Woke up with the sun shining and my mind and body ready to take on this day! Decided to gather a little inspiration and prayer for the road, and this is what was placed in front of me:
Everyone can contribute much that is good, and in that way trust is achieved. The common good will not be attained by excluding people. We can't enrich the common good of our country by driving out those we don't care for. We have to try to bring out all that is good in each person and try to develop an atmosphere of trust, not with physical force, but with a moral force that draws ot the good that is in everyone, especially in concerned young people.
Thus with all contributing all can build the beautiful structure of the common good, the good that we construct together, and that creates conditions of kindness, of trust, of freedom, of peace.
- Oscar Romero, from The Violence of Love
you hear that? we all have a role in contributing to the "beautiful structure of the common good." Archbishop Oscar Romero spent his days working on behalf of the poor and speaking out against poverty and social injustices. He was assassinated while celebrating mass (coincidentally his death anniversary is coming up on March 24) at a small chapel in El Salvador.
Two weeks before his assassination, Archbishop Oscar Romero said the following, “I have often been threatened with death,”... “If they kill me, I shall arise in the Salvadoran people. If the
threats come to be fulfilled, from this moment I offer my blood to God
for the redemption and resurrection of El Salvador. Let my blood be a
seed of freedom and the sign that hope will soon be reality.”
I truly believe there is all good, beautiful work that we can do with this life that we have been given - but it's up to each one of us to find out what that is, and how that looks like. How exciting! How can we ever be bored? There is so much work to be done!
Are you ready?
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