Parish Bulletin: COAR sponsored: St. Romero Day Prayer Service March 24, 2021, 7pm livestreamed Short version: COAR, is the Community of St. Oscar A. Romero. Founded in 1980 by some members of Cleveland’s mission team in El Salvador, it is the oldest organization in the world named for St. Romero. COAR invites you to a prayer service on St. Romero Day, March 24th, 7pm, to celebrate the saint and his exhortation to peace. The service will be live streamed. Registration for streaming is optional but encouraged. Attendance is extremely limited, registration is encouraged. More information is available at www.coarpeacemission.org, (440) 943-7615. Long version: COAR, the Community of St. Oscar A. Romero, invites everyone to a prayer service on St. Romero Day, March 24th, 7pm, to celebrate the saint and his exhortation to peace. The service will be live streamed. Registration for streaming is optional but encouraged. Attendance (St. Dominic Parish, Shaker Hts.) is extremely limited, registration is encouraged. Registration and more information at www.coarpeacemission.org, (440) 943- 7615. St. Romero beckons all of us to enter deeper into the mystery that is service and solidarity with the poor. His example and his words tell us that this is the foundation of real, life-giving, and lasting peace. COAR is just one of many projects and parish groups that is the fruit of the Diocese’s 56-year history in El Salvador. All groups are invited to celebrate this legacy on March 24th, 7pm. In the Saint’s own words: "Peace is not the product of terror or fear. Peace is not the silence of cemeteries. Peace is not the silent result of violent repression. Peace is the generous, tranquil contribution of all to the good of all. Peace is dynamism. Peace is generosity. It is right and it is duty. In it each one has a place in this beautiful family, which the Epiphany brightens for us with God’s light." — January 8, 1978 COAR is located in Zaragoza, El Salvador. It was founded in 1980 by Cleveland Diocese Mission Team priest Fr. Ken Myers during El Salvador’s brutal civil war. Fr. Ken and fellow Cleveland Mission Team members Sr. Dorothy Kazel, OSU, and Jean Donovan (murdered December 2, 1980) began gathering orphans from refugee camps and bringing them back to the Mission’s parish of Zaragoza. COAR is now known as the “Children’s Village” in El Salvador with 1,000 day students, 50 in foster care, a medical and dental clinic, pharmacy, and trade shops. It is administered directly by the Archbishop of San Salvador through his Vicariate of Human Development-CARITAS. Funds and awareness are raised by the COAR Peace Mission, located in the Center for Pastoral Leadership of the Cleveland Diocese, Wickliffe, OH. COAR Peace Mission * 28700 Euclid Ave. * Wickliffe, OH 44092 * (440) 943-7615 www.coarpeacemission.org Parish Bulletin: COAR sponsored: St. Romero Day Prayer Service March 24, 2021, 7pm livestreamed [Pictures are embedded in this document. They can also be sent as separate files in a variety of formats including both .bmp (bitmap) and .jpg (J peg).] ^ St. Romero official canonization portrait (October 14, 2018) ^ Ignacio, a child raised in foster care at COAR, exhorts his classmates with St. Romero’s words in a typical feast day celebration COAR Peace Mission * 28700 Euclid Ave. * Wickliffe, OH 44092 * (440) 943-7615 www.coarpeacemission.org Parish Bulletin: COAR sponsored: St. Romero Day Prayer Service March 24, 2021, 7pm livestreamed ^ COAR high school students present “St. Romero” in a typical Salvadoran mass procession. COAR Peace Mission * 28700 Euclid Ave. * Wickliffe, OH 44092 * (440) 943-7615 www.coarpeacemission.org .