#26
Posted: 7/8/07 at 2:05pm
For centuries, the Tridentine Mass dehumanized Jews and, in doing so, encouraged violence toward them, whether the beating of Christ-killers or large-scale inquisitions, burnings, hangings, deportations, banishments, forced conversions or ghettoization. (I.e., if an entire people is sub-human, no individual of that people deserves the slightest human consideration.)
These are the words in the Tridentine Mass that encourage hatred (my emphasis):
"Let us pray also for the faithless Jews: that our God and Lord may remove the veil from their hearts; that they also may acknowledge Our Lord Jesus Christ. Let us pray. Almighty and Eternal God, Who dost not exclude from Thy mercy even the faithless Jews: hear our prayers, which we offer for the blindness of that people; that acknowledging the light of Thy Truth, which is Christ, they may be delivered from their darkness."
The word "faithless" was from the Latin perfidis and was sometimes translated as "perfidious Jews"--which was even worse.
I am neither perfidious, faithless, blind or in my own darkness. Nor does my heart have a veil over it, thank you very much.
In 1960, Pope John XXIII removed the word "faithless."
In 1965, the prayer was changed to:
"Let us also pray that our God and Lord will look kindly on the Jews, so that they too may acknowledge the Redeemer of all, Jesus Christ our Lord.... Almighty and eternal God, you made the promises to Abraham and his descendants. In your goodness hear the prayers of your Church so that the people whom from of old you made your own may come to the fullness of redemption."
In 1970 it became:
"Let us pray for the Jewish people, the first to hear the word of God, that they may continue to grow in the love of his name and in faithfulness to his covenant. Almighty and eternal God, long ago you gave your promise to Abraham and his posterity. Listen to your Church as we pray that the people you first made your own may arrive at the fullness of redemption. We ask this through Christ our Lord. Amen."
Now this pope wants to go back to dehumanizing me.
These are the words in the Tridentine Mass that encourage hatred (my emphasis):
"Let us pray also for the faithless Jews: that our God and Lord may remove the veil from their hearts; that they also may acknowledge Our Lord Jesus Christ. Let us pray. Almighty and Eternal God, Who dost not exclude from Thy mercy even the faithless Jews: hear our prayers, which we offer for the blindness of that people; that acknowledging the light of Thy Truth, which is Christ, they may be delivered from their darkness."
The word "faithless" was from the Latin perfidis and was sometimes translated as "perfidious Jews"--which was even worse.
I am neither perfidious, faithless, blind or in my own darkness. Nor does my heart have a veil over it, thank you very much.
In 1960, Pope John XXIII removed the word "faithless."
In 1965, the prayer was changed to:
"Let us also pray that our God and Lord will look kindly on the Jews, so that they too may acknowledge the Redeemer of all, Jesus Christ our Lord.... Almighty and eternal God, you made the promises to Abraham and his descendants. In your goodness hear the prayers of your Church so that the people whom from of old you made your own may come to the fullness of redemption."
In 1970 it became:
"Let us pray for the Jewish people, the first to hear the word of God, that they may continue to grow in the love of his name and in faithfulness to his covenant. Almighty and eternal God, long ago you gave your promise to Abraham and his posterity. Listen to your Church as we pray that the people you first made your own may arrive at the fullness of redemption. We ask this through Christ our Lord. Amen."
Now this pope wants to go back to dehumanizing me.
Updated On: 7/8/07 at 02:05 PM
