I am sitting on my couch having just returned from El Salvador. Our group from UCSD has just walked as pilgrims alongside our sisters and brothers in the Episcopal Church of El Salvador. We arrived just in time for the 27th Anniversary of the martyrdom of Oscar Romero, a Roman Catholic bishop, and a saint in the Episcopal Church. Monseñor Romero embodied and proclaimed the Option for the poor in the Church in El Salvador. He sought to bring about a world where the Reign of God was incarnate in justice and peace for the poor of El Salvador.
We came to El Salvador as pilgrims, seeking to walk in the holy places where God's work had been accomplished. We found ourselves invited into the holy spaces in the lives of our sisters and brothers in the Salvadoran Church. We were thoroughly overwhelmed by the exceeding generous hospitality the Salvadoran people provided us. We were greatly humbled to be welcomed into the homes of the poor, to be openly invited into the painful stories of their lives, and to be invited to be family with them.
This blog will serve as a place for all of us from the trip to share our reflections with eachother and the world.
Mike Angell
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The UCSD Episcopal and Methodist United Campus Ministry Spring Break trip to El Salvador Blog. As told by Diana, Elisse, Lyra, Mike, Mike, and Nick
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