OSCAR ROMERO CELEBRATION

Tomorrow, March 24, the College will have a special commemoration of the day Blessed Oscar Romero, our College patron, was assassinated 37 years ago. This year we celebrate the 100th anniversary of his birth. Therefore he is our Patron Focus for 2017.

Oscar Romero is very important to us at Holy Cross because in the life he lived, Oscar Romero spoke very clearly to our College Vision;
 

    ‘A Community of Transformation in the Spirit of the Risen Christ’.
 

With great courage he embraced the journey of the cross, standing up for the poor and for justice, knowing that the cost was likely to be his own life. Archbishop Oscar Romero became the "bishop of the poor" for his work defending the people of El         Salvador. He promised history that life, not death, would have the last word. "I do not believe in death without resurrection," he said. "If they kill me, I will be resurrected in the Salvadoran people."

We therefore pray,

Heavenly Father, 

May we, like Romero, as your pilgrim people choose to centre our lives around you. We ask that you would speak to us this day. We ask that you would transform us, through your Spirit to be people of learning, interrelationships, faith, and enrichment. That we, like Romero, would know the true meaning of what it is to live life to the full. 

We ask this in Jesus' name. Amen.