Mary and Joseph were poor, but what a saintly poverty, what a dignified poverty. Thank God that we also have this kind of poor among us. And from this category of the dignified poor, the poor saints, Christ proclaims: Blessed are those who hunger, blessed are those who weep, blessed are those who thirst for justice. The Church cries out from that same place, following the example of Christ, that this is the poverty that will save the world. Because both the poor and the rich have to become poor, in an evangelical sense; not the poverty that is the result of disorder and vice, but rather the poverty that has freed itself, that is trusting that everything will come from God, that is turning its back on the golden calf in order to adore the one God. That is sharing the happiness of having with those who have not, that is the joy of loving.
Oscar Romero, September 11, 1977. Translated by Irene B. Hodgson
Posted by Carlos J. Medina, Novice
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