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SUMMARY:Vigils Reading
DESCRIPTION:CHRIST RECONCILED \nJEW AND GENTILE \nFrom the Second Vatican Council’s declaration “Nostra Aetate” \n◊◊◊ \nFor the Church of Christ acknowledges that\, according to the mystery of \nGod’s saving design\, the beginnings of her faith and her election are already \nfound among the patriarchs\, Moses\, and the prophets. She professes that all \nwho believe in Christ\, Abraham’s sons according to faith are included in the \nsame patriarch’s call\, and likewise that the salvation of the Church was \nmystically foreshadowed by the chosen people’s exodus from the land of \nbondage. \nThe Church\, therefore\, cannot forget that she received the revelation of \nthe Old Testament through the people with whom in God’s inexpressible mercy \ndeigned to establish the Ancient Covenant. Nor can she forget that she draws \nsustenance from the root of that good olive tree onto which have been grafted \nthe wild olive branches of the Gentiles. Indeed\, the Church believes that by His \ncross Christ\, our Peace\, reconciled Jew and Gentile\, making them both one in \nHimself. \nAlso\, the Church ever keeps in mind the words of the Apostle about his \nkinsmen\, “who have the adoption as sons\, and the glory and the covenant and \nthe legislation and the worship and the promises; who have the fathers\, and \nfrom whom is Christ according to the flesh”\, the son of the Virgin Mary. The \nChurch recalls too that from the Jewish people sprang the apostles\, her \nfoundation stones and pillars\, as well as most of the early disciples who \nproclaimed Christ to the world. \nAs holy Scripture testifies\, Jerusalem did not recognize the time of her \nvisitation\, nor did the Jews in large number accept the gospel; indeed\, not a few \nopposed the spreading of it. Nevertheless\, according to the Apostle\, the Jews \nstill remain most dear to God because of their fathers\, for He does not repent of \nthe gifts He makes nor of the calls He issues. In company with the prophets and \nthe same Apostle\, the Church awaits that day\, known to God alone\, on which all \npeoples 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 \ngreat\, this sacred Synod wishes to foster and recommend that mutual \nunderstanding and respect which is the fruit above all of biblical and theological \nstudies\, and of brotherly dialogues. \nTrue\, authorities of the Jews and those who followed their lead pressed \nfor the death of Christ; still\, what happened in His passion cannot be blamed \nupon all the Jews then living\, without distinction\, nor upon the Jews of today. \nAlthough the Church is the new people of God\, the Jews should not be presented \nas repudiated or cursed by God\, as if such views followed from the Holy \nScriptures. All should take pains\, then\, lest in catechetical instruction and in the \npreaching of God’s Word they teach anything out of harmony with the truth of \nthe gospel and the spirit of Christ.
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