from joffridus via mommybird

[fox]

excerpt from a sermon by canon wyatt of the national cathedral (episcopal) in washington, DC (and past which, incidentally, a motorcade would not travel on its way from the white house to the state department -- but never mind).

this paragraph:

The true betrayal of Judaism by Christianity has been the pronouncement that God’s Covenant with the Jews is null and void, superseded by God’s Covenant with the Church—a spiteful blasphemous claim devoid of the Spirit of Hebrew prophecy, which clings to God’s constancy. Without the promises God made to the Jews in Abraham and Moses and David, the Christian Covenant collapses, its foundation lost. If those promises do not hold, it is Christianity that becomes null and void, a fantastic riff on a melody plagiarized from strangers. Only if the pledge made to the Jewish people holds can it be fulfilled in Jesus and only then can we, Gentile latecomers, sit at the same table with the children of Abraham.

almost made me cry.