This is what the Church wants: to bother your conscience, to provoke a crisis in the times we are living in. A church that doesn't stir up a crisis, a gospel that doesn't make us uncomfortable, a word of God that -to put it crudely- doesn't cause an allergic rash, a word of God that doesn't touch the specific society in which it is spoken, what kind of Gospel is that? Very beautiful pious concerns that won't bother anyone is how many want the sermons to be. And those preachers who, so as not to bother anyone and so as not to have conflicts and difficulties, do not shed light on the reality they are living in, lack the courage of Peter to say to the mob, "You have killed him" [Acts2, 23]. Although he would also lose his life because of this accusation, he proclaimed it. It is the courageous gospel; it is the good news that came to take away the sins of the world.
Oscar Romero April 16, 1978
Posted by Carlos J. Medina
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