During this season of Lent, we think about where God is calling us and where God is renewing us, where we need repentance and conversion in our lives. This weekend, parishioner Joel Dillard is speaking to us about Oscar Romero. While serving as the Archbishop of San Salvador in the Central American country of El Salvador, he was gunned down by the military while serving Mass. This is what Romero has to say about evangelization, about how each one of us is called to bring the Gospel to the world: “Each one of you has to be God’s microphone. Each one of you has to be a messenger, a prophet. The church will always exist as long as there is someone who has been baptized…Where is your baptism? You are baptized in your professions, in the fields of workers, in the market. Wherever there is someone who has been baptized, that is where the church is. There is a prophet there. Let us not hide the talent that God gave us on the day of our baptism and let us truly live the beauty and responsibility of being a prophetic people.” Being disciples of Christ, each one of us is called to bring the Gospel to our own little corner of the world at our place of work, at the school we attend, in the social events of our lives, in our community of family and friends. This is not an option. If we accept this calling to be disciples of Christ, we are called to evangelization.
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