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The Good Friday Prayer for the Jews

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Lest we forget that the Jews, as well as all men, must come to Jesus Christ in order to be saved, we should recall the traditional prayer of Holy Mother Church for their conversion. The following is taken from the St. Joseph Daily Missal (1950, Cardinal Spellman).

Let us pray also for the unfaithful Jews, that our God and Lord would remove the veil from their hearts; that they also may acknowledge our Lord Jesus Christ.

[The genuflection is omitted, and the Celebrant continues:]

Almighty and everlasting God, Who drivest not even the faithless Jews away from Thy mercy, 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 rescued from their darkness. Through the same Lord, etc.

But why is the genuflection omitted? Because of the Jews' mockery of Our Lord, recounted in the Passion we heard on Palm Sunday:

And platting a crown of thorns, they put it upon His head, and a reed in His right hand. And bowing the knee before Him, they mocked Him, saying: Hail, king of the Jews. (Matt. 27: 29)

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Archbishop Dolan is the perfect Church beauracrat, never upset anybody! The Jews as well as everybody else must be converted and enter the Ark of Salvation (THE CATHOLIC CHURCH) outside of which there is NO SALVATION.

"...and a reed in His right hand. And bowing the knee before Him, they mocked Him, saying: Hail, king of the Jews."

The reed was given to Our Lord by the Jews because in the scale of Judaic herbology the reed is the lowest and most humble of plants.
Reflecting the,


absolute hatred of the Pharisee's towards God.

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