“This is the New Testament in Christ’s blood. It’s not in the blood of the animals anymore. It’s the New Testament in Christ’s blood. The Old Testament is finished. There is no salvation by means of the Old Testament or the old covenant. It would be mortally sinful to participate in any way in the rites of the Jews… a bat mitzvah, or Passover meal. They are looking forward to a messiah that has already come.”
The rites and sacrifices of the Old Covenant pointed toward the coming Messiah. After Christ, to continue those rites implies that the Messiah has not yet come.
But the Church proclaims that the Son of God became incarnate, suffered, died, and rose again for the salvation of the world.
As St. Thomas Aquinas taught:
“After the Passion of Christ, the legal ceremonies were not only dead but deadly.”
(Summa Theologiae I–II, q.103, a.4)
The Cross fulfilled what those sacrifices foreshadowed. To restore them would deny the fulfillment of Christ.
Catholics can have no part in such practices.
Carrie Prejean Boller@CarriePrejean1