Solidarity

Archbishop Oscar Romero shared the following message in February of 1980, just one month before he was killed for his faithful solidarity with the poor of El Salvador:

[W]e become incarnate among the poor.
We want a church that is really side by side with the poor, with the people of El Salvador.

As we draw near to the poor, we find we are gradually uncovering the genuine face of the Suffering Servant of Yahweh. We are getting to know closer at hand the mystery of the Christ who becomes human and becomes poor for us.

What else does the church do here? It proclaims the good news to the poor . . . [T]he Church has good news to proclaim to the rich as well; they are to turn to the poor and thus share with them in the riches of God’s reign that belong to the poor.