Worship Service Sunday – Monsenor Romero

A play representing the official start of the Salvadoran Civil War. Presented by Jill Stiemsma.

In the era of growing support for Liberation Theology, Salvadoran Archbishop Oscar
Romero stood as the vanguard between El Salvador’s tortured and starved rural poor and its
military regime and the United States who weaponized the country in the name of fighting
communism. Experience the heat of the battle in a play Jill Stiemsma wrote based entirely on
the book Monseñor Romero by María López Vigil. You are invited into the heart, mind and
soul of a brilliant leader who struggled to become the voice of the peasants in El Salvador
and who was subsequently martyred for his faith. The play allows the story to unfold
through the voices of friends and enemies alike who deliver their side of history in vignettes.