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Tuesday, December 12, 2017
El Salvador, Part IV--Visiting a truly Holy Place.
At the Romero Shrine
Portrait of Archbishop Romero
Archbishop Romero's blood-stained vestment
Our final day in El Salvador was one of the most moving experiences of my life. On the way to the airport and our journey back to the US we stopped in San Salvador at the shrine dedicated to Archbishop Oscar Romero who was martyred in 1980 because of his speaking out on behalf of the poor of his country. His simple apartment on the grounds of a hospital is no a shrine. Walking through there was a palpable sense of being in a holy place.
After that visit we went into the chapel to celebrate the Eucharist together with the Unbound community from that city. We were It was in this chapel that he was murdered while saying Mass. I was the presider at the Mass and the knowledge of what happened at the altar where I was celebrating the Mass filled me with emotions that are hard to describe. I will let the pictures and the video of my homily (In Spanish and English) tell the rest of the story
In front of the altar flags of Unbound countries and pictures of Unbound founders.
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