Wednesday, July 12, 2023

Vatican Two,. Lies our fathers taught us.

 https://akacatholic.com/nostra-aetate-and-ephesians-2/


https://akacatholic.com/all-israel/


From an upcoming post


...Benedict XVI’s new prayer for use with the old (1962) Missal reads as follows: 

Let us pray also for the Jews: 

That God and our Lord may enlighten their hearts, so that they may recognize Jesus Christ as the savior of all men. 

Almighty and eternal God, whose will it is that all may be saved and come to the knowledge of the truth, graciously grant that, as the fullness of the nations enters your Church, all Israel may be saved. Through Christ our Lord. Amen. 

Some commentators were quick to stress that the last part of the prayer is a reference to Romans 11: 25-26, wherein St. Paul speaks of a “mystery” by which “a hardening has come upon Israel in part, until the full number of the Gentiles comes in, and thus all Israel will be saved”. One widespread interpretation of this text is that the apostle is prophesying a mass conversion of virtually the entire Jewish people to Christianity in the apocalyptic ‘end-times’ leading up to the parousia – the Second Coming of Christ. And some have argued, on this basis, that the prayer is not encouraging any organized Christian attempts to evangelize Jews here and now. One would have to add, however, that neither does it discourage the present-day evangelization of Jews. The ablative absolute construction ending with the word intrante is in the present, not the future perfect, tense, and so expresses a desire on the part of the Church that while the gentile nations are entering the Church Jews too may be converted. This reading of the prayer is reinforced when we note that its preceding clause is an equally unmistakable reference to another Pauline text, I Timothy 2: 3-4: “This is good and pleasing to God our savior, who wills everyone to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth”. And God surely desires everyone on earth at any given time to “come to the knowledge of the truth”. (How could he who is truth itself prefer that a whole ethnic and/or religious group – or even individual men and women – remain in lifelong error or ignorance about his revealed plan of salvation?) ...

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