I learned in my weekly ecumenical Bible Study group, among a uniformly progressive-mainstream Christian community, that the lectionary agreed on by both Catholic and mainline Protestant churches has aligned scriptural readings in the three-year cycle so as to skip parts, sometimes at least, where ‘the Jews’ are named and blamed. I never knew this. Has anybody else noticed this in their liturgies as they rotate along through the synoptic Gospels? Leaving out this verbiage of course is meant well, but it may contribute for better and/or worse to the fact that a commentator in this thread (at least visible to me as of this posting) claimed never to have known that Christians had a history of anti-semitism. Which to me, albeit raised in the post-Vatican II first generation following its declarations on Jewish-Christian amity, shows consequences of how far some have come away from this ‘sad history.’
