Southwark: Blessed Oscar Romero Thanksgiving Mass

Blessed Oscar Romero

A national thanksgiving Mass to celebrate the life, martyrdom and beatification of Oscar Romero will be held this Saturday 15 August, at 12.30pm in St George's Catholic Cathedral, Southwark. The celebrant will be Cardinal Cormac Murphy O'Connor. Bishop John Rawsthorne will deliver the homily. All are welcome. (Musicians and singes will be gathering for a rehearsal at 11am.)

The day also would have been Archbishop Romero's 95th birthday - and there will be a celebratory drink in the Amigo Hall afterwards.

Archbishop Romero was officially recognised as Blessed Oscar Romero on 23 May 2015 in El Salvador. Many dioceses are holding a Mass of Thanksgiving to mark the occasion.

The website of the Archbishop Romero Trust has liturgy materials and a resource bank of Romero's homilies as Archbishop between 1977 and 1980 and his four Pastoral Letters all in English translation.

The website also contains the July issue of 'Romero News'. It includes personal accounts of the beatification of Archbishop Oscar Romero in San Salvador this May from trustees, Bishop John Rawsthorne - who represented CAFOD and the Bishops' Conference of England and Wales - and Jan Graffius - who helped set Archbishop Romero's blood stained shirt in the reliquary for the celebration.

There is also news on the new Martyrs' Memorial in St Albans, which includes Blessed Romero, and a special offer for Friends of the Romero Trust to get a discount on the newly published first volume of Romero's homilies in English.

For more information see: www.romerotrust.org.uk