Beatification of Fr. Rutilio Grande in El Salvador
Delegation visit to El Salvador for the Beatification of Father Rutilio Grande,
his two companions, Nelson and Manuel, and Fr. Cosme Spessoto
January 18 - 24, 2022
his two companions, Nelson and Manuel, and Fr. Cosme Spessoto
January 18 - 24, 2022
Dear friends of SHARE,
It is with great joy that the SHARE Foundation shares the news of Pope Francis’s decision to beatify Father Rutilio Grande, his two companions, Nelson and Manuel, and Fr. Cosme Spessoto on January 22, 2022.
The SHARE Foundation and the communities with whom we work across El Salvador will celebrate together and are pleased to invite you to join us in a delegation to El Salvador to participate in the beatification ceremony and to accompany the communities that incarnate the spirit and work of Father Rutilio who once said, "We are saved in a cluster where there is a common table for all."
Dates of the delegation visit to El Salvador are Tuesday, January 18 through Monday, January 24, 2022. Our itinerary will include:
The cost of participating in the delegation is approximately $650, covering transportation inside El Salvador, food, guest house, translation and organization of the visit; it does not include airfare.
Please register HERE by November 30th and please feel free to call or email me with any questions: [email protected], phone +1 510 848 8487.
Join the Virtual Delegation to receive daily blogs, pictures and Facebook live registering HERE soon.
Let us celebrate this recognition of Fr. Rutilio Grande and his friends who dedicated and sacrificed their lives on behalf of the Salvadoran people. We invite you to celebrate with us by supporting our work HERE
En Solidaridad,
Jose Artiga
Executive Director
Rutilio, Nelson, Manuel and Cosme, PRESENTES!
It is with great joy that the SHARE Foundation shares the news of Pope Francis’s decision to beatify Father Rutilio Grande, his two companions, Nelson and Manuel, and Fr. Cosme Spessoto on January 22, 2022.
The SHARE Foundation and the communities with whom we work across El Salvador will celebrate together and are pleased to invite you to join us in a delegation to El Salvador to participate in the beatification ceremony and to accompany the communities that incarnate the spirit and work of Father Rutilio who once said, "We are saved in a cluster where there is a common table for all."
Dates of the delegation visit to El Salvador are Tuesday, January 18 through Monday, January 24, 2022. Our itinerary will include:
- Tuesday, January 18th: Travel to El Salvador
- Wednesday, January 19th: Welcome and orientation; review of Covid protocols, briefing on the current human rights situation in El Salvador, meeting with relatives of political prisoners; updates on the pending legal cases of Monseñor Romero, El Mozote and other massacres; walking the Route of the Martyrs & visiting the tomb of Monseñor Romero.
- Thursday & Friday, January 20th and 21st: field trips to partner communities in the countryside to learn about the projects we carry out with SHARE’s support; visits with communities of women, youth and cooperatives developing food sovereignty.
- Saturday, January 22nd: The Beatification with the community; in the afternoon and evening share with the Rutilio Grande Community.
- Sunday, January 23rd: free day to visit places of interest to the group, trip evaluation and closing celebration.
- Monday, January 24th: Travel home
The cost of participating in the delegation is approximately $650, covering transportation inside El Salvador, food, guest house, translation and organization of the visit; it does not include airfare.
Please register HERE by November 30th and please feel free to call or email me with any questions: [email protected], phone +1 510 848 8487.
Join the Virtual Delegation to receive daily blogs, pictures and Facebook live registering HERE soon.
Let us celebrate this recognition of Fr. Rutilio Grande and his friends who dedicated and sacrificed their lives on behalf of the Salvadoran people. We invite you to celebrate with us by supporting our work HERE
En Solidaridad,
Jose Artiga
Executive Director
Rutilio, Nelson, Manuel and Cosme, PRESENTES!
Please email [email protected] If you have any questions or problems with the application form.
After applying, we REQUIRE a photograph and a copy of your passport for accredited ID.
Please email it to [email protected]
After applying, we REQUIRE a photograph and a copy of your passport for accredited ID.
Please email it to [email protected]
We are saved in a cluster where there is a common table for all!
Fr. Rutilio Grande
Rutilio Grande, S.J. | 1977 | El Salvador
Father Rutilio Grande was born in 1928 into a poor family in El Paisnal in El Salvador; he began pursuing his vocation to be a pastor at a young age, getting to know Luis Chavez, the Archbishop of San Salvador, as a teenager and entering the Jesuits at age 17. Father Grande was ordained in 1959 and served as the prefect of discipline and the professor of pastoral theology in the diocesan seminary from 1965 to 1970. He became the pastor of Aguilares in 1972 and encouraged the local population to fight for land reform and justice; he also became a member of the priests’ senate in 1974. Father Grande understood that as a priest, what was demanded of him was an example of loving service and self-sacrifice, an understanding exemplified in his most famous sermon on February 13, 1977.
On February 13, 1977, Father Grande said mass in honor of a Colombian priest who had been recently arrested in El Salvador and deported without charges. In his sermon, he declared: “I’m quite aware that very soon the Bible and the Gospel won’t be allowed to cross our borders…because all the pages are subversive. And I think that if Jesus himself came across the border at Chalatengo, they wouldn’t let him in…without any doubt, they would crucify him again.” As a direct result of this sermon, on March 12, while driving from Aguilares to El Paisnal with 15-year-old Nelson Rutilio Lemus and 72-year-old Manuel Solorzano, his car was sprayed with gunfire and he died instantly. Source: Ignatian Solidarity Network |
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