Further thoughts from Oscar Romero (and probably not the last this advent), this time explicitly on advent and the theme of last Sunday's "Hope and History - Into the Neighbourhood" candle liturgy - "The Coming Kingdom of Justice."
Advent should admonish us to discover in
each brother or sister that we greet, in each friend whose hand we shake, in
each beggar who asks for bread, in each worker who wants to use the right to
join a union, in each peasant who looks for work in the coffee groves, the face
of Christ. Then it would not be possible to rob them, to cheat them, to deny
them their rights. They are Christ, and whatever is done to them Christ will
take as done to himself. This is what Advent is: Christ living among us.
Archbishop Oscar Romero
Shalom
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