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SECOND STATION
Jesus takes up the Cross
Each week I go about the country listening to the cries of the people, their pain from so much crime, and the ignominy of so much violence. Each week I ask the Lord to give me the right words to console, to denounce, to call for repentance. And even though I may be a voice crying in the desert, I know that the church is making the effort to fulfill its mission....
From “The Church and Human Liberation,” the last sermon of Archbishop Oscar Romero of El Salvador on March 14, 1980. |