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Archbishop Romero Trust @romerotrust.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Let us be the Church of ‘kenōsis’, of self-emptying, of humility, that hopes in the glory of the Risen Christ —St Oscar Romero, 26th Sunday in Ordinary Time (A), 1978 #StOscarRomero
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Archbishop Romero Trust @romerotrust.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I hope I never feel ashamed that my humble words had the immense honour of being a tiny ray of light & hope that reached into dark spaces — perhaps intro brothels, into the dens of criminals… May the words of Christ reach today to those who most have need of them #StOscarRomero
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Archbishop Romero Trust @romerotrust.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
All those who preach justice will find themselves up against the stone wall of people who don’t want to change their ways, who don’t want to orient their relationships with others by the ways of justice —St Oscar Romero, 26th Sunday in Ordinary Time (A), 1978 #StOscarRomero
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Archbishop Romero Trust @romerotrust.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
[Death] is the destiny of prophets because they must point out the most painful and burning sores; they have to run risks with those who don’t want to hear them —St Oscar Romero, 26th Sunday in Ordinary Time (A), 1978 #StOscarRomero
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Archbishop Romero Trust @romerotrust.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
It is the Church’s right and duty to point out that we cannot allow the sources of world peace to be poisoned by injustice —St Oscar Romero, 25th Sunday in Ordinary Time (A), 1978 #StOscarRomero
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Archbishop Romero Trust @romerotrust.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
The best return on one’s life comes not from earning but from serving —St Oscar Romero, 25th Sunday in Ordinary Time (A), 1978 #StOscarRomero
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Archbishop Romero Trust @romerotrust.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
I, the greatest sinner among you all, want to communicate to you the joy and hope I experience in my own misery when I realise that the God whom I adore is a God ‘rich in forgiveness’ who calls me to be devoted to him — #StOscarRomero 25th Sunday in Ordinary Time (A) 1978
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Archbishop Romero Trust @romerotrust.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
The defence of human rights is not just a contemporary concern; it has always been part of the gospel message —St Oscar Romero, 25th Sunday in Ordinary Time (A), 1978 #StOscarRomero
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Archbishop Romero Trust @romerotrust.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
For God there are no categories of human beings —St Oscar Romero, 25th Sunday in Ordinary Time (A), 1978 #StOscarRomero
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Archbishop Romero Trust @romerotrust.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Peace and love and forgiveness are not forms of weakness —St Oscar Romero, 24th Sunday in Ordinary Time (A), 1978 #StOscarRomero
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Archbishop Romero Trust @romerotrust.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
The Church: a community of love —St Oscar Romero, 24th Sunday in Ordinary Time (A), 1978 #StOscarRomero
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Archbishop Romero Trust @romerotrust.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
We are not all going to think alike in this Church, but we should all equally act for God, for Christ —St Oscar Romero, 24th Sunday in Ordinary Time (A), 1978 #StOscarRomero
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Archbishop Romero Trust @romerotrust.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
With love, justice becomes a fraternal embrace —St Oscar Romero, 23rd Sunday in Ordinary Time (A), 1978 #StOscarRomero
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Archbishop Romero Trust @romerotrust.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
The identity of our Church should be characterised by love —St Oscar Romero, 23rd Sunday in Ordinary Time (A), 1978 #StOscarRomero
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Archbishop Romero Trust @romerotrust.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Christ established the Church not to preserve herself for the sake of preservation but to serve the world —St Oscar Romero, 23rd Sunday in Ordinary Time (A), 1978 #StOscarRomero
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Archbishop Romero Trust @romerotrust.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
I am not the boss; l am not the one in charge; I am not an authority that imposes itself. I want to be God’s servant and yours —St Oscar Romero, 23rd Sunday in Ordinary Time (A), 1978 #StOscarRomero
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Archbishop Romero Trust @romerotrust.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
It is not the will of God that some people have everything while others have nothing. That cannot be of God. God's will is that all his children should be happy —St Oscar Romero, 23rd Sunday in Ordinary Time (A), 1978 #StOscarRomero
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Archbishop Romero Trust @romerotrust.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Listen to this year’s Romero Week speaker, Todd Walatka, interviewed by John Dear on his ‘Nonviolent Jesus Podcast’ about his new book, ‘Words of Life: The Preaching of Saint Oscar Romero’ #StOscarRomero www.ncronline.org/opinion/gues...
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Podcast: Theologian Todd Walatka on the words of St. Óscar Romero
On this week's episode of "The Nonviolent Jesus Podcast," John Dear hosts University of Notre Dame professor Todd Walatka, author of Words of Life: The Preaching of Saint Oscar Romero.
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Archbishop Romero Trust @romerotrust.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
The goal of our lives is the glory of God. No matter how lowly a life, this is what makes it great —St Oscar Romero, 22nd Sunday in Ordinary Time (A), 1978 #StOscarRomero
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Archbishop Romero Trust @romerotrust.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Let us not attribute to God’s will what is really the fruit of our laziness. Let us not blame God for unjust inequalities. Let us not fault God for human underdevelopment. God wants none of these —St Oscar Romero, 22nd Sunday in Ordinary Time (A), 1978 #StOscarRomero
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Archbishop Romero Trust @romerotrust.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
God has not made us for suffering t. God has made us for happiness —St Oscar Romero, 22nd Sunday in Ordinary Time (A), 1978 #StOscarRomero
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Archbishop Romero Trust @romerotrust.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
This is the crisis of any prophet: he would prefer not to say what he says, but God orders him to speak —St Oscar Romero, 22nd Sunday in Ordinary Time (A), 1978 #StOscarRomero
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Archbishop Romero Trust @romerotrust.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
We all have moments of crisis; even the Pope does. And so we should not be disturbed by these crises of faith —St Oscar Romero, 22nd Sunday in Ordinary Time (A), 1978 #StOscarRomero
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Archbishop Romero Trust @romerotrust.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
This Church is not something abstract; it is composed of all of us. We are the Church —St Oscar Romero, 22nd Sunday in Ordinary Time (A), 1978 #StOscarRomero
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Archbishop Romero Trust @romerotrust.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Surely it is a miracle of God at work in a world that is in upheaval, a world that is so divided & where so much selfishness resides, that in such a world the common good should prevail over individual interests —St Oscar Romero, 21 Sunday in Ordinary Time (A) 1978 #StOscarRomero
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Archbishop Romero Trust @romerotrust.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
We have discovered God in the midst of humanity. We have discovered this God who is the Son of God, this God who embraces creation, this God for whom all things were made, this God who is the hope of the world —St Oscar Romero, 21st Sunday in Ordinary Time (A) 1978 #StOscarRomero
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Archbishop Romero Trust @romerotrust.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
We must keep our eyes wide open, our feet firmly planted on the earth and our hearts filled with the Gospel and God, so that together we can seek solutions to our problems... based on justice —St Oscar Romero, 21st Sunday in Ordinary Time (A), 1978 #StOscarRomero
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Archbishop Romero Trust @romerotrust.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
This Gospel does not want division or conflicts but rather seeks to resolve conflict through love —St Oscar Romero, 21st Sunday in Ordinary Time (A), 1978 #StOscarRomero
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Archbishop Romero Trust @romerotrust.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Only justice can enable peace to become a reality —St Oscar Romero, 21st Sunday in Ordinary Time (A), 1978 #StOscarRomero
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Archbishop Romero Trust @romerotrust.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Regardless of how immense the world of the stars and the seas and the volcanoes might appear, nevertheless, this immense world has an origin: God —St Oscar Romero, 21st Sunday in Ordinary Time (A), 1978 #StOscarRomero
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Archbishop Romero Trust @romerotrust.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
I have always reminded you, sisters and brothers, that our power is in prayer —Saint Oscar Romero, 20th Sunday in Ordinary Time (A), 1978 #StOscarRomero
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Archbishop Romero Trust @romerotrust.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
The Church’s religious mission is based on her relationship with God. From that she derives the strength & dynamism to become a force for political, social and moral renewal without neglecting her religious role —St Oscar Romero, 20 Sunday Ordinary Time (A), 1978 #StOscarRomero
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Archbishop Romero Trust @romerotrust.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
It’s a wonderful thing to feel ourselves to be sisters and brothers each Sunday, especially in these moments of family togetherness —St Oscar Romero, 20th Sunday in Ordinary Time (A), 1978 #StOscarRomero
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Archbishop Romero Trust @romerotrust.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
I study the word of God that will be read each Sunday. I look around me and behold my people. I shed light on what I see with this word, and finally I draw out a synthesis that I can communicate to the people so that they themselves will be light for the world —St Oscar Romero
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Archbishop Romero Trust @romerotrust.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
We come together feeling that what each one of us does is of interest to all of us… we unite together in a single force of love, faith, hope in the middle of a world that presents us with countless difficulties —St Oscar Romero, 20 Sunday in Ordinary Time (A) 1978 #StOscarRomero
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Archbishop Romero Trust @romerotrust.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
So much evil is being done at this time by pastors and close-minded Catholics, people who think that the only truth is the truth they possess! They forget that no one owns the truth. Only God is truth —St Oscar Romero, 20th Sunday in Ordinary Time (A), 1978 #StOscarRomero
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Archbishop Romero Trust @romerotrust.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Let us recover our faith. It’s what gives us strength to support one another mutually —St Oscar Romero, 20th Sunday in Ordinary Time (A), 1978 #StOscarRomero
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Archbishop Romero Trust @romerotrust.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Happy Birthday, St Oscar Romero! The future Saint was born on this day in 1917 in Ciudad Barrios, El Salvador. ¡Feliz cumpleaños! Saint Oscar Romero, pray for us. #StOscarRomero
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Archbishop Romero Trust @romerotrust.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Work hard so that we truly become a People of God that makes God present in the world and sheds light in our gloomy grey surroundings —St Oscar Romero, 19th Sunday in Ordinary Time (A), 1978 #StOscarRomero
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Archbishop Romero Trust @romerotrust.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
People can be in the Church physically and yet not be of the Church because they are not heartily there —St Oscar Romero, 19th Sunday in Ordinary Time (A), 1978 #StOscarRomero
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Archbishop Romero Trust @romerotrust.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Wherever we open our eyes or our ears to capture the murmuring of creation, there God is speaking to us —St Oscar Romero, 19th Sunday in Ordinary Time (A), 1978 #StOscarRomero
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Archbishop Romero Trust @romerotrust.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
I also want to tell those who have abundant goods to learn to share. “Whatever you’ve done for them, you’ve done for me”. This is not a request for alms; it’s a demand for social justice —St Oscar Romero, Transfiguration 1978 #StOscarRomero
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Archbishop Romero Trust @romerotrust.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
The word of Christ becomes a command so that we truly become a Church that shines like a lamp in the night, not confused with other lights but always gives forth the pure light of Christ. It reveals the transfigured Christ —St Oscar Romero, Transfiguration 1978 #StOscarRomero
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Archbishop Romero Trust @romerotrust.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
In you, Lord, we find the true meaning of our lives. You are the key to our history. You are the Word by whom God created all things. You are the One in whom God will redeem our enslaved world —St Oscar Romero, Transfiguration 1978 #StOscarRomero
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Archbishop Romero Trust @romerotrust.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
The Church is a lamp that must shed light, and therefore it must involve itself in concrete realities in order to enlighten those who are pilgrims on this earth —St Oscar Romero, Transfiguration 1978 #StOscarRomero
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Archbishop Romero Trust @romerotrust.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
The Church defends the right of association, and she promotes the dynamic activity of raising consciousness and organizing the common people to bring about peace and justice —St Oscar Romero, Transfiguration 1978 #StOscarRomero
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Archbishop Romero Trust @romerotrust.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
God is found on the paths of justice, conversion, and truth —St Oscar Romero, Transfiguration 1978 #StOscarRomero
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Archbishop Romero Trust @romerotrust.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
God exquisitely resembles a mother with a child. God held me in his bosom and loved me and destined me; God has already thought about my days and my death —St Oscar Romero, 17th Sunday in Ordinary Time (A), 1978 #StOscarRomero
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Archbishop Romero Trust @romerotrust.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
I wonder, sisters and brothers, what we ourselves might have asked of the Lord if some night he had appeared and told us, ‘I’m going to give you whatever you ask of me.’ —St Oscar Romero, 17th Sunday in Ordinary Time (A), 1978 #StOscarRomero
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Archbishop Romero Trust @romerotrust.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
We shouldn’t try to create a Christianity to suit us; we shouldn’t try to domesticate the Gospel; instead, we should let ourselves be domesticated by the Gospel —St Oscar Romero, 17th Sunday in Ordinary Time (A), 1978 #StOscarRomero
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