{"id":32133,"date":"2015-03-11T22:31:21","date_gmt":"2015-03-12T02:31:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/?p=32133"},"modified":"2015-03-11T22:41:51","modified_gmt":"2015-03-12T02:41:51","slug":"romeros-beatification-date-set","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2015\/03\/romeros-beatification-date-set\/","title":{"rendered":"Romero&#8217;s beatification date set"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Romero-poster.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-32135 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Romero-poster-300x280.jpg\" alt=\"Romero poster\" width=\"300\" height=\"280\" srcset=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Romero-poster-300x280.jpg 300w, https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Romero-poster.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>After years of reading and talking and listening to the case for Archbishop Oscar Romero&#8217;s beatification, Pope Francis heard the final testimony that it was the hatred for the Catholic faith that Romero was killed. He declared his intention to name Romero a martyr.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.catholicnews.com\/data\/stories\/cns\/1501073.htm\"><strong>A CNS story talks about the recent decision<\/strong><\/a> to beatify Oscar Romero and set the date of Saturday, May 23, 2015 as the day for the ceremony in El Salvador. This is the eve of Pentecost this year. The Prefect of the Congregation of the Causes for Saints\u00a0will offer the Mass and the rite of beatification,\u00a0Cardinal Angelo Amato.<\/p>\n<p>Carlos X gives this analysis of the connection with the outpouring of the Holy Spirit at Pentecost and Romero&#8217;s beatification:<\/p>\n<p>[the day can be understood] as a retrospective on his ministry as a bishop, and as a meditation on the great charge that Romero sought to fulfill.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>First<\/em>, Romero died during Lent and was buried on Palm Sunday.\u00a0 It seems sadly and sweetly fitting that he should return after Easter, resurrected not only in his people but in his Church, in which he will be raised to the honor of its altars.<\/li>\n<li><em>Second<\/em>, this Pentecost will be the 40th anniversary of Romero\u2019s first pastoral letter, \u201c<em><a href=\"http:\/\/polycarpi.blogspot.com\/2013\/05\/the-holy-spirit-in-church.html\">The Holy Spirit in the Church<\/a><\/em>,\u201d issued in May 1975 while he was Bishop of Santiago de Maria.\u00a0 Many will want to read that pastoral letter; they will find that it serves as an apt road map for the bishop that was Oscar Romero, and that he was faithful to its most fervent objectives.<\/li>\n<li><em>Finally<\/em>, Pentecost is the inspiration for the Second Vatican Council, and the Latin American bishops\u2019 synods at Medell\u00edn (1968) and Puebla (1979), which guided Romero\u2019s ministry.\u00a0 It is impossible to read Romero\u2019s episcopate but through the prism of these modern \u201cCenacles.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After years of reading and talking and listening to the case for Archbishop Oscar Romero&#8217;s beatification, Pope Francis heard the final testimony that it was the hatred for the Catholic faith that Romero was killed. He declared his intention to name Romero a martyr. A CNS story talks about the recent decision to beatify Oscar &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2015\/03\/romeros-beatification-date-set\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Romero&#8217;s beatification date set<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[1787,31958,2107,3055],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32133"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32133"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32133\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32137,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32133\/revisions\/32137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}