From Archbishop Oscar Romero's Lenten Homily in 1980:
This Lent, which we observe amid blood and sorrow, ought to
presage a transfiguration of our people, a resurrection of our nation.
The church invites us to a modern form of penance, of fasting and
prayer… But it should not be out of a mistaken sense of resignation. God
does not want that. Rather, feeling in one’s flesh the consequences of
sin and injustice, one is stimulated to work for social justice and a
genuine love for the poor. Our Lent should awaken a sense of social
justice…
Let us not let Christ be absent from our history. That is what is
most important at this moment in our nation’s history: that Christ be
God’s glory and power, and that the scandal of the cross and of pain not
make us flee from Christ and cast aside suffering. Instead, let us
embrace it…. The great need today is for Christians who are active and
critical, who don’t accept situations without analyzing them inwardly
and deeply. We no longer want masses of people like those who have been
trifled with for so long. We want persons like fruitful fig trees, who
can say yes to justice and no to injustice and can make use of the
precious gift of life, regardless of the circumstances…
A Church that doesn’t provoke any crises, a gospel that doesn’t
unsettle, a word of God that doesn’t get under anyone’s skin, a word of
God that doesn’t touch the real sin of the society in which it is being
proclaimed – what Gospel is that?
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