{"id":144105,"date":"2026-03-24T06:59:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-24T10:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=144105"},"modified":"2026-03-24T05:27:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T09:27:12","slug":"a-prayer-for-the-feast-day-of-oscar-romero-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=144105","title":{"rendered":"A prayer for the feast day of Oscar Romero"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Almighty God, who didst call thy servant Oscar Romero to be a voice for the voiceless poor, and to give his life as a seed of freedom and a sign of hope: Grant that, inspired by his sacrifice and the example of the martyrs of El Salvador, we may without fear or favor witness to thy Word who abideth, thy Word who is Life, even Jesus Christ our Lord, to whom, with thee and the Holy Spirit, be praise and glory now and for ever. Amen.<\/p><blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/OTD?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#OTD<\/a> in 1980, St. Oscar Romero gave a sermon with an appeal to El Salvador&#39;s soldiers: \u201cI beg you, I implore you, I order you in the name of God, stop the repression!\u201d The next day, he was shot and killed while celebrating Mass in a hospital chapel. <br><br>&#x1f517; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/xWdDokfj6P\">https:\/\/t.co\/xWdDokfj6P<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/3EaQWyoOMN\">pic.twitter.com\/3EaQWyoOMN<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Jesuit News (@jesuitnews) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jesuitnews\/status\/2036072630105596188?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 23, 2026<\/a><\/blockquote> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Almighty God, who didst call thy servant Oscar Romero to be a voice for the voiceless poor, and to give his life as a seed of freedom and a sign of hope: Grant that, inspired by his sacrifice and the<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=144105\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[625,186,438,188],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-144105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-el-salvador","category-church-history","category-death-burial-funerals","category-spiritualityprayer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=144105"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144105\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":144107,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144105\/revisions\/144107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=144105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=144105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=144105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}