Aug
28
Synagogue of Israel and Church of the Gentiles
"...I with many others believe that the Messianic movement is the portent of the eschatological reunion between the nation and the "dispersed children of God." This is why there is hardly a more urgent task than preparing the Church to welcome Israel qua Israel as an inalienable part of her truth and fullness..." (Father Antoine Levy OP in the Jewish Church)Father Levy, unlike many other Catholics, does not dismiss the Messianic Jewish movement as just another form of Protestantism but as a sign of our times pointing to the eschatological mystery of the reunion of the Church and Synagogue. I would agree with him. Levy agrees with many of the Fathers of the Church that Israel's continued corporate identity demonstrated Israel's protestation of fidelity to the God of Israel.