1. Archbishop Oscar Romero Born: August 15,1917 Died: March 24,1980 Assassinated because he helped the poor of El Salvador.

2. 50 point Extra Credit Time To Believe Faith In Democracy October 12, 2008 3:00 to 5:30 St. Paul River Center

3. 50 point Extra Credit Attend for full 2.5 hours AND Type a one page reflection of this experience.

4. What is ISAIAH? ISAIAH is people of faith acting powerfully in the world, casting a stirring vision of a vital faith community that transforms the dominant culture of despair, scarcity, and fear, with a vision of community, hope, justice, and God’s shared abundance for all people.

5. El Salvador 200 very wealthy families controlled a country of 5.7 million, mostly poor people. (About same population as Minnesota.) Poor started standing up for their human rights and a civil war broke out 1980 to 1992 75,000 were killed

6. El Salvador Over 1 million fled the country. Over 1 million homeless 250,000 came to Romero’s funeral. Some say this is the largest gathering, not only in El Salvador’s history, but of ALL Latin America. 30 to 50 people were killed by National Guard at his funeral.

7. El Salvador What was the best selling album in the U.S. in 1987? Joshua Tree What were the two songs based on El Salvador? Mothers of the Disappeared Bullet the Blue Sky

8. Written in 1987 as a protest against Jimmy Carter’s and Ronald Reagan’s policy of supporting the Aristocracy of El Salvador and supplying the National Guard with weapons and $$. Later, this song became a protest against the violence that grips parts of America. “676,000 will go down in the streets of America, with a bullet, in the next 20 years.” “More body bags than Vietnam.”

9. “Pull the trigger on the rock and roll [N-word] bigger than Jesus on a bumper sticker.” What does this mean? Many people have misinterpreted John Lennon’s comment: “We’re more popular than Jesus now.” He was criticizing the fans (fanatical) and the media for making them bigger than they ever should have been. [Someday we will listen to Watching the Wheels.] Some members of the FBI wanted Lennon silenced or dead. Bullet the Blue Sky

10. “What’s my name? What’s my name?!!” Mark Chapman, Mark Chapman, Mark Chapman. The man who killed John Lennon on December 8, 1980. “Love and peace, love and peace...” John and his wife Yoko Ono protested the U.S.’s involvement in the Vietnam war. Bullet the Blue Sky

11. Back to Romero

12. "Do you want to know if your Christianity is genuine? Here is the touchstone: Whom do you get along with? Who are those who criticize you? Who are those who do not accept you? Who are those who flatter you?" (November 1977 Sermon.) ･ Famous Romero Quotes

13. "We are never embarrassed of saying, 'The Church of the Poor'." Famous Romero Quotes

14. "If God accepts the sacrifice of my life, may my death be for the freedom of my people... A bishop will die, but the Church of God, which is the people, will never perish." Famous Romero Quotes

15. "May this Body immolated and this Blood sacrificed for Mankind nourish us also, that we may give our body and our blood over to suffering and pain, like Christ -- not for Self, but to give harvests of peace and justice to our People." Famous Romero Quotes

16. "Before an order to kill that a man may give, the law of God must prevail that says: Thou shall not kill! No soldier is obliged to obey an order against the law of God." Famous Romero Quotes

17. "If they kill me, I shall arise in the Salvadoran people." (Second quote from the interview weeks before his death.) "Stop the repression!” (Preaching to the aristocracy and their policy of oppressing the poor.) Famous Romero Quotes

18. Do YOU think Oscar Romero was a prophet? Did he help the anawim? The End, for now... Oscar Romero