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SUMMARY:Vigils Reading - Weekday
DESCRIPTION:THE SPIRIT OF CHRIST\nFrom the Second Vatican Council’s declaration Nostra Aetate5 \nFor the Church of Christ acknowledges that\, according to the mystery of God’s saving design\, the beginnings of her faith and her election are already found among the patriarchs\, Moses\, and the prophets. She professes that all who believe in Christ\, Abraham’s sons according to faith are included in the same patriarch’s call\, and likewise that the salvation of the Church was mystically foreshadowed by the chosen people’s exodus from the land of bondage. \nThe Church\, therefore\, cannot forget that she received the revelation of the Old Testament through the people with whom in God’s inexpressible mercy deigned to establish the Ancient Covenant. Nor can she forget that she draws sustenance from the root of that good olive tree onto which have been grafted the wild olive branches of the Gentiles. Indeed\, the Church believes that by His cross Christ\, our Peace\, reconciled Jew and Gentile\, making them both one in Himself. \nAlso\, the Church ever keeps in mind the words of the Apostle about his kinsmen\, “who have the adoption as sons\, and the glory and the covenant and the legislation and the worship and the promises; who have the fathers\, and from whom is Christ according to the flesh”\, the son of the Virgin Mary. The Church recalls too that from the Jewish people sprang the apostles\, her foundation stones and pillars\, as well as most of the early disciples who proclaimed Christ to the world. \nAs holy Scripture testifies\, Jerusalem did not recognize the time of her visitation\, nor did the Jews in large number accept the gospel; indeed\, not a few opposed the spreading of it. Nevertheless\, according to the Apostle\, the Jews still remain most dear to God because of their fathers\, for He does not repent of the gifts He makes nor of the calls He issues. In company with the prophets and the same Apostle\, the Church awaits that day\, known to God alone\, on which all peoples will address the Lord in a single voice and “serve him with one accord”.\nSince the spiritual patrimony common to Christians and Jews is thus so great\, this sacred Synod wishes to foster and recommend that mutual understanding and respect which is the fruit above all of biblical and theological studies\, and of brotherly dialogues. \nTrue\, authorities of the Jews and those who followed their lead pressed for the death of Christ; still\, what happened in His passion cannot be blamed upon all the Jews then living\, without distinction\, nor upon the Jews of today. Although the Church is the new people of God\, the Jews should not be presented as repudiated or cursed by God\, as if such views followed from the Holy Scriptures. All should take pains\, then\, lest in catechetical instruction and in the preaching of God’s Word they teach anything out of harmony with the truth of the gospel and the spirit of Christ. \n5\nThe Documents of Vatican II\, Decree on Non-Christians. General Ed. Walter M. Abbott SJ\, Herder & Herder\, 1966\, pp. 664-666.
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