Wednesday, 19 September 2007

• Question 1 - The USCCB's Letter on Summorum Pontificum

  Question 1 - The USCCB's Letter on Summorum Pontificum

  Email sent by Media Technician, Laurence Gonzaga

  The USCCB's Letter on Summorum Pontificum

  http://www.usccb.org/liturgy/bclnewsletterjune07.pdf

  14. Does the wider use of the extraordinary form of the rites of Holy Week reflect a change in the Church’s teaching on anti-Semitism ?

  No. The 1962 Missale Romanum already reflected Blessed John XXIII’s revision of liturgical language often construed as anti-Semitic. In 1965, the watershed statement Nostra Aetate, of the Second Vatican Council then repudiated all forms of anti-Semitism as having no place within Christian life. When Pope Paul VI issued the Missale Romanum of 1969, the only prayer for the Jewish people in the Roman liturgy was completely revised for Good Friday to reflect a renewed understanding of the Jews as God’s chosen people, “first to hear the word of God.”

   

  R. Sungenis: Notice that "God's chosen people" is defined as those "first to hear the word of God," which applies to Jews of the Old Covenant, not today.

  Also, he does not say "the Jews ARE God's chosen people." By using the particle "as," the reference is completely to the past.

  Robert

   

  Second E-Mail:

  In response to what you said, considering what the USCCB wrote in their Catechism, wouldn't you say this can be interpreted as the USCCB still considering the Jews as God's chosen people. The USCCB document is very good actually, [which is interesting] considering one of the advisors was Roger Cardinal Mahoney. 

  -Laurence

   

  Yes, as far as the USCCB is concerned, they would interpret it as the Jews being God's chosen people, at least the leaders in DC, not all the bishops themselves.

  Robert

   

   

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