vrijdag 3 december 2021

romero 6





It would be worthless

to have an economic liberation

in which all the poor had their own houses,

their own money...


but were all sinners,

their hearts estranged from God.


What good would it be?


There are nations at present

that are economically and socially quite advanced,

for example those of northern Europe,

and yet how much vice

and excess !


The church will always

have its word to say :

conversion.


Progress will not be completed

even if we organize ideally the economy

and the political and social order of our people.

It won’t be entire with that.


That will be the basis,

so that it can be completed by what 

the church pursues and proclaims :


God adored by all,


Christ acknowledged

as only Savior,


deep joy of spirit

in being at peace 


with God

and with our brothers 

and sisters.



[9.10.1977]

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