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The God We Hardly Knew

December 10, 2022 by David Anderson 1 Comment

Saturday is poem day for the Advent series, “The Dawn From On High”

The God We Hardly Knew

 by Óscar Romero

No one can celebrate
a genuine Christmas
without being truly poor.
The self-sufficient, the proud,
those who, because they have
everything, look down on others,
those who have no need
even of God—for them there
will be no Christmas.
Only the poor, the hungry,
those who need someone
to come on their behalf,
will have that someone.
That someone is God.
Emmanuel. God-with-us.
Without poverty of spirit
there can be no abundance of God.

Oscar Romero, Archbishop of San Salvador, was a champion for social injustice. He was an outspoken critic of violence amid the escalating conflict between the military government and left-wing insurgents that led to the Salvadoran Civil War. In 1980, Romero was shot by an assassin while celebrating Mass. Though no one was ever convicted for the crime, investigations by the UN-created Truth Commission for El Salvador concluded that Major Roberto D’Aubuisson, a death squad leader and later founder of the right-wing Nationalist Republican Alliance (ARENA) political party, had ordered the killing.

Pope Francis canonized Romero on October 14, 2018.

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  1. Johnna says

    December 10, 2022 at 10:44 am

    What beautiful words from a beautiful spirit. Thanks, David. Peace, Johnna

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