Salus ex Judaeis est

ὅτι ἡ σωτηρία ἐκ τῶν Ἰουδαίων ἐστίν.
Quia salus ex Judaeis est.
For salvation is from the Jews.
John 4:22

"The second person of the Holy Trinity, true God and true man, is of Jewish flesh received from the Jewish virgin -- as is the eucharistic body we receive, and the Body of Christ into which we are incorporated by baptism. It is said that when John XXIII, then papal nuncio in Paris, first saw the pictures of the piles of corpses at Auschwitz, he exclaimed, "There is the Body of Christ!"

(Richard Neuhaus, American Babylon, p. 172)

"Christianity ... is not defined by a moral or metaphysical "essence" but by the man of the cross, a permanently suspect character, forever a stranger of that strange people, the Jews. Through Jesus the Jew, we Christians are anchored in history, defined not by abstract ideas but by a most particular story involving a most particular people."

(ibid., p. 174)

"Nor can [the Church] forget that she draws sustenance from the root of that good olive tree onto which have been grafted the wild olive branches of the Gentiles. Indeed, the Church believes that by His Cross Christ, our Peace, reconciled Jew and Gentile, making them both one in Himself. (cf. Ephesians 2:14-16)."

(Nostra Aetate)

"Along the way to that fulfillment [in the New Jerusalem], Christians and Jews will disagree about whether we can name the name of the Lamb. And when it turns out that we Christians have rightly named the Lamb ahead of time, there will be, as St. Paul reminds us, no reason for boasting; for in the beginning, all along the way, and in the final consummation, it will be evident to all that the Lamb -- which is to say salvation -- is from the Jews. Salvation is from the Jews, then, not as a "point of departure" [quoted from a recent commentary on John's gospel], but as the continuing presence and promise of a point of arrival -- a point of arrival that we, Christians and Jews, together pray that we will together reach. In that shared prayer is the hope that Babylon is not forever."

(American Babylon, p. 182)

Just thought it would be good to keep all this in mind, in these days when the hideous face of anti-Semitism is more and more on display, particularly in Europe, but not only there.