Bishops of England and Wales seek change in Good Friday prayer for Jews in Extraordinary Form [CC]

[Catholic_Press]

The Catholic bishops of England and Wales have issued a public request that the Vatican change the prayer for the Jews said on Good Friday in the Extraordinary Form liturgy. The prayer, …

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[dmar198]

Catholic Press:

The prayer, composed by Pope Benedict XVI in 2008, asks God to illumine the hearts of the Jewish people “that they acknowledge Jesus Christ as the Savior of all men.” … The bishops of England and Wales said that the prayer should be revised to reflect the understanding of relations between Catholics and Jews that is set forth in the Vatican II document Nostra Aetate.

This comment appears to suggest that someone thinks Pope Benedict XVI’s text does not reflect Nostra Aetate. Am I misunderstanding something?

 

[JurisPrudens]

The Catholic bishops of England and Wales have issued a public request that the Vatican change the prayer for the Jews said on Good Friday in the Extraordinary Form liturgy. The prayer, …

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It seems like these bishops have nothing else to do. And that - in a society of decreasing amounts of faithful!

 

[ComplineSanFran]

The Catholic bishops of England and Wales have issued a public request that the Vatican change the prayer for the Jews said on Good Friday in the Extraordinary Form liturgy. The prayer, …

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Thank God. It should have been done 50 years ago, with the release of Nostra Aetate.

 

[ProVobis]

Thank God. It should have been done 50 years ago, with the release of Nostra Aetate.

You’re right. Instead they managed to suppress the Missal of 62 altogether, until St. John Paul II restored it.

 

[Genesis315]

Can someone show me what passage in Nostra Aetate contradicts the prayer?

 

[ComplineSanFran]

Can someone show me what passage in Nostra Aetate contradicts the prayer?

You can read the text quite easily. It is very short.

vatican.va/archive/hist_councils/ii_vatican_council/documents/vat-ii_decl_19651028_nostra-aetate_en.html

 

[dmar198]

This comment appears to suggest that someone thinks Pope Benedict XVI’s text does not reflect Nostra Aetate. Am I misunderstanding something?

Is the thinking here something like this:

“This ecclesiastical document from 2008 is too outdated. This other ecclesiastical document from 1965 is much more up to date. Let’s update the old 2008 one to better reflect the new 1965 one!”

 

[Genesis315]

You can read the text quite easily. It is very short.

vatican.va/archive/hist_councils/ii_vatican_council/documents/vat-ii_decl_19651028_nostra-aetate_en.html

I know and I am not seeing anything that would require a change to the prayer That’s why I’m asking what is being said to contradict it.