Re: What were you taught about Easter?
Traditionally at Good Friday Mass, the priest mentioned the "perfidious Jews" but this has now been removed since Vatican II's PC trip.
It is supposed to have been the Jews held as responsible for Christ's death.
Pilate actually wanted to release Jesus and kept asking on what charge he was supposed to punish him (The Ethiopian Coptics even consider Pilate a saint!). The Jews insisted on his guilt however, claiming he was causing civil unrest.
We are taught that Jesus forgave the Romans (representing the Gentiles) - "Forgive them father, for they know not what they do".
The Jews, on the other hand, were well aware of what they were doing.
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The Irish are one of the most ancient nations that I know of at this end of the world, and are from as mighty a race as the world ever brought forth.
For it is certain that Ireland hath had the use of letters very anciently and long before England; that they had letters anciently is nothing doubtful, for the Saxons of England are said to have their letters and learning, and learned men, from the Irish.
- Edmund Spenser (writer, and British Government Official in Ireland, AD 1596).
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