Did Peter practice the Jewish passover?

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I heard that the Catholics allow hebrews to still celebrate all the Jewish holidays and feasts of the Jews.

Aren’t they still apart of the Catholic church even though they have some different practices.
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Messianic Jews are a protestant denomination.

Jewish Converts to the Catholic Church, and in fact all Catholics are allowed to participate in the traditions of Judaism if they so choose. It is not a requirement or something that separates us.
 
tacdon said:
I heard that the Catholics allow hebrews to still celebrate all the Jewish holidays and feasts of the Jews.

Aren’t they still apart of the Catholic church even though they have some different practices.
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Jews who convert to Catholicism are Hebrew Catholics. They are Catholic and Jewish, they are free to practice Jewish rituals alongside Catholicism.

Yes they are still a part of the Catholic Church. Catholicism is the fulfilment of the Jewish faith.

I’ll try to clarify further.

If a Muslim converted to Catholicism they would not be free to practice Muslim rites.
If a pagan converted to Catholicism they would not be free to practice pagan rituals.
If a Hindu converted to Catholicism they would not be free to practice Hindu rituals.

The above examples are a form of syncretism.

Jews have a special place in Catholicism as the elder brother in the faith, that is why the CC has officially stated that Jewish converts can continue their Jewish rituals and Catholics are forbidden from prosletysing Jews.
 
From the LOTH office of readings

www.divineoffice.org

Second Reading
From a treatise by Saint Gaudentius of Brescia, bishop

The eucharist is the Lord’s passover

One man has died for all, and now in every church in the mystery of bread and wine he heals those for whom he is offered in sacrifice, giving life to those who believe and holiness to those who consecrate the offering. This is the flesh of the Lamb; this is his blood. The bread that came down from heaven declared: The bread that I will give is my flesh for the life of the world. It is significant, too, that his blood should be given to us in the form of wine, for his own words in the gospel, I am the true vine, imply clearly enough that whenever wine is offered as a representation of Christ’s passion, it is offered as his blood. This means that it was of Christ that the blessed patriarch Jacob prophesied when he said: He will wash his tunic in wine and his cloak in the blood of the grape. The tunic was our flesh, which Christ was to put on like a garment and which he was to wash in his own blood.

Creator and Lord of all things, whatever their nature, he brought forth bread from the earth and changed it into his own body. Not only had he the power to do this, but he had promised it; and, as he had changed water into wine, he also changed wine into his own blood. It is the Lord’s passover, Scripture tells us, that is, the Lord’s passing. We are no longer to look upon the bread and wine as earthly substances. They have become heavenly, because Christ has passed into them and changed them into his body and blood. What you receive is the body of him who is the heavenly bread, and the blood of him who is the sacred vine; for when he offered his disciples the consecrated bread and wine, he said: This is my body, this is my blood. We have put our trust in him. I urge you to have faith in him; truth can never deceive.

When Christ told the crowds that they must eat his flesh and drink his blood, they were horrified and began to murmur among themselves: This teaching is too hard; who can be expected to listen to it? As I have already told you, thoughts such as these must be banished. The Lord himself used heavenly fire to drive them away by going on to declare: It is the spirit that gives life; the flesh is of no avail. The words that I have spoken to you are spirit and life.

St. Rita, pray for us.

Peace
 
JUSTIN MARTYR

[A.D. 110–165.] JUSTIN was a Gentile, but born in Samaria, near Jacob’s well.

…And this food is called among us Εὐχαριστία [the Eucharist], of which no one is allowed to partake but the man who believes that the things which we teach are true, and who has been washed with the washing that is for the remission of sins, and unto regeneration, and who is so living as Christ has enjoined. For not as common bread and common drink do we receive these; but in like manner as Jesus Christ our Saviour, having been made flesh by the Word of God, had both flesh and blood for our salvation, so likewise have we been taught that the food which is blessed by the prayer of His word, and from which our blood and flesh by transmutation are nourished, is the flesh and blood of that Jesus who was made flesh. For the apostles, in the memoirs composed by them, which are called Gospels, have thus delivered unto us what was enjoined upon them; that Jesus took bread, and when He had given thanks, said, “This do ye in remembrance of Me, this is My
body;” and that, after the same manner, having taken the cup and given thanks, He said, “This is My blood;” and gave it to them alone. Which the wicked devils have imitated in the mysteries of Mithras, commanding the same thing to be done. For, that bread and a cup of water are placed with certain incantations in the mystic rites of one who is being initiated, you either know or can learn.

Chapter LXVII.—Weekly worship of the Christians.
And we afterwards continually remind each other of these things. And the wealthy among us help the needy; and we always keep together; and for all things wherewith we are supplied, we bless the Maker of all through His Son Jesus Christ, and through the Holy Ghost. And on the day called Sunday, all who live in cities or in the country gather together to one place, and the memoirs of the apostles or the writings of the prophets are read, as long as time permits; then, when the reader has ceased, the president verbally instructs, and exhorts to the imitation of these good things. Then we all rise together and pray, and, as we before said, when our prayer is ended, bread and wine and water are brought, and the president in like manner offers prayers and thanksgivings, according to his ability, and the people assent, saying Amen; and there is a distribution to each,
and a participation of that over which thanks have been given, and to those who are absent a portion is sent by the deacons. And they who are well to do, and willing, give what each thinks fit; and what is collected is deposited with the president, who succours the orphans and widows and those who, through sickness or any other cause, are in want, and those who are in bonds and the strangers sojourning among us, and in a word takes care of all who are in need. But Sunday is the day on which we all hold our common assembly, because it is the first day on which God, having wrought a change in the darkness and matter, made the world; and Jesus Christ our Saviour on the same day rose from the dead. For He was crucified on the day before that of Saturn (Saturday); and on the day after that of Saturn, which is the day of the Sun, having appeared to His apostles and disciples, He taught them these things, which we have submitted to you also for your
consideration.

Peace
 
tacdon said:
I heard that the Catholics allow hebrews to still celebrate all the Jewish holidays and feasts of the Jews.

Aren’t they still apart of the Catholic church even though they have some different practices.
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Why do you care what the Catholic Church permits our Jewish brothers and sisters to practice should they come into the fullness of truth? What is it that you are trying to prove or figure out?
 
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