‘WE CATHOLICS ARE THE CHOSEN PEOPLE OF GOD. WE ARE THE PEOPLE OF THE NEW COVENANT’

Yesterday (26.12.2010) at a late evening Sunday Mass there was a prayer intention for the people of Israel, that they may know Jesus as the Messiah.

However in the actual prayer there seemed confusion. Since, the priest referred to the people in Israel as the “popolo eletto” (Chosen People of God, the Elect)). He referred to them as the people of the New Covenant (Nuovo Alleanza).

Was he referring to the New Israel, the New Jerusalem? Since the present people of Israel are not ‘the chosen people ‘of God. Neither are they the people of the New Covenant. They reject the Messiah.

Judaism presently does not have the Temple, nor the Ark of the Covenant, nor the Sacrifice within the Temple, nor the Promised Jewish Messiah. All they have is a remembrance.

It is those who follow Jesus who made a New Covenant with his Blood, who are the Chosen People of God. They are the Elect, the people of the New Covenant. They are the Chosen People in the only Church Jesus found. It is to this church that the Bible refers often. Jesus called this church, “my church”.

The Jews were the Chosen People, the people of the New Testatment, and God made covenants with Abraham,Moses and the other Jewish prophets which was fulfilled in Jesus Christ.

Those who remain in this Church with Catholic Faith and the baptism of water and who live the Gospel are the Elect, the new Chosen People of God, the continuation of the Jewish religion, the people of New Covenant.

It’s the Catholic Church which has the Sacrifice at Mass.It replaces the old Temple.

The Ark of the Covenant is the Presence of God in His Body, Blood and Divinity in the Eucharist.

And all of this was created by the Promised Jewish Messiah for whom Israel was waiting and for whom the non Messianic Jews are still waiting.
Until all the Jews today, Messianic and non Messianic,convert into the Catholic Church they face eternal death.(Cantate Domino,Council of Florence,1441, Ex Cathedra, on extra eclesiam nulla salus, Pope Pius XII's Letter of the Holy Office 1949, which referred to the 'infallible' dogma,Vatican Council II (Ad Gentes 7), Pope Paul VI's Evangelii  Nuntiandi (1975),Catechism of the Catholic Church 845,846,Dominus Iesus 20,Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, Vatican Notification on Fr.Jacques Dupuis S.J 2001,Pope John Paul II Ecclesia di Eucarestia (2003) etc) 

After the Mass I briefly spoke to the priest who delivered  the homily to clarify what he said in the Prayer Intention.

I asked, “Noi siamo il popolo eletto?” (We are the Chosen People of God, the Elect ?) ”

He replied "Si".(Yes).

The new Covenant was made by Jesus? I asked.

He answered "Yes".
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