Today’s Word:
Jesus spoke of the two key commandments: love of God and love of neighbor (Mark 12:30-31)
On This Date…
Oscar Romero of El Salvador
On March 24, 1980 Archbishop Oscar Romero of El Salvador was assassinated while celebrating Mass in a cancer hospital at age 63; he had been archbishop for three years. The day before his death he issued this plea to the members of the military: “In the name of God, in the name of our tormented people whose cries rise up to heaven, I beseech you, I beg you, I command you: Stop the repression.” Archbishop Romero was beatified in 2015 in a ceremony in San Salvador.
On March 24, 1985 Abbot Norbert Calmels, O.Praem. died in Paris of cancer at age 76. He was ordained a priest in 1934, elected Abbot of Frigolet Abbey in France in 1945, and elected Abbot General of the Norbertine Order in 1962. He was abbot general when Daylesford became an independent Norbertine community (1963) and an abbey (1971). He attended the dedication of Daylesford Abbey in 1967.
In today’s Gospel Jesus spoke of the two key commandments: love of God and love of neighbor. Archbishop Romero and Abbot Calmels loved God and neighbor “with all their hearts.”
– Father McLaughlin
