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Oscar Romero on church traditions

Posted on March 21st, 2005, in the afternoon

There simply could not be a better title for a collection of Oscar Romero's quotes than The Violence of Love. I've been reading a quote a day for months and they regularly cut me right to the heart. Such fierce and uncompromising love is too much to bear.

Today:

The church renews itself. We cannot preserve old traditions that no longer have any reason for being, much less those structures in which sin has enthroned itself and from which come abuses, injustices, and disorders.

We cannot call a society, a government, or a situation Christian when our brothers and sisters suffer so much in those inveterate and unjust structures.

Oscar Romero, The Violence of Love

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