- Papa Benny has put his ermine tail firmly between his
satin-clad legs and made the Catholic Tridentine prayer for the conversion
of the "Jews" less likely to give offense to the eternally offended
ones. Here is the 1962 Good Friday Prayer of the Tridentine Latin rite:
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- "Let us pray also for the Jews: that almighty God
may remove the veil from their hearts; so that they too may acknowledge
Jesus Christ our Lord. Let us pray. Let us kneel. Arise. Almighty and eternal
God, who dost also not exclude from thy mercy the Jews: hear our prayers,
which we offer for the blindness of that people; that acknowledging the
light of thy Truth, which is Christ, they may be delivered from their
darkness. Through the same Lord Jesus Christ, who lives and reigns with
thee in the unity of the Holy Spirit, God, for ever and ever. Amen."
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- That prayer has now been suppressed. The new "traditional"
prayer substituted by Pope Benedict XVI reads as follows: "We pray
for the Jews. That our God and Lord enlighten their hearts so that they
recognize Jesus Christ, the Saviour of all mankind. Let us pray. Kneel
down. Arise. Eternal God Almighty, you want all people to be saved and
to arrive at the knowledge of the Truth, graciously grant that by that
the fullness of the Gentiles all Israel will be saved. Through Christ our
Lord."
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- Gone are references to "a veil on their hearts,"
their "blindness" and their "dwelling in darkness."
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- The irony is that the 1962 prayer is itself an emasculation
of the original Tridentine Good Friday Prayer which referred to unbelieving
"perfidious Jews." This prayer was suppressed by Pope John XXIII.
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- It used to be that Protestants like England's King Edward
VI and Queen Elizabeth I, and Communists in Poland and Hungary were the
ones who banned traditional Catholic prayers. Now it is the popes themselves
who perform this service on behalf of the Orwellian New World Order. All
this for "fear of the Jews." After Pentecost, Christians were
to no longer have that fear. Could it be that many of those who say they
are Christians are not, but are impostors? Is Benedict XVI an impostor
pope? Or just a Machiavellian-Kabbalist, Medici-style pontiff in the Leo
X mold?
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- I long for the day when there will be one prominent Christian
leader, Roman Catholic, Russian Orthodox, or Protestant, with a substantial
national following and a great deal to lose materially and career- wise,
who will publicly expose Judaism for what it is and follow through on that
exposure with decisive, definitive and consistent educational and evangelical
efforts along those lines.
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- I've been waiting for more than thirty-five years and
it hasn't happened yet.
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- Oh yes, I almost forgot. Because the eternally offended
ones have taken offense at even the newly revised prayer, Right wing fans
of Pope Benedict are defending him.
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- In addition to the eternally offended, we also have the
eternally imbecilic.
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- (Hoffman is the author of the forthcoming book, "Judaism
Discovered").
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