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Jesus: The Faithful Jew - Discovering the Life and Teachings of Jesus in Holy Week

Join us for an Adult Faith Formation evening as we explore the life and teachings of Jesus during Holy Week. We will examine Jesus as a faithful Jew and learn about his lineage, his Jewish upbringing, and the significance of his actions during this important time. Take this opportunity to deepen your understanding of Jesus and his message as we approach the cross.

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Jesus: The Faithful Jew - Discovering the Life and Teachings of Jesus in Holy Week

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  1. Compiled by Audrey Doetzel, NDS for an Adult Faith Formation evening at St. Thomas More Parish, Kansas City, MO in preparation for Holy Week, 2015 (With manual animation)

  2. Loving God, as we walk through Holy Week toward the cross, may we learn who you are. May we remember your presence and your message as expressed in the life of your faithful Son, Jesus.Help us to see and to remember that beyond all sinfulness your love is inexhaustible. Beyond all brokenness your forgiveness is incomprehensible. Beyond betrayal, violence, and oppression your grace-filled power is poured out. Beyond death your life is unimaginable.Beyond human understanding, your ways are always higher than ours.

  3. Who do you say that I am? Jesus the Faithful Jew

  4. A genealogy of Jesus Christ, son of David, son of Abraham: Abraham was the father of Isaac, Isaac the father of Jacob, …………. …………. And Jacob was the father of Joseph, the husband of Mary; of her was born Jesus who is called the Christ.Matthew 1: 1-16 NOSTRA AETATE #4 Vatican Council II As the sacred synod searches into the mystery of the Church, it remembers the bond that spiritually ties the people of the New Covenant to Abraham's stock. … "theirs is the sonship and the glory and the covenants and the law and the worship and the promises; theirs are the fathers and from them is the Christ according to the flesh" (Rom. 9:4-5), the Son of the Virgin Mary.

  5. Notes on the Correct Way to Present the Jews and Judaism in Preaching and Catechesis in the Roman Catholic Church[June 24, 1985]Vatican Commission for Religious Relations with the Jews Jesus was and always remained a Jew, …. Jesus is fully a man of his time, and of his environment — the Jewish Palestinian one of the first century, the anxieties and hopes of which he shared. This cannot but underline the reality of the Incarnation ….

  6. Jesus was and always remained a Jew, …. Jesus is fully a man of his time, and of his environment — the Jewish Palestinian one of the first century, the anxieties and hopes of which he shared. This cannot but underline the reality of the Incarnation….

  7. The Gospel lets you know the true Jesus, it lets you know the living Jesus; it speaks to your heart and changes your life.Pope Francis I, July 27, 2014

  8. Luke 2: 21 After eight days had passed, it was time to circumcise the child, and he was called Jesus. Luke 2: 22 – 24 When the time had come for their purification according to the law of Moses, they brought him up to Jerusalem to present him to the Lord (as it is written in the law of the Lord, ‘Every firstborn male shall be designated as holy to the Lord), and they offered a sacrifice according to what is stated in the law of the Lord, ‘a pair of turtle doves or two young pigeons.’

  9. Luke 2: 41 ff Now every year his parents went to Jerusalem for the festival of the Passover. And when he was twelve years old, they went up as usual for the festival. When the festival was ended and they started to return, the boy Jesus stayed behind in Jerusalem. … After three days they found him in the temple, sitting among the teachers and asking them questions.

  10. Matthew 4: 23-25He went round the whole of Galilee teaching in their synagogues, proclaiming the Good News of the kingdom… Large crowds followed him, coming from Galilee, the Decapolis, Jerusalem, Judea and Transjordania. Luke 4:31, 37-38 He went down to Capernaum, a Town in Galilee, and taught them on the Sabbath. … …And reports of him went out through the surrounding Countryside. Leaving the synagogue he went to Simon’s house. Mark 1: 21-22 They went as far as Capernaum, and as soon as the Sabbath came he went to the synagogue and began to teach. And his teaching made a deep impression on them because he taught them with authority.

  11. The ThreePilgrimageFestivals Exodus 23: 14 ff Three times a year you are to celebrate a feast in my honor. You must celebrate the feast of Unleavened Bread … The feast of Harvest, too, you must celebrate, the feast of the first –fruits … the feast of Ingatheringalso, at the end of the year … Three times a year you must present yourselves before the Lord.

  12. Luke 2:7-8 The day of unleavened bread came round, the day on which the Passover had to be sacrificed, and he sent Peter and John, saying, ‘Go and make the preparations for us to eat the Passover.’

  13. Passover Meal

  14. ACTS 2: 1 When Pentecost day came round, they had all met in one room, when suddenly they heard what sounded like a powerful wind from heaven, the noise of which filled the entire house in which they were sitting.

  15. John 7:2,10 As the Jewish feast of Tabernacles drew near, his brothers said to him, ‘Why not leave this place and go to Judea, and let your disciples see the works you are doing; ….. After his brothers had left for the festival, he went up as well, but quite privately, without drawing attention to himself.

  16. Pilgrimage Crowds

  17. Remembering the many centuries of theChristian Teaching of Contempt What was done to the people and faith of Judaism in the name of the Jewish Jesus

  18. “Therefore be on your guard against the Jews,knowing that wherever they have their synagogues, nothing is found but a den of devils in which sheer self-glory, conceit, lies, blasphemy, and defaming of God and men are practiced most maliciously.” Martin Luther “Certainly it is the time for me to show that demons dwell in the synagogue, not only in the place itself but also in the souls of the Jews.” St. John Chrysostom

  19. The Judensau Blood Libel and Ritual Murder

  20. John 2:13When it was almost time for the Jewish Passover, Jesus went up to Jerusalem

  21. August 15, 1917 - March 24, 1980 Archbishop Oscar Romero, like Jesus, was also fully a man of his time, and of his environment — the one of El Salvador of the twentieth century, — the anxieties and hopes of which he shared.

  22. “Oscar Romero, the fourth Archbishop of San Salvador, is a remarkable parallel that can help us understand the life and death of Jesus. He spoke out against poverty, social injustice, assassinations and torture. He was assassinated by a government death squad as he celebrated Mass in the chapel of La DivinaProvidencia in San Salvador. He was shot while lifting the chalice during the Eucharist, having just uttered the words, “This is my lifeblood poured our for you.” Romero’s blood and the wine of the spilled chalice mingled on the white cloth of the altar of sacrifice.” Romero spoke truth to oppressive power and injustice When asked why Romero died, Jon Sobrino, SJ said: “He died because every week in the Cathedral of San Salvador he would publicly name those who had been murdered at the hands of the government death squads. And he died, not only because he named those who had been murdered. He died because he named those who were responsible.”

  23. I know my own and my own know me, just as the Father knows me and I know the Father; and I lay down my life for my sheep John 10: 14

  24. WHY DID JESUS DIE? Knowing the Jewish Jesus – as a man of his time and environment ‒ as a man sharing the hopes and anxieties of his people raises for us such questions as: WHO PUT JESUS TO DEATH?

  25. As we try to answer these questions It is important that we understand: • His time and his environment • His and his people’s hopes and anxieties

  26. depictions of roman crucifixions at the time of jesus

  27. Luke 4: 17 – 19 (Isaiah 61: 1 – 2) He came to Nazara, where he had been brought up, and went into the synagogue on the Sabbath day as he usually did. He stood up to read, and they handed him the scroll of the prophet Isaiah.

  28. The spirit of the Lord has been given to me, for he has anointed me. He has sent me to give the good news to the poor, to proclaim liberty to captives and to the blind new sight, to set the downtrodden free, to proclaim the year of the Lord’s favor.

  29. Luke 1: 46 ff My soul magnifies the Lord… his mercy reaches from age to age… He has shown the power of his arm, he has routed the proud of heart. He has pulled down the mighty from their thrones and exalted the lowly. He has filled the hungry with good things, the rich he sent empty away. He has come to the help of Israel his servant, mindful of his mercy according to the promises he made to our ancestors — of his mercy to Abraham and to his descendants forever.

  30. Why did Jesus die? Again, Consider Romero: When Sobrino was asked why Romero died, he said: “… he died, not only because he named those who had been murdered. He died because he named those who were responsible. It was the will of God that Romero should love his people, and he died doing so.” When asked what he thought of the phrase from Christian Scripture that the death of Jesus was “according to the will of our God and Father” (Gal. 1:4), Sobrinoanswered: “Of course it was the will of the Father that the Son should die because it was the will of the Father that the son should LOVE.” Jesus died because he loved his people and his nation enough to speak against the injustices that were being perpetrated by the holders of political and religious power. It was the will of God that Jesus should LOVE. And it was because he loved that he died, not to atone an angry God but to serve at the altar of love for his people.

  31. How I answer the question of why Jesus died …. reveals my concept of God: ——————————— • Do I see the God mainly as someone who needs to be atoned by blood sacrifice before the One who created me can love me? Do I perceive God primarily as an offended God who needs retribution, … a debt payment before I can be loved? (Theology of Atonement) or • Do I see God as One who acts totally and unconditionally out of LOVE? (Theology of Mercy and Love)

  32. Richard Rohr: LOVE, NOT ATONEMENT (March 20, 2015) Jesus did not come to change the mind of God about humanity (it did not need changing)! Jesus came to change the mind of humanity about God.

  33. 1. How adequately/accurately are we representing Jesus the faithful Jew today: • in our artwork: paintings, statues, …. • in our liturgies: our prayers, homilies, …. ? 2. Do our Holy Week prayers and liturgies primarily convey: • a theology of atonement or • a theology of mercy and love? 3. In your personal life, do you find yourself more ‘at home’ with a ‘theology of atonement’ or a ‘theology of love?’ 4. How does understanding Jesus as a Jewish man - ‘a man of his time and his environment’ - affect your liturgical experience of Holy Week?

  34. Matthew 14: 17… the disciples came to Jesus to say, ‘Where do you want us to make preparations for you to eat the Passover?’

  35. Familiar Christian depictions of the crucifixion

  36. depictions of roman crucifixions at the time of jesus

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