Spiritual Wisdom of the Week
by: Rabbi Michael Lerner on November 11th, 2009 | 2 Comments »
This week’s spiritual wisdom comes from Archbishop Oscar Romero, who urged along the nonviolent struggle for justice in El Salvador until his assassination in 1980:
It helps now and then to step back and take the long view.
We can’t do everything and there is a sense of liberation in that.
We can do something, and we need to do it well.
We plant the seed that one day will grow; we may never see the end result.
We provide the yeast that produces effects far beyond our capabilities.
(Photo courtesy of FlickrCC/Franco Folini.)
Father John Dear is one of my favorite writers as is Gandhi, Sister Joan Chittister, Bishop Thomas Gumbleton, Rabbi Michael Lerner, and G.K. Chesterton.
John Paul II has said that one of his biggest regrets as pope was he did not speak more forcefully about the assassination of Archbishop Oscar Romero.
We cannot remain silent in matters of injustice.
Monsieur Romero was one of my favorite people of all time. I am so thrilled that you
printed this excerpt from the “prayer of Oscar Romero.” The 30th anniversary of his
assassination is coming up March 24th,2010. It was a real tragedy, what was taken
away from the people of El Salvador, and all of us.