#Saint Oscar Romero

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LINEUP: 2023 FIESTA

(note: song titles in Bold Font are changes from current  Lenten lineup)

PAMBUNGAD NA AWIT: San Oscar Romero, Huwaran - Hayse Villamin [link] [sheet music]

KYRIE: Panginoon, Kaawaan Mo Kami - Fr. Rey Magnaye [link] [sheet music] [chords]

GLORIA: Papuri sa Diyos - Fr. Eduardo Hontiveros, SJ [link] [sheet music] [chords]

SALMO: Salmong Tugunan (Karaniwang Panahon) [link] [sheet music]

AWIT SA MABUTING BALITA: Inialay Mo ay Buhay - Sr. Mary Bruan, PDDM [link] [sheet music]

AWIT SA PAG-AALAY: Alay sa Diyos (Papal Visit) [link] [sheet musc] [chords]

SANCTUS: Santo (Pista ng Sambayanan) - Fr. Manoling Francisco, SJ [link] [music sheet]

AKLAMASYON: Sa Krus Mo (Tinapay ng Buhay) - Fr. Manoling Francisco, SJ [link] [sheet music] [chords]

DOXOLOGY: Amen (Mass of Creation) - Marty Haugen [video] [sheet music] [chords]

PATER NOSTER / EMBOLISMO: Ama Namin/Sapagkat (Tinapay ng Buhay) - Fr. Manoling Francisco, SJ [link] [music sheet]

AGNUS DEI: Kordero ng Diyos (Pista ng Sambayanan) - Fr. Manoling Francisco, SJ [link] [sheet music]

KOMUNYON: Tinapay ng Buhay - Fr. Manoling Francisco, SJ [link] [sheet music] [chords]

PANGWAKAS NA AWIT: San Oscar Romero, Huwaran - Hayse Villamin [link] [sheet music]

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Saint Oscar Romero 1917-1980 Feast Day: March 24 Patronage: El Salvador, the Catholic Diocese of San Salvador, Caritas International

Saint Oscar Romero, beatified in 2015 and declared a martyr by Pope Francis, was assassinated while saying Mass. He spoke out against human rights violations, El Salvador’s civil war victims and in solidarity with the poor. As Bishop, he was friendly to Opus Dei and a good shepherd to his people in San Salvador. The United Nations honors him on March 25th, the International Day for the Rights to the Truth Concerning Gross Human Rights Violations and for the Dignity of Victims.

Prints, plaques & holy cards available for purchase here: {website}

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About St Oscar Romero

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THE DESCRIPTION OF SAINT OSCAR ROMERO Feast Day: March 24

The night before he was murdered while celebrating Mass, Archbishop Oscar Romero of San Salvador said on the radio:

'I would like to appeal in a special way to the men of the army, and in particular to the troops of the National Guard, the police, and the garrisons. Brothers, you belong to our own people. You kill your own brother peasants; and in the face of an order to kill that is given by a man, the law of God that says 'Do not kill!' should prevail. No soldier is obliged to obey an order counter to the law of God. No one has to comply with an immoral law. It is the time now that you recover your conscience and obey its dictates rather than the command of sin… Therefore, in the name of God, and in the name of this long-suffering people, whose laments rise to heaven every day more tumultuous, I beseech you, I beg you, I command you! In the name of God: Cease the repression!'

Simultaneously, Romero had eloquently upheld the gospel and effectively signed his own death warrant.

When he was appointed archbishop of San Salvador in 1977, Bishop Romero was considered a very 'safe' choice. He had served as auxiliary bishop there for four years before his three years as bishop of Santiago de Maria.

Oscar’s father wanted him to be a carpenter—a trade for which he demonstrated some talent. Seminary classes in El Salvador preceded his studies at Rome’s Gregorian University and his ordination in 1942. After earning a doctorate in ascetical theology, he returned home and became a parish priest and later rector of an interdiocesan seminary.

Three weeks after his appointment as archbishop, Romero was shaken by the murder of his good friend Jesuit Father Rutilio Grande, a vigorous defender of the rights of the poor. Five more priests were assassinated in the Archdiocese of San Salvador during Romero’s years as its shepherd.

When a military junta seized control of the national government in 1979, Archbishop Romero publicly criticized the US government for backing the junta. His weekly radio sermons, broadcast throughout the country, were regarded by many as the most trustworthy source of news available.

As Romero finished speaking, a red car came to a stop on the street in front of the chapel. A gunman emerged from the vehicle, stepped to the door of the chapel, and fired one, possibly two, shots. Romero was struck in the heart, and the vehicle sped off.

He died at the Chapel of Hospital de la Divina Providencia in San Salvador on March 24, 1980 at the age of 62.

Romero’s funeral was celebrated in the plaza outside the cathedral and drew an estimated 250,000 mourners.

His tomb in the cathedral crypt soon drew thousands of visitors each year. On February 3, 2015, Pope Francis authorized a decree recognizing Oscar Romero as a martyr for the faith. His beatification took place in San Salvador on May 23, 2015, and he was canonized on October 14, 2018.

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William Cordova, Moby Dick (for Oscar Wilde, Óscar Romero y Oscar Grant), 2003,2008,2022, mixed media on reclaimed police car, 10/26/23 #stlartmuseum #sculpture by Sharon Mollerus

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Left side: In clockwise order from the top left, Dorothy Day (Catholic Worker Movement), Daniel Berrigan (Anti-Vietnam War/Ploughshares Movement/Peace activist, imprisoned for draft resistance activities), Dietrich Bonhoeffer (Anti-German government from 1933-1945, when he was murdered by that same German government), and Oscar Romero (now a saint, human rights and social reform advocate in El Salvador (Liberation Theology adjacent), murdered with the approval of the CIA in 1981). And then MLK.

Right side: Christofascists you are probably very familiar with. The least persecuted people ever crying the loudest that they are being repressed. Fuck 'em all.

It's weird to think my dad knew Daniel Berrigan (fairly well, they were in the Jesuits at the same time and Berrigan influenced him to become a CO during Vietnam, though his draft number was never called (he ripped up his draft card when he received it, kept half of it in his wallet for a long time, I think it's now somewhere in his office)) and Dorothy Day (through folks who had been with CW for a long time, he said she was great but the way some Catholic Worker folks revered her was a little culty, and this was in 1960s-1970s San Francisco, where most things were a little culty to begin with) along with several people who knew Romero and Merton (not featured here but Thomas Merton is tops). Small world, I guess.

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“ “For those who love God, all things work for their good.” There is no misfortune, there are no catastrophes, there are no sorrows, however extraordinary, that cannot become crowns of glory and of hope when suffered with love for God.” Saint Oscar Romero

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Quid est martyrium? Mortem pati pro Christo. Quid est Christianum? Christum sequi*

- St. Augustine

What is martyrdom? To suffer death for Christ. What is a Christian? To follow Christ.*

After the restoration of the western towers of the Abbey had been completed in 1995, it was decided to fill the 10 gothic niches above the west doorway with statues. The lower part of the towers date from the 15th century and the tops of the towers were completed in 1745. The niches never had statues, although this was obviously the plan of decoration.

It was decided to use the ten niches not just to commemorate saints or worthy figures from the past. So instead of traditional figures of kings or saints, the abbey decided that martyrs of the 20th century should be remembered. The West entrance was to proclaim a message of which too few people are aware: the 20th century was a century of Christian martyrdom. Although the statues are of individual martyrs they are intended to represent all those others who have died (and continue to die) in similar circumstances of oppression and persecution. Their statues were drawn from every continent and many Christian denominations.

Four sculptors completed the statues, carved from French Richemont limestone. The Archbishop of Canterbury, George Carey, unveiled the statues in July 1998 at a service attended by HM Queen Elizabeth II.

The ten Christian modern martyrs are (from left to right):

Maximilian Kolbe: a Catholic priest who helped Jews in Poland and who died in Auschwitz in 1941 after offering to take the place of a condemned man.

Manche Masemola: a 16-year-old girl from South Africa who was killed by her parents in 1928 when she converted to Christianity.

Janani Luwum:  the Archbishop of Uganda who was murdered on the orders of Idi Amin in 1977.

Grand Duchess Elizabeth Feodorovna: a member of the Russian Imperial family (by marriage) who founded a convent but was murdered by the Bolsheviks during the Russian Revolution.

Martin Luther King: the American civil rights campaigner who was murdered in 1969.

Oscar Romero: the Archbishop of San Salvador, murdered by a death squad in 1980.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer: a Lutheran theologian who was implicated in the bomb plot against Adolf Hitler and executed in 1945.

Esther John: a Pakistani nurse and Christian evangelist who was murdered by a Muslim relative in 1960.

Lucian Tapledi: an Anglican in New Guinea who was killed by invading Japanese troops in 1942.

Wang Zhiming: a Christian pastor in China who was executed in 1973 during the Cultural Revolution.

In June 1953, during Her Late Majesty Queen Elizabeth II’s coronation, she entered through the west door of London’s Westminster Abbey. During her arrival, she was received by massed choirs singing “I was glad when they said unto me, we will go into the house of the Lord” (Psalm 122, 1-3,6, 7.)

On 6 May, King Charles III and Queen Consort Camilla will be crowned at Westminster Abbey. For many, this will be the first coronation they have ever seen. The ceremony will follow a pattern laid out in the Liber Regalis, kept at Westminster Abbey and which has informed the pattern of coronations since the 14th century. The service which will see the Coronation of King Charles and Queen Camilla will include the same elements as the historic coronations which have gone before and everything starts with their entry to the Abbey. This means King Charles III will enter the Abbey through the West door and under the statues of these 10 Christian modern martyrs.

For King Charles III it will have a particular personal resonance as he will walk under the soulful gaze of his great-great aunt through his father’s side (the late Prince Phillip, Duke of Edinburgh), Grand Duchess Elizabeth Feodorovna.

Elizabeth of Hesse-Darmstadt was born on 1 November 1864. Her mother died when she was a child, and she came to England to live with her grandmother, Queen Victoria. Her childhood was Lutheran and her adolescence was Anglican. Elizabeth married Grand Duke Sergei Alexandrovich, the fifth son of Tsar Alexander II of Russia in 1884, and joined the Orthodox Church in 1891.

When her husband was assassinated in 1905, she gave away all her jewellery, sold her most luxurious possessions, and opened the Martha and Mary home in Moscow. Elizabeth and 17 of her companions formally became nuns in 1909. They soon opened a hospital and began other philanthropic works.

The Tsarist state collapsed in March 1917, and the Bolsheviks seized power in October 1917. Elizabeth was arrested with two sisters from her convent on 7 May 1918, and transported across country to Perm, then to Ekatarinburg, and finally to Alapaevsk. On 17 July, the Tsar and his family were shot dead. During the following night, Elizabeth, Sister Varvara, and members of the royal family were murdered in a mineshaft. Elizabeth was recognised as a saint by the Russian Orthodox Church Abroad in 1984 and by the Moscow Patriarchate in 1992.

Had there been more than ten niches available, there would have been other candidates available for inclusion in Westminster Abbey. As it stands, this memorial makes a powerful statement about the fact that people are still dying for their Christian beliefs in the present age. Although most cathedrals only seem to commemorate people who are long-dead and long-forgotten, Westminster Abbey bucked the trend in a dramatic and highly poignant way.

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Do It For Him and by him i mean Saint Oscar Romero 💕

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God bless. Do you have a favorite Saint?

Thank you. 💕 It's hard to pick!

Mary, Mother of God. Queen of Heaven and Earth.

After her, it would be: The 21 Coptic Martyrs; Saint Josephine Bakhita; Saint Teresa Benedicta of the Cross; Saint Oscar Romero; Saint Olga of Kiev; Saint Titus Brandsma; Saint Therese of Lisieux; Saint Teresa of Avila; Saint Catherine of Siena; Saint Hildegard von Bingen; Saint Francis of Assisi; Saint Hubert; Saint Bernard; Saint Vitalis of Gaza; Saint Thecla of Iconium; Saint Phoebe; Saint Radegund; Saint Julian of Norwich; Saint Dymphna.

Additionally, there are those who are undergoing Beautification, including: Venerable Satoko Kitahara; The Three Blessed Martyrs of Aguilares; Servant of God Thea Bowman; Blessed Sára Salkaházi; Blessed Franz Jägerstätter; Blessed Willi Graf; Blessed Giovanni Fornasini; Blessed Alicja Jadwiga Kotowska; Blessed Richard Henkes; Blessed Natalia Tułasiewicz; Blessed Teresa Bracco; Servant of God Takashi Nagai; Fr. Mychal Judge (informal process initiated by laypeople).

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Saint Oscar Romero

1917-1980

Feast Day: :March 24

Patronage: El Salvador, the Catholic Diocese of San Salvador, Caritas International

Saint Oscar Romero, beatified in 2015 and declared a martyr by Pope Francis, was assassinated while saying Mass. He spoke out against human rights violations, El Salvador’s civil war victims and in solidarity with the poor. As Bishop, he was friendly to Opus Dei and a good shepherd to his people in San Salvador. The United Nations honors him on March 25th, the International Day for the Rights to the Truth Concerning Gross Human Rights Violations and for the Dignity of Victims.

Prints, plaques & holy cards available for purchase here: (website)