Prayer for El Salvador

El Salvador, Savior of the World, is writhing in pain - a country that daily faces the loss of so many of its people - and yet a country that is waiting, hoping and yearning for peace. The steadfast faith and courage that our leaders have to continue preaching the Word of the Lord, even though it may mean laying down your life in the very REAL sense, is always a point of admiration and a vivid realization that JESUS IS HERE with us. Yes, we have a sense of waiting, hoping and yearning for a complete realization of the Kingdom, and yet we know that it WILL COME because we celebrate Him HERE, RIGHT NOW.

From Sr. Dorothy Kazel, an Ursuline sister, one of four churchwomen murdered in 1980 in El Salvador.