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Hey there, Sprouts. Today is Wednesday, March 24th, 2021. We're still in the fifth week of Lent.

And today is also the feast of St. Oscar Romero. He was an archbishop, and we'll talk a little bit more about him. I'm Kyle Hyman from Spoke Street Media with you this week to talk about fatherhood. We've already talked

about why did God create our fathers and why do I have to listen to my father? Today, we're

going to take a look at a different type of father that plays an important role in our lives as

Catholics, and that is the clergy, our priests. And we can look at today's saint as an example

of what it means to be a holy father, a holy priest. Saint Oscar Romero was Archbishop of San Salvador.

San Salvador is the capital of El Salvador, which is in Central America.

So if you're going from the United States, you'd go through Mexico and then Guatemala, and then you could go into El Salvador.

It's right beside Honduras.

But he lived in a time where there was a lot of tension, a lot of war, a lot of corruption in the El Salvador government.

And unfortunately, the poor especially were being mistreated and Archbishop Oscar Romero would speak up for them.

In doing so, he was kind of risking his life

because it was so dangerous. But he would speak out not only at church, but also on the radio.

So, you know, this is before there were podcasts. Even though he was putting himself in danger,

he knew that he couldn't stay silent. He had to speak out.

And he was actually killed while saying mass. Some bad guys came into the church and killed him.

So he's a martyr. He died for the faith. He died not only speaking out against what was wrong, but in the very moment of celebrating the Eucharist.

So I mentioned on Monday that your parish priest is a spiritual father.

Spiritual fatherhood is something that we don't talk about a whole lot.

Because besides your actual father, your biological father, or you might have a foster father, or an adopted father, there's also spiritual fathers.

Now, we have our godfathers, for example, that fill that role as a spiritual father, but also, and very importantly, our priests.

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