And when they passed by in the morning they saw the fig
tree dried up from the roots. And Peter remembering, said to him: Rabbi, behold the fig tree, which thou didst curse, is withered away. Mark 11: 20-21
The Jews are not Gods “Chosen People” any longer. Catholics are, for Christ, is the New and only Law, thee Divine Law that ALL must pass through in order to get to the Father and Heaven. His Heart hast swallowed up the Old Law and is now thee only Law.
For those who think that “Israel/the Jews” are still Gods chosen people, even Christ Himself said they no longer were. For the fig tree as to be understood in the old as Israel.
We present here quotes from the Popes, Doctors, Fathers and Saints of the Roman Catholic Church maintaining that the Jews are rejected by God and cursed for murdering Jesus.
Christ shall be slain, and the people who shall deny Him shall not be His. ~ Daniel 9: 26
The Gentiles … have attained to justice, even to the justice is of the faith. But Israel … has not come unto the law of justice. Why so? Because they sought it not by faith… For they stumbled at the Stumbling Stone. ~ Romans ix.30-32
The Jews knew that Christ was the son of David. And even now they hope for His Coming. It is hidden from them that He has come, but it is hidden because they willed it so. For, not acknowledging Him on the cross, the knowledge of Him reigning in glory should not be theirs … Why are the Jews hoping for what has already come, and not fearful for what is to come? For Our Lord Jesus Christ … referred Himself as “the Stone” (Matthew xxi.44), that whoever stumbles upon it shall be bruised; but upon whom it shall fall, it will grind to powder … Lying on the ground, it shakes whoever falls over it; coming from on high, it crushes the proud. The Jews have already been shaken by their previous stumble. What awaits them is to be crushed by His Coming. ~ St. Augustine
Many shall come from the East and West and sit down with Abraham and Isaac and Jacob in the kingdom of Heaven, but the children of the kingdom shall be cast out into the exterior darkness: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth. ~ St. Matthew viii.11-12
There is need of constant prayer lest we defect from the heavenly kingdom, as have the Jews to whom it was first promised. This the Lord makes unmistakably clear by saying: “Many will come from East and West and recline at the banquet table with Abraham and Isaac and Jacob in the kingdom of Heaven, whereas those born to the kingdom will be driven into the darkness outside, there to wail and gnash their teeth” … Our Lord shows that the Jews were formerly children of the kingdom, but after the name “Father” disappeared from among them, so did the kingdom. The Jews have remained in darkness for having forsaken the light. ~ St. Cyprian
The “exterior darkness” is that of the Jews, who have heard truth but not believed. ~ St. Thomas Aquinas
Jews prefer to persist in their stubbornness rather than to recognize the words of their prophets and the mysteries of the Scriptures and thus arrive at a knowledge of the Christian faith and salvation. ~ Bl. Pope Gregory X
The Jews are deprived of these good things, for they are not brought to life by Christ; for sin remains unwashed away in them; neither do they advance unto the kingdom of Heaven since they have dishonored Christ Who is the Guide to Heaven. For they did not believe Him when He said: “I am Way” and “I am the Door.” ~ St. Eusebius of Caesaria
Whence the Gospel says: “Two women shall be grinding at the mill; one shall be taken and the other left” (Matthew xxiv.42). The Holy Church shall be taken up into eternal rest: she who has ground the food of holiness unto the Lord. The Synagogue, stained with blood, shall be left at the mill, to endure its own unfaithfulness forever. ~ St. Maximus of Turin
The faithlessness of the Synagogue is an insult to the Savior. Therefore, He chose the barque of Peter and deserted the boat of Moses; that is, He rejected the faithless Synagogue and adopted the believing Church … Of these two ships, one is left at the shore, idle and empty; the other, loaded filled, is launched into the deep. For the Synagogue is left idle on the beach. Because of its own fault, it has lost Christ along with the warnings of the prophets. But the freighted Church is taken out into the deep, because it received the Lord together with the teaching of the Apostles. The Synagogue, I say, remains on the land, held fast as it were to earthly things. The Church is called forth to the deep, as though to search into the profound mysteries of Heaven. ~ St. Ambrose
Two nations are in thy womb, and two peoples shall be divided out of thy womb; one people shall overcome the other, and the elder shall serve the younger. ~ Genesis xxv:23
Who is this younger child that overcomes the elder but the Gentiles, who struggle with Juda … and who, though only the child of promise, supplants him who was the son according to the flesh? ~ Pope St. Leo the Great
The Jews formerly had only the shadow of things; we have the reality. The Jews were servants; we are adopted children. The Jews passed through the sea to a desert; we enter through Baptism into a Kingdom. The Jews ate manna; we eat Christ. The Jews ate the flesh of birds; we eat the Body of God. The Jews ate the dew of heaven; we eat the God of Heaven! ~ Salvianus
In what sort of reproach, then, are the Jews? A Jew carries The Book, by which the Christians may believe. They have become our librarians, just as servants are accustomed to carry books behind their masters. The servants faint by carrying them, while the masters grow strong by reading them. ~ St. Augustine
Go, so that cured by Christian faith, you may not die in Jewish unfaith, but may live forever with Jesus Christ Our Lord. ~ St. Peter Chrysologus
For, raging against the Gentiles as unclean, Israel became in very truth unclean themselves; while the Gentiles have become clean, the justice of Israel has become like the rag of a menstruous woman. ~ St. Basil the Great
Early and often did the Lord send His messengers to them, for He had compassion on His people … But they mocked the messengers of God, despised His warnings, and scoffed at His prophets, until the anger of the Lord against His people was so inflamed that there was no remedy. ~ II Paralipomenon xxxvi.15-16
God, Who … in times past spoke by the prophets, last of all in these days hath spoken to us by His Son … Last of all, He sent them His Son, saying: “They will reverence My Son” … But, taking Him, they cast Him forth and killed Him. When therefore the Lord shall come, what will He do to those men? … He will bring those evil men to an evil end, and he will let out His vineyard to other husbandmen who shall render Him fruit in due season … Therefore I say to you, that the kingdom of God shall be taken away from you and given to a nation yielding the fruits thereof. ~ Hebrews i.1-2 St. Matthew xxi.37-43
Christ annuls the first Covenant to establish the Second. ~ Hebrews x.9
For the Jews, still clinging to that sacrifice which is according to the Order of Aaron, let slip that sacrifice which is according to the Order of Melchisedech, and they lost Christ. And the Gentiles, to whom He had not hitherto sent His heralds [?], began to possess Him. ~ St. Augustine
Since the Jews, through their evil designs against the Savior, have been cast away from grace, He has built out of the Gentiles a second holy Church: the Church of us Christians. ~ St. Cyril of Jerusalem
When the offspring of the Jews abandoned the customs of the their fathers, the truth abandoned them and took refuge in the Church. It abandoned them when they said of the Lord Jesus: “Away with Him! Crucify Him!” for they gave up truth and chose iniquity. ~ St. Ambrose
So clearly was the transition then made from the Synagogue to the Church that, when the Lord gave up His soul, the veil of the Temple was rent in two. ~ Pope St. Leo the Great
Therefore, the Jewish system is destroyed, for it was only a shadow; but that of the Church is firmly established, for it is built on the Rock, and the gates of Hell shall not prevail against it. ~ St. Athanasius
