Romero Prayer
No Statement says all that could be said.
No prayer fully expresses our faith.
No Confession brings perfection.
No Pastoral visit brings wholeness.
No Program accomplishes the Church's mission.
No set of goals and objectives includes everything.
This is what we are about:
We Plant the seeds that one day will grow.
We water seeds already planted,
knowing that they will hold future promise.
We lay foundations that will need further development.
We provide yeast that produces effects beyond our capabilities.
We cannot do everything,
and there is a sense of
liberation in realizing that.
This enables us do something, and to do it well.
It may be incomplete, but it is a beginning,
a step along the way,
an opportunity for God's Grace to enter and do the rest.
We may never see the end results,
but that is the difference between
the master builder and the worker.
We are workers, not master builders, ministers, not messiahs.
We are prophets of a future not our own.
Amen.
Martyred ArchBishop of San Salvador
Monsignor Oscar Romero
