Although the Christian Easter was born out of the Jewish Passover, the two holidays have very little in common. How did we get from the Temple sacrifice to rabbits and chocolate?
A fiesta celebration will be held on Wednesday, Nov. 23, at the Diocesan Shrine and Parish of Saint Clement in Angono, Rizal, in solemn commemoration of the Feast of Saint Clement (San Clemente), the patron saint of fishermen.
San Clemente (Catholic Online)
Feast masses will be celebrated at t
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To understand the relationship between Christians and Jews, it is crucial to survey some of the Church Fathers to understand how their early exegetical deviation paved the way for modern anti-Semitism. As many of them performed allegorical interpretations of God’s word, the early Church Fathers developed a warped view of Israel and the Jews. They had a distorted understanding of biblical Judaism. The perceived monstrosity of the children of Israel was their main concern. As they saw it, Israel had been a continual disappointment to God who had done so much for them. They needed to separate the “evil” from the “righteous,” or the “sinful” from the “holy,” so they sta