In the early morning hours of Nov 16 1989, 30 yrs ago, army commandos invaded the Central American University in San Salvador and massacred the Jesuit community—6 priests, plus their housekeeper and her teenage daughter.
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“Open your heart...and ask yourself the 3 questions Ignatius of Loyola put to himself as he stood in front of the crucified world. What have I done for Christ in this world? What am I doing now? And above all what should I do?”—Ignacio Ellacuría, SJ
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Still inspired by the story of how the rose garden that is there came about.
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Walking the site where the Spanish Jesuit priests & their Salvadorean helpers were murdered by the dictators, I felt my rage rise up. But more than the brutal images I saw, I’ll remember here for the rose garden, planted on this sacred earth by the husband & father of the helpers
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