02-21-2019, 12:30 AM
(This post was last modified: 02-21-2019, 12:48 AM by Jude86.
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A lot of the questions you asked do get to the heart of something that's a bit difficult for me to discuss, and that's the issue of brotherhood between our two religions; because, to be honest (and maybe this is a case of Christian privilege) I had always considered us to be brothers and so it initially came as a bit of slap in the face to find out that we aren't really seen that way.
There are portions of the Mass during Paschal time (Easter time) that explicitly reference our belief in this connection. The prayer, made to G-d, in part reads:
"This is the night,
when once You led our forebears, Israel's children,
from slavery in Egypt
and made them pass dry-shod through the Red Sea."
The strength of the connection is very deeply embedded in Catholicism (and in my own self-identity) which is why I need the Jewish perspective on this.
There are portions of the Mass during Paschal time (Easter time) that explicitly reference our belief in this connection. The prayer, made to G-d, in part reads:
"This is the night,
when once You led our forebears, Israel's children,
from slavery in Egypt
and made them pass dry-shod through the Red Sea."
The strength of the connection is very deeply embedded in Catholicism (and in my own self-identity) which is why I need the Jewish perspective on this.