Eg leita litt rundt på nettet, og snubla over boka The Violence of Love, ei samling av ting Romero sa medan han var i live. Heile boka kan lastast ned som pdf-fil gratis frå Plough Books. I denne boka fann eg eit lite stykke han skreiv eller sa 23. mars 1980, altså dagen før han vart drepen. Det høver godt no når fasten går mot slutten og vi snart går inn i påska. Med tanke på kva som skjedde med han dagen etter, får orda dessutan eit sterkt profetisk drag over seg.
Easter is itself now the cry of victory.
No one can quench the life that Christ has resurrected.
Neither death nor all the banners of death and hatred
raised against him and against his church can prevail.
He is the victorious one!
Just as he will thrive in an unending Easter,
so we must accompany him in a Lent and a Holy Week
of cross, sacrifice, and martyrdom.
As he said, blessed are they who are not scandalized
by his cross.
Lent, thus, is a call to celebrate our redemption
in that difficult combination of cross and victory.
Our people are well prepared to do so these days:
all that surrounds us proclaims the cross.
But those who have Christian faith and hope
know that behind this calvary of El Salvador
lies our Easter,
our resurrection.
That is the Christian people’s hope.
Eit artig sidepoeng er at medan Den katolske kyrkje ikkje har kome i mål med nokon salig- eller heilagkåringsprosess, har Óscar Romero minnedag i dag i Evangelical Lutheran Church in America.
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