Thursday, July 29, 2010

The Violence of Love

The church is calling to sanity,


to understanding,

to love. It does not believe in violent solutions. The church believes in only one violence, that of Christ,

who was nailed to the cross. That is how today’s gospel reading shows him, taking upon himself all the violence

of hatred and misunderstanding,

so that we humans might forgive one another, love one another, feel ourselves brothers and sisters.12

NOVEMBER 20, 1977-Archbishop Oscar Romero