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Andreu Oliva, SJ. Friday November 14, 2014\u000b\u000bGood evening, dear friends of Martyrs and UCA; dear John and Manuela, brother and sister of Father Ignacio Ellacuría; dear friends visiting us from various parties, especially those who come from afar; dear Provincial and Jesuit Superiors; dear Presidents of various Jesuit Universities, who have come to commemorate the martyrs of the UCA tonight; dear friends and colleagues of the community of the UCA; very dear Monsignor José Luis Escobar, archbishop of San Salvador; dear Bishops of the dioceses of El Salvador; dear Father Provincial Rolando Alvarado; dear brothers in the priesthood, thanks for concelebrating this Mass of Thanksgiving for the life and generous dedication of our Jesuit brothers and Julia Elba and Celina Ramos.\u000b\u000bI want to thank Monsignor José Luis for giving me the opportunity to share with you the homily at this Mass. And I do it gladly, because since I was given the mission of assuming the Rectorate of the UCA, I have lived in a privileged time and I have come to know much better the life and the cause of the Jesuit Martyrs and the University project they conceived and launched for the UCA. This has been a source of inspiration for my work as Rector, but also for my life as a Jesuit and Christian. Personally, I am very grateful to the Jesuit martyrs for their lives’ work, their thoughts and their understanding of the UCA. It has prompted me to seek to be more human, more Jesuit, and a better Christian.\u000b\u000bWe are here tonight to commemorate and celebrate the life of our martyrs, a full life, a life in the service of the Kingdom of God, a life in defense of truth, freedom, justice and peace. And it was precisely this life they lived that brought them to death. They were killed for how they lived, the way they thought, what they did, because they defended the poor from those powers that abused them, denying them their human dignity, condemning them to death. Because they wanted a Savior for all, with peace.  For this they raised their voice, and did their best to encourage people to raise their voices against war and for peace. They saw that most would favor the poor, the majority, and that that was the only way to bring an end to much suffering, so much barbarism, and to start a different life for the people they loved so much.\u000b\u000bToday's readings help us understand better that what inspired our colleagues was the love of God and neighbor. Who they were, what they did, and how they lived, has a clear and precise source, their faith in Jesus Christ and the Kingdom of God. The Life of Jesus, the Word of God, the Father's love, the life of the people, especially the poor, was forming them and was pushing them to where they ended up.\u000b\u000bThe first reading of the Book Jesus the Son of Sirach is somehow an icon of the Salvadoran reality, 25 years ago and now. The reading refers to a society in which the poor, the afflicted, the hungry, the oppressed, the orphans and their mothers, are unprotected, helpless, and their needs are a cry to society. And Jesus the son of Sirach calls, or rather commands, an imperative for the believer to take responsibility for them and serve their needs. Especially strong I think is the first sentence, \"do not pretend to be blind and deaf to those looking to you with pleading.” And we should personally examine whether we have become deaf and blind to the majority of our people living in exclusion. And we should consider as an institution, as a university, whether we are responding to the needs of our people, the 40% living in exclusion, victims of violence, young people who are as if lost, who do not know where to go and are pushed toward gangs. The martyrs of the UCA did not close their eyes or stop their ears to the reality of that time, made much harder by the pain and more difficult by the absence of freedom. 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