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Oscar Romero Research Paper

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An inspiring person of faith is a person that attains vocation from god to be a responsible Christian person. When you look at Oscar Romero his actions and retaliations for injustice expresses his faith on the people and on god. He was born in 1917 in El Salvador, a country that was ruled by just few wealthy and powerful families who used the army to suppress the rest of the population. In 1930 he declared his vocation to become a priest and was appointed as the archbishop of San Salvador in 1977 – the leader of the Catholic Church. After he came to the position of an archbishop her came to know many truths and mistakes being done by the government. Many truths were revealed to him and when he tried correcting it, the correction was felt wrong …show more content…

The National Guard ceased the church in order to stop Romero from doing further funeral or preaching. This made the people angry and also upset because they cannot do anything against the army and if they try to then they will be killed. Romero supported the people and he could not bear the army misusing the pure holy church which made to him react immediately against the National Guard. Romero requested the guards to leave the church but they didn’t respond instead started shooting the Eucharist. When Romero tried getting the Eucharist from the tabernacle as he didn’t want the holy Eucharist to be in a place filled with sinners, he was been targeted by the national guard and they tried shooting him but they didn’t directly try shooting him as he was the archbishop, so they wanted to bring fear in him. However, Romero was courageous and he brought the Eucharist out. The faith that Romero has on the Christ gave him courage and his actions revealed the Eucharist to the people. “A church that suffers no persecution but enjoys the privileges and support of the things of the earth – beware! – is not the true church of Jesus Christ (Oscar Romero)” he called upon the church to act on behalf of the poverty stricken peasants. “What we suffer now is nothing compared to the glory he will reveal to us later (romans 8:18)” he was not afraid of anything; his faith was the only key that protected him. Romero also wrote a letter to the president of United States saying “you say that you are Christian. If you are really Christian, please stop sending military aid to the military here, because they use it only to kill my people.” But this act of him angered some members of the El Salvador church that made them to even think of killing

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