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4 Responses to “ Daily Breakfast 461: Passion ”

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   Joe Mar 21st, 2008 at 12:03 pm

   Question: If the Jews are still considered as the chosen people ( that has never been recinded) why would they care what the Catholics think and how we pray ? I know peace is the answer and the key to God’s love, but the Trinitine prayers for Good Friday are how old ?

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   Naomi Mar 21st, 2008 at 2:09 pm

   Father, and everybody,

   There is a great discussion about this between a rabbi and a bishop here: http://chiesa.espresso.repubblica.it/articolo/193041?eng=y

   The rabbi is Rabbi Neusner, of whom Pope Benedict spoke so highly in his book, Jesus of Nazareth. I hope this is helpful. (I don’t want to send such a long link via voice mail!)

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   nancy Mar 21st, 2008 at 2:23 pm

   @Naomi - thanks for the link. It seems to me that, even toned differently as the new prayers are, it would be the equivalent to if a formal Jewish prayer were, “and may Adonai help the catholics to be enlightened, and give up their erroneous insistence that Jesus is the Messiah. Help them, like us, to await the true messiah” I don’t know how well I’d respond to that.

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   sam Mar 22nd, 2008 at 9:00 am

   Dear Father Roderick,
   I’m really glad SQPN exists, because I find these kinds of new media productions really helpful in deepening our Catholic faith. So, thank you and everyone else who is involved!
   Anyway, I wanted to ask something that might sound silly but I’ve been wondering about. I know many people enjoy watching The Simpsons (myself included), but I can’t help but think that it can be a little offensive sometimes. I actually find this true of many sitcoms, other TV shows, movies, music, etc. This frustrates me because sometimes I really just want to sit back and have a good laugh, yet I feel like it might be (morally) wrong, or at least on the “wronger” side. Is there any way of choosing what is all right to watch or do you have any other advice? (And is The Simpsons/The Simpsons Movie actually ok to watch?) I know this all probably sounds silly, but thank you so much for your time!

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