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Romero: The Church Becomes the Suffering Servant - Liberation (Isaiah 53)

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Archbishop Romero was assassinated while celebrating Mass, his blood mingling with the eucharistic wine. He had become Isaiah 53: despised by the powerful, acquainted with grief, pierced for standing with the poor. Liberation theology reads the Suffering Servant collectively—Christ identifies with all who suffer under oppression. The Church becomes the Servant when it takes the side of the crucified peoples of history. Romero's words echo Isaiah: "If they kill me, I will rise again in the Salvadoran people." The Servant's suffering is not passive resignation but prophetic confrontation with structural sin.

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Isaiah 53

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