Does the Catholic Church celebrate the various feasts of the OT

[dje101]

I was wondering if the Catholic Church, seeming to be a natural extension of Judaism, still celebrates the special occasions that God laid out in the OT for the Jews to celebrate, like Jubilee.

Thanks,

dje101

 

[Barbkw]

Yom Kippur, their Holy Day of Atonement - is our Sacrament of Reconciliation.

Passover is our Triduum - Holy Thursday, Good Friday, Easter.

Pentecost - Pentecost Sunday

Festival of Lights Hannukah - ? (anything similar might be the Purification of the Blessed Virgin (Greek Hypapante), Feast of the Presentation of Christ in the Temple on February 2

Eight day Circumcision - Sacrament of Baptism

Feast of Tabernacles - Shavuot - Incorporated into the Mass - Tabernacle holds the Body of Christ.

Presentation of the Show Bread - Exodus 25:30 “And you shall set the Bread of the Presence on the table before me regularly.” - Sacrament of the Eucharist

 

[Barbkw]

Interesting:

The Four Species (Hebrew: ארבעת המינים‎, Arba’at Ha-Minim, also called Arba Minim) are mentioned in the Torah as being relevant to Sukkot (Feast of Booths, Feast of Tabernacles).

This is similar to our celebration on Palm Sunday.

 

[Sirach2]

Those feasts were Old Testament foreshadowings, and Jesus fulfilled them in a more perfect way. Jews should have been able to make the spiritual transition and understand them, but there was a blindness and hardness of heart in many of them that prevented them from making the leap. Isaiah prophesied about this. (Is. 6:9, Mk. 4:12)

 

[RM_ArceJaeger]

Jesus says that He is the fulfillment of the law of the Old Testament, so for the most part the Catholic Church does not celebrate or adhere to the OT laws, because it considers them to have been fulfilled by Jesus.