While Romero would say love with the heart of Christ, stay close to the sacraments, etc., in my opinion, he would also caution against burying our heads in the sand.  In his words, "The church must propose an education that makes people agents of their own development, protagonists of history, not a passive, compliant mass, but human beings able to display their intelligence, their creativity, their desire for the common service." The Church's mission is "to uproot sins from history, to uproot sins from the political order, to uproot sins from the economy, to uproot sins wherever they are. What a hard task!"  (Romero, Jan. 15 and 22, 1978 sermons.)  To do this requires awareness of the present and the past: "the gospel demands of today’s Christian more commitment to history." (Jul. 16, 1977.)