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Pope reformulates Tridentine rite's prayer for Jews

By John Thavis
Catholic News Service

VATICAN CITY — Pope Benedict XVI has reformulated a Good Friday prayer for the Jews, removing language about the "blindness" of the Jews but preserving a call for their conversion.

The new prayer replaces the one contained in the 1962 Roman Missal, sometimes called the Tridentine rite, which is no longer generally used by Catholics but which may be used by some church communities under recently revised norms.

Spirituality/ Secularity — the Nature of Oneness

It is by way of "religious" consciousness (spirituality) that the cultural disconnect from ecological necessity might be healed. The “science” of religion reads on Einstein’s theory of Special Relativity, E=mc². E is energetic consciousness; mc² is matter, the substance of energy, materiality, secularity.

“Religious” relativity is “eucharistic” consciousness, the theology of sacred remembrance (Sacrament) and the science of energy/ matter relationships. From the reality of essential relationships we might derive an equation of sorts, the “eucharistic equation of oneness”:

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