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When my PRIEST and my POPE tell me in no uncertain terms not to attend a Seder I will reconsider.
Until then.
Until then.
Says who?Have they said to go to a Muslim place? Need they? It is already considered imprudent to go to an SSPX Mass more than one time out of curiosity, so as not to encourage them (and I believe the same would be true of a non-Catholic rite plus moreso, as that is at least a Catholic liturgy not outlawed), but taking part in another’s rituals was already covered in the past. Not everything needs to be spelled out, but deduced from other authoritative documents. I can’t think of the particular title, but it is not ok to do so. The sedevacantists live out a time before Vatican 2 (some before Vatican 1). Will you participate in their liturgy and have communion? When you eat a ritual meal with those of another religion, it says you are in communion with them in beliefs.
I don’t think that’s very accurate… would you say the FSSP are living out a time before VII as well? There is room in the modern post-VII Church for the TLM. The problem with the sedevacantists is that they deny that there’s a Pope in Rome right now. Not their tradition, which is Catholic tradition, and always will be…The sedevacantists live out a time before Vatican 2 (some before Vatican 1).
I’m not sure, either.Huh?
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Okay, so I decided to return. Foolishmortal, did you even bother to read this post and compare it to your own words about Judaism?From the Catechism of the Catholic Church:
583 Like the prophets before him Jesus expressed the deepest respect for the Temple in Jerusalem. It was in the Temple that Joseph and Mary presented him forty days after his birth. 349 At the age of twelve he decided to remain in the Temple to remind his parents that he must be about his Father’s business. 350 He went there each year during his hidden life at least for Passover. 351 His public ministry itself was patterned by his pilgrimages to Jerusalem for the great Jewish feasts.
597 The historical complexity of Jesus’ trial is apparent in the Gospel accounts. The personal sin of the participants (Judas, the Sanhedrin, Pilate) is known to God alone. Hence we cannot lay responsibility for the trial on the Jews in Jerusalem as a whole, despite the outcry of a manipulated crowd and the global reproaches contained in the apostles’ calls to conversion after Pentecost. 385 Jesus himself, in forgiving them on the cross, and Peter in following suit, both accept “the ignorance” of the Jews of Jerusalem and even of their leaders. 386 Still less can we extend responsibility to other Jews of different times and places, based merely on the crowd’s cry: “His blood be on us and on our children!”, a formula for ratifying a judicial sentence. 387 As the Church declared at the Second Vatican Council: . . . neither all Jews indiscriminately at that time, nor Jews today, can be charged with the crimes committed during his Passion. . . the Jews should not be spoken of as rejected or accursed as if this followed from holy Scripture. 388
598 In her Magisterial teaching of the faith and in the witness of her saints, the Church has never forgotten that “sinners were the authors and the ministers of all the sufferings that the divine Redeemer endured.” 389 Taking into account the fact that our sins affect Christ himself, 390 the Church does not hesitate to impute to Christians the gravest responsibility for the torments inflicted upon Jesus, a responsibility with which they have all too often burdened the Jews alone:
We must regard as guilty all those who continue to relapse into their sins. Since our sins made the Lord Christ suffer the torment of the cross, those who plunge themselves into disorders and crimes crucify the Son of God anew in their hearts (for he is in them) and hold him up to contempt. And it can be seen that our crime in this case is greater in us than in the Jews. As for them, according to the witness of the Apostle, “None of the rulers of this age understood this; for if they had, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.” We, however, profess to know him. And when we deny him by our deeds, we in some way seem to lay violent hands on him. 391
Nor did demons crucify him; it is you who have crucified him and crucify him still, when you delight in your vices and sins. 392
781 “At all times and in every race, anyone who fears God and does what is right has been acceptable to him. He has, however, willed to make men holy and save them, not as individuals without any bond or link between them, but rather to make them into a people who might acknowledge him and serve him in holiness. He therefore chose the Israelite race to be his own people and established a covenant with it. He gradually instructed this people… All these things, however, happened as a preparation for and figure of that new and perfect covenant which was to be ratified in Christ . . . the New Covenant in his blood; he called together a race made up of Jews and Gentiles which would be one, not according to the flesh, but in the Spirit.” 201
839 “Those who have not yet received the Gospel are related to the People of God in various ways.” 325
The relationship of the Church with the Jewish People. When she delves into her own mystery, the Church, the People of God in the New Covenant, discovers her link with the Jewish People, 326 “the first to hear the Word of God.” 327 The Jewish faith, unlike other non-Christian religions, is already a response to God’s revelation in the Old Covenant. To the Jews “belong the sonship, the glory, the covenants, the giving of the law, the worship, and the promises; to them belong the patriarchs, and of their race, according to the flesh, is the Christ”, 328 “for the gifts and the call of God are irrevocable.” 329
1096 Jewish liturgy and Christian liturgy. A better knowledge of the Jewish people’s faith and religious life as professed and lived even now can help our better understanding of certain aspects of Christian liturgy. For both Jews and Christians Sacred Scripture is an essential part of their respective liturgies: in the proclamation of the Word of God, the response to this word, prayer of praise and intercession for the living and the dead, invocation of God’s mercy. In its characteristic structure the Liturgy of the Word originates in Jewish prayer. The Liturgy of the Hours and other liturgical texts and formularies, as well as those of our most venerable prayers, including the Lord’s Prayer, have parallels in Jewish prayer. The Eucharistic Prayers also draw their inspiration from the Jewish tradition. The relationship between Jewish liturgy and Christian liturgy, but also their differences in content, are particularly evident in the great feasts of the liturgical year, such as Passover. Christians and Jews both celebrate the Passover. For Jews, it is the Passover of history, tending toward the future; for Christians, it is the Passover fulfilled in the death and Resurrection of Christ, though always in expectation of its definitive consummation.
1334 In the Old Covenant bread and wine were offered in sacrifice among the first fruits of the earth as a sign of grateful acknowledgment to the Creator. But they also received a new significance in the context of the Exodus: the unleavened bread that Israel eats every year at Passover commemorates the haste of the departure that liberated them from Egypt; the remembrance of the manna in the desert will always recall to Israel that it lives by the bread of the Word of God; 156 their daily bread is the fruit of the promised land, the pledge of God’s faithfulness to his promises.
The “cup of blessing” 157 at the end of the Jewish Passover meal adds to the festive joy of wine an eschatological dimension: the messianic expectation of the rebuilding of Jerusalem. When Jesus instituted the Eucharist, he gave a new and definitive meaning to the blessing of the bread and the cup.
Our Church does not villify the Jews in the Catechism. Neither do I.
It was humorous satire which spewed out spontaneously and irresistibly after being referred to by the poster as “Jewish guy”.I hope you’re right - I’d hate to think there are folks who can find such stuff even vaguely amusing.
Thanks for providing me with another way of looking at the comment.
Is it really necessary to be so judgmental based on your own assumptions about our faith? Who here has ever said they preferred a seder meal over a Latin Mass? And if it hasn’t been stated enough times, Jesus, who was Himself a Jew, did not ignore the significance of the Passover as you seem to want us to. Would it be a sin to read Leviticus and fill our minds with obsolete Jewish laws and “spiritual darkness”?I think it’s sad that so many would more likely go to a seder meal than to a latin Mass or even one done in Aramaic in a time when so many don’t really know their Catholic Faith and the extremely instructive imagery, music, liturgy and architecture of our Catholic patrimony (that given us by the holy people of the priesthood God gave us), which has been dropped for community center worship buildings where too many people wear people wear play clothes to Sunday Mass and some leave early. We’ll never know enough about it and have it soak in in our lifetime and so let’s focus on learning or relearning and living our faith to the fullest first and save the Jewish Passover for movies and Scott Hahn tapes.
I was deriving my assumptions from a learned priest. One whose community takes The Faith seriously and is not as permissive as the mainstream one, though they are united to the mainstream Church as not being in schism. They're superior even checks up on them occasionally to make sure they're doing their job and The Mass and liturgies right. Thus, I tend to adhere to their analysis. However, the Dominican did not seem to be a traditionalist, and he said the same things, without the mortal sin part.
Jesus came to fulfill the law. He replaced the law. If Leviticus's bans on damnable lewd acts is old news, then what is all the fuss from conservative bishops about fornication? It did not change. Some things, like polygamy, did. If the New Testament and the Magisterium has said nothing different, the laws remain, though you can do works of mercy on the Sabbath or talk in a soft voice during Mass for very important reasons like, "Excuse me" and "Is anyone sitting there" or "that is liturgical abuse".