Today is the 32nd anniversary of the assassinatio of Monsignor Romero. The common lectionary comes in cycles so I understand the following connection as an amazing coincidence, yet I can’t help but take some prayerful time to consider the lectionary’s gospel passage for this Sunday, March 25, 2012, contains John 12:24, “Unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth [...]
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32nd Anniversary of Archbishop Romero’s Assassination
Posted in Announcements, El Salvador 2010, tagged el salvador, fruit, romero on 03.24.2012 | Leave a Comment »
31st Anniversary of Archbishop Romero’s Assassination
Posted in El Salvador 2010, tagged el salvador, funes, liberation theology, obama, romero, solidarity on 03.24.2011 | 2 Comments »
A year ago today, UTS students, staff, faculty, and friends were marching with thousands of people from around the world to remember Monsignor Romero and the Christ-like sacrificial love he offered to the suffering Salvadorans. On March 24, 1980, Archbishop Oscar Romero was assassinated while giving mass and his life and work are still very [...]
Who needs Archbishop Romero in their textbook?
Posted in El Salvador 2010, tagged disappeared, jim wallis, jimmy mccarty, romero, texas, textbooks, the daily show, willful ignorance on 03.28.2010 | 3 Comments »
Jimmy McCarty wrote a post on the God’s Politics blog by Jim Wallis about his impressions of Romero. In this post, you’ll see an imbedded video from The Daily Show with Jon Stewart detailing how a board of education in Texas decided whether or not to include Romero in the textbook. As McCarty writes, skip [...]
El Salvador Day 07 – A March, Some Pottery, a Nun, and Karaoke
Posted in El Salvador 2010, tagged ALBA, chicken nuggets, damian alegria, eminem, hat, Honduras, karaoke, march, massacre, romero, sister peggy, solidarity, tomb, virginity, Xavier University on 03.25.2010 | 3 Comments »
Update: I’ve added photos so take a look! Today was yet another full day yet I must be brief if I’m to have any energy left for our final day in El Salvador tomorrow. So much has happened here and it’s hard to believe Thursday is our final full day before we pack up and [...]
El Salvador Day 04 – Winding Roads, Being Amongst the People, and a Question of Theology
Posted in El Salvador 2010, tagged Arena, crucified, crucifixion, funes, GANA, march, plaza, resurrected, resurrection, romero, shanty town, theology on 03.21.2010 | 5 Comments »
Hola, dear reader, and welcome to Day Four’s wrap-up. Today saw more opportunities for interacting with the people, more free time to explore cities, and talk of how our experiences effect our personal theologies. Here’s the scoop… On the Road (to Victoria) For the first time, our group was outside and in the street before [...]
El Salvador Day 03: Homemade Soup, Marching for Romero, and El Presidente
Posted in El Salvador 2010, tagged assassination, Canada, el presidente, funes, interviews, Jesuits, martin luther king, martyr, mining, mlk, president funes, romero, sister cities, traffic on 03.20.2010 | 4 Comments »
Today began for me with a little adventure wandering the streets of El Salvador. Internet access has been spotty at the guest house, which I mention not to complain but rather to give better context for you, dear reader, in those “creature comforts” we find so easily at home only to find them missing abroad. [...]
El Salvador Day 02: Two Red Books on Holy Ground, the High Price of Immigration, and Meeting Jon Sobrino
Posted in El Salvador 2010, tagged chapel, coffee, econonmics, immigration, jesuit, luther, martyr, meeting sobrino, red books, romero, sobrino, vatican ii, violence on 03.20.2010 | 2 Comments »
We thank you so much for all of your comments, please keep them coming! Today was a full day, an emotional day. Here’s the scoop, dear reader… You know what’s weird? Hearing someone proclaim your native country to be an “imperial nation” to your face. That’s what happened yesterday during our history of El Salvador [...]
El Salvador Day 01: Airports, Buses, and Arrivals
Posted in El Salvador 2010, tagged bus, El Salvador 2010, espousa, fmln, fourteen families, guacamole, guest house, international flight, Pop´s ice cream, reagan, romero, sobrino, travel drama on 03.18.2010 | 4 Comments »
I’ll start off by saying the wifi internet access in our guest house isn’t doing much for us (okay, it isn’t doing anything). My posts will come as frequently as possible, pending other internet access is found here and there. And with that, on to the main event… Our trip to El Salvador began this [...]
Our Group T-Shirts Are Ready
Posted in El Salvador 2010, tagged romero, Sesame Street, sobrino, Spanish, t-shirt on 03.17.2010 | 2 Comments »
Jackie F. has passed along to me the image of the t-shirts our group will have during the trip. Click the pic to see it enlarged: The only Spanish I know is what I learned on Sesame Street over twenty years ago. Anyone care to enlighten me on what the t-shirt reads in the comments [...]
Pre-Trip Reading: Witnesses to the Kingdom
Posted in El Salvador 2010, tagged job sobrino, martyr, martyrdom, romero, satire, sobrino, witnesses to the kingdom, writing style on 03.15.2010 | Leave a Comment »
Students going to El Salvador have been assigned a handful of books to read before the trip and after the trip, each requiring a brief written reaction piece. Here’s one of mine: Witnesses to the Kingdom: Martyrs of El Salvador and the Crucified Peoples by Jon Sobrino A figurehead of liberation theology, Jon Sobrino is [...]
