Each one of you must be God’s microphone;
each one of you must be a messenger, a prophet.
Everyone baptised has received a share in Christ’s prophetic mission —St Oscar Romero

#StOscarRomero #WorldMissionSunday #WMS2026

As long as you’re trying to combine trust in, Christ with trust in money, you will never enjoy God’s banquet —St Oscar Romero, 28th Sunday in Ordinary Time (A), 1978 #StOscarRomero

Authority exists for serving not for terrorising —St Oscar Romero, 28th Sunday in Ordinary Time (A), 1978 #StOscarRomero

Catholic schools must also be advocates of evangelisation —St Oscar Romero, 28th Sunday in Ordinary Time (A), 1978 #StOscarRomero

God wants Christians clothed in love —St Oscar Romero, 28th Sunday in Ordinary Time (A), 1978 #StOscarRomero

Let no family isolate itself from others in order to maintain its own private comfort. Marriage has a great social function; meant to be the torch that brightens other paths of liberation & helps other couples —St Oscar Romero, 27 Sunday in Ordinary Time (A) 1978 #StOscarRomero

Change will be easier when boys and girls are inspired, in the intimacy of each family, to place their hopes in being more rather than in having more —St Oscar Romero, 27th Sunday in Ordinary Time (A), 1978 #StOscarRomero

God wanted all men and all women to love one another with the same love with which he loves his eternal family —St Oscar Romero, 27th Sunday in Ordinary Time (A), 1978 #StOscarRomero

God wants the love of a man and a woman and their children to reflect the infinite love he has for humankind —St Oscar Romero, 27th Sunday in Ordinary Time (A), 1978 #StOscarRomero

The family is nothing else but loving, and loving means giving; loving means committing ourselves to the welfare of others and working for the happiness of all —St Oscar Romero, 27th Sunday in Ordinary Time (A), 1978 #StOscarRomero

Every couple has a sublime mission that is not limited to their children and their home; every couple must radiate out into society for society’s own benefit —St Oscar Romero, 27th Sunday in Ordinary Time (A), 1978 #StOscarRomero

Children should be educated for love, so that their desire is not to grasp everything but to give generously to others —St Oscar Romero, 27th Sunday in Ordinary Time (A), 1978 #StOscarRomero

What else is the family but a testimony to God's infinite love on this earth! —St Oscar Romero, 27th Sunday in Ordinary Time (A), 1978 #StOscarRomero

Let us be the Church of ‘kenōsis’, of self-emptying, of humility, that hopes in the glory of the Risen Christ —St Oscar Romero, 26th Sunday in Ordinary Time (A), 1978 #StOscarRomero

I hope I never feel ashamed that my humble words had the immense honour of being a tiny ray of light & hope that reached into dark spaces — perhaps intro brothels, into the dens of criminals… May the words of Christ reach today to those who most have need of them #StOscarRomero

All those who preach justice will find themselves up against the stone wall of people who don’t want to change their ways, who don’t want to orient their relationships with others by the ways of justice —St Oscar Romero, 26th Sunday in Ordinary Time (A), 1978 #StOscarRomero

[Death] is the destiny of prophets because they must point out the most painful and burning sores; they have to run risks with those who don’t want to hear them —St Oscar Romero, 26th Sunday in Ordinary Time (A), 1978 #StOscarRomero

It is the Church’s right and duty to point out that we cannot allow the sources of world peace to be poisoned by injustice —St Oscar Romero, 25th Sunday in Ordinary Time (A), 1978 #StOscarRomero

The best return on one’s life comes not from earning but from serving —St Oscar Romero, 25th Sunday in Ordinary Time (A), 1978 #StOscarRomero

I, the greatest sinner among you all, want to communicate to you the joy and hope I experience in my own misery when I realise that the God whom I adore is a God ‘rich in forgiveness’ who calls me to be devoted to him — #StOscarRomero 25th Sunday in Ordinary Time (A) 1978