But let us remember that Christ became a person of his people, of his time;
he lived as a Jew; he labored as a worker in Nazareth;
and ever since, he is made flesh in all people.
If many have moved away from the church, it is precisely because the church has been a little alienated from humanity.
But a church that would feel as its own all that is human,
and would wish to incarnate within itself
the sorrow, hope and anguish
of all who suffer and rejoice
that church would be Christ
loved and awaited,
Christ present
And that depends on us.

Archbishop Oscar Romero
3 December 1978