In contrast to the violent passages in the Quoran and in response to the Old Testament’s dictates to stone sinners…
The Jews were spiritual children just like those of ancient times. But through the ages, the Jewish people grew in faith and practice. Today the Jews are among the most highly educated people in the world and have a history of providing great contributions to humanity.
But it is through the fulfillment of Christ that Judaism is fulfilled as it is Christ, the Incarnate Word, that draws all of creation up to Himself…this said at His Crucifixion.
When you wish to discuss ‘Corpus of Church Traditions’, likewise there is an indirect reference to that which comprises ‘He Ekklesia Katolika’ the name St. Ignatius of Antioch so named the Church in 107 AD…the Universal Church, comprised of the apostolic patriarchs of Jerusalem, Alexandria, Antioch, Rome, and Constantinople.
It is the Living Corpus of Jesus Christ, His Body, Blood, Soul, and Divinity Who is the life source of the Corpus of His Bride, the Church.
If you wish to reflect more on the Corpus of Church Traditions, regarding the homily given
on Good Friday at the Vatican by Fr Cantalamessa…it was about the lanced that pierced Christ’s body after He died…where blood and water came out. This homily only given yesteday.
Jesus said He would rebuild the temple in 3 days…and we know this is His Resurrection, that Jesus IS the Corpus of the Church. John 2:19-21, this blood and water gushing from this ‘dead temple’.
Jesus is the fulfillment of the Bible.
Excerpts from the Homily:
'In the OT, Ezekiel speaks of a future temple of God, with water flowing from its side that was at first a stream and then a navigable river, and every form of life flourished around it, Ez 47:1.
John speaks deeper into the source of the ‘rivers of living water’ John 7:38 coming from the pierced heart of Christ…we see the symbol as well of the sacrificial Lamb standing though slain Rev 5:6, pierced but resurrected and alive.
There exists now, within the Trinity and in the world, a human heart that beats not just metaphorically but physically…his heart likewise raised from the dead…After the sacrifice of Christ, more intense that the heart of darkness…a heart of light beats in the world. Christ, in fact, ascending into heaven, did not abandon the earth, just as He did not abandon the Trinity in becoming incarnate.
Christ’s death on the Cross…'What does the cross represent in being this fixed point, this mainmast in the undulation of the world? It is the definitive and irreversible “no” of God to violence, injustice, hate, lies - to all that we call “evil”, and at the same time the irreversible “yes” to love, truth, and goodness. “No” to sin, “Yes” to the sinner. It is what Jesus practiced all his life and that He now definitively consecrates with His death.
The Cross, then does not “stand” against the world but for the world: to give meaning to all the suffering that has been, that is, and that will be in human history. Jesus says to Nicodemus, “God sent the Son into the world, not to condemn the world, but that the world might be saved through him”. John 3:17. The Cross is the living proclamation that the final victory does not belong to the one who triumphs over others but to the one who triumphs over self; not to the one who causes suffering but to the one who is suffering.’
I strongly urge you to read this beautiful homily given yesterday “O CRUX, AVE SPES UNICA”…
The Holy Trinity is the Living God Who remains with us…one can destroy churches and take the lives of Christians…but all these acts only bring about many conversions and rebirth of the Church.
All the authentic teachings of countless Christians down through time all affirm the one same Lord.
You cannot kill the corpus of our faith because the Corpus is Christ and you cannot kill God.