The reform is a way of assuring that the Order of Malta is better prepared to fulfill its charitable and humanitarian duties in the modern age without straying from the mission entrusted to it since their founding in Jerusalem in 1048.
In a statement, the Archbishop Oscar Romero U.S. Centennial Commission said it invites churches "to honor Blessed Romero by including a petition or other remembrance during Assumption Day Masses."
Year after year, the slain priest’s childhood church celebrates a special anniversary Mass remembering the sacrifice Rev. Stanley Francis Rother made to serve Mayan descendants in a poor, mountain village 50 miles west of Guatemala City.