique Bunbury in El Salvador

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This afternoon, the Legislature approved with 54 votes to rename the International Airport of El Salvador for "Monsignor Oscar Arnulfo Romero y Galdamez". When it was announced the approval by the President of the Legislative Assembly, Siegfried Reyes, several Members applauded. ARENA legislators did not vote. In January, the Interior Minister Ernesto Zelayandía, Reyes gave a piece of correspondence in which the renaming of the El Salvador International Airport requested. The reform bill to the name change was an initiative that President Mauricio Funes said when the year began. In those days, the President announced that the Hall of Honor Presidential House is also known by the same name