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When the Gospel gets under your skin.(Spirituality)(Remembering two saints: Oscar Romero and Dietrich Bonhoeffer)

Publication: Sojourners
Publication Date: 01-APR-05
Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access

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Saints are made by how they live, not how they die. In March and April, the people's church remembers two saints: El Salvador's Catholic Archbishop Oscar Romero and Germany's Lutheran pastor and theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer. While their deaths were "spectacular"--Romero gunned down while in...

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...saying Mass and Bonhoeffer hanged a Nazi concentration camp-it is their lives, not their deaths, that teach us about Christian faith.

This year, the date of Romero's assassination falls on Holy Thursday. As Jesus knelt to wash the feet of his disciples in an act of revolutionary humility, I imagine the many times Romero knelt. Praying as a teenager fur his vocation, which prompted him...

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