Central America Travel Seminar: Silencing Christian Justice

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BY CHERI DENNIS

Today was a day of history and hope. The top picture is the Chapel at the Divine Providence hospital in San Salvador where Archbishop Oscar Romero was assassinated while serving communion on March 24, 1980. The picture below is a chapel built near the spot where the bodies of three nuns and one lay person we’re found on Dec. 2, 1980 near Santiago Nonualco.

Srs. Ita Ford, Dorothy Kazel, Maura Clarke, and lay missionary Jean Donovan had been assassinated. I think their deaths are summed up in these words from our reflection tonight. These folks were assassinated in order to silence their Christian call for justice.  Yet their voices are being heard louder and stronger now as we remember their deaths. They have not been silenced.

God’s peace be with you from San Salvador, El Salvador.

 

Cheri Dennis is a Master of Divinity student at Union.